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Republican bands marching on (Free article)
27 March 2008
AS THE Strategic Review into Parading in the North raises the possibility of a new code of conduct for loyalist and republican bands An Phoblacht interviews a veteran band organiser and asks what is the future for republican flute bands today.
Matt Treacy (Free article)
27 March 2008
I DIDN'T get to see the Dublin Monaghan match because I was in Wexford, home of the real star of the show Syl Doyle. He was the referee by the way. Monaghan only scored one point from play and rarely looked dangerous but when you are awarded close in frees for little or nothing you don't have to be overly concerned about such minor aspects of the…
Media View (Free article)
27 March 2008
THERE is a sense, slowly growing among journalists who have seen too many false dawns at the Mahon Tribunal, that last week might just have been a turning point. The testimony of Gráinne Carruth, Ahern's former secretary, was damaging not just for what she said, when she accepted she made sterling lodgements of more than €15,500 she had first…
Fifth Column (Free article)
27 March 2008
Fine Gael poster girl for ‘No to Lisbon’ TD LUCINDA CREIGHTON, the poster girl of Fine Gael is now the poster girl of ‘No to the Lisbon Treaty’ group Libertas, and the blonde bombshell isn’t one bit pleased. Libertas has placed billboard posters around Lucinda’s Dublin South-East constituency reminding voters of her stated belief that, “We need…
Irish politics after Bertie Ahern (Free article)
3 April 2008
Bertie Ahern clearly saw the signs that his own party would grow increasingly restless with him as leader in the run-up to the local government and EU elections next year. He is stepping down in the short term to avoid a heave and an internal battle in Fianna Fáil. He will be gone as Taoiseach and as leader of Fianna Fáil in the wake of his…
Mála Poist (Free article)
3 April 2008
Cuireann An Phoblacht fáilte roimh litreacha ónár léitheoirí. Scríobh i nGaeilge nó i mBéarla, 200 focal ar a méid. Déantar giorrú ar litreachta más gá. Cuir do litir chuig [email protected] An Phoblacht welcomes readers' letters. Write in Irish or English, 200 words maximum. Letters may be edited for brevity. Send your letters to…
The Brian Keenan interview: From civil rights to armed struggle (Free article)
3 April 2008
BRIAN KEENAN joined the IRA in 1968. In the intervening 40 years he became one of the IRA's foremost strategists and a thorn in the side of British imperialism. Tony Blair's Chief of Staff at 10 Downing Street during the war years described Brian Keenan as "the single biggest threat to the British state". Brian spoke to JIM GIBNEY for the first…
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