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Remembering the Past: Con Colbert and Seán Heuston (Free article)
7 May 2009
This year marks the centenary of the republican youth organisation, Fianna Éireann, which played a key role in the struggle for Irish freedom. The importance of that role is emphasised by the fact that two of its founders and leaders, Con Colbert and Seán Heuston, were executed on the same day for their part in the 1916 Easter Rising.
Tesco 'bargains' will cost Irish jobs (Free article)
7 May 2009
ONLY days after the temporary suspension of strike action in one of Tesco's outlets when workers in Cork objected to management changes in working conditions substantially cutting their wage packets, Tesco Ireland is back in the headlines this week. The startling news is that, despite €3.15 billion revenue coming out of the 26 Counties last year,…
Bobby Sands's anniversary marked with vigils (Free article)
7 May 2009
SINN FÉIN marked the 28th anniversary of the death of republican Hunger Strike leader and Fermanagh/South Tyrone MP Bobby Sands on 5 May with a number of events in Belfast and a vigil at the GPO in Dublin. Speaking at a remembrance vigil in west Belfast, Six-County MEP Bairbre de Brún said: "The conditions which led to the Hunger Strikes were…
National Conversation for United Ireland (Free article)
7 May 2009
Public meetings continued across the North over the past week on as part of Sinn Féin's programme promoting a 'National Conversation for a United Ireland'. Addressed by representatives of the Sinn Féin leadership, the Sinn Féin Assembly and Executive teams, its Leinster House and European teams and local government representatives, the public…
Nuacht na nOibrithe (Free article)
7 May 2009
May Day solidarity events, Fire - don't retire - AIB chiefs, European SME Week, 6 - 14 May and Union suspends official over bus strike
Mickey Joe Mulligan's house and the Brookeborough Raid (Free article)
7 May 2009
ON SUNDAY, 3 May, a large crowd of several hundred republicans, drawn mainly from Fermanagh and Monaghan, gathered at Knockatallon, near Roslea, for the official opening of 'Mickey Joe Mulligan's house'. The IRA, having commenced in December of 1956 an offensive against British forces in the Six Counties, had successfully targeted British bases…
Condolences on death of Madge McConville (Free article)
7 May 2009
GERRY Adams has expressed his condolences to the family of veteran republican Madge McConville, who passed away on Monday, 4 May. Gerry Adams said: "Madge McConville was a republican all her life. She was imprisoned first in the 1940s along with IRA Volunteer Tom Williams, Joe Cahill and others. Tom Williams was later hanged by the British.
Martin McGuinness saddened by death of Bloody Sunday victim (Free article)
7 May 2009
MARTIN McGuinness has extended his sympathy and that of Sinn Féin to the family of Bloody Sunday victim Michael Bradley, who died suddenly at the weekend. The North's joint First Minister said: "I extend my sincere condolences to Mona and the Bradley family on the sad and sudden death of Mickey. Mickey was very seriously wounded on Bloody Sunday…
Fógraí bháis: John 'Big Deuce' McMullan (Free article)
7 May 2009
WHILE mourning the untimely death of John, we must also ensure that we celebrate his life, for it was an eventful life: from the loss of his mother at the age of three, through his school days in St Mary's Primary School in Divis Street and subsequent education at Harding Street CBS to his initial employment as a joiner building Divis Flats in the…
SINN FÉIN Election appeal (Free article)
7 May 2009
In 2009 Irish republicans are as committed to the objectives of Irish independence, national unity and social equality as we were when the first and only all-Ireland Parliament - An Chéad Dáil - met 90 years ago.
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