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Two anti-shell campaigners jailed (Free article)
6 August 2009
SHELL TO SEA activists Maura Harrington and Niall Harnett were sentenced to four and eight months in jail respectively at Belmullet district court last week for taking action as part of a campaign of peaceful civil disobedience against the ill-fated Corrib Gas Project in County Mayo. Maura was given her four-month sentence under Section 8 of the…
THE JULIA CARNEY COLUMN (Free article)
6 August 2009
IT DOMINATES the news cycle. Sky News updates are nigh on hourly. It screams from the stands in every newsagents I've checked. Yes, everyone has an opinion on the split between Jordan and Peter Andre. Short version, for those of you too busy poring over campaign documents: Jordan and Peter Andre, who met on a reality TV show, married and have…
1981 Hunger Strike talk set for Strule Arts Centre (Free article)
6 August 2009
ÓGRA Shinn Féin have announced plans for a weekend of events in Tyrone from 14 to 16 August. The weekend of events will coincide with the National Hunger Strike Commemorative Weekend being hosted in Tyrone. Headlining the Ógra weekend of events will be a talk on the 1981 Hunger Strike in the Strule Arts Centre in Omagh on Friday 14 August at…
Cúlchaint LE EOGHAN Mac CORMAIC (Free article)
6 August 2009
Duine ar bith agaibh a chaith dhá uair a' chloig i do sheasamh ar an traein riamh ó Bhaile Átha Cliath go Gaillimh (nó ar a laghad chomh fad le Cúl an tSúdaire nó Ath Luain) tuigfidh sibh cuid den loighic, b'fhéidir, atá ag Michael O'Leary nuair a deir sé gur mhaith leis suíocháin 'seasta' a chur isteach ar chúl eitleáin Ryanair. Mar a…
More than a game BY MATT TREACY (Free article)
6 August 2009
Well I was right about one thing last week, not to be optimistic! But totally wrong about the game being fascinating, other than it having maybe the same fascination as for some deviants who enjoy watching cats torture mice. Anyway I had left at half time to go to see a film about talking guinea pigs but myself and Ciara even missed that although…
Kevin Lynch Commemoration (Free article)
6 August 2009
THE annual Volunteer Kevin Lynch commemoration took place on Sunday 2 August in Dungiven. A large crowd gathered to commemorate the 28th anniversary of Kevin Lynch who died on hunger strike in 1981 along with his nine comrades in Long Kesh. Sinn Féin Mayor for Limavady Cathal Ó hOisín chaired the proceedings. A decade of the Rosary was was…
Family and comrades remember Kieran Doherty (Free article)
6 August 2009
THE 28th anniversary of the death of H-Block Hunger Striker Kieran Doherty TD was marked last Sunday, 2 August, when a large turn-out of Belfast republicans attended a wreath-laying ceremony and white-line vigil near the Doherty family home in Andersonstown. The crowd was joined by many overseas visitors who, as part of international solidarity…
Dramatic tributes to Ballymurphy young republicans (Free article)
6 August 2009
A PLAY about the lives of 10 young republicans from the greater Ballymurphy area who died during the course of the conflict will on at the West Belfast Féile. The Young Guard of Erin has been written by west Belfast ex-prisoner Kieran Magee and is set in the fictional school of Tirna nÓg High. The play revolves around a class of eight young…
Pearse Column Commemorative Walk honours Brookeborough raiders (Free article)
6 August 2009
A GROUP of more than 70 republicans from all over Ireland gathered just outside Roslea at the weekend for the annual Pearse Column Walk that retraces the heroic escape across the mountains from Altawark in Fermanagh to Monaghan after the famous 1957 raid on Brookeborough RUC Barracks. Brookeborough was the raid in which Seán Sabhat and Feargal Ó…
Jack Lawlor Commemoration (Free article)
6 August 2009
BHÍ slua mór i mBaile Uí Thaidhg inniu ag comóradh bliantiúil Sheáin Uí Leathlobhair. Thosnaigh an pharáid ag Leacht Cuimneacháin Ruairí Mhic Easmainn agus bhí searmanas ag Leacht Sheáin Uí Leathlobhair. Ba é Martin Ferris aoi-chainteoir an lae. Republicans from Ballyheigue and beyond gathered at the Jack Lawlor Memorial on 3 August to pay…
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