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Nuacht na nOibrithe (Free article)
27 August 2009
Element Six: 400 brave the elements, SIPTU serves strike notice on Coca Cola and 200 UPS jobs lost in Tallaght
Remembering the Past: 19 prisoners escape from Portlaoise (Free article)
27 August 2009
ONE of the most successful and spectacular escapes during the present struggle for freedom was the mass breakout by 19 republican prisoners from Portlaoise Prison in the summer of 1974. In November 1973, ten days after the dramatic escape of three republicans by helicopter from Mountjoy Jail, all republican prisoners in Mountjoy and the Curragh…
9,700 housing grants cancelled (Free article)
27 August 2009
Sinn Féin West Belfast MLA Fra McCann has written to the Housing Minister Margaret Ritchie and the Housing Executive asking why 9,700 grant applications have been cancelled by the Housing Executive. Sinn Féin have been concerned at the growing numbers of people who have been turned down for assistance for Housing Executive grants to carry out…
Wicklow launches 'No' campaign (Free article)
27 August 2009
Wicklow Sinn Fein launched its No to the Lisbon Treaty campaign on 17 August. The launch took place outside the Town Hall in Bray and it was timed to coincide with an event organised by the European Commission. Speaking after the launch Cllr. John Brady said: "We decided to launch our 'No' to the Lisbon Treaty campaign to coincide with the…
Kearney to address Gulladuff commemoration (Free article)
27 August 2009
Sinn Féin National Chairperson, Declan Kearney will be the guest speaker at this weekend's annual Counties Derry and Antrim Republican Commemoration in Gulladuff. Speaking in advance of the major republican mobilisation, Magherafelt Sinn Féin Councillor Peter Bateson called on all republicans to support the event which will take place in…
New cumann launched in Newbridge (Free article)
27 August 2009
The newly established Bob Doyle/Dinny Barry Sinn Féin cumann, Newbridge, Co. Kildare was officially launched on Saturday, 22 August. The night was very well attended, giving credence to local Sinn Féin activist Seán Downey's statement that they "have been overwhelmed with interest from the public wishing to join the local cumann".
Ógra Shinn Féin protest at British naval vessel (Free article)
27 August 2009
Dublin Ógra Shinn Féin last week protested at the arrival of British naval vessel HMS Mersey in the port of Dublin. The vessel, armed with a 20mm cannon and two machine guns arrived on Wednesday 19 August and departed the next day.
Historic meeting with son of 1916 leader (Free article)
27 August 2009
Fr. Joe McVeigh of Fermanagh, the well-known campaigner for human rights and Irish unity and independence recently met up with Fr. Joe Mallin SJ (aged 96) whose father Michael Mallin was in command of the Irish Citizen Army in St. Stephen's Green and the College of Surgeons in 1916.
Fógra bháis: Cáit Uí Chadhain 1925 - 2009 (Free article)
27 August 2009
Fuair Cáit Uí Chadhain bás ar an 8 Lúnasa seo caite agus í 84 bliain d'aois. Bhí sí gníomhach ar feadh i bhfad i saol agus i bpolaitíocht na Gaeilge agus an Phoblachtachais. Bhí sí páirteach san fheachtas le tabhairt ar RTÉ tuilleadh cláracha Gaeilge a chraoladh; b'iomaí lá sa chúirt aici, agus thug sí a cás a fhad leis an Ardchúirt ar ócáid…
Fógraí bháis: Maureen Campbell (Free article)
27 August 2009
The Republican Movement in Derry lost a great friend with the death of Maureen Campbell on Saturday 1 August. Born in 1920 into a large republican family of 14 she grew up in the Waterside area of Derry City. Her uncle left Derry at the start of the Tan War and travelled to Cork at the age of 17 to join the
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