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Sinn Féin President in US and Canada (Free article)
12 November 2009
SINN FÉIN President Gerry Adams left Canada on Sunday after a busy six days in the USA and Toronto. During his many speaking engagements the Sinn Féin leader focused on two broad themes. The first was an update on the current situation in the Peace Process and specifically the difficulties around the transfer of powers on policing and justice,…
Dessie Ellis honoured at Dublin Volunteers' event (Free article)
12 November 2009
SATURDAY, 7 November saw a large gathering of republicans from Dublin and further afield at the Gresham Hotel for the Dublin Volunteers Dinner Dance. The annual event is designed to commemorate the memory and the sacrifices of Dublin IRA Volunteers Tom Smith, Patrick Cannon, Colm Daltún, Mick Timothy, Christy Harford and Martin Doherty and Sinn…
The west Cork killings of April 1922 (Free article)
12 November 2009
IN early October, the RTÉ One Irish-language series CSÍ broadcasted a programme on the killing in west Cork of 13 Protestants, 11 of whom had loyalist connections (the remaining two were relatives) between 26-29 April, 1922. IRA officer Thomas O'Neill had been shot dead on the 26th by those who would be the first three victims. His death seemed…
Another View by Eoin Ó Broin (Free article)
12 November 2009
LAUNCHING a Joint Oireachtas Committee report on women in politics last week Senator Ivana Bacik argued that increasing the numbers of women TDs would require strong legislation. The report listed a series of measures aimed at increasing women's participation in politics including civic education programmes, financial supports, facilitation of…
Palestinians break Israel's wall (Free article)
12 November 2009
PALESTINIANS and foreign activists tore down segments of Israel's separation wall this week in a demonstration marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In the town of Qalandiya in the occupied West Bank, a group of masked activists using a lorry pulled down a two-metre cement block before Israeli security forces confronted…
RFJ action against British Government (Free article)
12 November 2009
THE campaign group, Relatives for Justice is to take legal action against the British Government for its role in arming unionist paramilitaries. Relatives for Justice (RFJ) had been inundated with calls from families of the victims of British state violence after news that a class action for compensation against Libya is being sought by unionists.
IMF is not an option for Ireland (Free article)
12 November 2009
BE AFRAID, be very afraid, 'IMF creep' is threatening Irish sovereignty. It probably started as a joke at Dublin cocktail parties, where the well heeled talk about the latest David McWilliams articles and how they miss George Lee on RTÉ, but the glib argument that with a deepening economic crisis and a paralysed coalition government the only way…
PSNI fail to meet deadline for on handing over Stalker Report (Free article)
12 November 2009
SINN FÉIN MLA Martina Anderson has said that it is unacceptable that the PSNI has again failed to supply the North's coroner with a copy of the Stalker report. Speaking on Tuesday Anderson said: "Senior Coroner for the North John Lecky ordered the PSNI to supply a copy of the Stalker Report to the inquest of six men killed by the RUC in 'Shoot…
Marchers seek 'fair play for the little people' (Free article)
12 November 2009
An Phoblacht's ELLA O'DWYER joined those on the streets of central Dublin who marched last Friday as part of the ICTU-organised state wide mobilisations.
THE JULIA CARNEY COLUMN (Free article)
12 November 2009
THIS is the greatest story ever. It brings together beauty pageant contestants, the British army, a nightclub brawl and a gladiator (one of the TV ones rather than a time traveller from ancient Rome). We begin with Rachel Christie, a 21-year-old woman who in July of this year was crowned Miss England to general disinterest outside of the world of…
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