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Now this election is over (Free article)
4 March 2011
BY THE TIME you read this article, the election will be over, the posters will be down and the negotiations for the next government well under way. Whatever the overall result, Sinn Féin will have had a good election. We will have increased our vote across the state. We will have a stronger Dáil team determined to hold Enda Kenny’s austerity…
GUE/NGL will not back EU 2020’s anti-social policies (Free article)
4 March 2011
THE European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) Group in the European Parliament – of which Bairbre de Brún is a member – has criticised the European Union’s 2020 strategy as the sort of “anti-social policies” that have contributed to the crisis rather than solutions. GUE/NGL President Lothar Bisky (Germany) was critical of the strategy:…
Debt, finance and the City of London (Free article)
4 March 2011
Heart of Darkness g BY LAURA FRIEL I LEARNT a new word recently. It was a word I’d never needed before. But I need it now. “Peonage – a system by which debtors are bound in involuntary servitude to their creditors until their debt is paid.” It’s what is currently being advocated for the ordinary people of Ireland. No other word better…
Broim agus Eilifint (Free article)
4 March 2011
BA é Breandán Ó Béacháin a dúirt, tráth, gurb é an chéad rud ar chlár aon ghrúpa nó pháirtí in Éirinn ná an scoilt. Is dócha go raibh Fianna Fáil ag fanacht le tamall ar a scoilt féin ach sna toghcháin seo tá an scoilt i ndiaidh tarlú cheana féin idir an méid damáiste a rinne Fianna Fáil thar na blianta agus gliceas na niarrthóirí atá ann…
Letter to the Taoiseach (Free article)
4 March 2011
THE success of our colleagues in the 26 Counties will undoubtedly have a positive impact on Sinn Féin’s electoral performance in the month of May in the Six Counties, Taoiseach. As you know, there will be Assembly elections and district council elections in the North on the 30th anniversary of Bobby Sands’s death on hunger strike. Will Fine…
The rough beast that is Fine Gael (Free article)
4 March 2011
THE WONDERS of the modern newspaper industry being what they are, I have to write this before polling day and you’ll be reading if afterwards. By now you’ll know how well Sinn Féin did and how badly Fianna Fáil dropped. We’ll all know whether Fine Gael has accomplished the previously thought impossible and formed a single-party government. At…
DUBLIN ’81 COMMITTEE | FRANK STAGG HUNGER STRIKE COMMEMORATIVE MEETING (Free article)
4 March 2011
FRANK STAGG’S SISTER, Rose, and her two daughters were among the special guests at the very first Dublin ’81 Committee commemorative meeting of 2011 on Saturday 12th February, the exact anniversary 35 years ago of the death on hunger strike of this brave IRA Volunteer in an English prison. The event in the Ballybough Community Centre,…
The Mary Nelis Column (Free article)
4 March 2011
McGurk’s Bar Bombing: The Police Ombudsman’s Report PSNI chief at odds over faults of RUC WOULDN’T YOU imagine that coming from a fundamentalist Protestant evangelical background PSNI Chief Constable Matt Baggott would be concerned with the truth. Yet his pronouncement on the 1971 bombing of McGurk’s Bar appears to indicate that he is at…
BOBBY SANDS | From a nationalist ghetto to the battlefield of H-Block (Free article)
4 March 2011
The birth of a republican ‘THE BIRTH of a republican: from a nationalist ghetto to the battlefield of H-Block’, by hunger-striker Bobby Sands, was first published anonymously in Republican News on December 16th 1978. It was reprinted in An Phoblacht/Republican News on April 4th 1981, after Bobby had been on hunger strike for one month. The…
Belfast community worker threatened by micro group (Free article)
4 March 2011
WEST BELFAST community worker Seamus Finucane has been warned by the PSNI of a serious threat to his life from the self-styled ‘Óglaigh na hÉireann’ group. The PSNI informed Finucane on Thursday 17 February that there is “a serious threat” against him because of his work in the community. In their threat the micro group warned that anyone…
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