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In the referendum – say YES to AV (Free article)

14 April 2011

VOTERS in the Six Counties are well aware that there’s elections on (for the Assembly and local government) but what about the referendum? It has barely got a mention in the news and that might continue to be the case. It will certainly be some time, and you might have to travel some distance, before you come across mention of it on a…

Targeting the Peace Process (Free article)

14 April 2011

LET THERE BE no mistake - Ronan Kerr was not the only target of the attack that tragically took the life of this young PSNI member in Omagh, County Tyrone, on April 2nd. The target of the bombers was also the Peace Process and the republican strategy of Sinn Féin. They will not succeed. A wave of public anger throughout civic society, not…

SINN FÉIN ASSEMBLY ELECTION CAMPAIGN | LEADERSHIP ACROSS IRELAND (Free article)

14 April 2011

‘You were a friend of Bobby Sands?’ BY PEADAR WHELAN “YOU were a friend of Bobby Sands?” the photographer asked of Jennifer McCann MLA as she stood in a huddle with her Sinn Féin comrades in the field beside Scoil na Fuiseoige in Twinbrook on the outskirts of west Belfast. “Yes, I was,” said Jennifer matter-of-factly but with that tone of…

ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS | AN PHOBLACHT SPEAKS TO MARTIN McGUINNESS, JOINT FIRST MINISTER (Free article)

14 April 2011

‘We are making huge strides forward’ AHEAD of May’s Assembly elections - and just before the murder of PSNI Constable Ronan Kerr, AN PHOBLACHT spoke to Sinn Féin deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness about the Assembly and the all-Ireland institutions past, present and future. A fuller version is posted on the An Phoblacht website. Ian…

ENGLISH QUEEN’S STATE VISIT TO IRELAND | TIMING ON ANNIVERSARY OF DUBLIN/MONAGHAN BOMBINGS ‘INSENSITIVE’ (Free article)

14 April 2011

Sinn Féin to stage alternative events SINN FÉIN will be organising a number of ‘alternative’ events, including celebrations of republicanism, when the English queen arrives for a four-day state visit to Ireland on May 17th. But the party will not be involved in demonstrations that could be hijacked by elements opposed to the Peace Process or…

MAY 5th : SIX COUNTIES VOTE THREE TIMES | ASSEMBLY, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND REFERENDUM (Free article)

14 April 2011

Sinn Féin – Shaping a better future for all BY ROBBIE SMYTH THE May 5th Assembly and local elections mark a watershed for Sinn Féin’s development as a party. It is not just that there is an opportunity to improve on the 27 Assembly seats won in 2007 or the 126 councillors elected in the 2005 local elections. Nor is it that the party is…

BRADLEY MANNING | AMNESTY CONCERN OVER ‘INHUMANE’ PRISON CONDITIONS (Free article)

14 April 2011

WikiLeaks whistleblower’s treatment raised in Dáil by Sinn Féin THE Labour Party Foreign Affairs Minister, Eamon Gilmore, has been asked in the Dáil by Sinn Féin Foreign Afafirs spokesperson Pádraig Mac Lochlainn if the Irish Government will raise with the United States authorities concerns about the treatment of Bradley Manning, the US…

VIDEO: Martin McGuinness speaks about anti-peace ('dissident') factions (Free article)

17 April 2011

ENGLISH QUEEN’S STATE VISIT ON ANNIVERSARY OF DUBLIN/MONAGHAN BOMBINGS ‘INSENSITIVE’ (Free article)

17 April 2011

Sinn Féin to stage alternative events SINN FÉIN will be organising a number of ‘alternative’ events, including celebrations of republicanism, when the English queen arrives for a four-day state visit to Ireland on May 17th. But the party will not be involved in demonstrations that could be hijacked by elements opposed to the Peace Process or…

Stephen Collins, The Irish Times and the Easter Rising (Free article)

18 April 2011

An Phoblacht invites Stephen Collins to reply Letters to the Editor, The Irish Times Madam, I HAVE no idea what went through the minds of those who blew up PSNI Constable Ronan Kerr. Your Political Correspondent, Stephen Collins, thinks the 1916 Rising did (April 16 th ). On this basis he wants an ‘honest’ and a 'mature' examination…