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‘Palestine Education’ 6-week development education initiative, Dublin & Belfast (Free article)
4 May 2011
‘PALESTINE EDUCATION’ is an exciting new development education initiative which aims to provide up-to-date, relevant and reliable information to those wishing to understand the roots and realities of the Israel-Palestine conflict. The initiative includes a six-week course entitled 'Promises' which aims to provide an introduction to human…
Lifting of Basque election ban welcomed by Sinn Féin (Free article)
10 May 2011
THE LIFTING of the Spanish Constitutional Court’s ban on Basque nationalist coalition Bildu contesting this month's regional and local elections has been welcomed by Sinn Féin. Bildu can now field candidates in the 254 municipalities it was aiming to run in. The decision overturns a Supreme Court ruling that Bildu, formed by members of…
Dublin victory rooted in history (Free article)
12 May 2011
THE last time Dublin won the National Hurling League, ‘Hitler was heading for Poland and Paddy for Holyhead.’1939. Ciara asked me had I been at the final. No, I don’t remember that one now, I have to say. I do remember lots of other days, though. Getting beaten by Kildare in the Leinster Championship first round in Aughrim the same year…
DAVID CAMERON’S ’BIG SOCIETY’ | British Prime Minister declared benefits system changes to be ‘tough, radical and fair’ (Free article)
12 May 2011
The only things Big about Cameron’s Society are the lies that underpin it BY LAURA FRIEL BY LAURA FRIEL DO YOU REMEMBER the slogan “No war but class war”? It was very popular amongst anarchist and other Left groups in Britain during times of industrial disputes. As a consequence, the notion of ‘class war’ has a whiff of coal dust about…
1981 HUNGER STRIKE 30th ANNIVERSARY | BOBBY SANDS’S JAIL COMRADE SÉANNA WALSH SPEAKS (Free article)
12 May 2011
30 years on, Bobby Sands continues to inspire people around the world IN the lead-up to the 30th anniversary of the death on Hunger Strike of Bobby Sands MP on 5th May 1981, Bobby’s close friend and leading Belfast Sinn Féin activist Séanna Walsh spoke about the man who has become a revolutionary icon around the world DISCUSSING the impact…
NEW BOOK | WALKING ISRAEL’S BARRIER. FOR FUN (EBURY PRESS) (Free article)
12 May 2011
Extreme Rambling COMEDIAN MARK THOMAS has used his cutting-edge wit to reach wider audiences about civil liberties, human rights and truly life and death issues at home and around the world. A performer since 1985, he has worked as a comic, an activist and a writer. He has made seven series of his own show for Channel 4, including ‘The…
SEANAD ELECTIONS | A HAT-TRICK FOR SINN FÉIN (Free article)
12 May 2011
BY JOHN HEDGES THE REPUBLICAN VOICE grew stronger in the corridors of power in the 26 Counties with the election in April of three new senators for Sinn Féin – David Cullinane, An Phoblacht columnist Trevor Ó Clochartaigh and Kathryn Reilly, at 22 the youngest member of the Oireachtas and the youngest-ever senator. This brings the…
Saol nua an tSeanadóra (Free article)
12 May 2011
LE TREVOR Ó CLOCHARTAIGH TÁ athrú mór saol tarlaithe dom le mí anuas agus mé tofa i mo Sheanadóir do Shinn Féin. Ach is athrú é a bhfuil mé ag dúil go mór leis agus a mbeidh dualgais agus dúshláin faoi leith ag baint leis. Cé go dtógfaidh sé tamall dul i dtaithí ar dhaoine a bheith ag glaoch ‘Seanadóir’ orm agus dul ar réimeas agus…
ASSEMBLY ELECTION | PAVING THE WAY FOR GREATER PROGRESS (Free article)
12 May 2011
Historic breakthroughs and a unionist leader shooting from the lip BY PEADAR WHELAN BY PEADAR WHELAN THE West Belfast count was being held in the once-prestigious King’s Hall. Proceedings were dragging on and on and it was to be a feature of the electoral post-mortems that politician after politician would criticise the Chief Electoral…
1981 HUNGER STRIKE 30th ANNIVERSARY | THE PRISONERS FACE THATCHER’S INTRANSIGENCE (Free article)
12 May 2011
May – A traumatic month MAY 1981 was one the most traumatic months in modern Irish republican history with the deaths on hunger strike of Bobby Sands MP, Francis Hughes, Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O’Hara. May 1981 was evidence of the callous, vindictive and intransigent approach that the regime of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher…
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