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Standing up for Newry & Armagh - Mickey Brady for MP (Free article)
4 December 2019
There are serious issues facing us in this election. Our health service is at breaking point, the Tories and DUP have conspired to inflict the most savage cuts to public services in a generation and the planet is facing a climate catastrophe that requires all of us to act. These are where our efforts should be going but one issue continues to…
Fianna Fáil keep Housing Minister in job as homelessness hits record high (Free article)
4 December 2019
The no confidence motion brought forward by the Social Democrats had the backing of Sinn Féin, the Labour Party, the Green Party and smaller left-wing groups, but crucially Fianna Fáil chose to sit on the fence.
Sinn Féin MPs ranked among best performing (Free article)
4 December 2019
Sinn Féin MPs have been named as among the best performing members of parliament in the first 'People Power' index compiled by one of the world's leading survey sites.
A deal to re-establish the north's political institutions is possible - Mary Lou McDonald (Free article)
7 December 2019
On the 16th December, talks to re-establish the north’s political institutions resume and these talks must conclude by the 13th January at the latest. Sinn Féin have made preparations, we have been in direct contact with both governments and our negotiators stand ready to engage in these talks. It is our view that a deal is possible and that a…
Sinn Féin member and five IRA Volunteers killed (Free article)
12 December 2019
THE month between 16 November and 17 December 1984 saw the deaths of a Sinn Féin member at the hands of unionist gunmen and of five IRA Volunteers in action against the British crown forces in Counties Antrim, Fermanagh, Derry and Armagh. It was one of the most intense and tragic months of the conflict.
Sinn Féin lay out the human cost of the housing crisis (Free article)
11 December 2019
Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald TD has published a document comprising real-life submissions from people impacted by the housing crisis. Deputy McDonald published a video on her social media accounts last week calling on people to share their lived experiences of the housing crisis. The comments from the Dublin Central TD came shortly…
Long road travelled, long road ahead (Free article)
18 August 2019
In the aftermath of the EU and local elections across Ireland it is necessary and right to take stock and analyse the Sinn Féin performance. However, in this month of August 2019, there is a need to look also at the road republican activists have travelled over a much longer arc of history.
The Battle for Survival of Rural Ireland (Free article)
16 December 2019
No One Shouted Stop: Death of an Irish Town was the 1988 title of Irish Times journalist John Healy’s seminal book dealing with the decline of Charlestown, a town in East Mayo familiar to anyone who has travelled the N17 from Sligo to Galway. The book was particularly concerned with this case study of social and economic degeneration in the west,…
Any language is an arena of struggle (Free article)
26 December 2019
Late last year Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o spoke at the LÍON, Limerick and Languages: Revival, resurgence and new beginnings conference in Mary Immaculate College, an event organized as part of Bliain na Gaeilge. Luke Callinan of An Phoblacht spoke to Ngũgĩ about the importance of language and culture in the context of a struggle for national liberation and…
A New Ireland where all feel respected and welcome (Free article)
17 December 2019
There is nothing inevitable about Irish unity. How many movements in history have wrongly predicted the obviousness of their desired outcome? How many political struggles end in failure? Achieving the unity of this island remains a formidable challenge; the obstacles are still huge.
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