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Fermanagh Ógra host suicide prevention programme (Free article)
1 October 2010
FERMANAGH Ógra Shinn Féin have worked in conjunction with PIPS to deliver a suicide prevention training programme to a group of local people to mark World Suicide Prevention Day in September. The suicide prevention training programme was delivered on Saturday 11th September in Enniskillen to people of all ages and backgrounds. Commenting on…
INTERVIEW | PAT SHEEHAN, H-BLOCKS HUNGER STRIKER (Free article)
1 October 2010
‘Organise and honour the Hunger Strikers’ BY PEADAR WHELAN PAT SHEEHAN was 23 years old when he became the seventeenth H-Block prisoner to join the Hunger Strike on August 10th 1981. When the fast ended in October that year, Pat had gone 55 days without food. He now works for the republican ex-prisoners organisation, Coiste na…
Ógra cumann renamed after much-loved young republican Pádraig Barton (Free article)
1 October 2010
MARTIN McGUINNESS was the guest speaker at the renaming of the Derry City Ógra Shinn Féin cumann in honour of Pádraig Barton, an Ógra member who tragically lost his life in a traffic accident in June. It is now the Na Fianna Martyrs and Pádraig Barton Cumann. At a packed event in the Gasyard in the Bogside, a new banner was unfurled in…
Pearse Column’s heroic escape retraced (Free article)
1 October 2010
THE heroic escape across the mountains from Altawark in Fermanagh to Monaghan after the famous 1957 raid on Brookeborough RUC Barracks in which Seán South and Feargal O’Hanlon lost their lives was retraced by 20 young republicans last month as they undertook ‘The Pearse Column Walk’. The event, which was organised by Fermanagh Ógra Shinn…
The Springhill Massacre, 1972 (Free article)
1 October 2010
g BY LAURA FRIEL ACQUELINE BUTLER was only a toddler, the youngest of six children, when her father, Paddy, was shot dead by British paratroopers in what has come to be known as ‘The Forgotten Massacre’. “I was only 18 months old when Daddy was killed. I never knew him, only through stories and photographs. “Mum had five other children…
Sinn Féin in Basque Country after ETA statement (Free article)
1 October 2010
SINN FÉIN’S Bairbre de Brún MEP and Alex Maskey MLA travelled to the Basque country in the last fortnight at the request of Abertzale Left. Sinn Féin has been engaged with the situation in the Basque country for some time and this latest engagement is a continuation of their support for the current peace initiative following ETA’s statement…
National Ploughing Championships | Martin Ferris launches Oireachtas report (Free article)
1 October 2010
‘The Future of Farming and Fishing’ THE National Ploughing Championships in Athy, County Kildare, was the stage chosen by Sinn Féin TD Martin Ferris to launch his report. ‘The Future of Farming and Fishing in the West’. The Kerry North/West Limerick TD said he was very happy to have been able to present the report to the Oireachtas…
First An Phoblacht Autumn School (Free article)
1 October 2010
BY ROSS CARMODY THE first Annual An Phoblacht Autumn School was held over two days in Baile Bhúirne, County Cork, over the last weekend of September under the title of ‘Time to Change Ireland’. The event drew an audience from all corners of the country, including Donegal, Belfast, Meath and Dublin. Officialy opening the event on Friday…
The IMC and a worrying signal (Free article)
1 October 2010
WE didn’t need the so-called ‘Independent Monitoring Commission’ (an ex-Scotland Yard supremo, an ex-CIA spook chief, an Iveagh House mandarin and a lord of the British realm and the Alliance Party) to tell us that the murder of Bobby Moffett on the Shankill Road was carried out and sanctioned by the leadership of the UVF. Long before the IMC…
Billy Wright Inquiry leaves unanswered questions (Free article)
1 October 2010
THE report of the inquiry into the killing in Long Kesh in 1997 by INLA prisoners of Billy Wright, leader of the Loyalist Volunteer Force, has failed to answer many questions, including the unionist death squad boss’s relationship with senior unionist politicians, Sinn Féin Assembly member John O’Dowd said. Speaking after the report’s release…
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