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An account of a famous IRA escape in 1974, adapted from a feature published earlier this year by Laois Today.

A brief autobiography by former political prisoner and author Tim Brannigan for the BBC radio show ‘It’s My Story: Where Are You Really From?’

Drawing the line for the Union

How the ‘third man’ on the Boundary Commission 100 years ago helped secure the border for unionism.

The PSNI is delivering for the RUC

The PSNI is behaving in similar ways to its sectarian predecessor.

Why are doctors who have visited Gaza being ignored?

Palestinians are being systematically exterminated with taxpayer money and our politicians are doing absolutely nothing to stop it.

The way to put loyalist gangs out of business is to stop the cash

There is that no incentive for paramilitary groups to transition – in fact there is every reason to stay in business, writes Brian Feeney.

The murder of Willie Price

Extracts from a new booklet on the SAS murder of Willie Price on 13 July 1984, compiled for his family by Relatives for Justice.

I will not shed any tears for Netanyahu’s rogue state

It’s been hard to watch the news over the last couple of days and not feel like I am going completely insane.

Why massacring civilians is Israel’s deliberate strategy

All of humanity is less secure after a year of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank and as Israel now unleashes its wrath on Lebanon.

Hilary Benn joins long list of useless British overlords

If Benn did anything worthwhile last week, it is that he reminded us that there is no future if we remain tied to this failing United Kingdom.

Pushing the reset button

Does Dublin not realise the British would love rid of this place, writes Brian Feeney (for the Irish News).

Countries should withdraw recognition of Israel

In May, three additional European states officially recognised a non-existent Palestinian state. Ireland, Spain, and Norway are the latest to join more than 140 other United Nations members in recognising this phantom entity.

Sick taunts of the anti-immigrant thugs

Above (right) is the sick five-finger salute from a loyalist anti-immigrant thug that has sent a Troubles victim into a cycle of despair.

Facing genocide in the land of meaningless gestures

Our politicians have failed to match the mood of the Irish people when it comes to the genocide in Gaza.

John Joe McGirl

Former IRA Chief of Staff John Joe McGirl passed away 36 years ago this year, but recently some establishment figures have been calling for the annual commemoration in Ballinamore to be ‘cancelled’. Next week brings the 30th anniversary event in honour of a man who dedicated his life to defying British rule in Ireland.

Loyalist culture wars in East Belfast

As continuing hoax bomb attacks on a Gaelic sports club in the area prove, Irish culture is under constant attack in east Belfast. Now tensions are rising ahead of the arrivals of pupils to an Irish language school in the area.

Take it down from the mast, Irish fascists

When far right protestors in Coolock use the imagery and words of Bobby Sands, I ask myself if have they read the poem which spoke of how “the inner thing” has “withstood the blows of a million years”?

Israel strikes five schools in week of massacres

While the worlds’ attention was diverted by the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, Israeli forces have been attacking schools including a UN-run school in Nuseirat camp, where they killed 17 and wounded about 80, mostly women and children. A report by al-Jazeera.

Remembering Martin Hurson

Martin Hurson became the sixth republican to die on hunger strike this week in 1981. In this archive article by Connla Young for Daily Ireland, his fiancee recalls the place where the couple grew up.

Changing electoral map shows need for border poll criteria

By Sinn Féin retaining its seven seats and the DUP losing three of its eight, another historic electoral milestone was reached.

November 13, 2024

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