The text of a speech by Sinn Féin MP for
Newry Armagh Conor Murphy, speaking at the party’s annual Wolfe
Tone Commemoration in Bodenstown on Sunday.
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Published June 22, 2005
Nobody’s responsible, but everybody pays
In vivid contrast to the meritocracy and performance-driven
ethos of the entrepreneurial instincts that created the Celtic
Tiger economy, the vast apparatus of the state still blunders
along in its wake, guarding its mediocrity and looking after its
pals.
Published June 18, 2005
No equality in new Human Rights Commission
The North’s newly-constituted Human Rights Commission has
already been criticised for lacking in community balance.
Published June 18, 2005
On June 12 the annual Republican Sinn Féin commemoration
to Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Father of Irish Republicanism, took
place.
The following is an edited version of the main oration, which was delivered by Ruairi O Bradaigh, President of Republican Sinn Féin.
Published June 18, 2005
Ardoyne residents targeted by UDA, PSNI
Nationalist residents of north Belfast were attacked last night by both loyalists and the PSNI police following a hugely controversial march by the Protestant Orange Order.
Published June 18, 2005
Call to scrap Garda-based convictions
A leading Irish lawyer has called for oppressive anti-republican
legislation to be scrapped after five men were convicted of
membership of the breakaway ‘Real IRA’ on the word of a senior
garda policeman.
Published June 18, 2005
A prominent IRA Volunteer was re-arrested and returned to prison
today in a move that could herald a further weakening of the
1998 Good Friday Agreement.
Published June 18, 2005
Three Catholic men escaped serious injury this week after their
car was attacked by up to a dozen loyalists wielding baseball
bats and iron bars.
Published June 18, 2005
Paisley defiant over possible IRA move
Hardline unionist leader Ian Paisley has declared that any new
IRA peace pledges could take years to be believed, and warned
the Irish Prime Minister to keep “his dirty hands” off the
North.
Published June 18, 2005
The Ulster Unionist party has expressed dismay at reports that
the IRA may have disclosed the location of the body of alleged
IRA informer Gareth O’Connor.
Published June 14, 2005
A North Belfast residents’ group has called on the Parades
Commission to review a decision on Friday’s ‘Tour of the North’
march.
Published June 14, 2005
Ombudsman asked to investigate march violence
Sinn Féin’s Philip McGuigan has called for urgent meetings with
both the Police Ombudsman and the Parades Commission after six
nationalists were injured in clashes with the PSNI during a
unionist paramilitary parade.
Published June 14, 2005
Voters turning against Fianna Fail
The Dublin government has fallen to its lowest poll rating for
almost two years, according to the latest opinion poll, while
the opposition parties have all scored increases.
Published June 14, 2005
Is it safe for the IRA to go completely away
There are two crucial political questions at the moment in the
North. What will be the IRA’s response to Gerry Adams’ appeal
for it to stand down and for its activists to devote their
energies to political struggle? And, what is the DUP’s true
position on a power-sharing deal with Sinn Féin?
Published June 14, 2005
Lawyer ploughs a lonely furrow
Belfast solicitor extraordinaire Padraigin Drinan still can’t
decide whether to go to Craigavon Civic Centre when the inquiry
begins into the murder of her close friend Rosemary Nelson.
Published June 14, 2005
EU breakthrough for Irish language
Gaelic activists are celebrating a landmark decision to make
Ireland’s first language an official language of the European
Union.
Published June 14, 2005
Gardaí have lots in common with RUC
For a man bristling out there on the right of the
political spectrum, who believes there should be minimum
interference by the state in peoples’ lives, Michael McDowell's record is one
of petty interference anywhere he can in peoples’ lives.
Published June 10, 2005
Ireland to vote on troubled EU treaty
The 26-County government is determined to hold a referendum on
on the European Union’s Constitution despite Britain’s decision
to postpone indefinitely its own referendum.
Published June 10, 2005
Portadown and the Marching Season
The outline facts on the Protestant marching season and the
annual confrontation between marchers and Catholic residents of
the Garvaghy Road enclave in Portadown.
Published June 10, 2005
AHERN IMPATIENT FOR IRA DECISION
26-County Prime Minister, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, has said he
hopes that a decision by the Provisional IRA to stand down will
come in the next few weeks.
Published June 10, 2005
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