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Sinn Fein at a crossroads

A very poor performance by Sinn Fein in the 26 County Presidential election is causing alarm within the party over its political leadership and direction.

Published November 3, 2018

A Catholic priest who comforted the bereaved after the Greysteel massacre 25 years ago has said he believes the revulsion felt after the savage mass-murder helped move the North of Ireland towards peace.

Published October 27, 2018

Farcical High Court decision backs PSNI farce

I am now convinced that the Police Service of Northern Ireland is an elaborate prank, a kind of brilliantly large-scale Candid Camera -- and the courts are totally in on the joke.

Published October 27, 2018

Jingoism can’t disguise DUP’s reckless Brexit agenda

Arlene Foster is preparing to have a train crash Brexit in pursuit of a narrow agenda with no regard for the majority who voted to remain or for any of the people of the north.

Published October 20, 2018

Was the British government the main protagonist?

When all disputes and diversions have been explored, we come back to one core awkward fact.

Published October 13, 2018

Seamus Costello

Seamus Costello was a founding member of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) and the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA). He was shot dead on 5 October 1977, 41 years ago this week.

Published October 6, 2018

The Republic must constitute any future United Ireland

An address delivered by Sean Bresnahan to the Ruairi O Bradaigh Memorial School in Roscommon.

Published October 6, 2018

There was no going back

Recollections by Fionnbarra O Dochartaigh of the civil rights commemoration committee regarding the events at Duke Street which some historians characterise as the day the ‘Troubles’ began.

Published September 29, 2018

The devil and the deep blue sea

When I was a lad, our History teacher used to say that people should look for signs of madness in a political leader, and when they saw it, the leader should be shunned. Unfortunately, History wasn’t listening to our teacher.

Published September 29, 2018

Emmet’s speech from the dock

Robert Emmet, United Irishman and the leader of the rebellion on 1803, was tried for high treason in Green Street courthouse, 215 years ago this week.

Published September 22, 2018

British state let off the hook

The exposure of Michael Jackson in Channel 4’s Ballymurphy documentary makes it necessary to look back on his performance at The Bloody Sunday Inquiry - and at the Inquiry’s refusal to draw proper conclusions about his participation in the murders, his role in the cover-up, and his perjury to the Inquiry.

Published September 15, 2018

Annette McGavigan

Forty-seven years ago today a 14-year-old school girl, Annette McGavigan, was shot dead on the streets of Derry by a British soldier. No one was ever charged with her death and no proper investigation was ever carried out.

Published September 8, 2018

The Loughinisland killings - who knew?

I finally got round to watching the film ‘No Stone Unturned’ last night. The fact that it’s on Amazon Prime means it’s available to anyone anywhere.

Published September 8, 2018

The 1913 Lock-Out

A brief history of Ireland’s landmark industrial and social dispute, between approximately 20,000 workers and 300 employers, which began in Dublin 105 years ago this week.

Published September 1, 2018

RSF hunger strike anniversary commemoration

The oration delivered by Sinn Fein Poblachtach Ard Cisteoir and Ard Chomhairle member Diarmuid Mac Dubhghlais, Atha Cliath at the 37th Anniversary Hunger Strike commemoration and parade in Bundoran, County Donegal at the weekend.

Published September 1, 2018

Tony Taylor’s 900th day behind bars

A protest is to be held in Derry to mark the 900th day of Tony Taylor’s internment at Maghaberry Prison.

Published August 25, 2018

‘Denial of rights as wrong today as it was in 1968’

The full text of the speech at Sinn Fein’s commemoration of the North’s first civil rights march, by the former party chairperson, Mitchel McLaughlin.

Published August 25, 2018

The Omagh bomb

The bereaved of Omagh have never been short of sympathy. But they have been starved of truth.

Published August 18, 2018

GAA marks centenary of ‘Gaelic Sunday’

The Gaelic Athletics Association (GAA) marked the weekend’s centenary of ‘Gaelic Sunday’ with commemorative events at clubs across Ireland and abroad and a special colour parade at Croke Park.

Published August 11, 2018

‘Old certainties are gone’

The full text of Mary Lou McDonald’s speech at Sinn Fein’s annual 1981 hunger strike commemoration in Castlewellan, County Down last weekend.