Nominations for the Irish Presidential election next month ended on
Wednesday with just three nominees. On Saturday, Sinn Féin decided to
back Independent Catherine Connolly against Fianna Fáil candidate Jim
Gavin and Fine Gael’s Heather Humphreys. Party leader Mary Lou McDonald
issued the following statement in support of Ms Connolly ahead of
her official campaign launch.
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‘A champion for Irish Unity in our time’
Nominations for the Irish Presidential election next month ended on
Wednesday with just three nominees. On Saturday, Sinn Féin decided to
back Independent Catherine Connolly against Fianna Fáil candidate Jim
Gavin and Fine Gael’s Heather Humphreys. Party leader Mary Lou McDonald
issued the following statement in support of Ms Connolly ahead of
her official campaign launch.
Published September 25, 2025
Republicans must build strategic alliances
Francis Mackey of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement delivered the
oration at the annual Alan Ryan commemoration last Sunday, 7th
September.
Published September 18, 2025
How Israel’s war on Gaza has become a war on the truth
For ten months, Gaza and its people have been under relentless
bombardment. Entire neighbourhoods have been flattened, hospitals
reduced to rubble, and families obliterated in seconds. But alongside
the destruction of homes and lives, another campaign is being waged, one
aimed not only at innocent civilians, but at the very people who tell
the world what is happening.
Published August 14, 2025
On the 55th anniversary of Óglach Jimmy Steele, the Irish Republican
Martyrs Committee held a wreath laying in Milltown cemetery and
issued the following tribute to his memory.
Published August 14, 2025
Former republican prisoner Stephen Murney delivered the main oration at
the unveiling of the mural in west Belfast to Volunteer Kevin Hannaway.
The full text of his speech is published below.
Published July 17, 2025
What compels young men to die?
A poem written by hunger strike martyr and IRA East Tyrone Brigade
Volunteer, Martin Hurson, at Easter 1981 during the 1981 hunger strike.
On 13 July 1981, he became the sixth of ten men to die in the H-Blocks of
Long Kesh in protest against attempts to criminalise the republican
struggle.
Published July 17, 2025
The immediate response of the English rap band ‘Bob Vylan’ to the furore
over its chants in support of Palestine at the Glastonbury festival,
and on the following day.
Published July 3, 2025
Sinn Féin address at Bodenstown
Sinn Féin Leas Uachtarán, Michelle O’Neill addressed the party’s annual
Wolfe Tone Commemoration at Bodenstown, County Kildare on Saturday, June
22.
Published June 26, 2025
A united civic identity in a sovereign republic
John Crawley, an author and a former IRA volunteer, gave the oration
last weekend at the National Independent Republican Commemoration in
Bodenstown, where Wolfe Tone is buried. The following is the text of
his address.
Published June 12, 2025
McCreesh and O’Hara commemorated
Óglach Raymond McCreesh and his comrade Óglach Patsy O’Hara, two of the
1981 hungerstrikers who gave their lives 44 years ago this week, were
remembered in Camlough, County Armagh at a commemoration organised by
the Constance Markievicz 1916 Society.
Published May 22, 2025
MPs must be held accountable as combatants
In the theatre of Westminster, where power dresses itself in ceremony
and affectation, a terrible truth is obscured by the pomp: the men and
women who vote to send bombs, bullets and battalions into other people’s
countries rarely hear the screams.
Published May 22, 2025
Sinn Féin Leader Mary Lou McDonald TD addressed a ‘Public Rally for
Peace’ in Dublin’s Gresham Hotel last weekend organised by the Irish
Neutrality League, a new grouping of left-wing Irish
parliamentarians.
Published May 15, 2025
Why are loyalist bands funded to insult Catholics?
Bands who play offensive tunes should be penalised by having to pay back
grants, writes Brian Feeney.
Published May 15, 2025
The address delivered by Pat Sheehan MLA at the unveiling of the statue
of 1981 hunger striker Bobby Sands in Twinbrook, Belfast.
Published May 8, 2025
A response by the Irish rap band to the media storm over its
denunciations of Israel at a US music festival
Published May 1, 2025
Rising commemorated with defiance and purpose
A “large-scale, anti-Republican operation” was reported as the Crown
Forces deployed across Belfast ahead of several Easter commemorations in
the city over the weekend.
Published April 24, 2025
A collection of orations, addresses and statements issued by
republican organisations over the Rising commemorative period.
Published April 24, 2025
Volunteer Tom Smith, Dublin Brigade, Irish Republican Army was shot dead
by Free State soldiers during an escape attempt from Portlaoise jail on
17th of March 1975, 50 years ago this week.
Published March 20, 2025
In March 1981, Irish patriot Bobby Sands embarked on hunger strike at
Long Kesh prison. We publish a brief collection of quotes, some famous,
some less well known.
Published March 13, 2025
Republicans around the world have been paying tribute to former senior
IRA Volunteer Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane, a legend of the conflict who
played a major part in the 1981 hunger strike.
Published February 27, 2025
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