There was powerful symbolism when Sinn Fein brought together the party’s TDs and MLAs at Stormont this week.
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SF photocall shows its a party without borders
There was powerful symbolism when Sinn Fein brought together the party’s TDs and MLAs at Stormont this week.
Published March 25, 2011
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the end the brutal truth confronts me: I am a wrong-thinking person. How
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people will...” I end up disagreeing with them.
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Lillis on the 22nd of March. If it fails to act humanely and release him
the West Belfast man may well end his days in prison.
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the Middle East over the last month I am brought back in time to my
teenage years and the streets of Belfast circa 1968.
Published March 10, 2011
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experience last Friday of trying to motivate people to come out and vote
for Sean Crowe in the constituency of Dublin West.
Published March 6, 2011
Radical change is what we really need
When there’s overwhelming agreement
about anything in Irish politics, it is usually wrong.
Published March 2, 2011
You don’t normally hear opponents come out and say “We don’t like you, Adams – you’re from the north”. It’s more often slipped in obliquely.
Published February 25, 2011
Poll could turn out to be electoral revolution
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left of economic sovereignty to the International Monetary Fund and the
European Union.
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that the PSNI reflects the society it polices.
Published February 11, 2011
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Published February 7, 2011
There are still individuals stuck in the trench in Belfast.
Published February 2, 2011
No civil rights without national rights
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Published January 29, 2011
Political pantomime now a circus of despair
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citizens finally move in and close it down.
Published January 25, 2011
Fianna Fail split down the middle by dithering
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Published January 21, 2011
The final session of the 30th Dail began with further
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Published January 13, 2011
Adams didn’t trade lives for votes
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route for republicans?
Published January 9, 2011
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whether the republican leadership’s analysis and depiction of what was
happening has subsequently proved correct
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