Urgent, universal collective action is needed to bring Israel to account. The holocaust of the Palestinian people and the colonisation of their lands must be stopped. There are no grey areas. There ...

In early May, I brought a motion to the regional Assembly in the north of Ireland urging all members, regardless of different political outlooks, to call upon the Irish government to fulfil its ...

A large crowd turned out in beautiful sunny weather in Kiltyclogher for the 109th anniversary of Seán MacDiarmada on Sunday, 11th May. The commemoration was preceded by a parade from Sraduffy Cross ...

Last July saw the Tories emphatically ejected from government in Britain. The Labour Party was returned with a large majority promising a break from a decade and a half of Tory misrule. It didn’t take ...

IT IS NO EXAGGERATION to say that the events of Easter Week in 1916 radically altered the, course of Irish history. This is the story of the Rising in Dublin during that week, an event that reawakened ...

The death occurred on Friday 21 February of Brendan McFarlane, who was a Republican leader inside and outside the prisons, known and respected by generations of activists across Ireland and beyond.

During this general election campaign in the south of Ireland, the electorate has been presented with a real choice - between the plan for change presented by Sinn Féin, or more of the same from the ...

Book Review 'Policy of Deceit – Britain and Palestine 1914-1939' By Peter Shambrook As I write, the Israeli army is using Irish United Nations peacekeepers in Southern Lebanon as human shields. The ...

The bereaved and survivors of this tragedy have borne their sorrow with great dignity for 43 years. Another mother, Gertrude Barrett, who lost her son Michael, was the first to give a pen picture at ...

ONE of the most successful and spectacular escapes during the present struggle for freedom was the mass breakout by 19 republican prisoners from Portlaoise Prison in the summer of 1974. In November ...

Four weeks have passed since the Westminster General Election. For the third consecutive election between 2022 and 2024, Sinn Féin emerged as the largest political party in the north of Ireland; now ...

This week marks the 40th anniversary of the heroic anti-apartheid strike by a group of young workers in Dunnes Stores, Henry Street, Dublin. We re-publish here special features first published on the ...