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Back to homepageA sea change in attitude toward Travellers is needed
Last week there were two distressing funerals for the ten victims of the Carrickmines fire at a temporary Travellers halting site
Read MoreProvisional IRA still exists, says British report
The report endorses last month’s assessment by Police Service Northern Ireland chief George Hamilton in which he said individual members of the Provisional IRA were involved in the recent murder of Kevin McGuigan
Read MoreUncomfortable Conversations for Reconciliation
Uncomfortable Conversations – An Initiative for Dialogue towards Reconciliation is a book published by Sinn Féin
Read MoreStormont collapse likely after DUP ultimatum is rejected
A Stormont committee has refused on Thursday to adjourn the Six County Assembly despite a DUP threat that it would otherwise pull down the North’s political institutions
Read MoreIt’s about elections – stupid
This week 21 years ago the IRA announced its “complete cessation of military operations”. It was a momentous decision that came after many years of intense and difficult hard work
Read More1981 Hunger Strike – inflicted a historic defeat on the Thatcher government
Several weeks ago Sinn Féin’s hugely successful and popular re-enactment of the funeral of O’Donovan Rossa showed what can be achieved to further popularise the struggle for freedom, as well as to celebrate the lives of national heroes
Read MoreRemembering the Hunger Strikers – National Commemoration Sunday August 23rd
Post Views: 29 National Hunger strike March is on Sunday August 23rd. Assemble 2.15pm Bailigh at 2.15 to walk to New Inn, Newry Road at 3pm1981 was a tumultuous period in modern Irish history and the 1981 hunger strike
Read MoreCelebrating O’Donovan Rossa – A continuum of struggle
Post Views: 14 In February Sinn Féin launched our national campaign to mark the centenary of the 1916 Rising. It was and is a first class programme which included a re-enactment of the funeral of veteran Fenian Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa.In
Read MoreSupport marriage equality
Support the campaign for marriage equality in the north and help ensure that we create a better more compassionate and equal society now and for our children
Read MorePress Council uphold complaint against Irish Independent
The broadcasting ban, which barred my voice from being heard on the British media, was one of the more bizarre responses of the British state to the conflict
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