One Flu Over? | Gearóid Ó Cairealláin - The Definitive Activist | Israeli...
ONE FLU OVER?I have the flu. It’s a sign of my loyalty to you dear reader, that I write this column in my sick bed. Bathed in sweat. I’ve changed my T shirt four times since Saint Stephen’s Day. I ran...
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Nollaig Na mBan | Ted Howell - Republican | Francesca Albanese - A Champion...
Nollaig na mBanMonday 6 January is traditionally the date on which the Christmas decorations are taken down. In the Christian calendar it marks the end of the Christmas season and the visit of the Magi...
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A Good Start To 2025 | Let the Music Keep Your Spirits High | Sanctions Must...
A Good Start To 2025. On Saturday last leading trade union activists from across the island of Ireland came together in Newry for a packed Ireland’s Future event in the Thomas Davis Hub. It was a wet...
View ArticleDublin Lacks Ambition | Presidential Vote | Solidarity with the people of...
Dublin Lacks AmbitionLast week Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, supported by the regional independents, published their Programme for Government 2025. This contains the objectives set by the government...
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Stramer Waiving Rules | Leonard Peltier - Going Home
Starmer Waiving The Rules. According to the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer his government is looking at "every conceivable way" to prevent me and at least 300 other people from receiving...
View ArticlePartitionism Rules. | International support grows for Palestinian Struggle |...
Partitionism Rules. Simon Harris has said that Irish unity is not a priority for him. That is self-evident. But for him to say so is at odds with the stated position of most senior Irish politicians...
View ArticleThe World Stands at a Tipping Point | My Internment by Roseleen Walsh |...
The World Stands at a Tipping PointIn the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq by American and British forces and others in March 2003 Martin McGuinness and I warned Tony Blair and President Bush...
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The Re-interment of Frank Stagg | Pet Hates
The Re-interment of Frank Stagg. Last week we remembered Frank Stagg who died on hunger strike in an English prison in February 1976. Frank began his fourth and final hunger strike in December 1975....
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Brendan McFarlane | Taking A Stand. | Fáilte abhaile Leonard
Brendan McFarlaneOn Tuesday we buried our friend and comrade Brendan McFarlane. Bik texted me just over 2 weeks or so ago to say he was back in hospital. He had been battling cancer for some time. A...
View ArticleSeachtain na Gaeilge | Death of Dafyyd Elis-Thomas
Seachtain na GaeilgeSeachtain na Gaeilge used to run for one week but because it was so popular it was extended. It now runs annually from 1 March to 17 March – St. Patrick’s Day. Is í Seachtain na...
View ArticleNa Mná Abú | Let's Welcome the World | Opening the Gates of Hell
Na Mná Abú.I have been a life-long supporter of Antrim’s footballers and hurlers. And the Camógs as well. Colette played county back in the day. Back in another day I had a dream that I too might make...
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Defend Neutrality | Support the Occupied Territories Bill | Beannachtaí na...
Defend NeutralityIf truth be told the long standing claim of neutrality by the southern Irish state is not all its made out to be. It is a fact that successive Irish governments have turned a blind...
View ArticleMartin Mc Guinness. A Reflection. | A Courageous Advocate for Palestinian |...
Martin Mc Guinness. A Reflection.Friday the 21 March was the eighth anniversary of the death of our friend and leader Martin McGuinness. Like many others, I am sure, I was perplexed as it dawned on me...
View ArticleProtect the Assembly Rooms | Calls for Kurdish peace process welcomed | Time...
Protect the Assembly Rooms The North began, the North held on,The strife for native land;When Ireland rose to smite her foesGod bless the Northern landThomas DavisIn the 1790s Belfast was the centre...
View ArticleBuild Casement Now | Protecting our environment | Trade War Demands United...
Build Casement NowThe delay in building the new Casement Park is totally unacceptable. Like many Gaels of my age I grew up with Casement. I played there for our school teams and enjoyed sports days as...
View ArticleWear an Easter Lilly | Micheál Martin and Moore St. | Two different Voices on...
Wear an Easter Lilly I did not think Easter is almost upon us. It has crept up on me. For Irish republicans Easter holds a special significance. It is synonymous with the 1916 Easter Rising and the...
View ArticleKathleen Lynn – a Rebel Woman | Finding their place in a new Ireland | A...
Kathleen Lynn – a Rebel WomanI hope you all had an enjoyable Easter. Across the island and further afield commemorations were held at countless locations to remember those who fought in the 1916...
View ArticleStatue of Bobby Sands to be unveiled | The Refugees | Pope Francis
Statue of Bobby Sands to be unveiledOn May 4 at 3pm, a statue of Bobby Sands will be unveiled in the Republican Memorial Garden in Twinbrook, where Bobby lived. The organisers of the event, all local...
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Swinger | Israel’s reign of terror | Commission on the Future of Ireland
Swinger I spent the last week in Dublin in the Four Courts as part of the outworking of my case against the BBC’s Spotlight programme nine years ago. But more of that when it’s over which could take...
View ArticlePresidential Vote is constitutional requirement | Donnacha
Presidential Vote is constitutional requirement In a historic vote in the Assembly last week its members overwhelmingly passed by 46 votes to 25 - a motion calling on the Irish government to implement...
View ArticleVerbal Disorder | The Floodgates of Horror | The Catastrophe – Nakba
Verbal DisorderWhen I was younger I used to have a stammer. I don’t know what age I was. Somewhere between seven and ten perhaps. A youngster! I grew out of my speech impediment, and I have very...
View ArticleMothers Against Genocide | ‘If I Must Die’ | Give the vote to 16-year-old...
Mothers Against GenocideThis column makes no apologies for writing so much about the genocide in Palestine and the urgent need for ceasefires and a peace process. At least 14,000 babies face imminent...
View ArticleJim Fitzpatrick signed Limited Print of Elizabeth O’Farrell. | Health and...
Jim Fitzpatrick signed Limited Print of Elizabeth O’Farrell. Regular readers of this column will know that I wholeheartedly support the efforts of the Moore St. Preservation Trust to preserve the 1916...
View ArticleStand-Up to Racism | Defending Neutrality | Pat Finucane - End the Delay
Stand-Up to RacismIn 1972 Catholic families – who had endured three years of sustained sectarian attacks on their homes – fled Annalee St in North Belfast. Last month - fifty-three years later -...
View ArticleCeasefires Now | Mol an Óige | Family Album
Ceasefires NowShould we have been surprised by the decision of the US President Donald Trump to attack Iran? No. Shocked maybe but not surprised. The weapons of mass destruction spin, that was used to...
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