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Passing the baton to Michelle
I’m quite sure that the Unionist leaders who built Stormont in the 1930’s and thought they were putting in place a Unionist Parliament for the Unionist people of this part of our island never for a...
View ArticleCivil Rights struggle continues
For the first time footage from August 1968 of the first ever civil rights march in the North was released last week by RTE. The very short 31 second clip is an old grainy black and white film. It...
View ArticleSupporting Victims
Supporting victimsFebruary 4th 1992 was a Tuesday. It was also a typically cold though dry day. Martin McGuinness and I left the Sinn Féin office at Sevastopol Street, just off the Falls Road, around...
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Brexit threatens the Good Friday Agreement
Michelle O'Neill, mise agus Martina Anderson arriving for All-Island Brexit conference in Dublin Castle on Friday morningTwo weeks from today – Thursday March 2nd– the electorate of the North will be...
View ArticleSee you later Alligator
This election has been marked by some expressive, funny, biting political satire. The lengths to which some have gone to produce twitter and facebook videos has been little short of astonishing....
View ArticleStatement to Dáil on Traveller ethnicity 1st March 2017
I want to welcome the Traveller groups represented in the gallery and elsewhere in Leinster House this evening, and I extend solidarity to all Travellers on this historic day.It is their day, and a...
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Unionists lose Stormont Majority
Mary Lou McDonald TD, Michelle O'Neill MLA, mise agus Órlaithí Flynn Last week, just before polling day, I wrote in this column; ‘every election is important. But some have a historic significance that...
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Time to plan for Unity
Last year’s centenary of 1916 was a resounding success. Political, cultural, historical and media organisations, individuals and communities held hugely successful events to celebrate the individuals...
View ArticleMartin McGuinness was a committed republican – and that never changed
This piece about Martin was published in Wednesday's Guardian:The death of my friend and comrade Martin McGuinness has left a deep void. It is a huge blow to all of us who knew and loved him,...
View ArticleCelebrate and Organise
The Ballyfermot Civic and Community Centre is an impressive, three storey, modern facility which provides many local services to the Ballyfermot community. 25 years ago it was a dilapidated, poorly...
View ArticleHopes for peace in the Basque country
In the midst of the ceremonies last week to complete the process of putting the weapons and explosives of ETA beyond use, the figure of former Methodist Minister Harold Good was centre stage. In 2005,...
View ArticleGardaí and Government have questions to answer following Omeath shooting
Last week RTE broadcast a special investigative programme about events in Omeath on 11 October 2015 which left a Garda Officer, Tony Golden dead, Siobhán Phillips, a young mother of two fighting for...
View ArticleThe future of two Unions
Last week the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, made the bizarre claim that the other 27 member states are ‘lining up to oppose’ Britain over Brexit. It was as if the other EU members are somehow...
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Designated Status for North best solution to Brexit
Michelle O'Neill in the Oireachtas for the visit of Michel BarnierMichelle O'Neill and Mickey Brady travelled down from the North this morning to attend the joint sitting of the Dáil and the Seanad for...
View ArticleLet’s make history
Last week Arlene Foster told an election rally in Derry that a poll on Irish unity should not be allowed because it would destabilise the North. Do you think she was at all conscious of the huge irony...
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Victory to the Hunger strikers
Last week, we remembered with pride Bobby Sands and Francis Hughes, who died on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh in 1981. At the weekend the anniversaries will occur of Raymond McCreesh and...
View ArticleA tale of two elections
The energy and enthusiasm which surrounds the demand for an Irish Language Act has not diminished since the Assembly election in March. The sea of red on the Falls Road and in Belfast City centre last...
View ArticleRefugees, coffins ships and hunger
At the start of most weeks in Dublin I drive through the Port Tunnel for Leinster House. As we make our way up the Quays toward the Customs House on my left stand a group of bronze figures. There are...
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Unity referendum - an imperative and a winnable objective.
In the post count excitement of the election RG forgot to post this article which was published in this weeks Andersonstown News. Given the outcome and the emerging DUP/Tory arrangement/coalition it's...
View ArticleActive Abstentionism
Following on from the very successful Assembly election in March last week’s Westminster election produced another historic result for Sinn Féin. We achieved our largest vote ever of 238,915 or 29.1%,...
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