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H Bl ock LP –Resistance Music: Working together to help people: Samhain:...
H Block LP –Resistance MusicThe first time Christy Moore sang ‘Ninety Miles from Dublin’ in west Belfast - his song about the obscenity of the H-Blocks - was in the old Ballymurphy Tenants Association...
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Alice Toner; The Rain that Falls on Palestine: Colin Powell; and Frederick...
Alice TonerI was deeply saddened by the death of Alice Toner. I knew Alice and her husband Fra all of my adult life. Like my own family they moved into Ballymurphy shortly after it was built. She and...
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Ballymurphy remembers Criostóir de Baroid: Theresa McArdle: Time for Change –...
Ballymurphy remembers Criostóir de BaroidCriostóir de Baróid died two weeks ago, surrounded by his family in Marymount Hospice in Cork where his wife Máire had died in February. About 20 people from...
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Des Ferguson - Éireannach, Gael, fear chéile Mháire, athar agus Daideo, seán...
We buried Des Ferguson in Kells, County Meath last Sunday. He died aged 91 after a short illness. His family, friends in the GAA, his neighbours and republicans from across Ireland gathered to give him...
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How I got a different view of Croker; First World problems need fixed: TG4 -...
How I got a different view of CrokerLast week I spent a day in Croke Park. I have been there many times before. Usually for GAA fixtures or the occasional concert. But last week was different. Some of...
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Rewriting History; Ratcheting up the Brexit crisis; Day of Action
Rewriting History“The first casualty when war comes is the truth” said US Senator Hiram Johnson in 1917. We know only too well from our own recent experience of reporting on the decades of conflict...
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Gaels call for Citizens Assembly: Back off Boris: An Irish National Health...
Gaels call for Citizens AssemblyIn a powerful video message 12,000 Ulster Gaels are appealing to our fellow Gaels in Munster, Leinster and Connaught to sign and endorse a letter to An Taoiseach...
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Six of The Best: An opinion poll on Unity: Standing with Palestinians
Six of The Best.I’m reading Colin Broderick’s ‘That’s That,’ an evocative account of growing up in Altnamuskin in Tyrone at the height of the conflict. Colin’s mother and her efforts to protect her...
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The Number Eleven Bus: Croí na Carraige - Investing in our young
Croí na Carraige - Investing in our youngRecently I met with activists involved in the Glór na Móna project in west Belfast. Along with the local MLA Aisling Reilly they briefed us on their work in...
View ArticleNollag shona daoibhse: Leonard Peltier – An appeal for Compassion: A New Year...
Nollag shona daoibhse. I like Christmas. I like the Christmas story. Joseph and Mary and the wee donkey fleeing from the Roman occupation forces. The baby Jesus being born in a stable. I marvel about...
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New Year Resolutions: Charities - supporting the vulnerable: Back to basics:...
New Year Resolutions.New Year resolutions and I are old friends. Usually I muse at the end of the old year about what I need to commit myself to for new year’s arrival. This year the pandemic cuts...
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Desmond Tutu: Tom’s a Singer
Desmond TutuI had the honour and pleasure of meeting Desmond Tutu over the years. He was a friend of Ireland and a supporter of the Irish peace process. He was a remarkable, compassionate and...
View ArticleSectarianism must be ended! CAN DOGS THINK?
Sectarianism must be ended! The narrow vote in the Dáil 100 years ago last week in favour of the Treaty imposed the partitionist institutions demanded by the British under threat of ‘war – and war...
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Condolences are not enough: The Women of Ireland Are Fed Up by Emma Sheerin:...
Condolences are not enoughI want to extend my deepest condolences to the family and friends of Ashling Murphy. The spontaneous public outpouring of grief at her murder underlines the frustration and...
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Thunder before the Storm in Belfast: Save Moore Street - Buy a raffle ticket...
As we mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday I remember when native Americans joined us to forge solidarity links and travelled to Derry to participate in the Bloody Sunday events of 1985.Thunder...
View ArticleReflections on Bloody Sunday: Julian Assange: Free Leonard Peltier
Reflections on Bloody Sunday. Somehow human beings, including this columnist, put more stead in twenty year anniversaries than in nineteen year ones. So in the case of Bloody Sunday 50 years seems...
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Ormeau Road collusion exposed: Women leading the way: Growing Older
Ormeau Road collusion exposedCollusion between British intelligence, the RUC, UDR, British Army and Loyalist paramilitary organisations is a fact of life here. This is indisputable. A succession of...
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Standing up to Bullies: Register to Vote – let’s make change together: A...
Standing up to Bullies. Some politicians rarely, if ever see the irony in the words they use. Take Boris Johnson. He is currently using the dispute between the Ukraine and Russia to distract attention...
View ArticleRussia get out of Ukraine; Vote is a four letter word - Use it; Pensions and...
Russia get out of Ukraine The big story of the moment is the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Like many of you I have been watching the round the clock news reports emerging from what is now a war zone....
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Palestinians deserve our support also: Springhill/Westrock Massacre – 50...
Palestinians deserve our support alsoThere are two photographs in this week’s column. One is of a school. Totally destroyed. Levelled. Classrooms reduced to rubble. The work of students scattered...
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