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Four Days in Antrim Barracks
The Balmoral Press Conference on my releaseMy recent detention and interrogation was a serious attempt to bring charges against me. It was conducted by the Retrospective Major Investigation Team of the...
View ArticleThe MRF - Dublin Monaghan bombs - Ballymurphy Massacre - state sponsored...
The decision by Drew Harris, the Assistant Chief Constable of the PSNI, not to investigate killings carried out by the secret British Army ‘Military Reaction Unit’ of the early 1970s will surprise few...
View ArticleA letter to candidates and Candidatitis and other ailments
With a week to go before the election north and south I decided to write a short note of encouragement to the almost 350 candidates Sinn Féin has standing in the European and Local Government elections...
View ArticleGovernment given notice to Quit
The Fine Gael/Labour government is in crisis. The election results of recent days confirm this. They have been effectively given a notice to quit by the electorate.Fine Gael and Labour came to power in...
View ArticleWe will use our mandate wisely
As you read this column I am in Washington DC briefing senior political figures and the Obama administration on the current difficulties within the peace process. But I will return to that again. For...
View ArticleIt’s time for real progress
Following last week’s election results I travelled to Washington DC to brief senior officials in the State Department, White House and Irish American Congressional leaders. I also met other Irish...
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Mother and Baby Home Scandal
Pearse Doherty agus mise at Mother and Baby vigil Wednesday eveningFrom the USA to China, from Africa and India to Australia the story of how almost 800 babies and children died in the care of a...
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Bodenstown: Radical, rooted, relevant and republican
The annual commemoration at the rgaveside of Wolfe Tone the father of Irish republicanism is an improtant event. This year I gave the speech. I am enclosing it here. It sets out Sinn Féin's vmission...
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Time to realign politics
Today we are holding an internal party conference in Dublin. Those taking part are our new elected representatives and the party leadership. It has been a really good day and is preparing the party...
View ArticleSpectacular intellectual gymnastics and the Guildford 4
Gerry Conlon died on Saturday. He was one of four people arrested, tortured and falsely imprisoned for carrying out bomb attacks in Guildford and Woolwich in England in 1974. His father Giuseppe was...
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Unionist walk out of talks – a step back
With the intensive all-party talks less than 48 hours old the Unionist parties all walked out. The reason? The Parades Commission has barred an Orange march from returning along part of the Crumlin...
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End the War on Gaza
Protest against Israeli assault on Gaza: Belfast The Israeli assault on Gaza has killed 200 people. Most of whom are civilians and children. Thousands more have been forced to flee their homes under...
View ArticleExpel Israeli Ambassador
August 1969 was a tipping point in the history of the north. Sectarian pogroms, a feature of nineteenth century Belfast and partition, returned to the streets of Belfast with hundreds of families in...
View ArticleEnd the slaughter in Gaza
It is unusual for this column to deal with the same issue three weeks in a row. But the Israeli assault on Gaza makes this a very special case. The scenes of desolation and destruction, of whole...
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The rising of the moon
Last Friday morning, August 1st, former comrades of Bobby Sands - ex-POWs Sinead Moore and Jimmy Burns - unveiled a remarkable white marble bust of Bobby in the Felons Club on the Falls Road in west...
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No to Fracking
Last month I headed down to Carrick-on- Shannon in county Leitrim for a public meeting on the impact of the Irish government’s austerity policies on rural communities and families. It was a warm...
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Albert Reynolds RIP
On Monday, Martin McGuinness, myself, Rita O'Hare, Pat Doherty and Lucilita Breatnach represented Sinn Féin at the funeral of former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds in Dublin. All of us, along with others...
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Protecting the most historic site in modern Ireland
Mise agus James Connolly Heron in Moore Street I was in Dublin on Easter Sunday morning for the annual Sinn Féin commemoration to mark the Easter Rising of 1916. The Dublin event was one of hundreds...
View ArticleIrish government needs to act on Palestine (from 2nd September)
The Israeli government has decided to seize 400 hectares of Palestinian land in the Occupied West Bank. This is said to be the largest land grab in 30 years. Coming in the wake of the recent widely...
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Up For The Match
The first barrier beyond which ticketless mortals cannot venture is at the mouth of Clonliffe Avenue opposite Quinns on Dorset street. Traffic slows down as easy going Gardai marshall the throngs...
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