For those of you with seasonal book tokens to use and with an interest in all things Dublin I can recommend three excellent ...

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity, with my colleague Donnchadh O’Laoghaire TD, to visit the West Bank, Palestine, as part of a delegation organised by Progressive International to discuss the ...

United Irelanders across London, and further afield, were saddened on Friday to hear about the passing of Martin Collins. A political organiser, across a range of Irish organisations and campaigns, ...

In the end she won by a landslide. Taking 914,143 votes and 63.36% of the total valid poll Catherine Connolly stormed home with the Government-backed candidate Heather Humphreys of Fine Gael getting ...

The commemorative dinner-dance formed part of the ‘Margaret Skinnider weekend’, an annual weekend of politics and commemoration organised by the Margaret Skinnider Cumann of Cairde na hÉireann. Each ...

This month marks the 80th anniversary of the United Nations Charter being adopted, which has become the foundation of the United Nations itself and our international law framework. The Charter ...

On the 250th anniversary of the birth of Daniel O’Connell we republish this article which was first published in August 2019. The RTÉ two-part documentary on Daniel O’Connell presented by Olivia ...

On the 50th anniversary of the Miami Showband massacre we re-publish this article by the late Ella O’Dwyer, first published in 2007. THE Miami Showband massacre took place 31 July 1975, near Newry, in ...

Choosing a new, progressive social order is not possible if a country is partitioned, annexed, or colonized. A Basque militant once said that national liberation struggle and socialism are two sides ...

THE 1916 PROCLAMATION, heralding the establishment of an Irish Republic and read by Pádraig Pearse from the steps of the GPO in Dublin at 12 noon on Easter Monday 1916, is undoubtedly one of the most ...

The death occurred on Friday 21 February of Brendan McFarlane, who was a Republican leader inside and outside the prisons, known and respected by generations of activists across Ireland and beyond.

A weekend of events marked the 50th anniversary of Kevin Coen, an IRA volunteer killed in 1975. Sinn Féin TDs Martin Kenny and Matt Carthy spoke at separate commemorative events in Fermanagh and Sligo ...