Urgent, universal collective action is needed to bring Israel to account. The holocaust of the Palestinian people and the colonisation of their lands must be stopped. There are no grey areas. There ...

Inez McCormack was an inspirational Irish trade unionist. She was a committed leader of the equality agenda; a fearless proponent of anti sectarianism and housing rights; a patron of the MacBride ...

This week marks the 40th anniversary of the heroic anti-apartheid strike by a group of young workers in Dunnes Stores, Henry Street, Dublin. We re-publish here special features first published on the ...

As many enthusiasts of the United Irish era will know, the rebel forces of County Down gathered in the days preceding the Battle of Ballynahinch on nearby Ednavaddy Hill. So on route to Rostrevor this ...

In these crazy days of Covid we live in I can’t get along to see the family of my good friend and comrade Gerard McGuigan who passed away last Friday or attend his funeral as I’m in isolation. I saw ...

This weekend we remember Kevin Lynch and Kieran Doherty, the 7th and 8th 1981 hunger strike martyrs. Kevin Lynch died on August 1st after 71 days on hunger strike. Kieran Doherty died August 2nd after ...

One of Sinn Féin’s longest serving elected representatives, Mid Ulster MP, Francie Molloy, has announced that he will not be standing for re-election in the forthcoming Westminster elections. Molloy, ...

Within hours of the death on hunger strike of Joe McDonnell, the British Army shot dead 16-year-old Fian John Dempsey. He and two comrades were on active service when they come under fire from a squad ...

The helicopter used in the spectacular escape On 31 October 1973, 31 years ago this week, one of the most spectacular and audacious escapes from an Irish prison took place when three of the IRA's key ...

Eighty years ago on 6 September 1940 a Free State Army firing squad executed two IRA Volunteers a veteran of the 1916 Rising and his young comrade born in that year. Paddy McGrath and Thomas Harte had ...

I nDíl Chuimhne Jan. 13th 1975: Vol James Moyne, Long Kesh; Jan. 13th 1976: Vol Martin McDonagh, Belfast Brigade, 3rd Battalion; Jan. 13th 1976: Vol Rosemary Bleakley, Cumann na mBan, Belfast; Jan.

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 ...