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 ...

One hundred years ago in June 1925 the first paper to bear the title An Phoblacht was published. It was to last for 12 turbulent years and to leave a legacy of lively campaigning republican journalism ...

A century ago in the summer of 1925 the Boundary Commission established under the Anglo-Irish Treaty was hearing evidence on the ground in the Six Counties as it prepared its report and considered ...

In early May, I brought a motion to the regional Assembly in the north of Ireland urging all members, regardless of different political outlooks, to call upon the Irish government to fulfil its ...

Republicans from Finglas and around Dublin gathered last weekend to pay tribute to Volunteer Martin ‘Doco’ Doherty, who was shot dead 31 years ago today. Doherty was killed at the Widow Scallan’s pub ...

A large crowd turned out in beautiful sunny weather in Kiltyclogher for the 109th anniversary of Seán MacDiarmada on Sunday, 11th May. The commemoration was preceded by a parade from Sraduffy Cross ...

Last July saw the Tories emphatically ejected from government in Britain. The Labour Party was returned with a large majority promising a break from a decade and a half of Tory misrule. It didn’t take ...

I started thinking about this article on the 44th anniversary of Bobby Sands’ death on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh. The day before Bobby’s anniversary on 5 May, 2025, a spectacular ...

IT IS NO EXAGGERATION to say that the events of Easter Week in 1916 radically altered the, course of Irish history. This is the story of the Rising in Dublin during that week, an event that reawakened ...

The “Good Jobs” Employment Rights legislation due to come before the northern assembly is the most progressive employment legislation ever to be introduced in the north. It presents an unparalleled ...

No matter how much its opponents wish it to go away the political momentum towards Irish Unity is not stalling. It crosses party lines and even within parties its impact is highly significant. Writing ...

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.