The DUP in particular, and political unionism generally, is attempting to subvert the capacity of the power-sharing Executive and regional Assembly to work effectively. The state of public finances ...

For one hundred years now Irish Republicans have worn the Easter Lily emblem to mark the anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising and to pay tribute to all ...

This war is illegal. It is not a legitimate response to the human rights violations, lack of democracy, and breaches of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Iran. Already it is spiralling out ...

The traditional left in Europe has been losing working-class voters. Yet the history of progressive politics suggests a different possibility - ...

I have been active in tackling the drugs crisis for 27 years. From protesting to policy development and now as a practitioner in a community-based drug project in Dublin’s south inner city. It has ...

The community of Loughmacrory and the wider Tyrone area gathered last weekend to take part in a series of events to mark the 16th anniversary of republicans Gerard and Martin Harte and Brian Mullin, ...

Dublin’s greatest strength is their ability turn over the opposing team and attack at speed DUBLIN made a mockery of the belief strongly held in some quarters that Monaghan would be able to smother ...

Eighty years ago on 14th August 1940 Seán Russell died on a German U-Boat and his body was committed to the sea. It was a journey that he began as a founder member of the Irish Volunteers and ended as ...

This book is of major historic importance. Once and for all it buries the myth peddled for decades by the political, academic and media establishment in the 26 Counties that Fianna Fáil Taoiseach Jack ...

September and October 2023 mark the 40th and 50th anniversaries respectively of the H-Block escape of 1983 and the Mountjoy helicopter escape of 1973. As well as breaking tight security and securing ...

50 years ago this week Proinsias (Frank) Stagg was on the last days of his hunger strike. His protest was to demand an end to the inhuman treatment to which he had been subjected as an Irish ...

Twenty years ago this month, ten workers from the Henry Street branch of Dunnes Stores in Dublin’s city centre went on strike to protest the selling of produce from Apartheid South Africa. A year ...