Bobby Sands leads new hunger strike
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6d ago
March 1st marks the 43rd anniversary of the beginning of the 1981 hunger strikes. An Phoblacht will be opening our archives which house a unique repository of articles and photographs from the hunger strike period. In the coming weeks we will be profiling these pieces along with new insights into this critical period in the history of republican struggle ..read more
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Ireland must be a voice for the Palestinian people
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6d ago
Writing in his latest blog, Declan Kearney said that the future of Palestine demands that the democratic world finally acts decisively in support of people's fundamental, national and human rights ..read more
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Francie Molloy not seeking re-election to Westminster
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1M ago
39 years of electoral representation by Mid Ulster MP Francie Molloy is ending this year as the Sinn Féin veteran announced his decision not to stand in the next Westminster elections. In his own word Francie marks out key events in his long career standing up for the rights of Northern nationalists ..read more
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Britain's death squads 1989
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1M ago
THE late 1980s saw an escalation in the use of death squads by the British regime in the Six Counties. Since the start of the 1970s, the British Army and the RUC had manipulated loyalist paramilitary organisations as part of their counter-insurgency strategy. The aim was to terrorise the entire nationalist population, killing Catholics solely because of their religion or perceived political allegiances and, where possible, assassinating leading nationalists and republicans ..read more
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Double blow to censorship
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1M ago
IN JANUARY 1994, the armed conflict in the Six Counties was at a critical stage. The previous year had seen the deaths of 84 people in the war and, while there was some political movement, it was by no means clear that a peace process could be put in place to end the armed conflict and to address its root causes ..read more
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The Scandal of Israel’s War on Hospitals
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1M ago
Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, General Secretary and co-founder of Palestinian National Initiative (PNI), describes the recent events that have occurred at the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza as a scandal ..read more
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Shane MacGowan: A troubadour for the Irish in London
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3M ago
“The Pogues were also unashamedly abrasive and political, at a time when being political about Ireland in Britain was no easy task”. Joe Dwyer offers a tribute to Pogues lead singer Shane MacGowan whose death was announced today ..read more
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Bridge at Croke Park named Bloody Sunday Bridge
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4M ago
The 14 people murdered by British crown forces on Bloody Sunday, 21 November 1920, have been honoured with the naming of Bloody Sunday Bridge beside Croke Park where they were shot ..read more
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Palestine, you are not alone - we are all Palestinians now!
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4M ago
Declan Kearney writes on the current situation in Gaza and the need for immediate ceasefires and the upholding of International Law ..read more
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Jack McElduff - A link to our proud and noble past
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5M ago
Lifelong Irish republican and former political prisoner, John Vincent McElduff was laid to rest in his native Loughmacrory recently. The graveside oration was delivered by Seán Hughes ..read more
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