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Féile Launch 2025 | Ceasefires Now | Mol an Óige | Family Album | Kneecap Abú

Ceasefires Now

Should we have been surprised by the decision of the US President Donald Trump to attack Iran? No. Shocked maybe but not surprised. The weapons of mass destruction spin, that was used t…

Published on 2 months ago

Stand-Up to Racism | Defending Neutrality | Pat Finucane - End the Delay

Stand-Up to Racism

In 1972 Catholic families – who had endured three years of sustained sectarian attacks on their homes – fled Annalee St in North Belfast. Last month - fifty-three years later - Cath…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Jim Fitzpatrick signed Limited Print of Elizabeth O’Farrell | Health and Care in a New Ireland | An Act of International Piracy

Jim Fitzpatrick signed Limited Print of Elizabeth O’Farrell 

Regular readers of this column will know that I wholeheartedly support the efforts of the Moore St. Preservation Trust to preserve the 1916…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Escape | Old Farts

Old Farts 

As I get older I seem to be farting more than I used to. Now don’t get me wrong. I don’t keep a record of my farts. That would be impossible but I do have a notion that my flatuence is more…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Mothers Against Genocide | ‘If I Must Die’ | Give the vote to 16-year-old citizens | Health & Care in a New Ireland

Mothers Against Genocide

This column makes no apologies for writing so much about the genocide in Palestine and the urgent need for ceasefires and a peace process.  At least 14,000 babies face imminen…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

A Ballymurphy Man | Verbal Disorder | The Floodgates of Horror | The Catastrophe – Nakba

San Francisco – A Ballymurphy Man/A Work in Progress

If you live in the San Francisco area go along to the Vogue Theatre on 1st June to see a sneak preview of Trisha Ziff’s film – A Ballymurphy Man.

It…

Published on 3 months ago

Presidential Vote is a constitutional requirement | Donnacha

PRESIDENTIAL VOTING RIGHTS

In a historic vote in the Assembly last week its members overwhelmingly passed by 46 votes to 25 - a motion calling on the Irish government to implement the recommendation o…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Swinger | Israel’s reign of terror | Commission on the Future of Ireland

Swinger

I spent the last week in Dublin in the Four Courts as part of the outworking of my case against the BBC’s Spotlight programme nine years ago. But more of that when it’s over which could take a…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Statue of Bobby Sands to be unveiled | The Refugees | Pope Francis

Statue of Bobby Sands to be unveiled

On May 4 at 3pm, a statue of Bobby Sands will be unveiled in the Republican Memorial Garden in Twinbrook, where Bobby lived. The organisers of the event, all local…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Kathleen Lynn – a Rebel Woman | Finding their place in a new Ireland | A Barren Landscape of Death | All that Fuss

Kathleen Lynn – a Rebel Woman

I hope you all had an enjoyable Easter. Across the island and further afield commemorations were held at countless locations to remember those who fought in the 1916 Eas…

Published on 4 months ago