Podcast Episodes

Wear an Easter Lilly | Micheál Martin and Moore St. | Two different Voices on Unity

Wear an Easter Lilly

I did not think Easter is almost upon us. It has crept up on me. For Irish republicans Easter holds a special significance. It is synonymous with the 1916 Easter Rising and the h…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Protecting our environment | Build Casement Now | International Palestinian Child Day | Trade War Demands United response

Protecting our environment

The blue skies and warm weather of recent days is a reminder that spring will soon give way to summer. Everywhere the trees and flowers are coming into bloom and the dark e…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Protect the Assembly Rooms | Calls for Kurdish peace process welcomed | Time for Unity | Free Palestine

The North began, the North held on,

The strife for native land;

When Ireland rose to smite her foes

God bless the Northern land

Thomas Davis

In the 1790s Belfast was the centre of an Irish political move…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Martin Mc Guinness. A Reflection. | A Courageous Advocate for Palestinian | The only answer is Unity

Martin Mc Guinness. A Reflection.

Friday the 21 March was the eighth anniversary of the death of our friend and leader Martin McGuinness. Like many others, I am sure, I was perplexed as it dawned on …

Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago

Defend Neutrality | Support the Occupied Territories Bill | Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig

 Defend Neutrality.

If truth be told the long standing claim of neutrality by the southern Irish state is not all its made out to be. It is a fact that successive Irish governments have turned a blind…

Published on 5 months ago

Let's Welcome the World | Na Mná Abú | Opening the Gates of Hell

Let’s welcome the World

It has been a very busy and eventful couple of weeks for all of those who speak and enjoy the Irish language and who have campaigned for decades against government policies of…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Seachtain na Gaeilge | Death of Dafyyd Elis-Thomas

Seachtain na Gaeilge

Seachtain na Gaeilge used to run for one week but because it was so popular it was extended. It now runs annually from 1 March to 17 March – St. Patrick’s Day. 

Is í Seachtain na G…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Brendan McFarlane | Taking a Stand | Fáilte abhaile Leonard

Brendan McFarlane

On Tuesday we buried our friend and comrade Brendan McFarlane. Bik texted me just over 2 weeks or so ago to say he was back in hospital. He had been battling cancer for some time. A …

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

The Re-interment of Frank Stagg. | Slán Brendan

The Re-interment of Frank Stagg. 

Last week we remembered Frank Stagg who died on hunger strike in an English prison in February 1976. 

Frank began his fourth and final hunger strike in December 1975. …

Published on 6 months ago

My Internment by Roseleen Walsh | Climate Crisis |The World Stands at a Tipping Point

My Internment by Roseleen Walsh

Roseleen Walsh is one of 36 women who were interned in the early 1970s. Her latest book – My Internment – tells the very personal story of her life as a young woman in …

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago