The Irish trade union movement must become a key participant in the current Irish unity discussion. Fundamental ...

The grave of an Irish Republican who died in prison in England in 1977 was marked with a new headstone in Glasnevin Cemetery ...

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 ...

THE women of Cumann na mBan were remembered in Liverpool, England, on Saturday despite attempts by Merseyside Police to disrupt the event by placing restrictions on the parade. Assistant Chief ...

On 31 October 1973, 31 years ago this week, one of the most spectacular and audacious escapes from an Irish prison took place when three of the IRA's key personnel were airlifted to freedom in a ...

This weekend we remember Kevin Lynch and Kieran Doherty, the 7th and 8th 1981 hunger strike martyrs. Kevin Lynch died on August 1st after 71 days on hunger strike. Kieran Doherty died August 2nd after ...

Knock, Lourdes, Medjugorje, Monto - it's like one of those sequences in which the objective is to 'guess the odd one out'. But there isn't one. Monto - nestled in the heart of Ireland's heathenish ...

As I write, the Israeli army is using Irish United Nations peacekeepers in Southern Lebanon as human shields. The Israelis are again invading Lebanon and killing its citizens. And in the past year ...

Former An Phoblacht Editor and Sinn Féin General Secretary Rita O’Hare has passed away. Speaking this morning, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald TD has said: “I am deeply saddened to announce the ...

I commend the Republicans of County Clare for remembering Volunteers Patrick O’Mahony, Christopher Quinn and William O’Shaughnessy and for restoring this memorial plaque. As I put these words together ...

Next week Mary Nelis, former Sinn Féin MLA and Derry City Councillor, begins a fortnightly column in An Phoblacht. Here she talks to ELLA O'DWYER about her political background, her family, ...

A new conversation is urgently needed about the future direction of the Palestinian struggle; one which is focused upon the reasons for, and necessity of, political unity and an agreed strategy.