JOE McDONNELL was the fifth Hunger Striker to die due to the intransigence of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her government.

I have just returned from Washington, where Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald met with congressional members and Irish American and Trade Union leaders. In Congress, we met a cross-section of representatives from all shades of the Republican and...

The grave of Theobald Wolfe Tone at Bodenstown was for long the site of the largest annual national gathering of republicans. Other events may since have overtaken it in numbers, but it remains the spiritual home of Irish Republicanism and a renewed ...

Two weeks ago, racist pogroms were mounted against ethnic minority and migrant people in greater Belfast, forcing families from their homes. Elsewhere in the north of Ireland, multiple violent attacks and intimidatory protests took place.  This vic...

BOBBY SANDS was the most prolific writer of the republican prisoners in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh during the Blanket Protest which lasted from 1976 until 1981. He was in prison for most of that time, being arrested in October 1976 and sentenced in Se...

The Moygashel bonfire has been lit and burned a day early after organisers claimed contractors were due to move in to remove the controversial structure, which this year featured a replica mosque, anti‑Islam banners and an appearance by British com...

The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has condemned the placing of a replica mosque on top of a bonfire as ‘sickening and cowardly’.

Business leaders in Fermanagh have said the latest inspection report into emergency surgery pathways at the South West Acute Hospital (SWAH) should serve as a "wake-up call" for the Northern Ireland Executive.

A County Tyrone man is to stand trial on charges of breaching a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) on two occasions a year apart, by loitering around a hospital.

A domestic abuser whose lawyers previous questioned how the prosecution could continue after the victim later passed away in unrelated circumstances, has admitted has strangling her twice in the weeks before her death