South Down MP Chris Hazzard spoke recently at the annual Latin America Conference in London. Below we carry the speech in full. Hazzard argues that people across Europe need to develop a solidarity that is powerful, respectful, and makes a real diffe...

No matter how much its opponents wish it to go away the political momentum towards Irish Unity is not stalling. It crosses party lines and even within parties its impact is highly significant.

The opening words which Bobby Sands wrote on the first day of his hunger strike in 1981 have been echoing in my mind during recent weeks…’I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world’.  A palpable uncertainty and instability has ...

Book review - ‘Robert Barton – A Remarkable Revolutionary’ by Chris Lawlor. Published by History Press

First published in An Phoblacht/Republican News, Thursday, 23 February 1995 - Over the years, many hunger strikes embarked on by republican POWs have ended in the deaths of some of the participants. The fast which began in Mountjoy Jail in Februar...

AN incident of illegal dumping has been reported near Letterbreen, where a large quantity of lorry tyres was offloaded at a gate entrance on the Blunnick Road.

TRILLICK woman, Lauren Vance, is a newly-appointed trustee of Rural Support.

A decision of Fermanagh and Omagh District council to move Omagh Leisure Complex away from its current renewable energy heating system to a gas generated heating system has further highlighted questions over its own climate credentials.

THE late William Keys will be remembered as a man who "wore many hats" as a family man, farmer, dealmaker, churchman, and a great friend to all, mourners have heard.

A TYRONE woman has admitted to a series of serious fraud charges, including forging invoices, bank statements, and a legal practising certificate.