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...

A memorial service will be held later this month to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Gordon Liddle, a postman from Newtownbutler who was killed in a bomb attack in 1976.

A planning application for the construction of 36 dwellings on lands north of No 7 Lisnastraine Heights, Coalisland, has been approved, however the plans submitted did meet with strong opposition from some nearby residents who cited a number of conce...

Mervyn Byers says this year’s Twelfth of July in Maguiresbridge could have been his last as County Grandmaster of the Orange Order in Fermanagh – but has suggested he would be willing to stay on “if they want me to.”

Save Our Acute Services (SOAS) campaigners used this year’s Twelfth celebrations in Maguiresbridge to bring their message directly to the community – stressing that “every man, woman and child here can need the hospital, it’s that simple.”

Cecil Wilson, of Garvary, steps quietly out of line as the Garvary Flute Band approaches the demonstration field in Maguiresbridge