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Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:15:45 +0100Joe McDonnell – Died on July 8th 1981 on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh
JOE McDONNELL was the fifth Hunger Striker to die due to the intransigence of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her government.
Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:17:35 +0100The United States and a United Ireland
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...
Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:46:05 +0100“We know exactly who we are. Irish Socialist Republicans. United Irelanders.” - Mary Lou McDonald
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 ...
Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:20:00 +0100Standing for progress and against forces of the reactionary far right
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...
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:39:37 +0100Bobby Sands writing in An Phoblacht/Republican News
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...
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Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:52:34 +0100Sunrise walk to remember mother and children one year after shootings
A sunrise memorial walk will be held in Maguiresbridge later this month to remember Vanessa Whyte and her children, James and Sara Rutledge, one year on from their deaths in a tragedy that shocked Co. Fermanagh and beyond.
Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0100The unforgettable characters who make Lack one of Fermanagh's special places
It is a hot Wednesday in the lovely north Fermanagh village of Lack, under the towering Glenarn Mountain.
Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:02:43 +0100Next generation of farriers trained at Enniskillen college
Early-career farriers from across Northern Ireland gathered at CAFRE Enniskillen Campus for a special training event led by two internationally respected practitioners.
Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:27:30 +0100Fair Day shines bright at heart of Lady of the Lake Festival
It was as "hot as the inside of a camel’s oxter" at the annual Fair Day in the middle of the iconic ‘Lady Of the Lake festival, held in the splendid grounds of Necarne Castle.
Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:45:41 +0100Lisbellaw Recycling Centre alternatives reviewed and scrapped
Residents’ concerns over the closure of Lisbellaw Recycling Centre were aired again at the latest meeting of Fermanagh and Omagh District Council’s Environmental Services Committee, as councillors sought assurances that every alternative had been...