The death of Francis Hughes at the age of 25 on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh saw not the end of a legend but a new chapter in what was, by any measure, the story of one of the most fearless and tenacious guerrilla fighters of the 20th C...

There was huge interest among delegates to the presentation on the Triple Lock at last summer’s ICTU Global Solidarity School. As a result Dublin Council of Trade Unions organised a similar presentation for its delegates and a call for the Trade Un...

Sinn Fein MLA Gerry Kelly gave the main oration to a gathering of over 1,000 people in Scotstown, Co. Monaghan, to honour IRA Volunteer Séamus McElwain on the 40th anniversary of his death in a British SAS ambush.

5 May 1981 was one of the most defining days in Irish history. It was the day that Bobby Sands, the 27-year-old Member of Parliament for Fermanagh/South Tyrone, died on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh as part of the republican prisoners’...

24 April marks the 110th anniversary of the Easter Rising in Ireland, when Irish revolutionaries took on the might of the British empire and declared a national Republic. The Proclamation of the Republic itself was a revolutionary document which...

There can be very few people over the past ten days who have not heard or read the widespread comment on the ‘Katie Simpson’ Independent Review.

I am writing this on a quiet Saturday morning after the political storm everybody saw coming. Across England’s council elections, and in the devolved elections in Scotland and Wales, Britain’s political weather changed significantly overnight.

The statistics presented to us through the various media outlets about the war in the Middle East fail to convey the full horror of its impact on human and nonhuman life, and the commentary tells us little about the negative consequences for the desc...

A young woman held hostage and attacked by a former partner during a terrifying night of abuse admits she thought she was going to die.

A sex offender who claimed he was ‘addicted’ to child abuse images is living just 100 yards away from a children’s playground.