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Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:15:45 +0100
Joe 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 +0100
The 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 +0100
Standing 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 +0100
Bobby 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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Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:21:00 +0100
Meet the man who won the Clogher Valley Show bursary
 

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:22:59 +0100
Missing person rescued from Lough Erne as part of two RNLI call outs
Enniskillen RNLI volunteers were called into action twice within 24 hours as the July Bank Holiday weekend got under way, responding to separate incidents on Lower Lough Erne.

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:06:12 +0100
Sun, sashes and silver bands - Maguiresbridge hosts another successful Twelfth
Thousands of Orangemen, bandsmen and spectators descended on Maguiresbridge on Monday, July 13, as the village hosted the County Fermanagh Twelfth demonstration.

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:35:35 +0100
Meet the marshals that kept Maguiresbridge running on the Twelfth
I meet William Loane shortly after thinking I’ve found the ideal parking spot, right in the centre of Maguiresbridge

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:08:44 +0100
Man arrested after ice cream van set on fire in Tyrone
A man has been arrested after an ice cream van was set on fire in Omagh in the early hours of Monday morning.

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