Last week a large number of local trade unionists, various MLAs, and Party workers rallied together outside Parliament Buildings in Belfast to call for progress on implementation of the ‘Good Jobs Employment Rights Bill’, which is being spearhead...

THURSDAY, 21 MAY 1981, witnessed the deaths of two more Hunger Strikers. Raymond McCreesh passed away at 2:30am. That evening, Patsy O’Hara died. The deaths of Raymond and Patsy – who had started the strike on the same day, died on the same day a...

Forty years after the killing of IRA Volunteer Séamus McElwain, former political prisoner, Sinn Féin MLA and republican activist Seán Lynch reflects on the man he knew, the conflict they lived through, and the political path that followed.

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...

A decade ago, in the anxious months following Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, I travelled along Ireland’s borderlands to speak to people whose lives were shaped by a line on a map that, for many, had all but disappeared.

Lough Erne Resort has been crowned Ireland's Best Resort / Destination Venue at the Wedding Venue Awards, one of the most prestigious accolades in the Irish wedding industry.

Retirement celebrations for teachers can be modest affairs confined to the staff room or maybe the Assembly Hall. But for the community of Irvinestown Primary School who wanted to honour Edwina Read, that simply would not do.

The 50th anniversary mass for Teemore Primary School has reached the closing songs stage in the adjacent Saint Mary’s Church as we arrive on the grounds.

What started with a chance meeting on a student night out in has grown into a love story spanning more than a decade, culminating in a beautiful wedding celebration in Pettigo and Lusty Beg Island.