“Sands, Bobby. Anti H-Block/Armagh Political Prisoner, 30,492”. These words of election returning officer Alastair Patterson, became in 1981 the live televised public proof of the power of republican voters. Bobby Sands was elected MP for Fermana...

Éirí Amach na Cásca – The 1916 Easter Rising – First published in Éiri amach na Cásca, The Easter Rising 1916, by Republican Publications, April 1986

A serious inaccuracy in the Irish Times concerning the burial of Frank Stagg has been corrected by Danny Morrison. In its obituary of Frank’s brother the late Emmet Stagg, former Labour Party TD, the newspaper omitted the hijacking and burial of Fr...

An Phoblacht would have been helpless without its drivers. They delivered the paper all over Ireland in challenging dangerous conditions. Earlier this month we were saddened to learn of the death of Thomas McGuigan, one of these valiant republican ro...

March 1st marks the 43rd anniversary of the beginning of the 1981 hunger strikes. An Phoblacht will be opening our archives which house a unique repository of articles and photographs from the hunger strike period. In the coming weeks we will be prof...

The removal of the Fresh Start Funding by the British Government, for the long-awaited shared education campus for the Fermanagh village was discussed at Tuesday, April 9 meeting of the full Council in Enniskillen.

A BELOVED butcher from Fintona had a "tremendous work ethic" and "genuine greeting and smile" for everyone he met, mourners have heard.

The Perfect Pint, Fivemiletown has presented £2,150 to The Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust. The funds were raised from quiz night fundraisers held in February and March.

IN the light of another meeting our councillors sat in the chamber. One day, a discussion came up and – pop! – Sinn Féin’s Sheamus Greene (right) discussed the plight of our hungry councillors.

A funding cut means that Fermanagh Women's Aid will lose one of its highly respected staff members later this year.