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29 March 2007
Northern Ireland: THE MEDIA had pictures on 26 March of 'old enemies' Ian Paisley of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein reaching an agreement to return power sharing to the Northern Ireland Assembly from 8 May....
22 March 2007
Northern Ireland: SHOP STEWARDS and officials of the GMB union met Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain in Belfast on 20 March...
15 March 2007
Northern Ireland Assembly elections: Another sectarian headcount...
THE RESULT of the Northern Ireland Assembly election was yet another sectarian headcount...
15 March 2007
We Won't Pay Campaign conference success
Water charges: THE FIRST conference of the anti-water charges 'We Won't Pay Campaign' was held on Saturday 10 March...
1 March 2007
Congress to build the forces of socialism
Socialist Pary congress 2007, photo Paul Mattsson |
1 February 2007
Northern Ireland: DELEGATES AT the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis in Dublin on 28 January voted by an overwhelming majority to back a leadership motion to support the police and judicial system in Northern Ireland....
11 January 2007
Northern Ireland: New governing executive looks in doubt
THE BRITISH and Irish governments are again attempting to push the main political parties in Northern Ireland towards forming a governing executive. ...
12 October 2006
"Bertiegate" scandal rocks Ahern coalition
A FINANCIAL scandal involving Ireland's Prime Minister, Bertie Ahern - "Bertiegate" - dominates Irish politics and threatens to bring down the rightwing coalition government, writes Niall Mulholland.
5 October 2006
Joe Higgins' speech "tore Taoiseach [PM] apart"
Ireland: Ahern's financial scandal puts his political survival in balance: THE IRISH Taoiseach (prime minister), Bertie Ahern, is under huge pressure following revelations that he received "loans" and "gifts" from businessmen when he was a government minister in the 1990s...
6 July 2006
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Directed by Ken Loach: "Twas hard the woeful words to frame to break the ties that bound us..."
6 July 2006
The Irish Civil War (28 June 1922 - 24 May 1923) was a conflict between those factions of the IRA for and against the Anglo-Irish Treaty signed on 6 December 1922, writes Neil Cafferky and Niall Mulholland.
25 May 2006
Unite against sectarianism in Northern ireland
A FIFTEEN year old Catholic school student, Michael McIlveen, was brutally assaulted in a sectarian attack in Ballymena, County Antrim on 7 May, writes Ciaran Mulholland, Belfast.
25 May 2006
Bobby Sands Nothing but an Unfinished Song
Review: Twenty five years ago in May, Bobby Sands, MP, died on hunger strike in the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland. Over the next few months, nine other young republican prisoners followed him, demanding jail reforms...
15 December 2005
Massive support for Irish Ferries' workers
OVER 100,000 workers marched across cities and towns in Southern Ireland on 9 December...
8 December 2005
GEORGE BEST's funeral took place on 3 December in Belfast. Tens of thousands lined the streets to show their appreciation of his talent,...
8 December 2005
Solidarity with Irish Ferries workers
AROUND SIXTY Welsh trade unionists showed their support and solidarity with Irish Ferries workers at a rally in Pembroke Dock, called by the Wales TUC and International Transport Workers Federation (ITF)...
1 December 2005
Workers fight introduction of cheap labour
A DISPUTE over the replacement of British and Irish crews with cheap Eastern European labour, mostly from Latvia, by Irish Ferries has led to an escalation of action between the unions and the company over t...
6 October 2005
Why the IRA campaign failed to defeat the British state
Lessons of Northern Ireland: AFTER THE recent report confirming that the IRA has 'decommissioned' its arms, NIALL MULHOLLAND looks at the approach taken by socialists to the IRA's campaign after the 'Troubles' re-emerged in the late 1960s...
15 September 2005
Northern Ireland: Riots show failure of peace process
THE SCENES in Belfast and other Northern Ireland towns last weekend give a stark warning that the 'peace process' could at some point unravel and be quickly replaced by widespread sectarian conflict...
11 August 2005
Northern Ireland after the IRA statement: Why the 'peace process' continues to flounder
THE REACTION within Northern Ireland to the IRA statement ordering its units to "dump arms" says a lot more about the current state of the 'peace process' than the statement itself...
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