The families of eight men killed by Britain’s death squads in the 1970s won a landmark victory in the European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday (November 27).
Twenty-Six County education minister Mary Hanafin has announced that she will not withdraw a circular stating that Irish-medium schools in the state must introduce two-and-a-half hours of English-language teaching by the second term of junior infants’ class.
Tyrone woman Roisín McAliskey and her family can breath a huge sigh of relief tonight (Friday) after a Belfast court turned down a request to extradite her.
While James Connolly’s demand that workers are entitled to ‘the earth’ is a strong message that still resounds with organised labour and socialists a century later, the demands from classroom assistants in the Six
One of the key factors that keeps the status quo in place in both the national and socio-economic fields in today’s Ireland is the notion that normality reigns, conflict and hardship are items of the past and things as they are will continue in perpetuity.
Fifty-one homeless citizens have died, starving and cold, on the streets of our two major cities in the last 18 months according to a report by the Simon Community.
Support for a proposed EU treaty which will further damage Irish sovereignty has almost halved over the last two years according to a major poll in the Irish Times. Of those polled, just 25 per cent plan to vote yes in any referendum.
