Today, as part of our On The Shoulders Of Giants series, and on the 100th anniversary of the birth of El Comandante, Fidel Castro, we republish the entire version of his legendary ‘History Will Absolve Me’ speech which he delivered to a Havana courtroom towards the end of his trial for rebellion following the 26th July, 1953 Moncada Barracks assault.
In the aftermath of the annual sectarian hatefest known by some as ‘The Glorious Twelfth’, the appearance of identical anti-immigration banners at various hate pyre sites in Mid-Ulster again exposes the links between Unionist death squads and their far-right bedfellows, both in the Twenty-Six Counties and further afield.
Éirígí - For A New Republic activists have scaled the headquarters of the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) in Abbotstown, North Dublin this morning, revealing a banner that reads ‘FAI Cowards - Stop The Game!’, in protest at the organisations decision to fulfil two UEFA Nations League fixtures against Apartheid Israel this coming September and October.
While the Tír Eoghain senior county football team and their management team may have lost their quarter-final match against Ciarraí last Sunday, their actions before and after the game won them the admiration and respect of hundreds of thousands of GAA and non-GAA supporters across Ireland and further afield.
Mickey Moran is joined by Gerard Shannon, an acclaimed author of several books, key among them being 'Liam Lynch - To Declare A Republic'. In this episode the life of this giant of Irish Republican history is explored, with Gerard laying out the facts and dispelling the myths that surround Lynch's legacy.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Apartheid Israel, has ordered his band of terrorists to seize and exercise control over 70% of the Gaza Strip in a move that threatens to torpedo an already fragile, almost existent, ‘ceasefire’, along with worsening humanitarian conditions in the already devastated Palestinian exclave.
