On 5th May 1981 at 1:15 in the morning, Bobby Sands - IRA volunteer, socialist republican, community activist, father, husband, writer and political prisoner - passed away after enduring 66 days on hunger strike.
An Éirígí initiative to mark the 92nd anniversary of the Easter Rising has come under both verbal and physical attack in an area of the Six Counties notorious for sectarian discrimination against the nationalist community.
Éirígí stepped up their campaign for a No vote in the upcoming Lisbon Treaty referendum over the weekend, bringing the reasons for a rejection of Lisbon onto the streets and into public meetings in both Donegal and Dublin.
As details continue to emerge from various sources regarding the Report of the Strategic Review Body on Parades, it is clear that its recommendations are predicated on two events:
These were heartfelt words of Geraldine Finucane to the media shortly after she discovered that the British government had decided 18 months ago to cease all preparations for a public inquiry into the brutal murder
Éirígí activists across Ireland distributed thousands of Proclamations of the Irish Republic to mark the 92nd anniversary of the Easter Rising on Thursday, April 24.
During the past couple of weeks, the people of France have witnessed up to 600 workers on strike. This is nothing new in France of course, for French workers are much celebrated for defending their rights and
Former hunger-striker and radical trade union organiser Tommy McKearney is to be the guest speaker at Éirígí’s second annual James Connolly Commemoration on May 10.
