Cathaoirleach Éirígí Brian Leeson has reaffirmed the socialist republican party’s intention to organise protests during the upcoming state visit to the Twenty-Six Counties by Britain’s head of state Elizabeth Windsor.

Up to seventy people yesterday [March 12] braved the bitter cold to join a protest in Dublin against the planned state visit by the British Head of State, Elizabeth Windsor, which is due to take place in May. The

Cathaoirleach Éirígí Brian Leeson has said that the upcoming visit by the commander in chief of Britain’s armed forces Elizabeth Windsor to the Twenty-Six Counties will be actively and vigorously opposed by the socialist republican party.

Éirígí has launched a new online petition as part of its campaign of opposition to British royal visits to Ireland. The petition demands that Enda Kenny and his incoming government abandon any plans to invite the British

n the latest instalment of the Republican History series, Philip Ferguson of the Workers’ Party of New Zealand and a former resident of Dublin recounts how radical opposition was organised to the last British royal visit to Ireland’s capital 100 years ago. Read on...

In response to intense media speculation that a state visit to the Twenty-Six Counties by the Commander-in-Chief of the British army Elizabeth Windsor is to occur soon, possibly May, the socialist republican party Éirígí are stepping up their campaign of demonstrations against such a visit.