The grave of Theobald Wolfe Tone at Bodenstown was for long the site of the largest annual national gathering of republicans. Other events may since have overtaken it in numbers, but it remains the spiritual home of Irish Republicanism and a renewed ...

Two weeks ago, racist pogroms were mounted against ethnic minority and migrant people in greater Belfast, forcing families from their homes. Elsewhere in the north of Ireland, multiple violent attacks and intimidatory protests took place.  This vic...

BOBBY SANDS was the most prolific writer of the republican prisoners in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh during the Blanket Protest which lasted from 1976 until 1981. He was in prison for most of that time, being arrested in October 1976 and sentenced in Se...

Last week a large number of local trade unionists, various MLAs, and Party workers rallied together outside Parliament Buildings in Belfast to call for progress on implementation of the ‘Good Jobs Employment Rights Bill’, which is being spearhead...

THURSDAY, 21 MAY 1981, witnessed the deaths of two more Hunger Strikers. Raymond McCreesh passed away at 2:30am. That evening, Patsy O’Hara died. The deaths of Raymond and Patsy – who had started the strike on the same day, died on the same day a...

The inquest into the death of Belfast schoolboy Noah Donohoe has been adjourned in an “unprecedented” move.

Charlie’s Bar in Enniskillen is set to host its annual Summerfest celebration on Sunday, August 30, promising a full day of free entertainment for all ages in the heart of the town.

A man in his 70s who was arrested in connection with the 1973 murder of County Tyrone teenager Marian Beattie has been released on bail as detectives continue their enquiries.

A convicted sex -offender has admitted the latest charges against him described by police as “by far one of the worst ever seen”.

A twenty-year-old man is to stand trial on charges involving the alleged wounding and sexual attack of a young male in a hostel last year.