‘Support Workers in Struggle this Winter’ – Pól Torbóid Yesterday (18th of November) saw the successful resolution of an industrial dispute with workers at Glen Dimplex LTD based in Portadown. Despite Glen Dimplex LTD having a turnover of £659m in ...
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‘The Typist with the Webley’ – Winifred Carney to be remembered in Belfast 1916 Rising volunteer Winifred Carney is to be commemorated in Belfast this week with a gathering at Milltown Cemetery on Saturday at 1PM. The Irish Citizen Army ...
Read MoreVideo: ‘Drugs, Addiction & Decriminalisation’ – Public talk, Derry The full video from our public talk in Derry as we discussed our recent policy entitled, ‘Drugs, Addiction & Decriminalisation’. Speakers included: Chair – Caolán Doherty, Lasair Dhearg Derry Frankie Healy, ...
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‘Drugs, Addiction & Decriminalisation’ focus of Derry public talk A planned public talk will discuss the issue of drug use and addiction in Derry on Wednesday [3rd Nov 2021] as organisers say a “new approach” is needed by governments north ...
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Sinn Féin supports Special Criminal Court At today’s Sinn Féin Ard Fheis, its party membership supported a motion brought forward by the leadership of the organisation, withdrawing its opposition to the Twenty-Six Counties Special Criminal Court. The Sinn Féin Ard ...
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Sinn Féin poised to drop opposition to Special Criminal Court Sinn Féin is fast becoming Ireland’s party of ‘law and order’ as it is now positioned to end its long-standing opposition to the non-jury Special Criminal Court in the Twenty-Six ...
Read MoreMargaret Skinnider remembered in Dublin and Coatbridge on 50th Anniversary Margaret Skinnider remembered on her 50th anniversary by Lasair Dhearg in Dublin and Coatbridge.Skinnider was veteran of the 1916 Rising, a suffragette, a republican, a socialist, trade unionist and a ...
Read MoreClinton inauguration at Queen’s University Belfast marked by protest A large crowd gathered to meet Hillary Clinton at Queen’s University in Belfast on Friday [24th September 2021], to protest her inauguration as Chancellor of the University. Lasair Dhearg’s Pól Torbóid, ...
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Annual FIBI Sliabh Fea commemoration honours the late Eddie O’Neill By Pádraic MacCoitir “I can’t remember exactly when I became aware of the Spanish Civil War but it was years ago. I’d read bits and pieces about IRA volunteers who ...
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Post-Covid: A new pandemic threatens the Irish working class. It is already clear as we move into the latter months of 2021, slowly marching from the fog of the coronavirus crisis, that a new pandemic threatens the working class across ...
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Hillary Clinton: Belfast says no to war criminals! Lasair Dhearg are calling upon all anti-Imperialist, socialist, anti-racist, and Republican activists across Belfast to ensure the inauguration of U.S imperialist warmonger Hillary Clinton as QUB Chancellor does not go unopposed! Queen’s ...
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Salvador Allende – Last Words to the Nation, September 11th, 1973. This speech was delivered at 9:10 am on September 11th, 1973, in the midst of an ultimately successful US-sponsored coup d’etat against the democratically-elected government of Chile. Barricaded inside ...
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Winifred Carney to be remembered in Belfast ‘The Typist with the Webley’ – Winifred Carney was a suffragist, a teacher and a trade unionist, a member of Cumann na mBan and the Irish Citizen Army, she stood alongside James Connolly ...
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Lasair Dhearg meet in Belfast to mark period of growth Lasair Dhearg members gathered in South-East Belfast today [Sunday, 5th Sept 2021] for a day of internal debate and discussion. Following the Chairpersons report delivered by Pól Torbóid, detailing our ...
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‘Queer Heroes’ – Instalment two “I sought by love alone to goWhere God had writ an awful no.Pride gave a guilty God to hellI have no pride – by love I fell.” The poetry written by Sir Roger Casement speaks ...
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