100 years ago today, counter-revolutionary Free State forces executed IRA members Liam Mellows, Dick Barrett, Joe McKelvey and Rory O’Connor. The ‘Four Martyrs’ were commemorated by Lasair Dhearg in Milltown Cemetery, Belfast, to mark the centenary, where a wreath was ...
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Scores gathered at the graveside of Winifred Carney on Saturday [19th November] to mark the 79th anniversary of her death. A trade union organiser, member of Cumann na mBan and the Irish Citizen Army, she is buried in Milltown Cemetery ...
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Many residents of Strabane will remember the looming eyesore that was once the British army checkpoint at what’s locally known as the ‘camel’s hump’. Located on the Lifford road between Strabane, Co. Tyrone and Lifford, Co. Donegal, the once very ...
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The following piece is delivered by Pádraic MacCoitir, blanketman and political ex-prisoner. How often have we heard the country we live in being referred to as a ‘democracy’?; Because we have the right to vote and in theory make those ...
Read MoreA large crowd gathered at Belfast’s International Wall on the Falls Road yesterday (02/10/2022) to voice their opposition to the ongoing cost of living crisis. Attendees filed out on to the Falls Road for a white line picket stretching from ...
Read MoreToday, correspondence has been sent to every school and education facility across the Six Counties regarding the ongoing use of youth spaces by the PSNI, and their implementation of a strategy aimed at grabbing the ‘hearts and minds’ of our ...
Read MoreThousands gathered in Derry yesterday (Saturday Aug 27) for one of the biggest Foyle Pride parades ever, as Lasair Dhearg activists unveiled a number of new banners along the route. As the parade made its way through Shipquay Gate, one ...
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As capitalism tightens its grips on working class communities, families are feeling the pinch further in a range of areas, one being the rising cost of basic necessity and food provision. This week the Department for the Economy in the ...
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August 3rd was the 106th anniversary of the execution of Roger Casement, which saw it commemorated in the grounds of the social club named after him. Members of Lasair Dhearg joined dozens of people as they walked from the front ...
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Thousands of participants marched along the Falls Road today [06/08/2022] as part of a yearly event organised by Féile and Phobail. Now one of the largest community festivals in Europe, the ‘Féile’ as it is known locally, was founded in ...
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A wind energy development company, Plantree Limited, has been fined an abysmal €1,500 over the Meenbog peat slide in 2020. The peat slide in November 2020 saw hundreds of cubic metres of peat and debris entering a stream and on ...
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PSNI personnel moved the remains of a suicide victim and positioned his body in different poses for photographs which were subsequently shared through social media, it has been revealed. Among the different poses and photographs, the officers had exposed the ...
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A member of Lasair Dhearg lay flowers in remembrance of the three IRA Volunteers killed on active service in Gibraltar. Daniel McCann, Seán Savage and Mairéad Farrell were gunned down during a shoot to kill operation at Gibraltar’s Rock in ...
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For years the NIO, ably supported by those in Stormont, have been advertising jobs for the British army, navy, air force, PSNI, Mi5 and the ‘prison service’. These jobs are advertised in newspapers, tv and radio and in more recent ...
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How often do we hear people say politics should be kept out of sport? Ever since modern sports were played throughout the world politics was very much part of it. We only need to look at our games of hurling, football, ...
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