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It is with great disappointment that Lasair Dhearg informs our membership and support base that the planned ‘Night of Song & Poetry’ commemorating the end of the 1981 Hungerstrike will no longer go ahead as planned on the 5th of ...

Lasair Dhearg have announced their event planned to commemorate the end of the 1981 Hungerstrikes. Taking place in Sarsfields CLG, Stewartstown Avenue, Belfast on Saturday the 5th of October, the 7pm event will feature music from Pádraig Ó Deorain, and ...

For many years now, residents within the many streets surrounding Belfast’s Glassmullin green have been fighting for its survival. Historically, the space was occupied by British crown forces in what was then called ‘silver city’, an indomitable fortress that overlooked ...

A few weeks ago Lasair Dhearg Spokesperson Pól Torbóid sat down with David Swanson of ‘Radical Reflections’ for an podcast interview about all things Lasair Dhearg. “If you transfer state power to local initiatives and working people, it’s then that ...

Yesterday [3rd Aug 2019] members of Lasair Dhearg took part in the Annual Anti-Internment march in Glasgow hosted by the West of Scotland Band Alliance. Several hundred gathered in support of all Republican prisoners and marched through the city centre ...

In the past few weeks Lasair Dhearg were contacted by concerned residents from the Cavehill area of North Belfast in relation to a planned Orange Order parade. The Cavehill Temperance Lodge planned to march along the Cavehill road on the ...

On the morning of Monday the 1st of July, Lasair Dhearg activists had awoken to find that their social media presence had been effectively wiped out. Along with the main account, a minimum of four admins had their personal accounts ...

Padraic Mac Coitir shares his thoughts on the late Billy McKee who died this morning [11th June 2019]. Earlier this morning I got a phone call telling me Billy McKee had died. As a young lad growing up I had ...

Contrary to the propaganda of the political establishment, republican opposition to the British royalty is not based upon anti-English racism or religious sectarianism. It is instead based upon an unfaltering opposition to British imperialism in Ireland and elsewhere. Irish apologists ...

  This Easter Lasair Dhearg will commemorate the 1916 Easter Rising. The Rising was one of the most pivotal events in our history when thousands of women and men went out to strike a blow for Irish freedom. Although the ...

Lasair Dhearg activists have been busy over the last number of days [30th March 2019] highlighting the inherent failure of the Stormont Administration as part of our Stormont Can’t Deliver campaign. Activists covered many areas of Belfast with protest stencils. ...

Lasair Dhearg welcome the decision by De La Salle College to remove PSNI communiqué. Following direct conversations with the principle of De La Salle college and highlighting the issue of the school being used as a proxy, Lasair Dhearg welcome ...