Jim Gibney takes us through the momentous day that saw Sinn Féin Vice President Michelle O’Neill take office as First Minister. Jim was in Stormont on 3 February with a cast of old and young republican activists. And here he charts the historical journey republicans have made over the past 50 plus years. Free article

I have been active in tackling the drugs crisis for 27 years. From protesting to policy development and now as a practitioner in a community-based drug project in Dublin’s south inner city. It has provided me an insight into addiction and the complexities of a growing, deepening and expanding drug trade. Over the years, I have witnessed the negative and destructive aspects of drug culture become more embedded in some of our communities. Free article

Historian Dr Tomás Mac Conmara writes about his time in Palestine in light of Israel's current horrific attack on Gaza Free article

Diarmaid Pléimionn gives a personal reflection on the Palestinian writer and activist who was killed by a targeted Israeli missile on 7 December Free article

An Phoblacht’s Peadar Whelan looks at the British Government’s agenda in passing the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023, whose purpose is to conceal the role of not only Britain’s armed forces in the conflict in Ireland, but also the brutal and deadly counter-insurgency war waged against the nationalist community during those years. Free article

The recent death of former British Army officer General Frank Kitson prompted a series of obituaries, and in some cases eulogies. Two words cross these accounts of Kitson’s life – ‘controversial’ and ‘notorious’. Free article

Ní bheidh smacht iomlán ag muintir an tuaiscirt ar ár dtodhchaí socheacnamaíoch féin agus muid fós faoi thoil pé rialtas atá i gcumhacht i Westminster. Free article

At the heart of a global struggle for women’s rights and justice, a Kurdish Free Women’s Movement (TJA) Conference held in the Kurdish city of Amed, titled ‘Breaking the Chains of Silence’, emerged as a beacon, shedding light on the plight of women political prisoners in jails worldwide. Free article

‘Who fears to speak of ’98’ has been the mantra down the years, spoken softly with republican passion of days gone by. A distant memory lost somewhere in time, but never really forgotten. A cry of unfinished business, a desire that burns deep into the very soul of those who believe in the unity of ‘Protestant, Catholic, and Dissenter’ across our island as it did in that hot summer of 1798. Free article