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Disaster prompts president to lift moratorium on death penalty, a move human rights groups say is ‘a retreat into barbarism’
THOUSANDS of people took to the streets across Ireland on Saturday in protest against austerity-driven charges for water.
Trade unionists and opposition politicians led the largest rally, in central Dublin, to demand that publicly owned Irish Water scrap the fees for previously free tap water.
The Right2Water campaign is made up of political parties, six major trade unions and community groups.
JOE DWYER of Sinn Fein reflects on the links between the Irish and Cuban struggles for independence and on Castro’s personal engagement with the cause of Irish freedom
A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE
The independent TD’s campaign has put important issues like Irish reunification and military neutrality at the heart of the political conversation, argues SEAN MacBRADAIGH