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The composition of the new 26-County cabinet underlines the highly centralised nature of the 26-County state and the ongoing marginalisation of western and rural Ireland. A whole swathe of the western seaboard from Donegal to Limerick will be without representation at the cabinet table, while six of the 15 ministers are Dublin based. Also in keeping with long standing 26-County neglect of the Gaeltacht and the promotion and development of the Irish language, ministerial responsibility for the Gaeltacht has ...

 
Aitheasc an Uachtarán  
 
A Chathaoirligh, a Theachtaí is a chairde go léir. Fearaim céad míle fáilte romhaibh ar fad ag an Árd-Fheis seo. 
 
You are all most welcome to the 112th Ard-Fheis of Sinn Féin. We gather in national conference once more to review what has been an historic year, decide policy and formulate our plans for the coming year. 
 
This past year marked the Centenary of the 1916 Rising and an opportunity for us ...

A full and comprehensive report of the event will be in the June, 2016 issue of SAOIRSE: The Voice of the Republican Movement. Photographs of the commemoration can be seen here. A video will be uploaded here in the coming weeks. The following is the transcript of President Des Dalton’s speech delivered on the day.

Ruairí Ó Brádaigh embodied the essence of Revolutionary Irish Republicanism. He personified both its nobility and honour. Ruairí Ó Brádaigh ...