Boys in Green Should Not Be Made to Cross a Picket Line

Boys in Green Should Not Be Made to Cross a Picket Line

SIPTU has reiterated its demand that the Government and the FAI immediately withdraw from forthcoming football fixtures against Israel, warning that history will judge where Ireland stood while genocide was committed in Gaza. In this week’s Sunday Read SIPTU...
Stop The Game: Standing on the Right Side of History

Stop The Game: Standing on the Right Side of History

SIPTU has been clear and consistent in its position these UEFA Nations League fixtures against Israel cannot go ahead. In today’s Sunday Read, I am calling on the Government to finally show the leadership the Irish people deserve and demand that the FAI withdraw from...
Unfurling the Starry Plough

Unfurling the Starry Plough

During Easter week, the standard of the Irish Citizen Army (ICA), the Starry Plough, flew over the Imperial Hotel (former Clerys building) on O’Connell Street. The hotel was owned by William Martin Murphy of 1913 Lockout infamy. That the standard of the workers’...
Gentleman Jim I knew and loved

Gentleman Jim I knew and loved

It was the sight of an infant huddled beside its dead mother in the slums of Liverpool that awoke in the young Jim Larkin a great passion to struggle against injustice. As Jim’s granddaughter, Stella Larkin McConnon, recalls: “He was giving a hand with some work when...