Tag archives for Sinn Fein
Peace at any cost? The Good Friday Agreement, 20 years on
Stormont, the seat of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Photo Credit: pixabay user 'veve' CC0 license On 10th April 1998 the Great and the Good, from President Bill Clinton, to…
Stasis at Stormont: Why Northern Ireland needs Green politics more than ever
Tanya Jones, Deputy Leader, GPNI. Photo credit: GPNI As I write this, it is a year since the late Martin McGuinness resigned as Northern Ireland's deputy first minister, leading…
To pact or not to pact: the Northern Ireland Green dilemma
Article's author, and GPNI leader Steven Agnew. Photo credit: Sinead McIvor, GPNI Press Officer From the moment when Theresa May, contradicting every previous promise, brought our Easter to an…
How do we really beat the DUP at the Ballot Box?
Arlene Foster, DUP Leader and Northern Ireland First Minister- credit, flicker user 'DUP Photos' Let's be honest: barring some miracle, the DUP will come out of this election…
McGuinness resigns as Northern Ireland deputy First Minister, possibly triggering election
Martin McGuiness, former- NI deputy first minister. Photo credit, flickr user: 'Sinn Fein' Martin McGuinness, Northern Ireland's deputy First Minister, has resigned today, in response to Arlene Foster's refusal…
2017 must be a year of social movements in Northern Ireland
Rally for Choice in central Belfast. Credit: Ashley Jones In many ways, 2016's tumultuous global politics felt like an extension of Northern Ireland's status quo; in a region where…
Time for a chat about left electoral pacts?
"There is nothing more divisive on the left than a call for unity”. These wise words came, I am told, from the ever witty Scottish Socialist Party leader Colin Fox…