By Jayne Fisher

First published via The Morning Star, Monday 24 November 2014

Despite appearances, the Northern Ireland peace process is far from resolved, writes Jayne Fisher

Cross-party talks in Belfast aimed at breaking the political impasse in the north of Ireland are entering their sixth week... Read more

Sinn Fein

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams TD said today the SDLP needed to wake up to the fact that negative anti-agreement unionism is forming electoral pacts in the run-up to next year’s Westminster elections... Read more

Sinn Fein

Newry Armagh MP Conor Murphy has said comments by DUP leader Peter Robinson on Sinn Féin are patently incorrect and pitched at the party faithful on the eve of a deeply divided conference... Read more

Sinn Fein

Sinn Féin MLA Martin McGuinness has described comments by British prime minister David Cameron on Tory cuts to the Executive budget as disingenuous and an effort to evade his responsibilities... Read more

Sinn Fein

Sinn Féin MP Conor Murphy said tonight that the NIO paper leaked to the BBC is a piece of pro-unionist wishful thinking.
Conor Murphy said:
“The NIO paper does not reflect or, in any way, represent the Sinn Fein position in relation to the Assembly or the numbers of departments... Read more

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Sinn Fein

Sinn Féin’s newly appointed Spokesperson on the Diaspora Trevor Ó Clochartaigh has called on the Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly to extend voting rights to Irish citizens in the north of Ireland and to Irish people living abroad... Read more

Sinn Fein

Sinn Féin MLA Alex Maskey has called on Alasdair McDonnell to reconsider a proposal to ensure the election of the highest number of pro-agreement representatives... Read more

By Joe Dwyer

Currently there are talks being held in the north of Ireland to rescue the political institutions. You’d be forgiven for not knowing this... Read more

Declan Kearney, Sinn Fein National Chairperson – An Phoblacht News – 13th November

AS BILATERAL TALKS took place on Wednesday in Belfast between political parties and the Irish and British governments to discuss dealing with the past, parades and other issues, DUP leader Peter Robinson and Ulster Unionist Party Mike Nesbitt spent a second day visiting Brussels... Read more