http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/news/news-2008/ News and comment from the Irish Democrat 2008 en Copyright © 2008 Connolly Publications Ltd 2008-01-21T13:00:56Z Connolly Publications Ltd, 244 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8JR Mick Carty news and comment 2001-04-13T12:00Z 1 daily http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/news/news-2008/civil-rights-conf/ Ken Keable reports on a special conference held in London in November to mark the 70th anniversary year of the Connolly Association's contribution to the fight for Irish unity and independence (Apologies for the late posting of this report which was due to technical difficulties experienced towards the end of last year) Mick Carty 2009-01-01T14:09:01Z en Copyright © 2008 Connolly Publications Ltd Copyright © 2008 Connolly Publications Ltd Ken Keable, Anthony Coughlan, Martin Collins, Moya St Leger, Jim Redmond, Kevin McNamarra, David Granville, Connolly Association http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/news/news-2008/the-1918-election/ Donal Kennedy challenges the attempts by British commentators to undermine Sinn Fein's victory at the 1918 General Election and berates those Irish politicians, journalists and academics who have adopted such spurious arguments as their own Mick Carty 2008-12-11T18:56:37Z en Copyright © 2008 Donal Kennedy Copyright © 2008 Donal Kennedy Donal Kennedy, Garret Fitzgerald, Sinn Fein,Edward MacLysagh, Stephen King, Desmond Fitzgerald http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/news/news-2008/mcbride-army-march-response/ The family of Peter McBride, the Belfast teenager murdered by Irish guardsmen Wright and Fisher, speaks out against British army parade due to take place in Belfast tomorrow Mick Carty 2008-11-01T23:46:27Z en Jean McBride, Peter McBride, Pat Finucane Centre http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/news/news-2008/contrversial-army-march/ Fears that a controversial British army march through Belfast tomorrow will end in violent confrontation have not been dispelled by concilaitory gestures on behalf of mainstream republicanism and the MoD Mick Carty 2008-11-01T22:19:19Z en Copyright © 2008 Connolly Publications Copyright © 2008 Connolly Publications eirigi, Divis Flats, Sinn Fein, RIR http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/news/news-2008/derry-different-place/ Speech delivered by Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness on 4 October at an event in Derry marking the 40th anniversary Northern Ireland civil rights struggle Mick Carty 2008-11-01T17:17:51Z en Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein, http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/news/news-2008/macanespie-het-report/ The family of Aidan McAnespie, who was shot and fatally wounded by a British soldier in 1988, recently issued the following statement through the independent Derry-based human rights centr the Pat Finucane Centre Mick Carty 2008-10-31T15:36:27Z en Copyright © 2008 Connolly Publications Ltd Copyright © 2008 Connolly Publications Ltd Aidan MacAnespie, Guardsman Holden Una MacAnespie, Pat Finucane Centre, HET, Historical Enquiries Team http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/news/news-2008/protesters-call-for-prisoner-repatriation/ Earlier this month, protesters gathered in Dublin’s O’Connell Street to put pressure on the Dublin and London governments to live up to their obligations to prisoners as laid down by the European Union. The protest was organised by éirígí, an Irish socialist republican party. We reproduce this report, which first appeared on éirígí's website, for information Mick Carty 2008-07-23T11:12:47Z en Copyright © 2008 Connolly Publications Ltd Copyright © 2008 Connolly Publications Ltd éirígí, Noel Maguire http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/news/news-2008/civil-rights-commemorative-website-launched/ Veterans of the civil rights struggle in the six counties have launched a 40th anniversary commemorative website Mick Carty 2008-07-11T12:09:24Z en Copyright © 2008 Connolly Publications Ltd Copyright © 2008 Connolly Publications Ltd Civil Rights, Ivan Cooper, Mary Ellen O'Doherty , Gerard Diver, Derry's Women's Aid, ohn McGuffin, Cathy Harkin