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A short video of today’s events at Glassmullin Green Contractor’s arrived back on site attempting to fence it off. They were accompanied by a number of PSNI members with armoured jeeps and cars. Residents stood strong when threatened with arrest ...

Lasair Dhearg want to send special thanks to our friends and supporters who have, over the last number of days, offered their help, advice and support regarding the recent cancellation of our planned Hungerstrike commemorative night. We are pleased to ...

It is with great disappointment that Lasair Dhearg informs our membership and support base that the planned ‘Night of Song & Poetry’ commemorating the end of the 1981 Hungerstrike will no longer go ahead as planned on the 5th of ...

Lasair Dhearg have announced their event planned to commemorate the end of the 1981 Hungerstrikes. Taking place in Sarsfields CLG, Stewartstown Avenue, Belfast on Saturday the 5th of October, the 7pm event will feature music from Pádraig Ó Deorain, and ...

For many years now, residents within the many streets surrounding Belfast’s Glassmullin green have been fighting for its survival. Historically, the space was occupied by British crown forces in what was then called ‘silver city’, an indomitable fortress that overlooked ...

A few weeks ago Lasair Dhearg Spokesperson Pól Torbóid sat down with David Swanson of ‘Radical Reflections’ for an podcast interview about all things Lasair Dhearg. “If you transfer state power to local initiatives and working people, it’s then that ...

Yesterday [3rd Aug 2019] members of Lasair Dhearg took part in the Annual Anti-Internment march in Glasgow hosted by the West of Scotland Band Alliance. Several hundred gathered in support of all Republican prisoners and marched through the city centre ...

In the past few weeks Lasair Dhearg were contacted by concerned residents from the Cavehill area of North Belfast in relation to a planned Orange Order parade. The Cavehill Temperance Lodge planned to march along the Cavehill road on the ...

On the morning of Monday the 1st of July, Lasair Dhearg activists had awoken to find that their social media presence had been effectively wiped out. Along with the main account, a minimum of four admins had their personal accounts ...

Padraic Mac Coitir shares his thoughts on the late Billy McKee who died this morning [11th June 2019]. Earlier this morning I got a phone call telling me Billy McKee had died. As a young lad growing up I had ...

  This Easter Lasair Dhearg will commemorate the 1916 Easter Rising. The Rising was one of the most pivotal events in our history when thousands of women and men went out to strike a blow for Irish freedom. Although the ...

Lasair Dhearg activists have been busy over the last number of days [30th March 2019] highlighting the inherent failure of the Stormont Administration as part of our Stormont Can’t Deliver campaign. Activists covered many areas of Belfast with protest stencils. ...