An Phoblacht, July 2012 out now

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From the editorial:

The decision [to meet the Queen] reflects a confident, dynamic, forwardlooking Sinn Féin demonstrating our genuine desire to embrace our unionist neighbours. It reflects the equality and parity of esteem arrangements that are now in place and that development has been broadly welcomed right across Ireland.

Martin McGuinness is deputy First Minister for all the people in the North, unionists as well as nationalists and republicans. This is a commitment he takes very seriously.

Sinn Féin acknowledges the attachment that many unionists feel towards the Queen of England.
We see this engagement very much in the context of nation building, of overcoming the historic fracture
between ‘Catholic, Protestant and Dissenter’. We want to see the coming together of Orange and Green in harmony.

WHAT’S INSIDE

Irish republicans will be judged by our actions as well as our beliefs – Gerry Adams

Danny Morrison on the Martin McGuinness meeting

Dialogue: Protestant churches urge unionists to respond ‘constructively’

Olympic medal hope boxer Paddy Barnes goes head to head with Alex Maskey

Fine Gael and Labour TDs block Sinn Féin bid to axe Household Charge

1972: Relatives for Justice uncover ‘Secret’ British Government files revealing immunity for soldiers and working with UDA

Níl aon dul as ach Mainneachtain!

Belfast’s youngest-ever Mayor, Sinn Féin’s Niall Ó Donnghaile, steps down

Sinn Féin’s new council ‘Mayors & Chairs’ around the country

South Armagh Volunteers Day

Fears for Offaly fire cover

Gerrymandered boundaries to nation building – Tom Hartley looks at the history

Marriage equality: A civil right, not a religious act

Euro 2012: Roy Keane . . . Right or wrong?

The Girdwood housing row

From a prisoner in the Cages of Long Kesh and H-Blocks escapee to Mayor of Limavady – Seán McGlinchey, a remarkable journey

An Ciste Infheistíochta Gaeilge –– Ag treisiú le tógáil na Gaeilge

Between graveyards and goalposts – By Ciarán Kearney

Nuclear winter – Sellafield, Trident and the power game

Basque victims launch ‘Glencree’ initiative

ACTA’s counterfeit arguments – GUE/NGL MEPs

‘Organise or Die’ – Trade union leader Terry O’Sullivan, head of the half-million-strong Labourers’ International Union of North America

Remembering the Past: Cathal Brugha

Fine Gael and Labour lead attacks on Irish

Fograí Bháis: Joe O’Boyle and ‘Wee Rosie’ Carlin

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