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Having never met Gerry Adams before, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect.

International Women’s Day, celebrated throughout the world on March 8, will soon be upon us. It was first nominated as a national holiday for women in 1908 to highlight a strike by New York women clothing workers against the sweatshop conditions in the factories. From its beginning it has been rooted in years of struggle and used as a rallying point to demand women’s rights and women’s suffrage. Here in Ireland, something we can be proud of is that in the First Dáil on January 21 1919, a woman, Constance Markievicz, was appointed to the cabinet as Minister for Labour. This was truly historic when you consider that Constance Markievicz was the first female cabinet minister in western Europe and that Irish women didn’t gain the right to vote until 1928.

While the Soldiers of Destiny in Mayo march towards their long awaited Nemesis this June those other political foot-soliders, the Blue Shirts may be marching towards a clash with hubris.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams drew attention to the alarming rise in unemployment in Westmeath when he visited the county this week.

Declan Ganley, the founder of Libertas and the bête noire of Europhiles in Ireland, will run for an EU Parliament seat in the North West constituency in June’s European Elections.

‘Resistance’, a day of political discussion and debate aimed at teens and those in their twenties, will take place this Saturday in the Forster Court Hotel.

Libertas chairman Declan Ganley has accused the Government of “betraying the Irish people” during the course of a St Patrick’s Day campaign tour through Co Mayo.

A 35-year-old man, originally from Claremorris, is at the centre of a heated debacle following the placing of two nude portraits of the Taoiseach in the National Gallery and the Royal Hibernian Academy, with the prospect that the secondary school teacher, who now resides in south Dublin, may face prosecution for the hoax, with a file being prepared for the DPP.

Sinn Fein Councillor Kathleen Funchion has called on the electorate in Kilkenny to once again vote no to Lisbon.