BY KATHRYN REILLY

THE deflationary policies of the past three Budgets didn’t work. They lengthened and deepened the recession which, in turn, defeated deficit-reduction efforts.
Why should we expect future deflationary policies to result in anything substantially different?
The publication by the Fianna Fáil/Green Party Government of their ‘National Recovery Plan’ is a... Free article

‘Bridging the Border, Reconnecting Communities’ launched in Monaghan

NEWLY-ELECTED Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty joined Gerry Adams MP and Cavan/Monaghan TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin in Monaghan Town on Monday night, November 29th, to launch ‘Bridging the Border, Reconnecting Communities’, a major Sinn Féin initiative aimed at resolving problems associated with the border.
The... Free article

PEARSE DOHERTY, TEACHTA DÁLA | ‘I HAVE A MANDATE TO OPPOSE ANTI-PEOPLE BUDGET’

SINN FÉIN’S newest TD, Pearse Doherty, took his seat in the Dáil on Tuesday 30th November, just a few days after his election by the people of Donegal South-West.
And he started his Dáil term by repeating Sinn Féin’s call for ministers’ salaries to be cut by 40% and TDs’ pay by 20%.
At a press... Free article

Sinn Féin warned about Government’s ‘boom and bust’ policies years ago

BRIAN LENIHAN, Fianna Fáil Finance Minister, has enraged countless thousands of people with his claim in an interview with RTÉ TV’s Prime Time programme: “Let’s be fair about this - we all partied.”
This is part of the Establishment narrative that we are all really to blame for the economic crisis because... Free article

Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

g BY LAURA FRIEL

NORTH AND SOUTH, jobless and waged, the ordinary people of Ireland are under attack.
In the North. Britain’s Tory-led coalition is attempting to lower wage levels by criminalising unemployment.
Meanwhile, the South is facing wholesale pauperisation as the bankrupt Fianna Fáil administration capitulates to... Free article

Anois ar theacht an tSamraidh

BY GERRY ADAMS MP
At the count centre in Stranorlar

SENATOR Pearse Doherty is about to be declared the new Teachta Dála for Donegal South-West.
Everybody here knows that.
But before it becomes a reality the votes have to be counted. The place is buzzing. Over a hundred members of the media - some say as many as 153 - including many international... Free article

Sinn Féin win signals potential of coming general election

BY ROBBIE SMYTH

“WE asked people to stand up for Donegal. We asked people to stand up for Ireland. We asked them to vote against the cuts coming down in the budget, the bail-out from the IMF, and the four year plan.” This was new Sinn Féin TD for Donegal South-West Pearse Doherty speaking before entering the count... Free article

The struggle for change is all about small battles and clear objectives

IT WAS the Sunday just after the Donegal South-West by-election when Gerry Adams completed the interview he’d started two days previously, on the day of the count. An Phoblacht had to give way to other pressing engagements in Gerry’s hectic schedule. He took up the interview with JOHN HEDGES early on Sunday... Free article

LE MÁIRTÍN Mac EOIN

TÁ na meáin, idir clóite is craolta, plúdaithe le seachtainí anuas le plé faoin géarchéim eacnamaíochta is airgeadais.  Baineann an chuid is mó de le freagathacht Fhianna Fáil as an ngéarchéim, agus tá sé sin tuillte.
Ach tá eileafant sa seomra nach bhfuil cead a lua: sé sin freagarthacht na hEorpa as an bhfadb.
Tá sé soiléir gur thug na bainc an iomad ar... Free article

A straight-up challenge to the stultified politics in this state

THE political establishment have a real talent for getting things wrong.
Take the issue of sovereignty.
In successive debates on EU treaties the ‘enlightened’ politicians comprehensively dismissed the value of managing our own affairs as a backward notion.
They have their answer now.
The EU and IMF are in town to... Free article