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5 March, 2009 |
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Time for alternative government as public finance crisis exposed 
EXCHEQUER figures released on Tuesday, outlining a €2.3 billion shortfall compared to the same period last year have been described by Sinn Féin Vice President Mary Lou McDonald as "a public finance crisis" that cannot continue to go unchallenged. Speaking from Leinster House just after the figures were released, the Dublin MEP added that an "alternative government" was needed. 
MARTIN McGUINNESS, joint First Minister in the North's Executive, made one of the keynote addresses to this year's Sinn Féin Ard Fheis. The political situation in the Six Counties is still "a battle a day" and Martin re-emphasised that the reunification of Ireland is not just a political imperative but is now - more than ever - an economic imperative. We reprint a slightly edited version of his speech. Photo: UPFRONT WITH ROBINSON: ‘Institutions can only work on the basis of partnership and equality or they won’t work at all’ 
THE search for justice by Northern nationalist communities continued last week with the family of Pearse Jordan calling for information to be released to enable the inquest into the killing to proceed. Photo: Pearse Jordan and Robert Hamill Sinn Féin Oireachtas members refuse to pass pickets at Dáil 
SINN FÉIN'S Oireachtas group of four TDs and one senator and Sinn Féin support staff refused to pass the Civil and Public Services Union (CPSU) pickets at the Dáil last week during the one-day civil service stoppage against the pension levy. Photo: STANDING FIRM: Sinn Féin Oireachtas members stand with the public sector workers 
MEP Bairbre de Brún travelled to Gaza and to the West Bank this week as part of a group of MEPs from across the political spectrum in the European Parliament to see the situation at first-hand and to discuss the prospects for a move forward. Photo: GAZA: ‘Everywhere you turn there is rubble where once there was a living community’ Day of action against Dublin Bus cuts 
DUBLIN Sinn Féin held a day of action in support of Dublin Bus and its workers last Saturday over proposed cuts in jobs and services. Photo: THE BUCK STOPS HERE: Mary Lou McDonald and North Inner City candidate Ruadhán Mac Aodhain at Dublin Bus Head Office in O’Connell Street Sinn Féin reps at Shankill policing forum 
TOP PSNI officers were challenged on a range of policing issues at a public meeting of the West Belfast District Policing Partnership held in the Highfield Community Centre in the Shankill Road area on the evening of Tuesday, 24 February. Photo: HIGHFIELD: Máire Cush at the District Policing Partnership |
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