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Sinn Féin South Belfast candidate Alex Maskey on Tuesday withdrew his nomination for the forthcoming Westminster election in a bold display of leadership. The Sinn Féin decision to maximise nationalist representation comes after a unionist unity candidate was put forward in Fermanagh and South Tyrone and the SDLP rebuffed earlier discussions on an electoral pact. The Sinn Féin initiative is aimed at protecting the two nationalist seats under threat from unionism. Inaction on jobs forcing Irish workers to emigrate 
UNEMPLOYED workers and Dublin Sinn Féin activists took their passports and suitcases to Leinster House on Monday and formed a queue to leave the country in a piece of street theatre to highlight the emigration of thousands of Ireland's skilled workers as a result of the Government's failure to bring forward an economic stimulus plan to create and retain jobs. Photo: Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh with activists protesting the lack of a government jobs policy Sinn President Gerry Adams addresses Omagh town hall meeting 
Speaking at the latest of Sinn Féin's town hall meetings in the Strule Arts Centre in Omagh last week, Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams spoke about the importance of Tyrone in the struggle for Irish freedom and the reasons why voters should choose Sinn Féin on 6 May. Photo: Pat McAnespie (widow of Sinn Féin Cllr Mickey McAnespie) and Margaret McMahon (widow of Sinn Féin Cllr Patsy McMahon) pictured with Gerry Adams, Pat Doherty and some young supporters in Omagh Taxpayers' money used for British Army recruitment in Limerick 
Irish neutrality and sovereignty are being violated by the active recruitment of young Irishmen into the British Army in Moyross, according to Limerick City Sinn Féin Councillor Maurice Quinlivan. He said it was disgraceful that this was being facilitated by a jobs club totally funded by the Irish taxpayer. "Outside the Millennium Jobs club at the Watch House Cross this week I saw an advertisement urging people to 'Join the Royal Irish Army' and to 'apply in Jobs Club'," Quinlivan told An Phoblacht. "I was appalled. When I expressed my opposition to this I was told that it would be good to 'instil discipline in them' and that the Jobs Club employee is no fan of my party. Photo: Maurice Quinlivan Summer works scheme no substitute for investment in school buildings 
Sinn FÉin Dáil spokesperson on education, Senator Pearse Doherty, welcomed Wednesday's announcement by Minister Mary Coughlan of the summer works programme for summer 2010 but said that this is no substitute for full investment into new school buildings. Photo: Pearse Doherty Role of government-appointed directors at Anglo Irish questioned 
Speaking in the Dáil on Wednesday evening on the Central Bank Reform Bill, Sinn Féin Finance spokesperson Arthur Morgan TD questioned why the two government-appointed Public Interest Directors on the board of Anglo Irish Bank signed a set of audited accounts which indicated the bank had made a pre-tax profit of €784 million, when it was common knowledge there was a problem with the bank, a fact only confirmed some weeks ago when the profit suddenly became a loss of €12.7 billion. Photo: Arthur Morgan British ban prompts fears of Irish mephedrone flood 
Responding to the ban on the sale of mephedrone which took effect in Britain and the north of Ireland on Friday, Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh has called on the Gardaí and Customs to be on the lookout for shipments of the drugs being brought to Ireland for sale in shops here. Photo: Eoin Ó Broin and Tommy Grant of Clondalkin Sinn Féin protest outside Green Dayz headshop |
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