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22 June, 2006 |
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Mayo engagements: Sinn Féin President pays tribute to Michael Davitt 
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams was in Mayo last week for a series of engagements with Mayo Sinn Féin representative Councillor Gerry Murray. Adams met with health groups and workers and addressed the Michael Davitt Memorial Lecture. Photo: Gerry Adams, Sinn Féin Erris representative Rose Conway-Walsh and Sinn Féin Mayo general election candidate, Councillor Gerry Murray at the Davitt lecture The Irish government announced another €3.8 billion investment in Science and Technology Development to ensure the continued growth of the Southern economy. In the North we had an announcement of a possible 1,000 call centre jobs in the next couple of years. The contrast could not be greater. Haughey: Supporters believed he would lead them to united Ireland 
The late Charles Haughey experienced two attempts to rehabilitate his political legacy. The first was when he was in government between 1987 and 1989 and the second is now in the wake of his death. History has been revised so that Haughey can be portrayed as a political colossus, a man of the people, a visionary who set up both the Peace Process and the Celtic Tiger. But this is a travesty of the truth. Photo: Charles Haughey at Fianna Fáil Bodenstown commemoration in 1987 Sinn Féin Mayor: Former Ógra activist looks forward to challenge 
Councillor Matt Carthy was last week elected the first ever Sinn Féin Mayor of Carrickmacross Town Council. Here he speaks to ELLA O'DWYER about his political background, the place of youth in the republican struggle and his views on the role of Mayor. Photo: Councillor Matt Carthy The best guide to answering the hoary old question - prompted again by Tyrone/Louth last Saturday - as to which team is happiest with a draw, is to look at the reactions of the teams and supporters to the final whistle. On that basis there could be little doubt that Tyrone were relieved to have escaped. And while both sets of supporters rose to both teams at the end of what had been an enthralling contest, the faces of the Louth supporters were generally more sombre as we made our way back down the town. Powerful portrayal of rebel Cork and Accessible story of political activist and fighter Ar son Bord Fáilte ba mhaith liom fáilte oifigiúil a chur roimh an gnáth aimsir Samhraidh a d'fhill thar an deireadh seachtaine- cheap mé go raibh mé I Fuengerola leis an méid sin daoine ag rith thart le craiceann dóite agus na tuathaigh le prams agus tattoos agus boilg bródiúil. 
Amongst the army of political pundits and media experts who recently spewed forth a trillion words on the legacy of Charles J Haughey, few if any ventured a serious political analysis of why Haughey was such a controversial personality. Photo: Charles Haughey is forced to run away from Hunger Strike protesters, Ballymun, Dublin 1981 
Nora Connolly, was born in Scotland in 1893. During the early 1900s, the Connolly family lived for a short time in America. It was there that Nora became politically active, her time divided between working at a milliners and attending outdoor labour meetings with her father James. It was also during this time that James Connolly and Nora became acquainted with John Devoy and the American faction of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, Clan na Gael. Photo: Nora Connolly O'Brien An Phoblacht's famous weekly satirical column. |
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