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24 April 2008 Edition

Public are committed to process and want it to work

24 April 2008

A FORMER Ulster Unionist member, who now works for a Church of Ireland reconciliation group, took the unusual step of openly praising the series of public meetings that the Sinn Féin Cuige Uladh has held over recent weeks. Free article

Meetings across North mark Agreement's 10th anniversary

24 April 2008

A SERIES of well-attended public meetings organised by Sinn Féin took place across the North over the past two weeks to mark the first anniversary of the restoration of the political institutions and 10 years since the Good Friday Agreement. Free article

HSE plan 'death sentence' for Monaghan Hospital with 'sentence of hard labour' for Cavan General

24 April 2008

SINN FÉIN Health spokesperson and Cavan/Monaghan TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin last weekend obtained the leaked plan by the Health Service Executive to end acute inpatient care at Monaghan General Hospital by November 2008, closing Monaghan's 50 inpatient beds, six critical care beds and transferring all inpatient and critical care to Cavan General Hospital without increasing bed numbers in Cavan. Free article

Government's Lisbon scaremongering

24 April 2008

AS MORE than 10,000 farmers took part in a protest march in Dublin city centre on Thursday, 17 April, against EU proposals in negotiations on world trade, Sinn Féin Agriculture spokeperson Martin Ferris TD said he was fully behind the protest and would discuss the implications which the Mandelson proposals will have when he met farmers in Cork that day. Free article

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Adams meets Goggins on Safer Neighbourhood Project for West Belfast

24 April 2008

GERRY ADAMS and Sinn Féin colleague Fra McCann MLA met again last Tuesday, with British Direct Rule Minister Paul Goggins to discuss Sinn Féin proposals to extend the Upper Springfield Safer Neighbourhood model for community safety across West Belfast. Free article

Ferris in West Cork

24 April 2008

MARTIN FERRIS, Sinn Féin's Agriculture and Rural Affairs spokesperson and TD for North Kerry was in West Cork last Thursday. Free article


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