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27 September, 2007 |
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New deal for rural Ireland needed - Ferris 
THE 76th annual Irish National Ploughing Championship was held at Tullamore, County Offaly from 25 to 27 September 2007. Minister challenged over u-turn on Causeway Visitors Centre 
North Antrim Sinn Féin MLA Daithí McKay has challenged Six County Environment Minister Arlene Foster to clarify if there was a u-turn made within her Department from recommendation to decline the private sector application for a Visitors Centre at the Giant's Causeway to being of 'a mind' to approve it. Photo: Daithí McKay State's top 50 earners paid less than 5% tax 
FIGURES published this week by the Revenue Commissioners in the 26 Counties show that the top 50 earners in the state paid less than 5% tax. Photo: Arthur Morgan Orde wrong to retain PSNI full-time reserve 
SOUTH BELFAST Sinn Féin MLA Alex Maskey has said Hugh Orde has made the wrong decision in retaining 382 PSNI full time reserve officers, a decision which is in direct violation of the Patten recommendations on policing. Photo: Alex Maskey Non-Garda phone line for serious crime urged for Dublin 
THE shooting of an unarmed motorcycle traffic Garda in Dublin during the rush hour on Tuesday morning is being seen as a further escalation in the capital's gun and drugs problem. Photo: Gardai near the scene where a motorcycle traffic Garda was shot on Ossory Road in Dublin Eircom slammed for scrooging on senior citizens 
Sinn Féin's Dublin City Councillor, Críona Ní Dhálaigh has accused Eircom of 'scrooging' senior citizens by pursuing them for hefty reconnection fees following their move to a new senior citizens complex. Calling on the company to reconsider, she pointed to the vast profits made by Eircom and its top executives and asked whether the company's commitment to 'corporate social responsibility' was mere hypocrisy. Photo: Críona Ní Dhálaigh 36,000 on North's Housing waiting list 
Sinn Féin Housing Spokesperson, West Belfast MLA Fra McCann has said that the North's Housing Minister must start to bring forward initiatives to tackle the housing crisis after she revealed that 36,000 people are now on the waiting list for social housing. Photo: Fra McCann No rubber-stamp for Policing Board 
POLICING BOARD member and Sinn Féin party spokesperson on Human Rights and Equality Martina Anderson MLA has said that Sinn Féin will not rubber-stamp reports by the North's Policing Board. Photo: Martina Anderson RELATIVES of those who have lost loved ones as a result of state collusion with unionist paramilitaries and British state murder are to join forces in the creation of a 'Wall For Truth and Justice' at the Oakman Street end of Beechmount Avenue in Belfast. Maskey reiterates demand for equal pay across Ireland 
ALEX MASKEY, South Belfast Sinn Féin MLA, has written to Ian Paisley, Martin McGuinness and An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Dermot Mannion, the Chief Executive of Aer Lingus, to highlight his concerns that Aer Lingus staff to be based in Belfast could be employed under less advantageous terms and conditions than their counterparts in the 26 Counties. Photo: Alex Maskey Gerry Adams Unveils Mural on Suicide Prevention 
West Belfast MP Gerry Adams unveiled a mural in Albert Street in the Lower Falls area of Belfast, on the issue of suicide prevention on, Sunday September 23. The mural is the work of the Falls Youth Providers and local people and provides information on help lines available for those at risk. ESB unions prepare for ballot on industrial action, Irish Times photographers get 5.43 per cent pay rise, Fears for Aer Lingus's future in Shannon and Union hosts Polish opposition party leader Burma, Zaire/DR Congo and Iraq & Blackwater 
ON 15 September 2007, the 25th anniversary of the death of leading Irish republican Charlie McGlade, was marked by a commemoration march and ceremony in Drimnagh, Dublin. The event was organised by the local Charlie McGlade Sinn Féin Cumann. Photo: Aengus Ó Snodaigh addressing the commemoration Volunteer Diarmuid O'Neill commemoration - Committed to the struggle 
A LARGE CROWD assembled at Timoleague Cemetery, Cork, last Sunday, 23 September, to mark the 11th anniversary of the death of IRA Volunteer Diarmuid O'Neill. Photo: Diarmuid O’Neill McNeela and D'Arcy to be honoured in Mayo 
TWO West of Ireland Volunteers who died on hunger strike in 1940 are to be commemorated by Mayo Sinn Féin. Photo: Jack McNeela and Tony D’Arcy |
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