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Budget 2010 - There is another way 
This Friday, thousands of people are gathering across the state to oppose the savage Budget due this December that threatens public services, the vulnerable and our quality of life. For the past 18 months, the Fianna Fáil and Green Party Government has been running two economies: one for the wealthy and one for everyone else. Photo: Joanne Spain The key elements of Sinn Féin's job-retention and job-creation proposals 
THE Coalition Government does not have a plan to protect or create jobs in the Irish economy. Sinn Féin does. Fianna Fáil and the Greens have spent the last 18 months protecting vested interests in the banking sector and the select 'golden circle' of builders, speculators and developers, while the economy leaked tens of thousands of jobs. Faced with an economic crisis of unprecedented magnitude, Sinn Féin set itself the task last autumn of producing a comprehensive job-creation strategy. Sinn Féin Ministers actively defending public services 
As working people and trade unionists from across Ireland take to the streets this week in defence of jobs and in opposition to cuts to public services, Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has welcomed the emphasis being placed on defending vital health services at the rallies that are taking place in the Six Counties. Photo: Sinn Féin Minister Conor Murphy invested millions in public transport 
MARTIN FERRIS is Sinn Féin TD for Kerry North and party spokesperson on Agriculture. Last month he took on an additional new key brief as Sinn Féin spokesperson on Workers' Rights. Martin Ferris has taken over as spokesperson from Arthur Morgan TD, who is focusing on his brief as party spokesperson on Finance and on completing a report for the Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment on creating jobs in the agri-food sector. Photo: Martin Ferris supporting farmers in Clare Adams calls for major mobilisation in support 
SINN FÉIN President Gerry Adams has called for a major mobilisation of public support for ICTU-organised rallies this Friday in support of a fairer way to deal with the economic crisis. Gerry Adams said: "Sinn Féin is encouraging party members and supporters and the public to come out in solidarity with fellow trade unionists, workers in the public, private and community sector and the general public. Photo: Gerry Adams Open day brings vital information to ex-POWs 
Coiste na n-Iarchimí held a successful information day in Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich, Belfast, on Saturday 31 October. Speakers representing a number of ex-prisoners' groups from across Belfast outlined areas of work that they are involved in as they challenge the prejudices that former prisoners still face. Photo: Former Republican POW Pat Sheehan at the successful information day Scéal ar bith fós de phlean 2028 
AG léacht de chuid Conradh na Gaeilge ag Oireachtas na Samhna i mbliana chuir an tAire Éamon Ó Cuív síos ar an Phlean 2028 - plean straitéiseach agus oibre don Ghaeilge a cuireadh le chéile mar thoradh taighde agus éisteachtaí poiblí a reáchtáladh le linn 2008. Bhí Ó Cuív ag caint ar phainéal a raibh Uachtarán an Chonartha, Pádraig Mac Fhearghusa agus úrlabhraí an ghrúpa nua Guth na Gaeltachta, Éamonn Mac Niallais ann, chomh maith. Photo: Éamon Ó Cuív 
A CAPACITY attendance at this year's Volunteer Feargal O'Hanlon Memorial Lecture in the Teach na nDaoine Family Resource Centre in Monaghan Town heard the head of the Legal Rights Unit of SIPTU, Michael Halpenny, call for underpinning legislation for collective bargaining. He also called for large turn-outs at all mobilisations called for by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions to oppose cuts in public services and attacks on living standards and to demand action on job creation. Photo: SIPTU’s Michael Halpenny speaking at the Fergal O'Hanlon Memorial Lecture in Teach na nDaoine last Sunday. Also in photo are L-R Padraigín Ní Mhurchadha, Sean Conlon and Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin Loyalist charged with sex offences 
PROMINENT loyalist and Orangeman Mark Harbinson has been refused bail after being charged with raping a 13-year-old girl and being in possession of indecent photographs of a child. A number of other sex offences involving children are under investigation. As a loyalist, Harbinson has been a key figure in the ongoing campaign of sectarian intimidation in the County Antrim village of Stoneyford. At the height of the campaign, the homes of Catholic families were repeatedly targeted by loyalist mobs. Photo: Mark Harbinson Concerns remain over kidnapped Irish priest 
CONCERN remains about Irish priest Fr Michael Sinnott despite the release of a video by his kidnappers in the Philippines in which a ransom was demanded. The footage confirmed earlier reports from Sinn Féin's Gerry Kelly that Sinnott was still alive. Photo: Fr Michael Sinnott 
AG ócáid ar an Satharn ag Oireachtas na Gaeilge i Leitir Ceanainn, sheol an brúghrúpa Guth na Gaeltachta feachtas in éadan na gciorruithe atá molta i dtuairisc Bord Snip Nua. I halla a bhí lán go doras, d'fhógair úrlabhaí Guth na Gaeltachta, Éamonn Mac Niallais na fáthanna a bhunaíodh an feachtas. Ciorrúcháin á gcur i bhfeidhm ar bhonn míchothrom The uncertain fate of rural transport Proposals under the McCarthy report to cut rural transport must be totally opposed says Sinn Féin TD Martin Ferris. The Rural Transport programme was designed to meet the transport needs of the most isolated people from as far apart as North Donegal to County Kerry. Speaking to An Phoblacht the Kerry TD said "Sinn Féin is absolutely and totally opposed to any cuts in rural transport. Rural transport is so important for connectivity, particularly for people living in isolated areas and totally dependant on rural transport." The cut proposed by McCarthy would save a mere €11 million. Ireland's youngest elected activists promote Ógra Shinn Féin National Congress 
lors, Johnny McGibbon and Charlene O'Hara, the youngest MLA, Daithí McKay, and Ógra Shinn Féin National Organiser Barry McColgan gathered at the Felons' Club in Belfast this week to promote the republican youth movement's upcoming National Congress being held in the city from 13-15 November. The national youth event will see over 100 delegates converge in Belfast to discuss and debate the most pressing political issues affecting Irish youth and plan the upcoming year for Ireland's fastest-growing, most active youth wing. Euro funding secures victims' groups' projects 
THE Falls Road-based Victims And Survivors Trust (VAST), which recently secured European funding, is to develop new projects aimed at the needs of its members. The programme of events is to begin in autumn 2009 and last until 2011. Announcing news of the funding, on Friday 30 October, Trust Co-ordinator Fiona Murphy said the new funds mean that the organisation can plan ahead and build a two-year programme that will benefit the group and its members. Sinn Féin's Francie Molloy, the party's spokesperson on victims' issues, and west Belfast Assembly member Jennifer McCann attended the launch. Photo: LAUNCH: Michael Culbert, Coiste; Jennifer McCann Sinn Féin; Tom Holland, Ardoyne Commemoration Project; Bertha MacDougall, Victims Commissioner; Ciaran Hartley and Eileen Woods, VAST and Mike Nesbitt, Victims Commissioner Fógraí bháis: Redmond O'Neill 1954 - 2009 
"LOSS of an Irish great" was how The Irish Post described the deeply sad news of the death of Redmond O'Neill, who died during surgery on 21 October following a three-year-long battle against cancer. This could not be more true, as reflected in the breadth of tributes paid to Redmond and by those present at his funeral last Friday, bearing testament to the role which he played on many issues. |
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