TAXPAYERS’ MONEY should not be used to bail out gamblers, Sinn Féin Finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty TD said today as Irish Nationwide made a settlement to bondholders after its buy-back of subordinated debt which is unguaranteed.

Deputy Doherty said that the Stg£29million being pumped into “this defunct institution” could be better used in any number of ways to benefit... Free article

SINN FÉIN'S newly-strengthened Dáil team of 14 TDs travelled to Stormont on Monday 21^st March for a series of meetings with the party's MLAs and Assembly candidates .

The meetings focused on advancing the all-Ireland agenda and mapping out a series of areas of joint work between the Sinn Féin teams in Leinster House and Stormont.

Speaking on the meeting, Fermanagh/South Tyrone... Free article

SIX Ógra Shinn Féin activists will travel to Catalonia this weekend to attend the National Congress of Young Republican Left of Catalonia (JERC), the youth wing of the political party Republican Left of Catalonia.

Earlier this year, young activists from JERC (Joventuts d'Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya) attended the Ógra Shinn Féin National Congress in Derry and the two youth... Free article

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny has agreed to meet with the Ballymurphy Massacre families after Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams TD raised the issue this morning during Taoiseach’s Questions.

Gerry Adams pointed out that last week the relatives of the 11 civilians shot dead by the British Army's Parachute Regiment in August 1971 in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast gave evidence at a United... Free article

THE SDLP should come clean on the nature of their financial relationship with business tycoon Denis O’Brien after the publication yesterday of the Moriarty Tribunal Report about political donations, Sinn Féin Assembly member Daithí McKay has said:

While the relationship between Denis O’Brien and Michael Lowry and indeed Fine Gael was well known, it also emerged during the... Free article

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ON the Basque Peace Process website, jailed Basque independence leader... Free article

THE Executive Secretary of the World Peace Council, the largest anti-imperialist peace movement, is speaking in Dublin this Thursday 24 March at 7:30pm in the Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin 2.

Iraklis Tsavdaridis will be speaking at a public meeting on the theme The Peace Movement versus the EU and NATO and will address issues including the attacks on Libya.

The event... Free article

TWENTY-ONE MEPs – including Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún – have backed this week’s legal bid by new Basque pro-independence party Sortu to contest local elections in May.

Sortu says it rejects political violence by all organisations, including the separatist group ETA.

Spain's Supreme Court started hearings on Monday and is expected to announce its ruling this week or early... Free article

SINN FÉÍN President Gerry Adams TD has today announced at Leinster House in Dublin the portfolios assigned to Sinn Féin's 14 newly-elected TDs.

They are:-

Department of An Taoiseach – Gerry Adams (Party Leader)

Public Expenditure & Reform – Mary Lou McDonald (Deputy Leader)

Finance – Pearse Doherty

Health & Children – Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin

Foreign Affairs & Trade – Pádraig Mac... Free article

THE Free Gaza Movement in Ireland has described Monday evening’s bombing raids on the Gaza Strip by the Israeli Air Force as:

An outrage and an unacceptable act of violence against a civilian population.

At least 19 people, including children, have been wounded, Palestinian emergency workers told the Al Jazeera news network..

Fintan Lane of the Free Gaza Movement in Ireland... Free article