Scandals we need to remember
12 September 2026
Renowned Irish journalist Frank Connolly exposed some of the biggest scandals that rocked the political establishment and led to tribunals of inquiry and the resignation of at least one Taoiseach. Here Mícheál Mac Donncha interviews him about corruption then and now. Free article
SDLP 'sour grapes' over Sinn Féin success
2 March 2011
SDLP LEADER Margaret Ritchie has been accused of sour grapes after saying Sinn Féin “could have done better” than getting 14 TDs elected, up from five.
Ritchie is still smarting that her party has been overtaken by Sinn Féin in the Six Counties and is becoming ineffectual and irrelevant.
Northlands Sinn Féin Councillor Gerry Mac Lochlainn said:
I think it is rich for the... Free article
Irish postal workers meet Sinn Féin MEP in Brussels over privatisation threat
2 March 2011
SINN FÉIN MEP Bairbre de Brún has met Communications Workers' Union Vice-President Cormac Ó Dálaigh and CWU colleague Martina O’Connell in Brussels to discuss the worrying prospect of the privatisation/liberalisation of the postal market.
Bairbre de Brún said:
Experiences across Europe have continually shown that the liberalisation of the postal service has resulted in a... Free article
Hello, Mary Lou . . . Teachta Dála
1 March 2011
MARY LOU McDONALD celebrates being elected TD with former Dublin Central candidate Nicky Kehoe at the RDS on Saturday with Larry O'Toole (left) and Gerry Adams alongside.
Eamon Dunphy says ‘Vote Sinn Féin’ to send the Establishment a defiant message
24 February 2011
EAMON DUNPHY, the outspoken TV and radio pundit, has urged people to vote Sinn Féin “to send Brussels a defiant message” over the banks, the IMF and Irish sovereignty.
Describing Election 2011 as “the most important election of our lifetime”, he wrote in The Dunphy Files column in the Irish Daily Star last Saturday:
This election is about deciding whether we continue to support... Free article
'Youth vote will shake up Irish politics' (SpunOut.ie online poll)
23 February 2011
From: SpunOut.ie National Youth Organisation
http://www.spunout.ie | [email protected]
- Sinn Féin 33%
- Labour 17%
- Fine Gael 16%
- Fianna Fáil 06%
THE SpunOut.ie National Youth Organisation is today encouraged that despite widespread disillusionment with electoral politics only 6% of young people polled in their temperature-testing ‘Big Online Election Poll’... Free article
40,000 march for political legalisation in Basque Country
23 February 2011
40,000 people took part in a large silent demonstration in the streets of Bilbao last Saturday with the slogan “Towards peace – legalisation”. That silence became a clamour to demand the legalisation of all political options in the Basque Country.
The promoters of the demonstration were all well-known faces in Basque society: people from politics, business, sport, trade union... Free article
‘Well-paid’ Equality Minister should give up his teacher’s pension
21 February 2011
FIANNA FÁIL Equality Minister Pat Carey should give up his teacher’s pension and save taxpayers money “after pocketing a €120,000 tax-free lump sum while families are struggling to make ends meet”, Sinn Féin Dublin North-West candidate Dessie Ellis has said.
Dublin City Councillor Dessie Ellis said:
It’s a bit rich for the well-paid Equality Minister to be pocketing large... Free article
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