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PEOPLE with disabilities who have difficulty gaining access to their local polling station can apply in writing to the returning officer – by Friday 18 February – for permission to vote at another polling station.

The National Disability Authority has welcomed Department of Environment guidelines for returning officers and presiding officers for the 2011 General Election. They... Free article

RECENTLY-ELECTED TD Pearse Doherty and County Councillor Pádraig Mac Lochlainn submitted their nomination papers at Letterkenny Courthouse today.

Deputy Doherty was nominated by his mother, Gráinne, while Cllr Mac Lochlainn was nominated by Dinah Fullerton – wife of the late Cllr Eddie Fullerton. Eddie, a high-profile, popular and very active Sinn Féin councillor, was shot dead... Free article

A VISIT by the English queen to Dublin is premature when there are still unresolved issues between Ireland 'and our neighbour, our nearest offshore island', Gerry Adams said yesterday.

These issues include the British state's stonewalling of an Oireachtas all-party request for full-co-operation into allegations about the role of the British military and security agencies about the... Free article

UNEMPLOYMENT reached a then record figure when the last Fine Gael/Labour Government was in power, Sinn Féin’s Aengus Ó Snodaigh reminded Fine Gael Finance spokesperson Michael Noonan’s in response claim that Sinn Féin economic policy would force young Irish people to leave the country.

Aengus Ó Snodaigh said:

First of all, our young people are already leaving the country in... Free article

TWO of Sinn Féin’s youngest candidates in General Election 2011 launched Sinn Féin’s youth jobs policy at the Jeanie Johnston famine ship on Dublin’s quays on Tuesday to highlight the 100,000 young people who will be forced to emigrate in the next two years.

Sinn Féin’s Kathryn Reilly (Cavan/Monaghan) and Paul Hogan (Longford/Westmeath) said that a comprehensive youth jobs... Free article

'Today with Pat Kenny' on the canvass trail in Louth with Gerry Adams > RTÉ Radio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaPg0aP8Yj0

THE Irish Government is moving closer to a huge sell-off of the public forests, currently managed by Coillte (the Irish Forestry Board), to private investors, the Woodland League says.

An area greater than 1 million acres, equivalent to two medium-sized counties, will be lost forever. This will include some of our most valuable native woodlands, wild places and some of the... Free article

SINN FÉIN deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald says Fianna Fáil has been in power for 20 of the last 22 years so is in no position to talk about political reform.

Speaking today after Fianna Fáil launched its election manifesto, Mary Lou said:

Mícheál Martin’s attempt to rebrand Fianna Fáil as some sort of reformed progressive party is cutting no ice with the... Free article

SINN FÉIN MEP Bairbre de Brún today joined fellow MEPs in a minute's silence at the beginning of the Sub-committee on Human Rights of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee to mark the recent murder of LGBT rights activist David Kato.

MEPs watched a video of evidence which David gave to the Sub-committee on Human Rights in November 2010 whilst the ... Free article