PAT RABBITTE and Eamon Gilmore's Labour Party have been accused by Sinn Féin Vice-President Mary Lou McDonald of flip-flopping on its taxation policy on the eve of the general election after they dropped their proposal to introduce a new 48% tax on individual earnings over €100,000.

Mary Lou said it is obvious that negotiations between Fine Gael and Labour on a Programme for... Free article

SPEAKING in Dublin on Saturday as the Finance Bill passed through the Oireachtas, Gerry Adams pledged that Sinn Féin TDs in Government would take action to reverse the cuts and introduce a new Budget.

He said the Government cuts that Fine Gael and Labour intend to implement will be deeply damaging to the public and society:

Sinn Féin is the only party entering this election... Free article

Sinn Féin has a fundamentally different approach to all the other Dáil parties in that we don’t agree that ordinary Irish people should be made pay for the mistakes of the banks.

– Pearse Doherty TD

PEARSE DOHERTY has put it up to Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael/Labour with a challenge to a five-way TV debate with Sinn Féin on the way forward on jobs and the economy.

The... Free article

BERTIE AHERN, the former Fianna Fáil leader and Finance Minister once described by late Taoiseach Charles Haughey as "the best, the most skilful, the most devious and the most cunning of them all", walked away from the Dáil on Thursday after 34 years with the self-serving plea that he wishes "somebody somewhere told me what was going on in the banks"!

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MANY people have despaired of the antics of the antics of the Fianna Fáil/Green Party Coalition but many of them - and many more - are looking for an alternative to that and from the tired old formula of Fine Gael/Labour who will manage Fianna Fáil cuts.

Many people are looking for change.

If you want change now is the time to make a stand.

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Sinn Féin emerges strong from winter of turmoil

BY MÍCHEÁL
Mac DONNCHA

THE winter of 2011 has been an incredible time in Irish politics. Central to all these events - both in helping to finally topple the Fianna Fáil/Green Government and in exposing the Fine Gael/Labour Consensus for Cuts - has been Sinn Féin.
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We are the drivers for change across the island of Ireland

SINN FÉIN Assembly leader John O’Dowd issued a rallying call to republicans across the island when he addressed the Cúige Uladh AGM in Toomebridge on Saturday 22nd January.

The task for republicans, John O’Dowd said, is to go out to work harder than we ever have to take a major step on the road to the Republic and... Free article

Winning people’s confidence

EVEN the most seasoned political observers were stunned by the political fiasco that has unfolded over the past weeks. The Fianna Fáil/Green Party Government imploded. An Taoiseach Brian Cowen stepped aside as leader of Fianna Fáil as part of an eleventh-hour political makeover in advance of the general election.
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I DON’T NEED to tell An Phoblacht readers that these are dramatic times we are living in.
Politics is a rough trade. I’m sure Brian Cowen’s family are feeling sore and on a personal level I empathise with them and him - and with the hundreds of thousands of other families who have been impoverished and traumatised by this bad government.
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Family insists independent probe the way forward

SEAMUS FINUCANE, the brother of assassinated solicitor Pat Finucane, has reiterated the family’s demands for an independent inquiry into the events surrounding Pat’s murder in February 1989.

Seamus Finucane was speaking after it was disclosed that the British Government is to take a further two months to decide whether or not there... Free article