FINE GAEL has been accused by Sinn Féin Dáil leader Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin of attempting to con the electorate by claiming that they will not increase taxation but failing to spell out how they will pay back the enormous debt they are intent on taking on from the EU/IMF bail-out.

Deputy Ó Caoláin said:

The proposals produced by Fine Gael are lacking in credibility as they ... Free article

THREE POLLS into the election campaign and what have we discovered? Sinn Féin are holding the gains made in 2010 and that many journalists offer interesting interpretations of the poll figures that don’t stand up to scrutiny.

It was welcome to see the Sunday Independent to park their in-house Quantum Research polling, which isn’t methodologically on a par with the Red C, Ipsos... Free article

SPEAKING on the first full day of campaigning in the general election as Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Labour all officially launched their campaigns, Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams said there is an alternative to the conservative economics of the Establishment parties:

For the first time in the history of this state there is the prospect of a Government not involving Fianna... Free article

IRISH ACTIVISTS taking part in a Gaza-bound aid flotilla on March 30^th have bought a vessel that can carry 25 passengers. Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh and Sinn Féin Derry City Councilor Gerry Mac Lochlainn will be on board the aid flotilla with other political figures and personalities.

A thousand people from across the world are expected be be taking part in the... Free article

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"!

Bertie Ahern is standing... Free article

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.

People need to get involved in the... Free article

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.
The amazing sequence of events began with the victory of Sinn... Free article