BRIAN COWEN is back, the Sundays say.

How do you measure something like that? Oh, we just need to depend on the barometer of all things true in Ireland:  the political columnists and opinion writers in our quality newspapers. Right so, it must be true then.

And so it began this weekend, from the people who celebrated every excess of the boom years and other great scams of our... Free article

SPEAKING during the European Parliament debate on the conclusions of European Council and the results of the Van Rompuy-led Task Force on Economic Governance, GUE/NGL President Lothar Bisky welcomed the permanent crisis mechanism to maintain financial stability in the euro area but criticised the economic governance plan as “leaving a lot to be desired”.
Not only does it try to... Free article

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From the Politico website http://politico.ie

Representing Sinn Féin, Aengus Ó Snodaigh addressed his fellow politicians, saying:

"Sinn Féin will be calling on all members in that institution in there [the Dáil] to come out and give a pledge that if they have power they will reverse what has been attempted here today. It is only by their... Free article

RELATIVES of Martin Savage will travel from Ballisodare in County Sligo to lay wreaths and join the commemoration.

People will assemble at Castleknock Village at 2pm on Saturday 11th December and proceed to Ashtown Roundabout.

Dublin West representative Paul Donnelly will chair proceedings.  Mary Lou McDonald is the main speaker

Martin, who took part in the 1916 Easter... Free article

Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty

"Pearse Doherty has delivered one of the best and most passionate speeches seen in the Dáil in years"

– Slugger O'Toole

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Sinn Féin Finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty TD’s Budget speech to the Dáil, 7th December 2010

MINISTER, this budget is a disgrace.

You told us last year that ‘the worst was over’.... Free article

WE, as people who share the island of Ireland, affirm, in common with the Irish Diaspora and friends of Ireland everywhere, our commitment to live in peace and harmony with one another.
We welcome the progress made in the past decade and a half in building and developing the Peace Process into a Political Process which has seen power shared for the first time between unionists,... Free article

THE election of Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty as TD for Donegal South-West and the massive rally in Dublin on Saturday, November 28th, show in the clearest terms that people have rejected the Fianna Fáil/Green Party Government, its four-year plan and its proposed austerity Budget.
They have also rejected IMF interference in Ireland.
The Government now has no mandate for the damaging... Free article

BY KATHRYN REILLY

THE deflationary policies of the past three Budgets didn’t work. They lengthened and deepened the recession which, in turn, defeated deficit-reduction efforts.
Why should we expect future deflationary policies to result in anything substantially different?
The publication by the Fianna Fáil/Green Party Government of their ‘National Recovery Plan’ is a... Free article

‘Bridging the Border, Reconnecting Communities’ launched in Monaghan

NEWLY-ELECTED Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty joined Gerry Adams MP and Cavan/Monaghan TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin in Monaghan Town on Monday night, November 29th, to launch ‘Bridging the Border, Reconnecting Communities’, a major Sinn Féin initiative aimed at resolving problems associated with the border.
The... Free article

PEARSE DOHERTY, TEACHTA DÁLA | ‘I HAVE A MANDATE TO OPPOSE ANTI-PEOPLE BUDGET’

SINN FÉIN’S newest TD, Pearse Doherty, took his seat in the Dáil on Tuesday 30th November, just a few days after his election by the people of Donegal South-West.
And he started his Dáil term by repeating Sinn Féin’s call for ministers’ salaries to be cut by 40% and TDs’ pay by 20%.
At a press... Free article