One of the worst kept secrets but also the most anticipated and potentially far-reaching development in the Irish Trade Union Movement is the emergence of a new radical trade union in Ireland. The Irish Workers' Union (IWU) is set to add a new dynamic to trade union activism throughout the island. Free article

North Leitrim Councillor Michael Colreavy and Sinn Féin general election candidate Sean MacManus have expressed concerns about the impact of current IDA policy on North Leitrim industry. IDA policy is to focus attention and effort on the larger population areas, because incoming investors want and need larger population bases, and the IDA facilitates such investors to maximise the number of jobs coming into the BMW region. Free article

Over the last three years, Sinn Féin in Waterford has embarked on a process of building. Since the formation of the Cathal Brugha Cumann in the city, which has over 40 members, the party has gone from strength to strength. Developments in the city have been matched in the county with active cumainn in Dungarvan, Tramore, Ring and Kilmacthomas. Sinn Féin is now representative of the constituency as a whole, from north to south, east to west. Free article

Passage West Town Councillor Tom Hanlon is to stand as a candidate for Sinn Féin in Cork South Central in the forthcoming election. He was unanimously selected at a convention in the constituency last week. Free article

The crowd strolled in to the music of Tracy Chapman, "Talking about a Revolution", as the power point screen show flashed the history of the conflict onto the community centre wall in Blanchardstown, where the Dublin West election campaign for Mary Lou MacDonald was launched last Friday. Free article

The campaign to elect Arthur Morgan as a Sinn Féin TD for County Louth in the forthcoming general election was officially launched on Thursday 21 March in the Fairways Hotel, Dundalk. Free article

Sinn Féin President, Gerry Adams received a huge welcome from the people of North Kerry when he visited Ballybunion, Listowel, Castleisland and Tralee to promote Councillor Martin Ferris' general election campaign in North Kerry. Free article

The McCreesh/McCabe Sinn Féin cumann erected a plaque on St Patrick's Day in the village of Mullaghbawn, South Armagh, dedicated to the memory of the ten young men who died on hunger strike in the H Blocks in 1981 and also to Frank Stagg and Michael Gaughan. Free article

Sinn Féin general election candidate Councillor Brian Stanley says the government has failed to address the need to create sustainable employment in Laois/Offaly. "The loss of 370 jobs at the Flextronics Plant in Tullamore underlines the government's failure in this constituency," he said. Free article

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