2 December 2004 Edition

Mary Lou McDonald visits Cork

2 December 2004

Sinn Féin MEP Mary Lou McDonald visited a number of community and family centres in Cork last week to promote Sinn Féin's policy on childcare provision. She found a common theme of underfunding, neglect by central and local government, but a strong a determined community spirit in the face of this neglect. Childcare, particularly affordable childcare, is the poor relation interms of government funding. Free article

Derry City local election candidates unveiled

2 December 2004

• Pictured are the candidates chosen by Derry City Sinn Féin to contest next year's local elections. Standing left to right: Councillor Gerry Mac Lochlainn, Joanne McDaid, Councillor Paul Fleming, Ollie Green, Kevin Campbell, Elisha McLaughlin, Councillor Billy Page, Councillor Tony Hassan, Councillor Peter Anderson, Councillor Lynn Fleming, Councillor Barney O'Hagan. Seated left to right: Sharon Duddy, Derry mayor Gearóid Ó hEára, Councillor Maeve McLaughlin and Patricia Logue Free article

Sinn Féin supports Dairygold workers

2 December 2004

Sinn Féin representative Timmy White received warm applause when he addressed a large meeting held In Mitchelstown to support the 120 workers threatened with forced relocation from Mitchelstown to Cork City. Free article

Dock workers sacked in run-up to Christmas

2 December 2004

A freight and ferry company in Dublin has sacked eight men, a month before Christmas, because the overtired workers refused to work a night's overtime. Free article

Poist caillte ag Lá tar éis feachtais Lady Hermon

2 December 2004

D'fhógair an nuachtán laethúil Gaeilge Lá inniu go gcuirfear beirt oibrí chun bóthair agus go ngearrfar siar go dtí ceithre lá sa tseachtain mar thoradh ar fheachtas Aontachtaithe in aghaidh an pháipéir. Free article

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De Brún to address students at Belfast meeting

2 December 2004

Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún is to address a meeting in St Mary's College on the Falls Road in Belfast, aimed at encouraging young people and women to join Sinn Féin. Free article

Seán O'Carroll and Patrick Tierney honoured

2 December 2004

The Ardee Seán O'Carroll and Patrick Tierney Commemoration Committee held a very successful parade and wreath-laying ceremony in the Louth village on Sunday 28 November. Free article

Valuable republican manuscripts under the hammer

2 December 2004

While not wanting to add to the coffers of auctioneers, I'd draw attention to the forthcoming auction by Mealy's Auctioneers on Tuesday and Wednesday, 7/8 December. I do so in the hope that when the hammer is brought down on an array of republican memorabilia from the revolutionary years after the founding of Sinn Féin 100 years ago, that they will have found an appreciative home. Failing this, they will be lost forever to future Irish generations of republicans. Free article

Revolting peasants in Wicklow

2 December 2004

NEWS that the peasants are revolting in Wicklow over blocked rights-of-way and legal harassment is setting the cat among the pigeons down at the Law Library as well as the whisper-filled corridors of Wicklow County Council. Free article

Scholarship fund and commemoration

2 December 2004

Antoine Mac Giolla Bhríghde's passion in life was his heritage. He loved traditional music and was a singer and flute player, tutoring a local flute band and attending seisuns whenever he could. He was a fluent Irish speaker and encouraged all those he came into contact with to use as much Irish as they had and to learn whatever else they could. It was his belief that taking ownership of our native language and culture and celebrating them in everyday life was as important as armed struggle in the fight against Britain. Free article


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