16 November 2006 Edition
Interview - Cuban Ambassador to Ireland, Noel Carrillo
16 November 2006
In the second of a two-part interview, Cuban ambassador to Ireland, Noel Carrillo speaks to An Phoblacht's INAKI IRIGOIEN about the Cuban health system, the Irish Hunger Strike and the peace process here. Free article
Call to prevent British nuclear ship travelling through Irish waters
16 November 2006
Arthur Morgan TD, Sinn Féin Spokesperson on the Environment called on Government last Tuesday to prevent the nuclear transportation ship the Atlantic Osprey from travelling through Irish waters because of the danger that it poses to people here. Free article
Remembering quilt
16 November 2006
Launching a new panel of the Remembering Quilt, spokesperson for Relatives for Justice, Andree Murphy said the quilt lives beyond the past or even the present and reaches into the future. Free article
Shocking Leas Cross report indicts government
16 November 2006
Friday, 10 November saw the publication of the 26 County Health Service Executive (HSE) commissioned report into deaths at Leas Cross, a north Dublin nursing home. The report's author Professor Des O'Neill concluded that what he had uncovered amounted to "institutional abuse." Free article
Women's canvass in Lucan
16 November 2006
Sinn Féin Dublin Mid-West representative Joanne Spain was joined on the canvass trail in Lucan last Saturday 11 November by a 35-strong group of women activists from across the Six Counties, including Six-County MEP Bairbre de Brún and Fermanagh/South Tyrone MP Michelle Gildernew. A similar delegation travelled to Mary Lou McDonald's constituency in Dublin central. Free article
'To be successful you have to be daring'
16 November 2006
Former political prisoner Jim Monaghan delivered the oration last weekend at the commemoration in Dublin to honour Seán Russell, Chief of Staff of the IRA in 1938 who died from a perforated ulcer, 100 miles off the Galway coast, on 14 August 1940, on a German U-boat. Free article
Monument in honour of Máire Drumm unveiled in South Armagh
16 November 2006
Several hundred people attended the unveiling of a monument in honour of the late Máire Drumm (nee MacAteer) in Killean South Armagh last week in recognition of the 30th anniversary of the assassination of the former Sinn Féin Vice President. Free article
Anybody but the ESB
16 November 2006
Economic sectarianism reared its head this week as the ESB denied it was seeking to buy out the Irish operations of Viridian, the main Northern Ireland electricity provider, though the claim made in the news media last weekend prompted Ulster Unionist leader and former Assembly Enterprise minister Reg Empey to attack the proposed merger. Free article
In Briefs
16 November 2006
Assembly should meet on 24 November- McGuinness, Breach of neutrality puts Ireland at Risk - Ó Snodaigh and McGuigan condemns racist attacks Free article