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Tensions high on Springfield (Free article)
30 June 2005
Residents of the nationalist Springfield Road in West Belfast are worried that a concerted campaign by Orangemen to march on the road will raise tensions during the summer months. Following a Parades Commission determination, banning the annual Whiterock Orange march from going on to Springfield Road via Workman Avenue on Saturday 25 June, the…
Tensions high on Springfield (Free article)
30 June 2005
Residents of the nationalist Springfield Road in West Belfast are worried that a concerted campaign by Orangemen to march on the road will raise tensions during the summer months. Following a Parades Commission determination, banning the annual Whiterock Orange march from going on to Springfield Road via Workman Avenue on Saturday 25 June, the…
Minister not listening over suicide (Free article)
30 June 2005
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams says remarks on Tuesday by Direct Rule Minister Shaun Woodward seeking to abdicate responsibility for the failure of the Department of Health over the issue of suicide in the Six Counties have damaged confidence in his ability to deal with this very serious issue.
Healthy markets, sick system (Free article)
30 June 2005
A government u-turn on the principle of equality, new privatisation proposals for the Irish health services sector and higher health insurance charges for customers. Move over Michael McDowell, Health Minister Mary Harney is centrestage this week when it comes to propagating the Progressive Democrat philosophy of encouraging inequality, penalising…
Government fails autism families (Free article)
30 June 2005
Sinn Féin MEPs Mary Lou McDonald and Bairbre de Brún, along with party health spokespersons Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD and John O'Dowd MLA, joined forces with autism campaigners last week to demand greater support for families caring for children with autism.
Housing gimmick slap in face (Free article)
30 June 2005
Sinn Féin Dáil spokesperson on the Environment, Heritage and Local Government Arthur Morgan, has challenged Minister Dick Roche to provide a cost benefit analysis of the government proposal to hand state land over to private developers in exchange for affordable housing at less salubrious locations.
Mayorship denied to SF in Clonakilty (Free article)
30 June 2005
One of the most divisive annual meetings of Clonakilty Town Council in recent decades took place last week, which saw Sinn Féin "stabbed in the back" by a Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael coalition, which ensured that the outgoing independent mayor was returned for a second year in office - the first time this has happened in Clonakilty since the mid 1950s.
Sinn Féin chair of Gorey (Free article)
30 June 2005
On Tuesday night, Sinn Féin Councillor Jimmy Fleming was elected chair of Gorey Town Council, becoming the first Sinn Féin council chair in Wexford since the late John Sheehan (left) two decades ago
Pride 2005 (Free article)
30 June 2005
Thousands of people took to the streets of Dublin last Saturday to mark Pride 2005, a celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender life in Ireland today
Make poverty history (Free article)
30 June 2005
When the Taoiseach attends the UN Summit this autumn, he must not again make aid commitments he has no intention of keeping. Boasting that Ireland is the fourth wealthiest state in the world does not tally with excuses for breaking his promise to allocate 0.7% of GNP to Overseas Development Aid spending by 2007.
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