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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2011 | THE NUMBERS (Free article)
3 November 2011
Record vote performance breaks new ground IN FEBRUARY 2011, 220,685 people voted for 41 Sinn Féin candidates in 38 constituencies in the Leinster House election, electing 14 TDs, a record performance for the party who won 9.9% of first preferences. The turn-out was 70.1%. Martin McGuinness running in the Presidential election campaign…
REFLECTIONS ON THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION | THE CHALLENGE TO SEÁN GALLAGHER (Free article)
3 November 2011
Martin McGuinness – Trail blazer BY GERRY ADAMS TD President of Sinn Féin MARTIN McGUINNESS is a trail blazer. That much must be clear. Even to his detractors. A life devoted to struggle has seen many examples of this. Martin, in good times and bad, has had many opportunities and occasions to draw on these pioneering qualities. The net…
Presidential Election: IT'S McGUINNESS WOT WON IT (Free article)
3 November 2011
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY FROM the reporting of the first tallies on Friday morning, October 28th, to the publication of Monday’s daily papers on October 31st, large sections of the Establishment Irish news media were making concerted efforts to recast not just the actual result of the Presidential election campaign but the last days of…
Stop the Handover (Free article)
3 November 2011
ON NOVEMBER 2nd, the Fine Gael/Labour Government handed over €711million of taxpayers’ money to an unguaranteed bondholder in the toxic Anglo Irish bank. Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams TD raised the issue in the Dáil well before the deed was done. Taoiseach Enda Kenny and his advisers signed off last month on a 50% cut on debt for Greece.…
THOUSANDS AT RISK OF LOSING THEIR HOMES (Free article)
3 November 2011
Nelson McCausland - ‘Minister for Evictions’ LAURA FRIEL » BY LAURA FRIEL NELSON McCAUSLAND is in danger of becoming “the Minister for Evictions”, according to the Sinn Féin spokesperson on Housing, Fra McCann. The West Belfast MLA was speaking after the DUP, backed by the Ulster Unionist Party and the Alliance Party defeated a “Prayer…
PRIORY HALL: A HOUSING SCANDAL THAT COULD HAPPEN ELSEWHERE (Free article)
3 November 2011
Nightmare legacy of the Celtic Tiger BY MÍCHEÁL Mac DONNCHA SINN FÉIN DUBLIN CITY COUNCILLOR AS WE approach the centenary of the 1913 Lock-Out, we might have hoped that the sight of families being moved out of their homes because they were living in dangerous buildings was a thing of the past. But memories of the…
H-Blocks Hunger Strike transformed struggle – Leo Green & Rose Dugdale (Free article)
8 November 2011
MARKING THE END OF THE 1981 HUNGER STRIKE | LEO GREEN AND ROSE DUGDALE H-Blocks Hunger Strike transformed the struggle BY IAN McBRIDE THE END of the H-Block Hunger Strike on October 3rd 1981 was marked in Dublin on October 3rd 2011 by the Dublin South Central ’81 Commemorations Committee in the Ballyfermot Civic Centre…
Video appeal by Irish Ship to Gaza activists kidnapped by Israel (Free article)
8 November 2011
IN AN ACT of international piracy, Israeli forces kidnap the Irish crew of the MV Saoirse 'Irish Ship to Gaza', including a number of Sinn Féin activists as it attempted to break the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza.
Opinion : IT’S THE HEALTH SERVICE, STUPID!, By Dave Hughes, INMO Dep Gen Sec (Free article)
9 November 2011
“IT’S THE ECONOMY, stupid” is a phrase used by Bill Clinton to explain why government and politicians were able to maintain themselves in office regardless of their performance on other issues. It is by now a well-worn cliché, particularly by our national broadcast media who are obsessed, it seems, with the importance of the economy at…
Those 109 ex-ministers and their big pensions paid for by the taxpayer (Free article)
9 November 2011
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams TD today (Wednesday) received an answer to a parliamentary question which detailed the amount of pensions paid to former ministers. The response confirmed that 109 ex-ministers are in receipt of pensions, amounting to an €8.8million payroll every year at taxpayers’ expense. Thirty of them have pensions…
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