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Harney to Close Children's Hospital (Free article)
27 April 2006
Health Minister Mary Harney plans to close Dublin's three Children's Hospitals and build a new hospital along the M50. This proposal includes the closure of Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin. Disguised as a measure to rationalise healthcare for children, it amounts to cutting back on a vital social service.
International News in Brief (Free article)
27 April 2006
Nepal's king forced to back down, Iraq, Darfur and Panamá
Gralton school: Lively debate honours legacy of Leitrim radical (Free article)
27 April 2006
The annual Jimmy Gralton School took place last weekend in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim. The theme of the school this year was 1916 A Proclamation Unfulfilled. Jimmy Gralton was born near Gowel, County Leitrim in 1886. Like many Irish people he was forced to emigrate to Britain and later to the USA where he took up citizenship. While in…
Meeting with Britain's Philip Mountbatten ill advised (Free article)
27 April 2006
Sinn Féin's Daithí Doolan described a meeting between Bertie Ahern and Britain's Philip Mountbatten as ill advised. "Many people in Ireland were very uncomfortable when the then Taoiseach John Bruton described the visit by Charles Windsor to this country in 1995 'as the most significant event in his lifetime'.
Economy: Robbing poor to give tax cuts to rich (Free article)
27 April 2006
Almost four years to the day of their 2002 election manifesto launch the Progressive Democrats published a new tax policy last weekend that bore striking similarities to the broken promises of their 2002 proposals.
Nuacht na nOibrithe (Free article)
27 April 2006
US trade unionist to read Connolly while behind bars, Vote for strike action at Irish Sugar, Strikers shot and killed in Mexico and Workers' Memorial Day
The Matt Treacy Column (Free article)
27 April 2006
Well. The big sporting occasion of last weekend went as predicted. Erin's Isle beat Maur's in the first round of the Dublin Senior Football Championship. However, this did not affect attendances at other venues.
Political harassment: Dublin activist targeted (Free article)
27 April 2006
Sinn Féin's Dublin Mid West representative Joanne Spain has slammed Garda harassment of her Director of Elections as "political policing". Spain's comments come after Féilim Mac Críosta, a Sinn Féin candidate for local elections in 2002 and currently party Director of elections for the constituency of Dublin Mid West, was subjected to a Garda raid…
Media View (Free article)
27 April 2006
The cynicism and reserve that journalists retain for all and any republican initiatives was, predictably, dispensed with when the DUP launched its PR road show in Killarney this week at the British Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body.
Victim of loyalist intimidation refused housing (Free article)
27 April 2006
Sinn Féin councillor, Billy Leonard, has invoked the Freedom of Information Act to uncover details about the case of a homeless Coleraine nationalist who has been refused a house in the town by the Housing Executive.
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