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‘Everyone under €75,000 a year would be better off under Sinn Féin’s proposals’ (Free article)
5 January 2012
BUDGET 2012 INTERVIEW | PEARSE DOHERTY, SINN FÉIN DÁIL FINANCE SPOKESPERSON BY EOIN Ó MURCHÚ BUDGET 2012 is an austerity Budget that is bad for people and bad for the economy. That’s how Pearse Doherty summed up Michael Noonan’s and Brendan Howlin’s proposals as presented to the Dáil last month. “We look at this Budget in two ways,”…
Same old story 30 years on (Free article)
5 January 2012
1981 STATE PAPERS RELEASED | LAVISH GOVERNMENT SPENDING IN DUBLIN AND STREET RIOTS IN BRITAIN BY ROBBIE SMYTH FINE GAEL and Labour form a coalition government, the Tories are in power in London, and a summer of riots sparks off across Britain while spending cuts and stealth taxes are introduced in Ireland. Dublin’s 1981 state papers show…
1981: British politicking cost Hunger Strikers’ lives (Free article)
5 January 2012
BRITISH STATE PAPERS RELEASED UNDER 30-YEAR RULE | THATCHER AND THE H-BLOCKS CRISIS ADULTERATING their drinking water, forcibly intravenously feeding them and banning all visitors, quashing the results of the Fermanagh/South Tyrone by-election and disqualifying Bobby Sands as MP, berating the Reuters news agency for refusing to describe the…
New Year message from Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams (Free article)
5 January 2012
‘A duty to defend the people’ BLIAIN úr faoi mhaise daoibh go léir. As we embark on a New Year, the Irish people face major challenges. The policy of austerity being pursued by conservative governments in Dublin and London and by the European Union is strangling the Irish economy and causing severe hardship for Irish families. Economic…
Roddy Collins writes for An Phoblacht (Free article)
5 January 2012
The Household Charge is ‘only’ €2 a week if you live in an ivory tower ENDA KENNY makes me mad. His claim that the Household Charge is “only” Ř2 a week had me boiling. I have no problem with taxes - my problem is with unfair taxes and the unfair distribution of the burden. The top 5% own 40% of the wealth but everyone gets hit with a…
Gerry Adams on Margaret Thatcher – 'The Iron Lady' – and Ireland (Free article)
9 January 2012
Saturday 7 January (Belfast Media Group blog, Léargas ) Thatcher’s war policy in Ireland BY GERRY ADAMS THE recent publication of British government papers from 1981 have reminded many people of the negative role played by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at that time. The papers were published coincidentally at the…
Sidelines (Free article)
5 February 2012
News snippets from around the Globe Gregory Campbell’s watching TG4 AFTER looking like he’s endorsing an ‘all-Ireland’ approach to commemorations, it now seems that DUP MP Gregory Campbell has now taken to his native language with a vengeance. This came to light after Campbell vented his fury over the first episode of ‘Mná an IRA’…
Notices (Free article)
6 February 2012
I nDíl Chuimhne 1 February 1975: Volunteer Seán BOYLE , South Armagh Brigade. 1 Feruary 1981: Volunteer Peadar MOHAN , Monaghan Brigade. 2 Feruary 1981: Volunteer Liam HANNAWAY , Belfast Brigade, 2nd Battalion. 3 February 1973: Volunteer James SLOAN , Volunteer James McCANN , Belfast Brigade, 3rd Battalion. 3 February 1999:…
Imeachtaí | Events (Free article)
6 February 2012
TIPPERARY GEORGE PLANT 70th ANNIVERSARY Commemoration Saturday 4th March. Assemble 3pm, in St Johnstown Churchyard, Fethard. Main Speaker: Ruán O’Donnell. Remembering IRA Volunteer George Plant executed by firing squad in Portlaoise prison on 5 March 1942 LIVERPOOL Volunteer Seán Phelan Commemoration Sunday 18th February. Assemble…
Fógraí Bháis - Harry Thompson, Brigid Hannon and Géry Lawless (Free article)
6 February 2012
Harry Thompson, Belfast BY GERRY ADAMS TD, President of Sinn Féin HARRY THOMPSON died at home on Sunday 29 January surrounded by his family and friends. I have known wee Harry for over 40 years. We were always close. Harry was a republican activist for most of his adult life and he was honoured at last year’s Le Chéile, which…
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