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‘Fit for work’ test not fit for purpose (Free article)
6 February 2012
REPORT RAISES MAJOR QUESTIONS OVER BENEFITS CHECKS FUNDAMENTAL FAILURES IN NEW SCHEME THE British Government should suspend the Work Capability Assessment until it can be shown to be fit for purpose, says Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney after a report by the Citizens’ Advice Bureau raised serious questions over its efficiency and…
Dublin bin privatisation debacle (Free article)
6 February 2012
CHAOS MARKS SWITCH FOR RUBBISH COLLECTIONS | BIG CHANGES FACE HOUSEHOLDS BY MÍCHEÁL Mac DONNCHA, DUBLIN SINN FÉIN COUNCILLOR THE DOMINANT Fine Gael and Labour groups on Dublin City Council cannot wash their hands of the debacle of bin privatisation in the city as their parties in Government are following a privatisation agenda. There…
Stephen Lawrence and Robert Hamill cases - Getting away with murder? (Free article)
6 February 2012
INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN LONDON’S METROPLITAN POLICE | INSTITUTIONAL SECTARIANISM IN THE ROYAL ULSTER CONSTABULARY » BY PEADAR WHELAN Stephen Lawrence and Robert Hamill AFTER nearly 19 years of campaigning, the family of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, stabbed to death in an attack by a gang of racist white youths in…
Power of Scotland (Free article)
6 February 2012
THE SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM | A QUESTION OF FREEDOM BY MARY STEPHENS IN GLASGOW Alex Salmond, SNP leader THE issue of a referendum over Scottish independence has fired a debate not just the length and breadth of Scotland but right through the Westminster Parliament and beyond. The prospect of a poll follows the…
Gerry McGeough should be freed (Free article)
6 February 2012
SINN FÉIN STATEMENT ON CONTROVERSIAL CASE | WESTON PARK AGREEMENT WAS BROKEN BY BRITISH BY GERRY KELLY MLA Sinn Féin Assembly spokesperson on Policing & Justice WHEN Gerry McGeough was first arrested in March 2007, Sinn Féin called for his immediate release. We believed then, as we believe now, that he should not have been…
A dissenting view full of contradictions (Free article)
6 February 2012
‘THE PROVISIONAL IRA: FROM INSURRECTION TO PARLIAMENT’ (PLUTO PRESS), BY TOMMY McKEARNEY REVIEW BY DANNY MORRISON TOMMY McKEARNEY is probably the most articulate of all those activists who left the mainstream Republican Movement. He is deeply committed, thoughtful, without bile or bitterness — more a dissenter than a dissident (to use…
A referendum the right thing to do (Free article)
6 February 2012
TAOISEACH ENDA KENNY insists that he is not afraid to hold a referendum on the EU austerity treaty, what Brussels calls the fiscal compact. If Enda Kenny is truly not afraid then he should allow a referendum, whether the Attorney General thinks it is necessary or not. Pearse Doherty has reminded people that the Attorney General told the last…
Sectarian attackers leave Catholic youth for dead (Free article)
6 February 2012
LOYALIST MOB CHASES TEEN THROUGH HOUSE AFTER FILM CREW CAR SMASHED UP 18-year-old James Turley was working as an extra on the film ‘The Good Man’ when he was attacked » BY PEADAR WHELAN JAMES TURLEY thought he would die at the hands of the sectarian gang that attacked him as he worked as a film extra in the loyalist…
La Senza women make a stand for all workers (Free article)
6 February 2012
OCCUPATION SPOKESPERSON TALKS TO AN PHOBLACHT | SOLIDARITY AND STRENGTH FROM SO MANY PEOPLE Sinn Féin's Mary Lou McDonald talks to La Senza staff members Tara Keane ON MONDAY 9 JANUARY 2011, a group of women workers from the La Senza lingerie chain occupied the company’s store in Liffey Valley, Clondalkin, west Dublin, after…
United Ireland ‘inevitable’ Martin McGuinness tells packed conference (Free article)
6 February 2012
DERRY UNITING IRELAND RALLY | MILLENNIUM FORUM PACKED TO RAFTERS BY PEADAR WHELAN A massive crowd packs into Derry’s Millennium Forum for the Uniting Ireland conference “WELCOME to Londonderry, Basil”, replied Martin McGuinness to Ulster Unionist MLA Basil McCrea’s challenge as the latest in Sinn Féin’s series of Uniting…
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