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ECONOMY: Sinn Féin's Budget proposals for Brian Cowen (Free article)
6 December 2007
IT'S crunch time for the Fianna Fáil-led coalition as Finance Minister Brian Cowen presents his 2008 Budget (as An Phoblacht goes to press), with tax revenues falling, election promises coming home to roost and economic growth slowing down considerably. For a number of months, Minister Cowen has been working hard on conditioning the public for a…
Further threats against republicans in Belfast and Antrim (Free article)
6 December 2007
Sinn FÉin representatives in Belfast and Antrim have once again been the target of threats by micro groups claiming to be republicans. Sinn Féin's Gerry Kelly has branded those behind the latest bomb threat to councillor Briege Meehan as, "a disgrace". The North Belfast MLA was speaking after bomb warnings and threats were made against a number…
Health and education lessons from Cuba (Free article)
6 December 2007
I BELIEVE that if we are to reverse the deterioration in health and education delivery, North and South, the respective ministers could do worse than visit Cuba to learn from them how they tackle their many social programmes such as health and education delivery. The approach to learning at the Sierra Maestra School for Special Needs students…
Battle continues for effective community policing (Free article)
6 December 2007
Changes to policing across the 26 Counties are in the pipeline for 2008. These changes include further opportunities for critical engagement by Sinn Féin representatives. Opening a consultation seminar on Thursday, 29 November, evaluating the existing 29 pilot Joint Policing Committees (JPCs), Minister for Justice Brian Lenihan announced his…
Murphy calls for 'soldier spy' claims to be investigated (Free article)
6 December 2007
CLAIMS made at the weekend by a man who says he is a former British soldier involved in covert spying operations against republicans for Military Intelligence after the Good Friday Agreement must be investigated, Sinn Féin Minister Conor Murphy has said. Murphy was speaking after the unidentified man met with Mark Thompson of Relatives for…
Angry protests as Bray fire-fighters' families demand answers (Free article)
6 December 2007
A LUMP of roofing was hurled in to the centre of the Wicklow County Council chamber on Monday night and smashed into thousands of pieces, scattering across the floor during a special debate on the provision of a full-time fire service for the north of the county. The piece of roofing came from council-owned properties in the Bray area described…
Cúlchaint Le Séarlas De Geailf (Free article)
6 December 2007
Cha raibh a dhath níos measa agus mé i mo thachrán nó fiú mé i mo ghlas-stócach - nuair a chaithfinn dul chun an phortaigh. Dá mbeifeá ag tiontú na móna fliche, bheinn i gcónaí ag ceistiú mo athar "an bhfuil muid chóir a bheith réidh, tá na míoltóga mo mharú!"
Dublin City Council passes Sinn Féin motion against domestic violence (Free article)
6 December 2007
Dublin City Sinn Féin Councillors tabled an emergency motion to the December meeting of Dublin City Council last Monday to mark the international 16 Days of Action Against Violence Against Women. The motion, which called for the use of unsuitable private B&Bs to be phased out and a sufficient quantity of emergency refuge accommodation to be…
€1.75 billion shortfall shows tax cuts were never viable (Free article)
6 December 2007
SINN FÉIN'S spokesperson on Economic Affairs, Arthur Morgan TD, said that the '2008 Estimates of Receipts and Expenditure' in the 26 Counties shows that the party was right to oppose unviable tax-cutting promises made by Fianna Fáil and other parties in advance of the general election. "The 2008 Estimates of Receipts and Expenditure states that…
Matt Treacy Column (Free article)
6 December 2007
So much for a lot of the talk about the Louth hurlers meaning as much to the GPA as the Cork hurlers. And, of course, the poor women who play senior camogie and ladies' football get nothing
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