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INTERNATIONAL: Election defeat for Oz's right-wing Prime Minister, John Howard (Free article)
6 December 2007
AUSTRALIA'S 11 years of conservative rule under the right-wing John Howard officially ended on Monday when the centre-left Australian Labour Party leader Kevin Rudd was sworn in as the country's new prime minister, nine days after a landslide election victory. Plus Poll setback for Chavez, Chad rebels attack army and US admits Iran halted nuclear…
Media View BY FRANK FARRELL (Free article)
6 December 2007
THE Sunday Times published a fascinating account last weekend of the plight of white "aristocrat" settler, Thomas Patrick Gilbert Cholmondeley, son of the 5th Lord Delamere and heir to the largest estate in Kenya's Rift Valley, who claims he is the "victim of a new kind of bigotry". Apparently, the 'bigoted' Kenyans are trying the Eton-educated…
Abbott job losses severe blow to West (Free article)
6 December 2007
THE Abbott Laboratories factory in Galway is to close next year with the loss of all 500 jobs. A company spokesperson blamed excess manufacturing capacity in its vascular division sites in Galway, Tipperary and Temecula, California. These sites manufacture stents which are used to improve blood flow.
Sinn Féin hosts World Aids Day conference (Free article)
6 December 2007
Sinn Féin Health Spokesperson Carál Ní Chuilín MLA hosted a World Aids Day conference in conjunction with the HIV support centre in Stormont on Saturday, 1 December. Speaking before the event and before a symbolic 'balloon launch' with Sinn Féin Junior Minister Gerry Kelly on Friday, 30 November, at Belfast City Hall, Sinn Féin Health…
An bhfuil dearmad déanta ar an lucht oibre? (Free article)
6 December 2007
Is dócha gur oiriúnach an t-am anois é comhrá a thosú faoi stad na gnáth oibrithe sa tír seo. Tá dhá buiséad idir lámha ar an oileán beag seo againne faoi láthair, agus ceachtar acu ag déanamh mórán maitheasa do lucht oibre na tíre seo, in aineoin go bhfuilimid féin sa rialtas ó thuaidh. An rud is náirí áfach ná go bhfuil na polaiteoirí go léir…
Galway action saves bin charge waivers (Free article)
6 December 2007
SINN FÉIN activists turned up at Galway City Hall on Monday, 3 December, to protest at the proposed abolition of the bin charges waiver in Galway City. Councillors were to discuss the Galway City budget for the upcoming year, including a proposal put forward by the City Manager to do away with the current waiver for the bins.
Ógra urged to get active for Prisoners' Month (Free article)
6 December 2007
ÓGRA Shinn Féin National Organiser Barry McColgan has urged Ógra Shinn Féin to get active throughout the month of December to remember POWs who are still held in jail this Christmas. According to McColgan, whilst many protests, leaflet drops and vigils will be highlighting the incarceration of Irish republican POWs, a number of other actions will…
Creggan school wins climate change photo competition (Free article)
6 December 2007
Sinn Féin MEP, Bairbre de Brún has congratulated St Mary's College in Creggan, Derry, on winning this year's all-Ireland photo competition on climate change, which was co-sponsored by the European Parliament and the Departments of Environment, North and South. Students aged 16 to 18 throughout the 32 Counties of Ireland were asked to submit…
Nuacht na nOibrithe BY STEPHANIE LORD (Free article)
6 December 2007
Argos flies in scab workers, Migrant workers face homelessness as governments block worker protections and Mexican workers take over sugar mills
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