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A&E crisis has not gone away - Ó Caoláin (Free article)
5 June 2008
Sinn Féin Health & Children spokesperson Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD has said new figures show the failure of the Government and the HSE, one year on from the publication of the Emergency Department Task Force Report, to reduce the numbers of patients waiting on trolleys in A&E departments in some of the largest hospitals in the State.
'Freedom' of internal market undermines workers' rights, says Dutch MEP (Free article)
5 June 2008
TRADE UNIONS and social democrats had hoped that they had defeated the Bolkestein Directive. But the neo-liberal attack on workers' rights in the EU goes on. We were supposed to remain in charge of our social system. Now we know better now that the European Court of Justice has handed down three judgments - in the Viking, Laval and Rüffert cases…
Lisbon fails workers and should be rejected (Free article)
5 June 2008
MEP Mary Lou McDonald has appealed to workers and trade unionists to reject the Lisbon Treaty because it fails to provide essential protections for workers' rights. The Dublin MEP was speaking at a media briefing in the Irish capital last week with fellow MEP Bairbre de Brún; Dublin City Councillor Larry O'Toole, a leading trade union activist in…
Anger at BNP leafleting by Antrim loyalists (Free article)
5 June 2008
SINN FÉIN Councillor Billy Leonard says there is great anger in Portballintrae at loyalists, allegedly including a known paramilitary leader, who have been distributing British National Party leaflets opposing immigration. The leaflet drop follows a recent incident in which a car belonging to Bulgarian people was set alight in the town. Local…
Finance Minister accused of dodging debate on trade deals veto (Free article)
5 June 2008
IRISH Finance Minister Brian Lenihan has been accused of dodging the facts and a real debate on the loss of Ireland's veto on international trade agreements such as the World Trade Organisation deal. Dublin MEP Mary Lou McDonald said that Minister Lenihan is hiding behind statements by the EU Commission which, she said, are "economical with the…
Lisbon: Dumping Social Europe (Free article)
5 June 2008
THE Executive Council of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, which represents more than 600,000 workers, has voted to support the campaign for a 'Yes' vote on the Lisbon Treaty referendum. Leaders of ICTU, including its president, David Begg, have claimed that the treaty will be a step forward for workers' rights as the Charter of Fundamental…
Ruane 'right' to fund Derry bunscoil (Free article)
5 June 2008
THE Council for Irish medium schools, Comhairle na Gaelscolieanna, has said that it supports a decision by the North's Education Minister, Sinn Féin's Caitríona Ruane, to authorise funding for a third bunscoil in Derry. This follows criticism of the decision to approve funding for Gaelscoil na Daroige in Ballymagroarty on the grounds that it…
10 reasons why......The Lisbon Treaty is a bad deal (Free article)
5 June 2008
• This news feature is funded by the European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL)
Durkan challenged over SDLP support for detention laws (Free article)
5 June 2008
SDLP LEADER Mark Durkan has been challenged to explain his claim that voting in support of an increase in the time a person can be held in custody without charge from seven to 28 days is a good tactic to prevent even longer periods of detention now stands up to the imminent introduction of 42-day detentions.
The Mary Nelis Column (Free article)
5 June 2008
What Secretary of State Shaun Woodward didn't say in his softly-softly appeal to the UDA and the UVF was that his government had presided over the arming of the unionist paramilitaries.
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