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OPINION : Is Sinn Féin getting it right on university fees? (Free article)
28 August 2008
IS Sinn Féin getting it right on university fees? Speaking in response to Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe's kite flying on fees two weeks ago, Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty said: "Sinn Féin is opposed to the reintroduction of third-level fees. Education is a right, not a privilege, and it is the responsibility of the state to ensure its…
Doherty reveals chronic under-funding of school buildings (Free article)
28 August 2008
SINN FÉIN Education Spokesperson Senator Pearse Doherty has slammed the Department of Education for approving extensions to many schools while knowingly not providing adequate funding for the extensions to be built. Doherty said he is aware of at least 26 schools in a regional area that have been given approval for school extensions but cannot…
'Shell to lay 6,000 rusting pipes in Corrib' (Free article)
28 August 2008
SHELL EP Ireland is seeking to deploy the world's largest pipe-laying ship to work in Broadhaven Bay as part of its plans to construct the controversial Corrib gas pipeline.
OPINION : A Signpost Towards Modern Ireland (Free article)
28 August 2008
BOTH Declan Kearney and Mícheál Mac Donncha raised interesting ideas on the theme 'A Signpost Towards Modern Ireland' but both missed the real point: the future will not be a steady evolution of the past; the future will be a radical break with the politics and economics that we are used to.
DUP blocking multisports stadium (Free article)
28 August 2008
SINN FÉIN MLA and chairperson of the Assembly's Department Culture Arts & Leisure (DCAL) Committee, Barry McElduff, has said that comments made by Jeffery Donaldson expressing regret that the Six Counties would miss out on 2012 Olympic action because of the failure to proceed with the stadium at Long Kesh ignored completely the fact that all of…
This news feature is funded by the European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) (Free article)
28 August 2008
Denmark cancels referendum, European Parliament joins stampede away from democracy, The Åland Islands pose more problems for Lisbon and Translating troubles
Pierrepoint - síceapatach faoi scáth an dlí (Free article)
28 August 2008
Fadó, fadó nuair a bhí mé ar coimeád i bPríosún Bhéal Feirste, ag fanacht ar mo thriail ag teacht os comhar na gcúirteanna thug duine de mo chomrádaithe leabhar dom a léamh: Executioner, Pierrepoint. Is dócha gur cheap sé go n-ardódh sé mo mheanma sna laethanta leadránacha Diplockúla - bhí cineál de ghreann dorcha ag daoine sa Crum an tráth sin.…
Loyalist bandsmen threaten Rasharkin residents (Free article)
28 August 2008
SINN FÉIN North Antrim MLA Daithí McKay has received several complaints from Rasharkin residents who allege that they were threatened by loyalist bandsmen attending a parade in the village on Friday, 22 August.
Remembering the Past: The Drumnakilly Martyrs (Free article)
28 August 2008
ON THE afternoon of Tuesday 30 August 1988, three IRA Volunteers were travelling along the main Omagh to Carrickmore road in County Tyrone. They were on active service and at Drumnakilly, close to their homes, they were ambushed and shot dead by a unit of the British Army's SAS regiment. The Volunteers were brothers Gerard and Martin Harte and…
James Crossan : 50th Anniversary (Free article)
28 August 2008
FIFTY years ago, on the Cavan/Fermanagh border, near Swanlinbar, James Crossan was shot and killed by members of the RUC. At the time of his death, Crossan was Sinn Féin's Cavan organiser. He also worked as an IRA intelligence officer. Unarmed at the time of his death, Crossan was the last Volunteer to be killed in the IRA's 1956-62 campaign.
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