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Remembering the Past (Free article)
5 February 2009
IT HAS been sung at socialist and trade union gatherings for over one hundred years but it is only in recent years that its author has become more widely known. The song is The Red Flag and the author was Jim Connell, an Irish republican from County Meath. Jim Connell was born in 1852 in Kilskyre, County Meath. His earliest political involvement…
Anglo-Irish Bank cooked the books (Free article)
12 February 2009
WHEN Finance Minister Brian Lenihan proposed in the Dáil on 20 January that Anglo-Irish Bank be nationalised he either did not know about how that bank had cooked its books the previous September or, if he did know, he did not reveal it to the Dáil. Either way the Fianna Fáil/Green Government again stands indicted on its handling of the banks just…
Mála Poist (Free article)
12 February 2009
Cuireann An Phoblacht fáilte roimh litreacha ónár léitheoirí. Scríobh i nGaeilge nó i mBéarla, 200 focal ar a méid. Déantar giorrú ar litreachta más gá. Cuir do litir chuig [email protected] An Phoblacht welcomes readers' letters. Write in Irish or English, 200 words maximum. Letters may be edited for brevity. Send your letters to…
ICTU launches Palestine report calling for boycott of Israel (Free article)
12 February 2009
SINN FÉIN President Gerry Adams MP MLA hosted the launch of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions' 'Israel Palestine' report in Parliament Buildings on Tuesday 10 February.
The Mitchel McLaughlin Column (Free article)
12 February 2009
'PROJECT KELVIN' is intended to procure direct international telecommunications connectivity to the north-west of Ireland. With an estimated cost of €30m Interreg cross-border funding, it will provide international connectivity from the north-west to North America and mainland Europe. The 22 miles of fibre optic cable connecting to the…
The 'British jobs for British workers' protests (Free article)
12 February 2009
THE backdrop to the strikes and protests by construction workers in Britain in the past couple of weeks is, of course, the disastrous recession that is causing unemployment to spiral throughout Europe and much of the rest of the world. New figures show there are now two million people out of work in Britain.
Sinn Féin meets union leaders on Dublin Bus cuts (Free article)
12 February 2009
DUBLIN MEP Mary Lou McDonald led a Sinn Féin delegation to meet with National Bus and Rail Union (NBRU) union leaders in Dublin's City Hall on Tuesday to discuss the decision by Dublin Bus to reduce its fleet by 120 at the cost of 290 jobs.
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