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Remembering the Past: Henry Hogan and Declan Martin (Free article)
26 February 2009
TWO young IRA Volunteers, Henry Hogan (20) and Declan Martin (18) were killed in an engagement with British armed forces in the mainly nationalist village of Dunloy, North County Antrim in February 1984.
Support for policing 'not a blank cheque' (Free article)
26 February 2009
THE Ard Fheis underlined the urgent need for the long overdue transfer of policing and justice powers from London to Belfast. An emergency motion from the Ard Chomhiarle committed the party to continue the process now underway that will achieve democratic accountability for policing and justice.
Cúlchaint LE EOGHAN Mac CORMAIC (Free article)
26 February 2009
Tá sé de nos agam súil a chaitheamh ó am go ham ar an seirbhís iontach a chuireann Comhdháíl Náisiúnta na Gaeilge ar fáil ar a suíomh gaelport.com ina mbíonn na gearrthóga laethúla as nuachtáin a bhaineann le gné ar bith de shaol na Gaeilge. (Gearán amháin a bheadh agam nach mbíonn trácht ar an suíomh riamh do leathanaigh Ghaeilge an pháipéir seo,…
Fixing the economy (Free article)
26 February 2009
AS the Price Waterhouse Cooper and Anglo Irish Bank annual reports gave more damning evidence of fraudulent activities in the financial sector, Sinn Féin delegates and public representatives queued in large numbers to vent their anger at the Government's decision to continue protecting the banking executives.
More than a game BY MATT TREACY (Free article)
26 February 2009
IN the course of an absorbing interview with Cathal MacCoille on RTÉ's One to One, Kilkenny hurling manager Brian Cody, when questioned regarding the current dominance of his side and the perception (allegedly) that this is making the game boring or one-sided, looked just slightly irritated for the only time. "Sure, fairness has nothing to do with…
Call for files to be released on McAnespie murder (Free article)
26 February 2009
THE section on equality and human rights saw delegates debate motions across a range of issues, including the way older people are treated by Government and discrimination and hate speech against people of different sexual orientations. And, on what was the 21st anniversary of the murder of Aidan McAnespie by the British Army, there was also an…
Honest, transparent policing needed (Free article)
26 February 2009
THE Ard Fheis saw a comprehensive Ard Chomhairle motion 18 on policing and community safety. Alex Maskey MLA said that Sinn Féin's decision to support new policing structures in the North did not and does not bridge the gap of suspicion that has grown up over many years between policing and citizens, particularly within the nationalist and…
From a DUP oxymoron to a 21st century Sinn Féin (Free article)
26 February 2009
IT COULD BE a shape of things to come in Sinn Féin: the section on Party Development started and ended on time even though 28 speakers were crammed into the slot. The Ard Fheis sections on Culture, Party Development, Constitution and Rules were at the end of the Friday evening session and were all the more remarkable for the nearly full hall as…
Minister Ruane commended (Free article)
26 February 2009
INTRODUCING the Education discussion, Senator Pease Doherty commended the work of the Minister of Education Caitríona Ruane. He compared the progress that is being made in the North under a Sinn Féin minister to that of the state of education in the 26 Counties. "Contrast the £700 million Schools Modernisation Programme of investment in the…
Union leader urges united left and all-Ireland action (Free article)
26 February 2009
AS over 120,000 workers gathered at Parnell Square to protest against the Government's handling of the economic crisis, John Douglas, General Secretary of the Mandate trade union, found the time to address the Ard Fheis in what is likely to be one of most difficult periods that workers have ever faced.
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