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Social Welfare Bill 'bad news for most vulnerable' (Free article)
23 April 2009
SINN FÉIN Dáil Leader Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD has called for new political leadership and said Fianna Fáil and the Green's are failing at every turn. Speaking from Leinster House on Wednesday ahead of the resumption of the Dáil Ó Caoláin slammed a government Bill on Social Welfare which he said was bad news for the most vulnerable…
• This news feature is funded by the European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) (Free article)
23 April 2009
New EU report on Lisbon most arrogant yet, EU failing to face up to failed policies, De Brún calls for local action on EU plan to boost construction industry and climate aims, Government shuts down Forum on Europe and What the EU can do for you
International : Central and South America (Free article)
23 April 2009
IT MAY have taken almost half a century, but it seems that the penny may have finally dropped in Washington as its most powerful inhabitants awake to a reality long understood by the rest of the world. On 17 April, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton formally conceded that US policy on Cuba had "failed", an admission that will doubtless feature…
Fianna Fáil, Greens and Fine Gael double standard on public sector firms (Free article)
23 April 2009
THERE will be 1,250 jobs lost in Eircom within 18 months while the ESB is set to increase its workforce by 3,700 in a bold strategy that will help retain existing jobs and create new ones in a range of green tech, R&D, construction projects and the roll-out of new technologies to make the company's electricity generation network more efficient.…
Cúlchaint LE EOGHAN Mac CORMAIC (Free article)
23 April 2009
Bím in éad, caithfidh mé a admháil, le daoine a bhfuil go leor ama acu a bheith páirteach i ndrámaí agus seónna agus féilte den sort sin sna bailte beaga ar fud na tíre, nó ó mo chuimhne is minic a thógtar cairdeas agus comradaíocht idir na haisteoirí féin agus lucht 'an chompántais'. Anuraidh chaith bean an tí agus an mac (atá ina aisteoir…
Sinn Féin candidates tell Brussels: 'We need a new treaty for a new time' (Free article)
23 April 2009
SINN FÉIN European elections North-West candidate Pádraig Mac Lochlainn was the key speaker at a Sinn Féin and GUE/NGL-organised conference in Brussels on the Lisbon Treaty. Sinn Féin East candidate Tomás Sharkey also participated as the concluding speaker. The conference was headlined 'The Lisbon Treaty - The real reasons the people say No' and…
Plea to let H-Block escapee stay in USA (Free article)
23 April 2009
INN FÉIN Assembly member Raymond McCartney has appealed to the US Director of Homeland Security to overturn the decision of an American court to deport Long Kesh escapee Pól Brennan back to Ireland. Raymond McCartney said: "Pól Brennan has made a new life for himself in the USA. He is married to an American citizen for over 20 years and that is…
More than a game BY MATT TREACY (Free article)
23 April 2009
THERE was a photograph of Dublin midfielder Joey Boland in one of the newspapers on Monday morning that captured how far the current hurling team has come. He is on his hunkers staring dejectedly at the grass. It is not so long ago that Dublin coming within two points of Kilkenny in Nowlan Park would have almost been a cause for mad jubilation. A…
ÓSF occupy Equality Commission over Easter Lily ruling (Free article)
23 April 2009
ACTIVISTS from Ógra Shinn Féin blocked the entrance to the Equality Commission's Office in Shaftesbury Square, Belfast, last week in protest at its recent ruling expressing its "clear view" that the Easter Lily is not an emblem which could be worn in the workplace. The entrance was blocked for an hour, from 10am to 11am, in what the republican…
Remembering the Past: Austin Stack (Free article)
23 April 2009
ONE of the foremost patriots in the history of County Kerry, Austin Stack, was born at Ballymullen, Tralee, in December 1879. His father was the Fenian, William Moore Stack, who served two terms of imprisonment for his political activities; his mother was active in the Ladies' Land League. Reared in a home imbued with Irish separatism, Austin…
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