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Imeachtaí / Events (Free article)
30 April 2009
There is a charge of €10/£7 for inserts printed in our Imeachtaí column (carried in our print edition and on our website, www.anphoblacht.com). There is no charge for I nDíl Chuimhne, Comhbhrón etc. The deadline for notices is 5pm on Monday before publication. In order to be included notices must be received by email, post, phone or fax at…
Mary Nelis Column (Free article)
30 April 2009
IT WAS left to Martin McGuinness to tell it as it is. That a small, unrepresentative, anti-republican group of people in nationalists area of Derry are encouraging vulnerable young people to vandalise and deface their own areas. These slogans are as absurd as the mindset of the organisations they claim to represent. Despite the best efforts of…
Harney's promises on cancer care 'have no credibility' (Free article)
30 April 2009
SINN FÉIN Health Spokesperson Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin has described as without credibility the latest promises from Health Minister Mary Harney over reductions in waiting lists for cancer tests and treatments. The Cavan-Monaghan Deputy said: "In response to the latest negative reports on cancer service in this State Health Minister Mary Harney…
Another View BY EOIN Ó BROIN (Free article)
30 April 2009
CALL me old fashioned but the idea of being kissed by Dick Roche for voting 'Yes' to the Lisbon Treaty just doesn't do it for me. I take my EU politics just a bit more seriously. Not so the newly formed Generation Yes campaign. Launched last week with catchy slogans like, 'I only kiss boys who say yes' they promised not to take themselves too…
Social welfare cutbacks 'target most vulnerable' (Free article)
30 April 2009
SPEAKING after the resumption of the Dáil last week Sinn Féin Social and Family Affairs spokesperson Arthur Morgan TD said the recent emergency budget is another example of the Government targeting the most vulnerable sections of society. "The Government's claim that the cut in rent supplements will not affect tenants because of falling rent is…
Markets hoax device condemned (Free article)
30 April 2009
SOUTH Belfast Sinn Féin MLA Alex Maskey has said that the hoax device left in the Markets area of South Belfast on the morning of Thursday, 23 April only served to cause hardship to the local population. Alex Maskey MLA said: "The disruption caused by this hoax device serves no purpose other than to disrupt the lives of the local population and…
THE JULIA CARNEY COLUMN (Free article)
30 April 2009
I WAS having dinner with my friend Ruth last week. Ruth and I were at school together and, despite having little in common, have stayed in touch. It's one of those relationships you're almost surprised has lasted as long as it did while what you'd thought were firmer friendships had drifted apart. Anyway, last week out of nowhere Ruth explodes…
Catholic Church leaders meet loyalists (Free article)
30 April 2009
Senior Catholic clerics met with loyalist representatives last week in what has been heralded as a "ground breaking" initiative. Head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, together with Bishops Noel Treanor and Gerard Clifford, met representatives of the UDA linked Ulster Political Research Group.
International Sri Lanka (Free article)
30 April 2009
A largely defenceless people struggling to survive and hemmed in on a narrow strip of land while facing ruthless indiscriminate airstrikes, assault from gun boats and subjected to cluster bombs by a well equipped government army, conjures up the image of the recent Israeli invasion of Palestine's Gaza Strip. However, in Sri Lanka, where since the…
Basque youth activist to fight extradition from Belfast (Free article)
30 April 2009
BASQUE activist Arturo Villanueva Arteaga (32), who has lived in west Belfast for four years, was arrested in a raid on 21 April under a European warrant issued by the Spanish authorities who are seeking his extradition to Spain on "terrorism" charges. Villanueva, who is well-known in the west Belfast community and has been running a tourism…
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