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Dublin hero 'Doco' Doherty remembered (Free article)
28 May 2009
MARTIN 'DOCO' DOHERTY, the popular young Dublin IRA Volunteer shot dead as he foiled a UVF bomb attack on a function for republican prisoners at the Widow Scallan's pub in Dublin's Pearse Street on 21 May 1994, has been honoured by republicans at a number of events organised by Doco's family and Sinn Féin. On the actual anniversary of Doco's…
Suicide victims memorial (Free article)
28 May 2009
Deirdre Kackle (Upper Springfield Development Trust) and Raymond Watson (sculptor) with Sinn Féin's Janice Austin, Marie Cush and Bairbre de Brún at the unveiling of a memorial to suicide victims in the Upper Springfield area
Fight back - Vótáil Sinn Féin (Free article)
4 June 2009
Today and tomorrow is decision time in EU elections throughout Ireland. Tomorrow people will vote in Local Government Elections across the 26 Counties and in two by-elections in Dublin. These elections will be seen as a verdict on the disastrous Fianna Fáil/Green Party government. In the Six Counties Bairbre de Brún has presented voters with a…
Mála Poist (Free article)
4 June 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…
CHILD ABUSE: Ryan Report revelations demand action (Free article)
4 June 2009
CHILDREN'S RIGHTS need to be enshrined in the Constitution, particularly after the revelations in the Ryan Report on institutional child abuse, Sinn Féin North West EU candidate Cllr Pádraig Mac Lochlainn has said. Mac Lochlainn said such a step would mark a break by the state with a shameful past characterised by the neglect and abuse of the…
Copenhagen 'can be historic opportunity or suicide pact' (Free article)
4 June 2009
THE countdown has begun to the crucial Copenhagen UN climate summit in December, which is aimed at creating a new global, binding agreement on carbon emissions to replace the Kyoto Protocol after 2012. Kyoto, which was signed in 1997 and came into effect in 2005, commits signatories to an overall reduction target of five per cent on baseline 1990…
Cowen's head in sand over crisis and elections (Free article)
4 June 2009
TAOISEACH Brian Cowen has his head in the sand in relation to the economy and the elections, Gerry Adams said during an election walkabout on Grafton Street in Dublin on Tuesday with Mary Lou McDonald MEP. "The economy has been in freefall for a year now," the Sinn Féin leader said.
GAZA: Looking back at the Convoy of Hope taking medical aid and supplies to besieged Palestinians (Free article)
4 June 2009
IT IS Saturday 30 May and I am at home in Derry, thinking about the past number of weeks as the Convoy of Hope for Gaza struggled to get the medical equipment ashore at Port Said and then across the Rafah Crossing point. Once in Gaza, the next four days were even more exhilarating and devastating as we struggled with the emotions of relief at…
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