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Government inaction on EU superstate is biggest threat to neutrality (Free article)
4 June 2009
THE biggest threat to Irish neutrality today is the Fianna Fáil/Green Government's unquestioning approach to the drive towards an EU superstate, Sinn Féin's Mary Lou McDonald said at press conference for EU candidates by the Peace and Neutrality Alliance (PANA) last Friday. "In less than six months," the Sinn Féin deputy leader said, "the Irish…
Electoral Office slammed as polling station moved days before election (Free article)
4 June 2009
SINN FÉIN MLA for West Belfast, Fra McCann, has slammed the Electoral Office for moving a number of voters from their polling station to a unionist area, claiming it is gross incompetence and affects people's right to vote. Speaking on Wednesday McCann said: "Residents on the Springfield Road are extremely angry at the Electoral office moving…
Mac Lochlainn challenges Harkin and Gallagher (Free article)
4 June 2009
INDEPENDENT MEP Marian Harkin should come clean over her European voting record, according to Sinn Féin North and West EU candidate, Councillor Pádraig Mac Lochlainn. "Marian Harkin portrays herself as a strong, independent voice in Europe, an advocate of healthcare investment and a defender of cancer services in Sligo and Castlebar Hospitals,"…
Time for a new generation - Ferris (Free article)
4 June 2009
Speaking in the last days of the EU campaign, Ireland South candidate, Toiréasa Ferris, said that the election is an opportunity for change, not just a reaction to the government parties' disastrous performance. Toiréasa Ferris said: "The latest figures on redundancies remind us how serious a situation the country is in. My generation is the…
Fianna Fáil senator backs Harney's home-help cuts (Free article)
4 June 2009
DONEGAL Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty has accused Fianna Fáil Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill of false accusations and name calling while defending his government's cuts to home-help services in County Donegal. The public row erupted after Pearse Doherty exposed in the Seanad that nearly 30,000 home-help hours are to be cut in the county over the…
Taking in the Derry air (Free article)
4 June 2009
Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre De Brún on walkabout in Derry City Centre on Monday 1 June. During her time in the city Bairbre De Brún met the new incoming Sinn Féin Mayor of Derry Paul Fleming
Fighting back with Mary Lou (Free article)
4 June 2009
Dublin MEP Mary Lou McDonald with gold medal winner Lauren Bradshaw of Cabra based Taekwondo club Pilsung ITF. The club won 15 medals at the European champion-ships in Croatia.
GET WELL SOON (Free article)
4 June 2009
As part of a whistle stop tour of the North Munster area Sinn Féin’s EU candidate for Ireland South, Toiréasa Ferris took time out to visit Sinn Féin’s Limerick City East Ward candidate Tom Collopy who was injured in an accident on Monday, 1 June whilst erecting posters in Garryowen
Face in the crowd..... (Free article)
4 June 2009
THIS photograph was taken circa january 1969. It is of a civil rights march in Derry and the speaker is Roddy Connolly, son of 1916 leader James Connolly. The crowd contains many familiar republican faces from Derry including, sadly, some people including IRA Volunteers who later died on active service. Interestingly there also pictured, down on…
Nuacht na nOibrithe (Free article)
4 June 2009
Trade unions rally against sectarianism, Assembly wants action on civil servants' equal pay issue, Unions reject bank lay-off plans, RTÉ looks for staff pay cuts, Drivers form Joint Taxi Council and EU aid sought for Dell workers
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