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Shell settles human rights lawsuit for $15m (Free article)
11 June 2009
ON MONDAY of this week, Royal Dutch Shell agreed to pay $15.5m to settle a lawsuit which accused the oil multinational of complicity in rights abuses in Nigeria. The case, due for trial next week in the United States, was brought by relatives of a group of nine anti-Shell activists executed in 1995 by Nigeria's military rulers. Those hanged by…
More must be done to stop race hate attacks (Free article)
18 June 2009
THE despicable attacks on members of the Romanian community in south Belfast in recent days and the attacks against people attending an anti-racism protest in the Lisburn Road area on Monday are to be utterly condemned. Those families who have been attacked need the support and the solidarity of the community and its political representatives in…
Mála Poist (Free article)
18 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…
The Mitchel McLaughlin Column (Free article)
18 June 2009
WE REGULARLY hear consumers on talk programmes and in letters pages of the print media complaining about the high cost of motor insurance in this country compared to Britain and elsewhere in Europe. Sinn Féin has called for the establishment of a state insurance company similar to those operating in a number of Canadian provinces as well as parts…
McDonald launches 'Task Force for Unity' (Free article)
18 June 2009
SINN FÉIN deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald has announced that senior party colleagues Conor Murphy and Pearse Doherty will jointly head a Sinn Féin Task Force on Irish Unity. At a press conference in Dublin last Friday, 12 June, McDonald outlined ambitious plans for the task force, including events throughout Ireland and with the Irish Diaspora in…
Cowen leadership - what leadership? (Free article)
18 June 2009
The failure of Brian Cowen's government's to immediately abolish ministerial pension payments to sitting TDs is a stark illustration of just how little influence the Taoiseach seems to have over his own TDs.
New Kilkenny Councillor prepares for future challenges (Free article)
18 June 2009
KATHLEEN FUNCHION joined Sinn Féin in 2003, when she began campaigning in Kilkenny for the local elections of the following year when Tom Kiernan was the candidate. Pretty soon her capabilities were identified and she was selected to be the general election candidate for Carlow/ Kilkenny in the 2007 general election. She polled over 2,500…
Third time lucky as Sinn Féin have to win key council seat three times (Free article)
18 June 2009
SINN FÉIN'S final victory in the local elections had to wait six days after polling before a winner was declared of the last council seat in Cavan's Belturbet ward. Damien Brady's victory, by just one vote, was hotly disputed by Fianna Fáil, who held up the electoral count, drafting in legal representatives from Dublin but all in vain.
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