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Disastrous government policies highlighted again (Free article)
2 July 2009
FOR over a decade successive Fianna Fáil-led governments were warned against making the Irish economy over reliant on consumption and construction. The IMF is just the latest in a long list of economists and organisations to highlight this. Finance Minister Brian Lenihan has a cheek to suggest, as he did in recent days, that no opposition parties…
Mála Poist (Free article)
2 July 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…
Navy escort, Garda siege and arrests herald arrival of Shell pipe-laying ship (Free article)
2 July 2009
IRISH navy vessels escorted the world's largest pipe-laying ship, the Solitaire, into Broadhaven Bay in north Mayo on Friday, 26 June, where it will attempt to lay part of the offshore section of the controversial Corrib Gas pipeline.
The Mitchel McLaughlin Column (Free article)
2 July 2009
THE announcement at the weekend that the UVF and RHC had put their arsenals beyond use and that the UDA had begun a process of disarmament is to be welcomed. Whatever degree of scepticism that some may wish to attach to the statements, Catholics, particularly in places like North Belfast and Mid-Ulster, will sleep more easily knowing that access…
Loyalist decommissioning (Free article)
2 July 2009
MOVES in the past week by unionist paramilitaries to decommission weapons are to be welcomed. Removing guns that have been used to kill over a thousand people is a step forward and a further indication that politics is working and that the Peace Process is very strongly embedded.
Bringing it home in Mayo (Free article)
2 July 2009
MAYO Sinn Féiners had plenty to be happy about after the recent local elections, with Therese Ruane getting elected to Castlebar Town Council, Gerry Murray topping the poll in Swinford, and Sinn Féin taking a new county council seat in Belmullet. But in Bellmullet the term 'breakthrough' took on a whole new meaning where, for the first time ever,…
Armed Forces Day flag flying dishonours victims of British forces (Free article)
2 July 2009
SINN FÉIN and Ógra Shinn Féin activists joined a Relatives for Justice protest at Belfast City Hall last Friday, 26 June in opposition to Belfast City Council's decision to fly a British Army flag as part of the very first 'Armed Forces Day' ("Honouring Britain's Armed Forces") on Saturday. The protest by victims of British state murder and…
Strong support for cause of Irish unity in San Francisco (Free article)
2 July 2009
SINN Féin had a capacity crowd in San Francisco on Saturday, 27 June at the second of its two major US Forums on the theme of a United Ireland and the role of Irish America in helping to achieve it - and a euphoric Gerry Adams sat in a San Francisco pub - Fiddlers Green - and watched Antrim win an Ulster senior football semi final while sitting…
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