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Sinn Féin will continue to campaign for a better Europe (Free article)
9 July 2009
ON WEDNESDAY, Taoiseach Brian Cowen announced that polling on a second referendum to the Lisbon Treaty will take place on 2 October. Most people who voted against the Lisbon Treaty last year did so because they believe a better Europe is possible - one that is democratic and accountable; that promotes workers' rights, protects public services and…
Mála Poist (Free article)
9 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…
The Mary Nelis Column (Free article)
9 July 2009
IN media terms it was the non-event of the year, upstaged by the death of a world pop idol, Michael Jackson. The UVF and Red Hand Commando announced that they had destroyed all their weapons, a claim backed up by General John de Chastelain. The UDA/UFF on the other hand has failed so far to destroy all its weapons and the General is quoted as…
ECONOMIC CRISIS: As far back as 2006, Sinn Féin was pointing out the structural problems in the Irish public finances (Free article)
9 July 2009
THERE is a particularly annoying side-effect to recessions that doesn't get as much attention as it should. The growth in celebrity economists, who gleefully appear on everything from RTÉ's Prime Time and Six One News to sensationalist and tacky TV3 doomsday programmes, is a true stomach-churning accompaniment to any economic downturn. Economists…
Drumcree - rerouting is a resolution, say residents (Free article)
9 July 2009
THE Garvaghy Road Residents' Coalition (GRRC) has called on the Portadown Orange Lodge to accept the rerouting of their annual parade to Drumcree away from the nationalist Garvaghy Road as "a perfectly good alternative". The annual Orange march passed off peacefully last Sunday, 5 July as Orangemen were once again stopped from marching through…
Senator Pearse Doherty lashes Tánaiste's arrogance as...Fianna Fáil fights off Dáil motion to hold Donegal by-election (Free article)
9 July 2009
A SINN FÉIN motion calling for the writ to be moved for the Donegal South-West by-election to take place was very narrowly defeated in the Dáil last week by 69 votes to 72 when the Government parties shamefully voted against restoring the voters' democratic entitlement at the earliest opportunity. Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty, who is based in…
OPINION: ToirÉasa Ferris on elections that could have been worse but should have been better (Free article)
9 July 2009
IT'S 1.17am and I am sitting at my kitchen table typing away. Exactly four weeks ago I was doing the very same thing - in a panicked attempt to get the last of the canvass issues followed up in time for the post later that morning. That day we had completed the last of our canvassing and after a few months of 17-hour days I was happy to work into…
Doherty says minister 'out of touch' on student fees issue (Free article)
9 July 2009
SPEAKING on Monday as 26 County Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe prepared to present his proposals on college fees to the cabinet this week Sinn Féin Education Spokesperson Senator Pearse Doherty described as 'ridiculous in the extreme', the Minister's notion that fees will not affect the less well off. "As predicted O'Keeffe has waited out the…
LOCAL ELECTIONS: First Sinn Féin woman takes seat in Bandon (Free article)
9 July 2009
BANDON, County Cork, is another of those areas that saw a breakthrough for Sinn Féin in the local elections when Rachel McCarthy (26) was the first woman ever to take a council seat in the town for Sinn Féin. The McCarthys always had republican tendencies and when Rachel was only 17 both she and her father joined Sinn Féin. "The family was…
IMF proposals will make bad situation worse (Free article)
9 July 2009
SPEAKING during the Dáil debate on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) report on the Irish economy Sinn Féin Economic Spokesperson Arthur Morgan said, 'whilst the reports substantive historic analysis of how the government, the banks and the developers brought Ireland into recession is broadly correct, the IMF's recommendations going forward…
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