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LOCAL ELECTIONS: Transfers crucial in Waterford (Free article)
9 July 2009
PAT FITZERALD made a breakthrough for Sinn Féin in Tramore, doubling the party's representation on Waterford County Council when he took a seat in the local elections. Pat tells ELLA O'DWYER about some of the factors involved in that success, including upset at the European Union and the Irish Government's handling of indigenous industries.
Madge McConville RIP: A lifelong freedom fighter (Free article)
9 July 2009
MADGE McCONVILLE, from Belfast, has been one of the most respected republican women to have stood with the people and the prisoners in the struggle for Irish freedom. Madge passed away on 4 May. As a tribute by grateful comrades from many generations to this courageous woman, we reproduce extracts from the graveside oration delivered at her…
Call for end to Garda recruitment ban in wake of latest murder (Free article)
9 July 2009
SINN FÉIN Justice Spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD has called on the Government to respond to the killing of Wayne Doherty in the Hartstown area of Dublin last Saturday by lifting the bans on Garda recruitment, promotion and overtime and by making appropriate training and technologies available to the Gardaí. Wayne Doherty was…
No place for US ambiguity on Honduras coup (Free article)
9 July 2009
AS the protests have mounted against the June 28 military coup that deposed the elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, the role of the US in supporting the coup leaders has become increasingly exposed. The coup "government" has been rejected by every Latin American government, the Organisation of American States (OAS), UN and EU, and while…
THE JULIA CARNEY COLUMN (Free article)
9 July 2009
NED O'Keeffe eh? What could you do with him? He has been harassed, ridiculed, chased and cursed since he went on Cork local radio last week and announced he couldn't be bothered doing anything for the people of Rathcormack because they don't vote for him in sufficient numbers. Being not too far from the Carney homeland, the text messages and…
More than a game BY MATT TREACY (Free article)
9 July 2009
THERE was an amusing incident in a certain hostelry after last Sunday's Leinster final when one Kilkenny chap suggested that maybe the Cats had been kind towards Dublin and that, had they wished, they could have beaten them by far more than six points. To which someone responded, "Well, you had better enjoy this one because you won't beat us…
Seán Russell statue vandalised - again (Free article)
9 July 2009
ON Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning the plinth around the newly erected statue to Seán Russell in Fairview Park, Dublin was sprayed with slogans implying that Russell himself and the National Graves Association who erected the statues, were Nazi supporters. Russell was a veteran of the 1916 Rising and IRA Chief of Staff during the bombing…
Remembering the Past: Dr William MacNeven (Free article)
9 July 2009
THE Society of the United Irishmen drew support from a number of prominent people in the professional classes of Dublin. Among the foremost of these republicans was William James MacNeven, a doctor and scientist. MacNeven was born in 1763 in Ballinahowne, Aughrim, County Galway. The family of Mac Cnáimhín had been associated with the region for…
UPCOMING EVENT: Hunger Strike Youth Weekend (Free article)
9 July 2009
THE National Hunger Strike Youth Weekend 2009 is taking place in Tyrone over the weeknd of 14 -16 August. The weekend of events is being organised to coincide with the National Hunger Strike March, and will also fall on the actual 100th anniversary of Fianna Éireann, Sunday 16 August. The main themes of the weekend will be the 'The 1981 Hunger…
Nuacht na nOibrithe (Free article)
9 July 2009
IMPACT oppose centralisation of medical card scheme and Frontline ambulance services cut
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