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Minister challenged to live on social welfare for a month (Free article)
13 August 2009
SINN FÉIN TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh has challenged Minister for Social and Family Affairs Mary Hanafin to live on social welfare for a month after the minister confirmed on Tuesday that welfare rates will be cut in the upcoming Budget.
The Thomas Cook affair - 'Sometimes you just have to stand up and be counted' (Free article)
13 August 2009
THE lives of staff at the Thomas Cook travel company in Dublin were thrown into disarray two weeks ago when management told them that they were to be sacked immediately. The Thomas Cook branches at Grafton Street and North Earl Street weren't due to be closed for another month but, in the height of arrogance, the company decided to cut its losses…
Police tactics accused over Apprentice Boys march (Free article)
13 August 2009
THE PSNI in Derry have come in for criticism over their deployment of Tactical Support Group (TSG) units in the city during Saturday's Relief of Derry parade by the Apprentice Boys. The units were accused by Sinn Féin Assembly member Raymond McCartney of "aggressive policing" as minor trouble occurred in the city after the Apprentice Boys' march.
Crumlin Hospital: Treating the children of the nation (Free article)
13 August 2009
TERESA SHALLOW, a mother of five children, is a key player in the Save Our Lady's Children's Hospital campaign. The campaigners for the famous Dublin southside hospital come from various walks of life and many are parents of seriously-ill children, as is the case in the Shallow family. The campaign has won the hearts and minds of Dubliners but…
Loyalist mob enters Banbridge residential area to remove Tri-colours (Free article)
13 August 2009
BANBRIDGE Sinn Féin Councillor Dessie Ward has said that there frightening similarities between the incident in the Peggy's Loaning area of the town where a loyalist mob came on Tuesday night, 11 August to remove two Tri-colours to the incident in Coleraine earlier in the summer where loyalists went into an area to remove flags which culminated in…
Solidarity needed to defeat Basque extraditions (Free article)
13 August 2009
A CONFERENCE on political persecution in the Basque Country was held in west Belfast's Cultúrlann on Saturday as part of Féile an Phobail. Organised by the Don't Extradite the Basques Campaign, more than a hundred people heard Julen Arzuaga, a lawyer from Behatokia, the Basque Observatory of Human Rights, who had travelled from the Basque Country…
Championing the jobless challenge (Free article)
13 August 2009
"THERE are no quick fixes", the scale of the unemployment problem in Ireland is "massive", it is at a level "we have never seen before", the challenge is "serious" and "everybody needs to roll their sleeves up". Coming away from an interview with Bríd O'Brien, Head of Policy and Media at the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed (INOU),…
400 march for Dublin dockers (Free article)
13 August 2009
FOUR HUNDRED dockers, families and local people from both sides of the River Liffey marched through Dublin's Docklands on Monday morning in support of workers striking over jobs and pay cuts at the British-owned Marine Terminals Ltd in the south port. Dublin Sinn Féin supported the march and many members swelled the ranks backing the dockers.…
THE JULIA CARNEY COLUMN (Free article)
13 August 2009
I'M beginning to wonder if the Irish Daily Star's John Coulter is real. I mean I know he's a journalist lecturer in Belfast, and Lord help those poor sods in his class, but you do begin to wonder. On Monday, he gave us his suggested solution to the crisis that the gloating media believe Sinn Féin is in. "Sinn Féin needs to relaunch itself as…
Volunteer William Price 25th Anniversary (Free article)
13 August 2009
THE 25th anniversary of the death of IRA Volunteer William (Willie) Price was marked by a parade and commemoration ceremony at Brocagh, County Tyrone on 12 July last. The commemoration was organised by Coalisland/Clonoe Ex-prisoner Association.
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