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Care has no currency but deserves just reward (Free article)
10 September 2009
THE Carers' Association is a national voluntary body founded in 1987 to provide training and emotional support for family carers while at the same time highlighting the immense contribution carers make to Irish society. These people's contribution, in terms of providing high-standard care to elderly, ill or disabled family members is notoriously…
UDA says it will decommission... in another six months? (Free article)
10 September 2009
THE mainstream UDA and its breakaway faction in south-east Antrim have given a commitment to The Independent International Commission of Decommissioning to decommission its weapons before legislation protecting them from prosecution ends early next year. The announcement was made by the British Government on Monday. Sinn Féin's Alex Maskey,…
Dublin City Council calls on Tánaiste to move on dockers deadlock (Free article)
10 September 2009
DUBLIN City Council has endorsed an emergency motion at Monday night's meeting calling on Tánaiste and Employment Minister Mary Coughlan to intervene in the 10-week-old dispute between dockers and SIPTU at Dublin Port and Marine Terminals Ltd (MTL) over compulsory redundancies and changes in work conditions. The motion - the result of separate…
The Mary Nelis Column (Free article)
10 September 2009
THE professional victims' gravy train was at Downing Street on Tuesday morning to ensure that Gordon Brown doesn't do another U-turn on the promised compensation desert trek to Libya where they hope Colonel Gaddafi will cough up the necessary millions to secure their future in the hierarchy of victims they have created. These are the people who…
INTERVIEW: Tipperary - No mean performer on any ground (Free article)
10 September 2009
WHETHER on the political, hurling or any other battleground, Tipperary has always been a main player, as witnessed in last Sunday's hurling final. Steady progress, patience and keeping the eye on the ball are characteristics that contributed to breakthroughs, both in hurling and politics, in a county that this year sees Sinn Féin take its first…
Sinn Féin meeting PSNI to challenge use of plastic bullets (Free article)
10 September 2009
THE use of plastic bullets in Ardoyne and the Short Strand in recent weeks should never have occurred and such a use has breached the guidelines set by the PSNI themselves for their deployment, Sinn Féin MLA and Policing Board member Martina Anderson has said. Plastic bullets were fired by the PSNI in Ardoyne on 13 July and the Short Strand on 30…
Government 'sucking life out of marginalised communities' (Free article)
10 September 2009
OVER 1,300 people from marginalised communities across the 26 Counties gathered at Liberty Hall in Dublin this week before marching on the Department of Finance in support of the Community Development Programme. 180 Community Development Projects (CDPs) have already seen up to 20 % cuts so far this year. The McCarthy Report states that these…
Cúlchaint LE EOGHAN Mac CORMAIC (Free article)
10 September 2009
Tráthnóna Dé Chéadaoin seo chuaigh thart chruinnigh na sluaite mná tí in Ostán Chois Fharraige sna Forbacha, Co na Gaillimhe lena míshástacht a léiriú ar cheist na gciorrúchán atá molta i dTuairisc Bhord Snip Mhic Chárthaigh. 'Slógadh' a bhí ann le breis agus 500 i láthair agus is fíric í gur chruinnigh siad agus gur thaistil siad ó gach cearn den…
THE JULIA CARNEY COLUMN (Free article)
10 September 2009
'GENERATION YES', a collection of smug baby activists from some of the pro-Lisbon political parties, is currently promoting a 'lie-buster' site against the more dubious claims of Cóir, who are now suggesting that the EU is going to execute Santa. But Generation Yes have more in common with Cóir than they might like to think. They recently…
Visteon: Adams calls for full investigation (Free article)
10 September 2009
WEST BELFAST MP and Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams called on Tuesday for a full and thorough investigation into the pensions scandal at Visteon and into the management and handling of company assets. New documents have been obtained by Sinn Féin which Gerry Adams believes confirm the existence of corrupt practices by Visteon and of efforts by…
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