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Falls residents challenge Ritchie (Free article)
10 September 2009
MEMBERS of the Falls Residents Association staged a protest outside the Radisson hotel on Belfast's Ormeau Road on Tuesday 8 September, before a 'Public Forum' meeting held by the North's Department for Social Development Minister Margaret Ritchie. The residents carried posters demanding that the SDLP Minister overturn her decision not to…
More than a game BY MATT TREACY (Free article)
10 September 2009
HARD to tell who was the most unpopular Offaly man in Croke Park last Sunday, Brian Cowen or referee Diarmuid Kirwan! Probably Cowen might have shaded it given that he is currently out of favour across the board, whereas Kirwan had at least the Cats supporters and their admirers on his side. The reasons for Cowen's unpopularity - mainly his…
Remembering the Past: IRA Chief of Staff Séamus Twomey (Free article)
10 September 2009
WHEN three IRA prisoners dramatically escaped from Dublin's Mountjoy Jail in a helicopter in 1973, a comrade wrote from the prison: "One shamefaced screw apologised to the Governor and said he thought it was the Minister for Defence arriving. I told him it was our Minister for Defence leaving." "Our Minister for Defence" was one of the three…
No support for those behind reckless Forkhill bomb (Free article)
10 September 2009
SINN FÉIN MP for Newry/Armagh, Conor Murphy has condemned those responsible for planting a huge bomb on the Carrive Rd in Forkhill in South Armagh which was made safe on Tuesday. The 600lb bomb was a viable device and resulted in a number of families being evacuated from their homes while it was dealt with.
Need before greed - Cowen confronted (Free article)
10 September 2009
SINN FÉIN TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh joined Socialist Party MEP Joe Higgins and Cllr Richard Boyd Barrett of People Before Profit at the Treasury Building in Dublin on Wednesday, where they confronted Taoiseach Brian Cowen over the injustice of the government's proposed NAMA legislation.
End the siege of Gaza, says Adams (Free article)
10 September 2009
SINN FÉIN President Gerry Adams has once again called on the Israeli Government to immediately end its siege of the Gaza Strip after an appeal by the United Nations and international agencies to Israel to allow urgent repairs to be carried out on the water and sewage system in Gaza. According to these agencies, more than 13 million gallons or 50…
Assembly team prepare for challenges ahead (Free article)
10 September 2009
SINN FÉIN's Assembly team in the North held its annual planning day in Gulladuff, County Derry on Monday. It follows a similar planning day held by the Leinster House team last week. Speaking from the meeting Assembly Group Leader, John O'Dowd said: "We are now half way through this Assembly term. "The next two years has to be about making…
Irish being brought forward for a new day - Ruane (Free article)
10 September 2009
SINN FÉIN Education Minister Caitríona Ruane attended the official opening of Cultúrlann Uí Chanaín in Derry last Friday. Cultúrlann Uí Chanaín in Great James Street, Derry, is a new purpose built Irish language, arts, cultural and enterprise centre comprising of classrooms, a youth club, a theatre, café and conference facilities.
McGuinness pays tribute to Joe Hughes (Free article)
10 September 2009
Sinn Féin MP for Mid Ulster Martin McGuinness has today paid tribute to Joe Hughes, the father of IRA Hunger Striker Francis Hughes, who passed away earlier this evening aged 101. Mr McGuinness said: "I was greatly saddened when I heard the news this evening that Joe Hughes, father of former IRA Volunteer and Hunger Striker Francis Hughes had…
Nuacht na nOibrithe (Free article)
10 September 2009
Waterford to lose 315 jobs, Aer Lingus cuts 55 cabin crew and Community campaign against cuts
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