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Mála Poist (Free article)
8 October 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…
TURF WAR: Leitrim County Council unanimously backs Sinn Féin appeal to Environment Minister (Free article)
8 October 2009
THE October meeting of Leitrim County Council saw unanimous support for a call by Sinn Féin Councillor Martin Kenny to Environment Minister John Gormley not to implement the proposed ban on turf cutting by farmers on their own bogland. At the moment, the controversial proposal covers boglands that are in Special Areas of Conservation (SACs), of…
The Mary Nelis Column (Free article)
8 October 2009
MY FRIEND had occasion to visit the Vehicle Testing Centre in Derry. When asked his name and address he naturally used Derry, the vernacular of Doire, the name first given by the Celts to the oak grove that was the origins of the City, and the name that has survived to the present day. You can imagine his surprise when the young female clerk…
Ireland - the place where 'Níl' means 'Tá!' (Free article)
8 October 2009
The RDS, Dublin 9.30am, Saturday 3 October and the omens aren't great. Proinsias de Rossa was right behind me in the queue for coffee when, by dint of some devious side-stepping move, he suddenly skips the queue and appears in front of me. I'm speechless. Over at the barrier, doing the tally, there's an overture of four Tás before the first Níl…
Maskey to meet PSNI and Queens Students Union to discuss Holyland problems (Free article)
8 October 2009
SOUTH Belfast Sinn Féin MLA Alex Maskey will next week meet with senior officers from the PSNI in South Belfast to discuss the need for the PSNI to develop a strategy which adequately deals with the ongoing problems caused by anti-social behaviour in the Holyland area. He will also, in the same week, meet with representative of Queen's…
Boycott Coca-Cola call on Dublin City Council blocked by Fine Gael (Free article)
8 October 2009
FINE GAEL members on Dublin City Council blocked an emergency motion tabled by Sinn Féin in support of striking workers at Coca-Cola at this week's meeting on Monday night of the capital's local government. The workers are fighting to prevent 130 jobs cuts to 'out-sourcing' by the hugely profitable global leader in soft drink sales. The company…
DRUGS CRISIS: The hierarchy of victims and the Government's holy writ (Free article)
8 October 2009
STEREOTYPICAL attitudes about drugs include images of people 'shooting up' in dark, secluded side-streets or popping pills in the nightclubs of big cities like Dublin. Now we see the signs in rural towns throughout the country and, if anything, there's a level of complacency amongst the users and their suppliers and even the general public.…
THE JULIA CARNEY COLUMN (Free article)
8 October 2009
SO HERE'S how the media works. On Tuesday morning, Gilmore and Kenny are wandering around and throwing shapes about our expense-account-loving Ceann Comhairle John O'Donoghue. The former wants a meeting of all the party leaders in the Dáil. Kenny is planning on meeting with the Fine Gael members of the Oireachtas Commission to demand cutbacks in…
GLASNEVIN CEMETERY: Council supports Sinn Féin emergency motion (Free article)
8 October 2009
DUBLIN City Council's passing this week of a Sinn Féin emergency motion calling for a halt to work on the old and new 'Angels' plots at Glasnevin Cemetery to allow for consultations with bereaved parents of children buried there has been welcomed by Sinn Féin deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald. McDonald said there is widespread anger among parents…
International: Searing indictment of Israeli assault on Gaza (Free article)
8 October 2009
On 15 September, Justice Richard Goldstone delivered a searing indictment of the conduct of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), during their murderous assault on Gaza, which left some 1400 Palestinians dead. And the indictment - contained in his investigation into the war - is one that directly implicates the Israeli state and, by extension, its…
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