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HSE Protest March (Free article)
8 October 2009
Sinn Féin TD's Martin Ferris, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin and Aengus Ó Snodaigh with families of children who died while in State care. On Tuesday the families marched in protest through the centre of Dublin in memory of their loved ones holding up images of those who died or suffered neglect
Policing and Justice transfer - time to move ahead (Free article)
15 October 2009
NEGOTIATIONS on the financial package for transferring Policing and Justice powers from Britain to the North of Ireland concluded over the past week in Downing Street. The Sinn Féin focus in this negotiation was to ensure that a future Policing and Justice department in the North would have an adequate budget while at the same time ensuring that…
Coca-Cola boycott call passed by South Dublin County Council (Free article)
15 October 2009
ONE of Ireland's largest local authorities, South Dublin County Council, has almost unanimously endorsed a Sinn Féin motion calling for a boycott of all Coca-Cola products during a dispute over the global drinks giant's sacking of 130 workers here in Ireland and the multinational's rejection of a Labour Court recommendation on redundancy or…
The Mitchel McLaughlin Column (Free article)
15 October 2009
GO into almost any community discussion about anti-social or anti-community activity and you can expect to hear many complaints about the quality of the police service. Clearly that criticism will very often be entirely justified. The North is a special example, given the many decades of bad policing, and clearly while a solid basis for…
Unity call to defend hospital network (Free article)
15 October 2009
SINN FÉIN Dáil leader and Health spokesperson Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD has called for unity across the political spectrum and among healthcare providers to defend the network of public hospitals against centralisation and cutbacks. Deputy Ó Caoláin was speaking after a visit to South Tipperary General Hospital in Clonmel on Tuesday.
Robert Delany: The campaign for justice continues (Free article)
15 October 2009
ROBERT DELANY, a 28-year-old postman who was shot in Tallaght on 24 October last year, remains in what's called a "vegetative state" in Tallaght Hospital. Robert was shot in the face at 6.30am one morning as he looked out the window of his apartment at Russell Rise, off Fortunestown Way, to see who was pressing the doorbell. It is believed that…
OPINION: Budget provides opportunity to break from political pack (Free article)
15 October 2009
AS the Lisbon Treaty fades in the public's memory and Opposition parties out-do each other on the Dáil expenses scandal, the upcoming Budget provides Sinn Féin with an opportunity to break from the pack. But with only seven weeks remaining till the day of reckoning, time to set out a real alternative is running out. In the first week of December,…
Death-drivers knock down Neilly Rooney (Free article)
15 October 2009
THE father of 9-year-old Patrick Rooney, shot dead by the RUC during the Falls Road pogroms of August 1969, was badly injured when death-drivers drove into him in the early hours of last Sunday morning, 11 October. The 71-year-old great-grandfather was returning to his Albert Street home from a night out when the incident occurred.
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