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McGuinness puts Blaney straight on Sinn Féin and Lisbon Treaty (Free article)
22 October 2009
DONEGAL Fianna Fáil TD Niall Blaney has misrepresented comments on the Lisbon Treaty and the EU made by Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness at a Letterkenny Chamber of Commerce lunch attended by both men, the deputy First Minister has insisted.
The Mary Nelis Column (Free article)
22 October 2009
Representatives of some of the parties - the Alliance, the DUP, the Ulster Unionists and the SDLP - a sort of 'gang of four' met in Stormont this week to find what they describe as a 'solution to the current educational chaos'. Translated this simply means how to reverse the decision by the Minister for Education, Caitríona Ruane, to abolish…
No fees by the back door, say Ógra (Free article)
22 October 2009
ÓGRA Shinn Féin have called on the Fianna Fáil/Green Government to give a guarantee on the commitment not to introduce college fees for college students. The commitment was made in negotiations between Fianna Fáil and the Green Party over the future of the Government. However what have been dubbed "third level fees by stealth", college…
Bereaved parents seek consultation on the future of their children's resting place (Free article)
22 October 2009
LURLEEN BYRNE is spokesperson for Angels Forever, a parents' group campaigning to stop the construction of a memorial garden on the children's' burial plot, known as 'The Angels' Plot' in Dublin's Glasnevin Cemetery pending proper consultation.
Another View by Eoin Ó Broin (Free article)
22 October 2009
FINE GAEL leader Enda Kenny's proposals for Oireachtas reform (abolition of the Seanad and cutting the number of TDs) are nothing more than a cheap publicity stunt - and a bad one at that. The word amongst the political correspondents in Leinster House is that Fine Gael got wind that Labour were launching similar proposals and decided to muscle…
Ógra organise suicide prevention training programme (Free article)
22 October 2009
ÓGRA Shinn Féin have worked with PIPS (Public Initiative for the Prevention of Suicide and Self-harm) to deliver their community lifeguard training programme to over 20 young people. The suicide prevention training programme was delivered on Sunday 18 October in Belfast to young people from across the North, including Ógra Shinn Féin activists,…
Councillors are part of the vanguard of our movement (Free article)
22 October 2009
THE Sinn Féin National Councillors' Forum is the collective voice of 232 elected representatives across 31 of the 32 counties. Of that total, 120 represent communities across the 26 Counties. To state the 26-County figure is not to be partitionist but to highlight it to republicans so that they remember it the next time they read or listen to the…
New students flock to Ógra Shinn Féin (Free article)
22 October 2009
DUBLIN Ógra Shinn Féin are set to become the most active society in Dublin's universities. Hundreds of new applications to join were made over the last month at freshers' events. Ógra Shinn Féin societies were represented in the following universities:- • Trinity College • University College Dublin • Dublin City University • Griffith College…
Sinn Féin TD challenges Taoiseach on Coca-Cola and Dublin Port strikes (Free article)
22 October 2009
THE Fianna Fáil/Green Party Government has dodged a call by Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh for a boycott by the Dáil and the Seanad of Coca-Cola products over the sacking of 130 Irish workers while the global soft drinks giant makes millions daily. Deputy Ó Snodaigh called on Taoiseach Brian Cowen to join with him in supporting a boycott of…
THE JULIA CARNEY COLUMN (Free article)
22 October 2009
THERE you have it. If the Pope comes to Lisburn, the world's going to end. For the heathens among you, that's Mark, Chapter 13, from the Bible and the "abomination of desolation" is the Antichrist. As we all know, or should, the Antichrist is the Pope and if there's one place the latest group of Orange supremacists believe he 'should not be' it's…
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