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Fight for a fairer alternative (Free article)
19 November 2009
THERE is deep anger across the 26 Counties as the most unpopular government in living memory prepares to implement what may well be the most savage budget in the history of the state. The Government has chosen to bail out corrupt bankers, their shareholders and dodgy developers and to target ordinary workers, households and those on social…
OPINION: Defending our health system and public services (Free article)
19 November 2009
RECENT weeks have seen people across Ireland uniting to demand action on unemployment, in opposition to cuts to public services and to defend the declining income of people on low wages and social welfare. Sinn Féin commends the trade union movement for these mobilisations and we applaud the tens of thousands who took to the streets throughout…
Sinn Féin slams SDLP support for DUP gerrymander attempt (Free article)
19 November 2009
SINN FÉIN MLA Paul Butler has criticised the SDLP for providing support for what he said was an attempt by DUP Environment Minister Edwin Poots to gerrymander new council boundaries in the North which were determined by the office of the Local Government Boundary Commissioner. Edwin Poots is proposing changes to the planned boundaries for 11 new…
Huge support for next week's strike (Free article)
19 November 2009
AS EACH DAY passes, more and more workers in the public sector in the 26 Counties pledge their support for the one-day stoppage next Tuesday, 24 November, and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions' campaign to get the Fianna Fáil/Green Party Government to examine alternatives to single-mindedly looking at cutting pay, conditions and jobs during the…
Wicklow's worthy honouree - Eric Montgomery (Free article)
19 November 2009
ERIC MONTGOMERY is to be honoured at a dinner dance in County Wicklow next month. Originally from east Belfast, a 95% unionist area, Eric and his younger sister went to live with an aunt in Bray when he was five. It was just at the outbreak of the Second World War and there were air raids on Belfast so his parents moved the two children for…
Stars and MPs turn out for first-ever Sinn Féin London Dinner (Free article)
19 November 2009
THE first-ever annual Sinn Féin London Dinner took place at the weekend at the Crown Moran Hotel, where Gerry Adams hosted a packed event attended by individuals and organisations from across the Irish community and beyond. A sold-out event, organised by Friends of Sinn Féin London, included guests former London Mayor Ken Livingstone, Labour…
Opinion: The end of the 11-Plus is the end of a failed system (Free article)
19 November 2009
THE media spotlight is on the plight of those pupils who will be sitting the unregulated tests. I wish them all well and hope they understand that they are unique, valued individuals regardless of what their test results are. I would also like to pay tribute to the majority of children who will not be sitting a test but who will be transferring…
Anderson meets with Fujitsu Management over job losses (Free article)
19 November 2009
FOYLE Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has described a meeting with senior management of Fujitsu in Belfast on Monday around job losses at the Derry plant as positive and encouraging. Anderson outlined concerns that had been brought to her attention by workers at the Derry site including that of job security and the possibility of redundancies…
The Mary Nelis Column (Free article)
19 November 2009
HE was kicked to death in British military custody. The reporter Robert Fisk on hearing the news had gone to talk to the father of this poor Iraqi man. He recalls that the British public relations man was laughing and the young Muslim interpreter had said, "He doesn't care." Fisk did care for he had reported from the North of Ireland and had heard…
British 'air war games' anger families and farmers (Free article)
19 November 2009
BRITISH military aircraft 'war games' carried out over Tyrone and Fermanagh between Thursday and Sunday last week have angered local people and provoked protests. West Tyrone MP Pat Doherty says his office was contacted by several people from the Eskra and Beragh areas who reported a relenting and deafening noise which terrified young children…
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