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Kelly family withdraws from Historical Enquiries Team (Free article)
3 December 2009
THE family of murdered Tyrone Councillor Patrick Kelly have withdrawn their co-operation from a probe by the Historical Enquiries Team into the 35-year-old killing. The body of Patrick Kelly, an Independent nationalist councillor, was found in Lough Eyes, near Tempo, in August 1994. The Catholic father of three went missing on his way home from…
Remembering the Past: Dick Barrett (Free article)
3 December 2009
DICK Barrett was one of the leading officers of the IRA in Munster during the Tan War, going on to serve on the IRA's General Headquarters Staff where he was an associate of Michael Collins and Liam Mellows. He opposed the Treaty and was to pay with his life for his allegiance to the Irish Republic.
Loyalists attack Ógra Basque demo... and then chat to the PSNI (Free article)
3 December 2009
AN Ógra Shinn Féin protest in Dungannon was the target of fascist thugs at the weekend. South and East Tyrone Ógra Shinn Féin had organised a protest in solidarity with the 34 youth activists arrested in the Basque Country recently. The protest had been going for about 15 minutes when a number of men approached the protest. Shouting sectarian…
Second 24-hour public sector stoppage suspended as talks continue (Free article)
3 December 2009
ALMOST at the 11th hour, the Fianna Fáil/Green Party Government averted a second one-day strike in two weeks by 250,000 public sector workers across the 26 Counties today (Thursday 3 December) when they were reportedly reaching agreement with the trade union movement on cost-cutting measures in the face of the recession. After intensive…
Pickets say Central Bank defaulted on agreements (Free article)
3 December 2009
PICKETS were placed all day on the Central Bank on Dame Street in Dublin and at the Office of the Financial Regulator on College Green and the Currency Centre in Sandyford last Friday, 27 November. The picket by 600 members of UNITE the Union is being placed in frustration at management's withdrawal from negotiations over employment contracts.…
Doherty re-selected in West Tyrone (Free article)
3 December 2009
SINN FÉIN MP MLA Pat Doherty has been re-selected to contest the West Tyrone Constituency at the Westminster Election scheduled for next May. Delegates from Cumainn throughout Omagh and Strabane Comhairle Ceantair areas gathered for the constituency selection convention at the Mellon Country Inn last night at which Pat Doherty secured the party…
Ferris calls for focus on economic aspects of Corrib project (Free article)
3 December 2009
SINN FÉIN Spokesperson on Natural Resources Martin Ferris TD has called on the Government to focus on the economic aspects of the Corrib gas project. Ferris has asked Minister Eamon Ryan to state the Government's position following the decision of An Bord Pleanala to order Shell to re-route the pipeline away from homes in the Rossport community…
Munster Sinn Féin holds successful pre-Budget conference (Free article)
3 December 2009
MORE than 60 Sinn Féin activists and elected representatives from across Munster attended a regional pre-budget conference in Charleville last Saturday to discuss the economic crisis and Sinn Féin's alternative. Opening the conference, Chairperson of Sinn Féin's Munster Cuige Ken O'Connell said the fact members from across the region were coming…
Deputy First Minister and MP on fact-finding visit to Fermanagh flood victims (Free article)
3 December 2009
DEPUTY First Minister, Martin McGuinness visited the worst-affected areas of County Fermanagh last Friday and saw for himself the damage caused by the serious floods. Martin took time out to call with some of the rural dwellers caught up in the floods. He met with families who live and work in the lough shore townlands of Inisroosk, Rossmacole…
Homes built in areas with flooding history - Ferris (Free article)
3 December 2009
Speaking in the Dáil on Tuesday Sinn Féin Environment Spokesperson Martin Ferris TD called for adequate funding to be made available for areas affected by flooding throughout the country. Deputy Ferris said planning authorities had given permission for housing developments in areas with a history of flooding.
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