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European Court rules 'Stop and Search' powers illegal (Free article)
14 January 2010
North Antrim Sinn Féin MLA and Policing Board member, Daithí McKay, has welcomed a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday 13 January that police powers to use laws to stop and search people without grounds for suspicion are illegal. McKay said that the PSNI should now suspend the use of Section 44 powers. The European Court of…
More than a game BY MATT TREACY (Free article)
14 January 2010
WHAT better way to start the New Year than with a broken arm! Having spent over a week carefully navigating my way through the Siberian wastes of Dublin, I came crashing to the ground opposite Trinity College early on Saturday morning. Several pints later, when reaching for my pocket, I realised that the hand that should have been extracting the…
Anderson welcomes Raytheon leaving Derry (Free article)
14 January 2010
Sinn Féin MLA for Foyle, Martina Anderson, welcomed the news on Wednesday 13 January that the weapons firm Raytheon is to leave Derry and close its operations plant there. Anderson has also raised concerns with regard to the finances from Invest NI that would have gone towards the establishment of the firm in the city.
Government must act to save food sector jobs (Free article)
14 January 2010
Sinn Féin Dáil leader and Cavan/Monaghan TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin has described as "deplorable" the news that 36 jobs are to go at Rye Valley Foods in Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan. Ó Caoláin questioned the claim from the parent company, Kerry, that the redundancies were necessary.
Remembering the Past: The Republican Movement split of 1969/1970 (Free article)
14 January 2010
Divisions within the IRA and Sinn Féin which had been deepening during the late 1960s, were widened to breaking point in the weeks and months that followed the events of August 1969 in the Six Counties. The lack of preparedness of the leadership of the IRA for those events proved to be the key factor in the split and was symptomatic of what Gerry…
Growing concern over dockers' outcome (Free article)
14 January 2010
THE support group for the Dublin dockers sacked last year by cargo handlers MTL fear that the dispute may not be over. Not one worker has actually got their job back despite the conclusion of a campaign well supported by local Docklands communities and the trade unions in Ireland and overseas. This week, a support group spokesperson said: "On…
Leonard signs in (Free article)
14 January 2010
Sinn Féin Assembly Chief Whip Carál Ní Chuilín MLA officially welcomed Billy Leonard as the new Sinn Féin MLA for East Derry on Thursday 7 January.
Gildernew praises Fermanagh's Lifeboats (Free article)
14 January 2010
Assembly Minister Michelle Gildernew is pictured during a visit to the RNLI Station outside Enniskillen, where she met the local crew to congratulate them on their voluntary work
Seán Sabhat honored in Limerick City (Free article)
14 January 2010
More than 150 people braved inclement weather on Sunday 3 January to attend the annual commemoration of the death of Seán Sabhat, which was organised by Limerick Sinn Féin. Sabhat, along with his comrade, Feargal O'Hanlon, was fatally shot in an IRA raid on Brookborough RUC Barracks, County Fermanagh on New Year's Day, 1957.
Weather fails to stop inaugural Charleville AGM (Free article)
14 January 2010
On Friday 8 January Charleville/Kilmallock Sinn Féin members braved atrocious weather and freezing fog in impressive numbers to hold their first AGM in Charleville, County Cork.
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