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Kinsale Civil War fallen honoured (Free article)
28 January 2010
Councillor Noel Harrington, the first Sinn Féin councillor representing Kinsale, County Cork, for 90 years, is pictured laying a wreath at The Abbey Cemetery in Kinsale
Hanafin rejects call for special fuel payment (Free article)
4 February 2010
Sinn Féin's call for the introduction of a special emergency payment for recipients of Fuel Allowance to help them cope with continuing fuel costs in the wake of January's freezing weather conditions has been rejected by Social and Family Affairs Minister Mary Hanafin.
Time for decisive leadership in the DUP (Free article)
4 February 2010
Republicans have been locked in negotiations with the DUP and the Irish and British governments in Hillsborough Castle for the past week. These negotiations have now concluded. Sinn Féin went into these negotiations with clear objectives. On one hand an early date for the transfer of powers on policing and justice was a priority. On the other…
Another View by Eoin Ó Broin (Free article)
4 February 2010
There are more than 100,000 households on local authority waiting lists in the 26 Counties while 300,000 homes lie empty across the state. It just doesn't make any sense. Official government figures claim that only 56,000 households are on the waiting list. However this figure is from April 2008.
No level to which they won't stoop (Free article)
4 February 2010
AND SO the battle is on. The cuts to social welfare and child benefit in Budget 2010 saw the government cross the Rubicon to a place where no 'right' is safe anymore. That means that the long-time target of employers' groups, business lobbies and vested interest politicians - the minimum wage - is back on the table for discussion.
Government inaction feeds emigration (Free article)
4 February 2010
Responding to the latest live register figures which were published on Wednesday showing an increase of 13,000 people on the dole, Dublin Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh said the government has left many thousands of Irish people with no option other than to emigrate.
Sinn Féin attends Progressive London conference (Free article)
4 February 2010
Encouraging signs that progressive left politics are alive and well in London and beyond were on show last Saturday, when over 700 activists and observers alike crowded into the annual 'Progressive London' conference.
The Mitchel McLaughlin Column (Free article)
4 February 2010
The Irish peace process was painstakingly nurtured with the view of coming up with mechanisms that could be embraced by all of the parties as a unique but workable form of governance. With the conclusion of the Good Friday Agreement a form of administration often referred to by the DUP as a 'mandatory' coalition was devised. Although this was…
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