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Natural highs - The sobering facts (Free article)
4 February 2010
Wicklow Sinn Féin Councillor John Brady is a longtime campaigner against drugs. This week he has called a meeting in Bray to highlight a worrying development in his native county - the arrival of drug outlets otherwise known as 'head shops'. For the uninitiated it should be explained that these shops are in the business of selling various items…
Buann An Droichead gradam náisiúnta Glór na nGael (Free article)
4 February 2010
Is é An Droichead, Béal Feirste a bhuaigh céad áit i gcomórtas Ghlór na nGael 2009. Fógraíodh torthaí an chomórtais ar chlár Seán Bán Breathnach ar Raidio na Gaeltachta an tseachtain seo agus ba chúis cheiliúrtha é do Bhéal Feirste nuair a bhuaigh An Droichead €50,000 agus trófaí. 'Sí Roinn Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta príomh urra na duaise…
2010 SINN FÉIN ARD FHEIS: Connacht Le Chéile Honouree (Free article)
4 February 2010
JACK BROGAN, the Connacht honouree for this year's Le Chéile event, is originally from Castlederg in west Tyrone. Born in 1941, Jack has led a busy and active life having been shot, 'on the run' and arrested for his republican involvement. On top of all that, he and his wife, Rose, raised 15 children. He tells ELLA O'DWYER a story that has the…
Government failing to deal with organised crime (Free article)
4 February 2010
Speaking in the Dáil on Tuesday evening, during a debate on serious and organised crime, Sinn Féin Justice Spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh said the current rise in organised crime shows that serial legislative change by the government has failed to deliver.
Coalition decimates anti-drugs funding (Free article)
4 February 2010
Sinn Féin's Dublin West representative Paul Donnelly has severely criticised the government's further 11% cut in drugs task force funding. "I am dismayed at the lack of strategic thinking emanating from the present government," said Donnelly, who is also chairperson of his local Mountview/Blakestown Community Drugs Team. "It is well known that…
Everyone was a target (Free article)
4 February 2010
It is just over 12 months since the Israeli military ceased its all-out assault on the trapped, cornered population of Gaza: in excess of 1.5m people crammed into 360 square kilometres, the most crowded and densely populated place on earth. Over 4,000 homes were destroyed and Gaza's infrastructure - including health, water and sanitation - was…
More than a game By Gael Gan Náire (Free article)
4 February 2010
THE Jackeen is out with a broken arm. The Lord God, I often lifted hay with the same thing after maybe being injured playing hurling or dancing. Well not dancing, to be strictly honest, but fighting with the townies at the dance. Good honest manly fighting it was; none of your knives and Glock pistols in those times. Other than maybe a plank of…
SEACHT (Free article)
4 February 2010
Is nós é anois ar an teilifís go mbíonn 'sraitheanna' ag críochnú ag pointe ana-drámatúil (an cliffhanger) ar nós Lost, Sopranos agus araile agus 'seo cad chuige, mar sin, nach mbeadh sraith teilifíse Ghaeilge mar an cheanna. Thosaigh an tríú sraith de Seacht le craoladh arís ar BBC 2 Thuaisceart Éireann agus ar TG4 ó lár mí Eanáir, le haird an…
Remembering the Past: An Phoblacht 1970 (Free article)
4 February 2010
Following the split in the IRA in December 1969 and Sinn Féin in January 1970, one of the first actions of those who rejected the Goulding/MacGiolla leadership and who formed the Provisional Army Council of the IRA and the Caretaker Executive of Sinn Féin was to launch a publicity fund with a view to establishing their own republican newspaper.
Staff of banned Basque newspaper on trial (Free article)
4 February 2010
The ongoing trial of five people who were involved in publishing the Basque-language newspaper Egunkaria, which was shut down by the Spanish government in 2003, is an outrageous attack on the basic civil rights of the Basque people, a campaign leader has told meetings in Ireland.
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