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Lisbon Treaty one year on – Mary Lou McDonald asks ‘Where are all the jobs?’ (Free article)
2 October 2010
TODAY marks the first anniversary of the passing of the Lisbon Treaty by the Irish people. Leading 'No' campaigner Mary Lou McDonald today said: One year on from the passing of the Lisbon Treaty, the Government, Fine Gael and Labour’s promise that a 'Yes' vote would deliver ‘jobs and investment’ have been exposed for the sham that…
Water tax: Tap the wealthy, not low-income and middle-income earners (Free article)
4 October 2010
WEEKEND media reports that the Fianna Fáil-led Government is planning a flat-rate water tax on families show Brian Cowen’s and Brian Lenihan’s “determination to keeping tapping the pockets of low-income and middle-income earners”, Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh said. This tax has nothing to do with water conservation. The…
Budget: British Government must honour commitment to North's funding (Free article)
4 October 2010
THE British Government has to honour its commitment to a ten-year capital programme for the North of Ireland, deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness MP said before he headed to a Conservative Party Conference fringe meeting in Birmingham on Tuesday. Martin McGuinness reaffirmed Sinn Féin’s commitment to opposing the “unfair and…
‘Kitchen press’ Bertie should give up his secretarial perks, says TD (Free article)
4 October 2010
THE TAOISEACH’S PERK paid for by taxpayers which provides two salaried secretaries to former taoisigh, including Bertie Ahern, should be ended Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh said after the former Taoiseach’s TV ad for his News of the World column. Aengus Ó Snodaigh added that Mr Ahern is still a TD, takes advantage of an author's tax…
Bertie Ahern’s News of the World showcase: Why can’t Bertie be more like Bill? (Free article)
4 October 2010
WHAT next for Bartholmew Ahern? He has moonlighted as a TV soccer pundit, a chat-show host and has held the part-time positions of a city councillor and Dublin’s Lord Mayor in 1986. The ‘official day job’ was then as a TD, then Minister for Labour, Minister for Finance, and finally Taoiseach. So now he has the pension waiting but enjoys…
From Martin McGuinness's visit at the Tory Party conference in Birmingham (Free article)
5 October 2010
MARTIN McGUINNESS putting a strong challenge to Tory Secretary of State Owen Patterson on the question of the scale of cuts threatened. At the 'Ulster fry' breakfast at Tory conference in Birmingham he argued that to renege on former Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s promise that spending levels to the Six Counties over 10 years would be…
Child Benefit should be universal but tax high-earners more (Free article)
5 October 2010
RESPONDING to developments in Britain and Minister for Children Barry Andrews's suggestion that Child Benefit be withdrawn from some children, Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh called on the Government to maintain Child Benefit as a universal payment and tax high-earners more. He said: Moves by the Government to cut or restrict eligibility…
Cork North Central Dáil candidate Councillor Jonathan O'Brien (Free article)
5 October 2010
COUNCILLOR Jonathan O’Brien has been unanimously selected to contest the constituency of Cork North Central at the next general election. He was nominated by Councillor Thomas Gould and seconded by Councillor Chris O’Leary. Accepting the nomination, Jonathan O’Brien said: Never before has politics in this country been so obviously…
Cancer patients' flights at risk but not ministers' trips on Government jet (Free article)
5 October 2010
THE possible axing of subsidised flights for cancer patients from Donegal to Dublin to save money has been contrasted by Donegal Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty with the cost of what ministers spend in flying around the country in the Government jet. Senator Doherty has called on Letterkenny General Hospital to give assurances that…
'The Quare Fellow' on Tour: Dun Laoghaire, Blanchardstown, Tallaght (Free article)
5 October 2010
56 YEARS after its first performance, The New Theatre pays tribute to Brendan Behan, Alan Simpson and Carolyn Swift (founders of The Pike Theatre) with this re-staging of Behan’s seminal theatrical work. Set in Mountjoy Prison on the day and night before the unnamed Quare Fellow is to be hanged, the play portrays the prisoners’ drab…
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