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Sierra Maestra Walk | Blog from Cuba: 'We've arrived – at the English Hotel' (Free article)
21 October 2010
WE arrived in Cuba late last Friday night following a long flight. Our guide for the trip, Jobel, met us at the airport and brought us to our hotel in Havana – ironically named Hotel Inglaterra (English Hotel)! We had a late dinner and went to bed. On Saturday morning we got up, early and refreshed, to the beautiful 28 degrees Cuban…
VIDEO: Alex Maskey on his 27 years as first republican on Belfast City Council (Free article)
21 October 2010
'First Among Equals' SINN FÉIN'S longest-serving and first-ever councillor on Belfast City Council talks about his 27 years there as he steps down to focus on his role as a Sinn Féin MLA for South Belfast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fBOBTpxjis
Sierra Maestra Walk | Blog from Cuba: Meeting an old friend, Noelle Carrillo (Free article)
22 October 2010
THE delegation was delighted on Monday to get up early for an appointment with the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba. We were met at party headquarters in the Palace of the Revolution by Noelle Carrillo, former Cuban Ambassador to Ireland. Noelle explained the current economic situation in Cuba and spoke passionately about…
Ministers’ pay to be cut by 40% and TDs’ pay by 20% in Sinn Féin Budget plan (Free article)
24 October 2010
MINISTERS' PAY will be cut by 40% and TDs' salaries by 20% in Sinn Féin's Budget plan, Mary Lou McDonald has announced. The Sinn Féin deputy leader said in Dublin: It is simply unacceptable for the Government – or indeed the ‘government in waiting’ – to advocate massive cuts and a scaling down of public services to meet their 2014…
Twitter: Fianna Fáil TD Chris Andrews says FF merger with Fine Gael makes sense (Free article)
24 October 2010
SINN FÉIN TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh has welcomed a tweet from Fianna Fáil TD Chris Andrews in which the Fianna Fáil TD says: FG are not getting the traction in the polls because people see little difference between FF and FG. A merger makes sense to me. Sinn Féin Deputy Ó Snodaigh said in response that such a merger would bring…
‘We Are Where We Are’ and other political pop 'favourites' (Free article)
26 October 2010
PICKETS outside the Dáil are fairly commonplace these days so it was no surprise to see a small but determined-looking group waving placards as I pulled in last week. The protester in chief – dressed in what can best be described as a Fidel Castro outfit – approached. He started to sing “Hello, Mary Lou” (I know, I know) through a…
The exports factor (Free article)
27 October 2010
TWO cheers for RTÉ, Today FM and Newstalk this morning for not jumping too much on the 'exports growth' bandwagon. RTÉ, like many other news media outlets, have reported on Irish Exporters’ Association (IEA) figures which show a 9.3% increase in exports in the months July to September 2010. Exports for the first nine months of 2010…
Dáil Economy debate: Sinn Féin seeks real recovery and a fair way forward (Free article)
27 October 2010
SPEAKING in the Dáil debate on the Economy today, Sinn Féin Dáil leader Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (right) said savage cuts in Budget 2011 would prevent recovery and that a better, fairer approach is possible. He said: Sinn Féin stands as the real opposition in this debate. Deputy John Gormley’s call for talks between party leaders and all…
Belfast republicans to mark 30 years since 1980 Hunger Strike (Free article)
27 October 2010
THE 30th anniversary of the start of the 1980 Hunger Strike by republican prisoners in Long Kesh and Armagh women's jail who were protesting for political status is to be marked by republicans in Belfast on Wednesday October 27th. In west Belfast, white-line pickets will be held at the top of the Whiterock, the Andersontown Leisure…
1980 Hunger Striker Leo Green: 'We hadn't just not lost - we had won' (Free article)
27 October 2010
TODAY, October 27th, marks the 30th anniversary of the start of the 1980 Hunger Strike by republican prisoners in Long Kesh, who were later joined on the strike by women in Armagh Jail. Lurgan man Leo Green went without food for 53 days during the 1980 Hunger Strike. He is currently working as part of Sinn Féin's Assembly support team at…
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