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Minister’s concern for migrant workers over Christmas and New Year (Free article)
24 December 2010
ASSEMBLY Agriculture & Fisheries Minister Michelle Gildernew MP has expressed her concern about the welfare of migrant workers in the agri-food sector at Christmas and the New Year. Speaking today she said: Migrant workers play an important part in the production and processing of the food we will be eating over the Christmas…
Minding our language or Fine Gael's cultural suicide (Free article)
24 December 2010
IT WAS toward political, financial, cultural and linguistic sovereignty that Irish men and women sacrificed their lives in the GPO nearly 100 years ago. Perhaps the reason we feel the loss of sovereignty so sharply after the IMF's financial takeover is because, unlike Iceland and Greece, we don't yet collectively speak our own language.…
Obama aides and Congress reps hear Ballymurphy Massacre Committee (Free article)
24 December 2010
MEMBERS of the Ballymurphy Massacre Committee have returned from a successful trip to America and a lobby of the Obama administration, the US Congress and Irish-American organisations for an international independent investigation and a Congressional hearing into the Parachute Regiment rampage in August 1971 in which 11 people were shot dead.…
Kurdish conference in Istanbul: Sinn Féin urges Turkey to open dialogue (Free article)
24 December 2010
TURKEY should open a dialogue with the Kurdish people to try and resolve the conflict with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) that has claimed 45,000 lives since 1984, Sinn Féin Ard Chomhairle member and Meath County Councillor Joe Reilly has said in Istanbul. Joe, a former Mayor of Navan and ex-prisoner who has been…
Emergency repairs unit needed to rescue tenants hit by severe weather (Free article)
25 December 2010
THE North’s Housing Executive should set up an ‘emergency repairs unit’ to deal with the huge number of tenants’ heating and water supply problems caused by the harsh winter weather, Sinn Féin spokesperson on Housing, Fra McCann MLA has said. Speaking on Christmas Eve night as he and other Sinn Féin Assembly members and councillors…
Christmas and New Year message from Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams (Free article)
25 December 2010
Nollaig shona do gach duine agus bliain úr faoi mhaise daoibh go léir. I want to wish everyone a very happy and peaceful Christmas and a good New Year. This time of the year is an opportunity to relax, to spend time with family and friends and to enjoy the pleasure Christmas gifts bring, especially to children. But it is also important…
Monday 3pm, Belfast – Mark 2nd anniversary of Gaza onslaught by Israel (Free article)
26 December 2010
Monday 27th December 2010 Belfast City Hall 3pm Commemoration marking 2nd anniversary of Operation Cast Lead BETWEEN 27 December 2008 and 18 January 2009, over 1,400 Palestinians were killed by Israel in a brutal and illegal attack on the Gaza Strip, destroying lives and infrastructure. Two years on, Gaza's infrastructure…
Use Pension Reserve Fund to create jobs, not bail out banks (Free article)
26 December 2010
THE National Pension Reserve Fund should be used to stimulate Ireland’s economy and create jobs and not to bail out banks, Sinn Féin Finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty TD has said. The newly-elected TD was speaking on December 23 rd as Finance Minister Brian Lenihan went to the High Court in Dublin for approval to put a further…
VTOS student cut 'denies second chance to many' – Rose Conway Walsh (Free article)
27 December 2010
THE Government’s cut of €19.80 per week to students on VTOS means that many students who were failed by the education system the first time around will be denied a second chance, Sinn Féin Mayo County Councillor Rose Conway Walsh has said. The allowance paid to students on the Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme who are…
Fergal Caraher, shot dead by British Army | 20th anniversary (Free article)
27 December 2010
THIS YEAR marks the 20 th anniversary of the murder of Fergal Caraher in Cullyhanna. On December 30th 1990, Fergal was murdered and his brother Míceál seriously injured. The shooting Fergal and Míceál were in Cullyhanna when they stopped to help a man whose car had broken down and were then approached by a group of British…
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