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Sinn Féin mounts Dublin mayoral challenge (Free article)
29 June 2000
Sinn Féin has launched its campaign to have Councillor Nicky Kehoe elected as Mayor of Dublin on 3 July with the distribution of a full-colour manifesto and a personal appeal from Gerry Adams to 30,000 homes in the capital.
Ó Caoláin backs no confidence motion (Free article)
29 June 2000
Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin this week signed a motion of no confidence in the Fianna Fáil/Progressive Democrats government. He said that the government had ``lost political cohesion and political credibility in the Dáil and in the state''. Coming after a week of political woe for the government, the motion is expected to be debated and voted…
Aldi strikers' morale high (Free article)
29 June 2000
Striking MANDATE members from the Aldi store on Parnell Street, Dublin, were on hand to picket the company's new Galway outlet when it opened on Thursday, 22 June. The uhion has extended the picket to Aldi's other stores in Cork and Letterkenny over the weekend and plans to picket Aldi's Thurles store when it eventually opens.
Ó Caoláin slams proposed CE cuts for school workers (Free article)
29 June 2000
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD has said he believes the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Mary Harney is seeking to end all Community Employment jobs in schools. In the first step towards these cuts CE placements for some 450 people in school-related employment in the North East region -Cavan, Monaghan, Louth and Meath - are not…
No letup in child poverty (Free article)
29 June 2000
Western states are quick to set development and economic standards for other countries, but life in the USA, Europe and Japan is not easy for all. The latest report from UNICEF reveals that the families of more than 47 million children, who live in the ``rich'' western world, cannot guarantee their health and/or well being. The report points out…
Crowley presentation in Cork (Free article)
29 June 2000
June Crowley, sister of IRA Volunteer Dermot Crowley, received a presentation from the Vols Ahern/Crowley Sinn Féin Cumann this week.
President questions constitutionality of `Trafficking' Bill (Free article)
29 June 2000
And 58 people died. By the middle of the week no one was really interested anymore. They were really only interested in Snakesheads, Triads, smuggling routes and $7 billion profits. And so the story died too. They were, after all, `illegals', probably Chinese, and with that died what some might remember as Jack Straw's radical pretensions, and New…
Coalition banger blunders on (Free article)
6 July 2000
Having scraped through last week's confidence vote in the Dáil, the Fianna Fáil/Progressive Democrats government is now more than ever like a car with no brakes
Lifting the curtain on gender specific persecution (Free article)
6 July 2000
A startling 75%-90% of the world's refugee population is estimated by the UNHCR to be women and children. Yet discussion of refugees tends to concentrate exclusively on the `male' experience of persecution and treats women refugees as appendages of the male, very rarely dealing with the distinct difficulties which women face.
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