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ULSTER UNIONIST MLA TAKES PART IN QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY SINN FÉIN DEBATE ON GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND ACT ANNIVERSARY (Free article)
27 January 2011
‘I’d accept Irish unity if it was fair and equal’ ULSTER UNIONIST PARTY MLA John McAllister has told an Government of Ireland Act anniversary event organised by Queen’s University Sinn Féin that he would accept Irish unity if there was a majority consensus for it: “Yes, I suppose I would have to if it was fair and equal to all . . . but I…
Cúlchaint (Free article)
27 January 2011
Seachtain na Gaeilge ag teacht LE NÍOS lú ná sé sheachtaine fágtha do thús oifigiúil Seachtain na Gaeilge 2011 tá obair ar siúl cheana le pleanáil agus eagrú imeachtaí; le poiblíocht a shocrú agus le hurraíocht a lorg ag coistí ar fud na tíre. An tseachtain seo caite seoladh Lámhleabhar na Seachtaine, leabhrán a scaipfear ar scoileanna,…
Letter to the Taoiseach (Free article)
27 January 2011
SO, BRIAN, you finally made the trip to the Áras and the ball has finally been thrown in to get the game underway. I have my own memories of visiting Áras an Uachtarain, more pleasant visits than your own than that fateful day of Thursday 20th January when you threw in the towel. (I am mixing my sporting metaphors, I know.) I have had…
INTERVIEW | 1980 HUNGER STRIKER MARY DOYLE (Free article)
27 January 2011
‘When your back is against the wall, you get the strength from somewhere’ THE 1981 Hunger Strike was a direct result of the withdrawal by Margaret Thatcher’s British Government of political status for Irish republican prisoners and her administration’s intransigence after the 1980 Hunger Strike. MARY DOYLE took part in the 1980 Hunger Strike…
THE WINTER CRISIS | LESSONS TO BE LEARNT IN NORTH (Free article)
27 January 2011
Vital water service should be in public hands BY PAUL MASKEY MLA THE experience of thousands of people across the North during the freeze and thaw over the Christmas and New Year period - and the response of statutory agencies, particularly NIWater (NIW) and the Housing Executive - was unacceptable. The apparent shortcomings of these…
AFTER THE WINTER WATER CRISIS | WHAT HAPPENS NOW? (Free article)
27 January 2011
Conor Murphy speaks out SINN FÉIN Minister Conor Murphy is calling for changes in the way water and sewerage services are delivered in the North. The water crisis over Christmas and New Year, which saw thousands of homes and businesses without water for days, led to many people questioning the role of the Assembly Executive and the…
THE SECRET POLICEMAN IN IRELAND | UNDERCOVER COP MARK KENNEDY AND THOSE HE LEFT BEHIND (Free article)
27 January 2011
Sleeping with the enemy BY MARY NELIS I AM SHOCKED. Undercover British agents operating in the 26 Counties. Who ever would have guessed it? Hope Michael D Higgins hasn’t to wait as long for answers from Government Buildings or Garda HQ as the relatives of the Dublin/Monaghan bombings for an explanation as to why undercover British agents…
Poll crazy (Free article)
27 January 2011
WITH the temporary stay of execution granted on Brian Cowen’s leadership of Fianna Fáil after his vote of confidence move, the election campaign can begin (of course, that’s if the whole House of Cards hasn’t collapsed between me typing this and it rolling off the press over 24 hours). But it’s not the posters, leaflets, canvasses of shopping…
Finance & Famine . . . Why Ireland is ‘hungry’ for change (Free article)
27 January 2011
Finance & Famine BY LAURA FRIEL “I DON’T KNOW WHY, they must have just liked potatoes.” Speaking of what is known here as ‘The Great Hunger’ and elsewhere less accurately as ‘The Irish Famine’, a tour-guide expressed ignorant bewilderment. Along with others, my daughter and I were in England on ‘The Shakespeare Trail’ and I can’t…
OPINION | SINN FÉIN MLA JENNIFER McCANN (Free article)
27 January 2011
Budget aims to counter blow from Tory-led British Government THE Assembly’s draft Budget released for public consultation on December 15th contains several measures aimed at countering the severe economic blow inflicted by the British Tory/Liberal Democrat coalition government. In its October Comprehensive Spending Review, the British…
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