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Growing crisis in A&E units (Free article)
21 February 2002
Cavan/Monaghan Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin raised in the Dáil last week the situation in the Accident and Emergency units of hospitals that has led to forthcoming strike action by the Irish Nurses Organisation and balloting for industrial action by SIPTU.
Finance Bill "leaves low paid in tax net" (Free article)
21 February 2002
People on the minimum wage are still in the tax net as a result of the Budget, the Dáil was told by Cavan/Monaghan Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin last week as TDs debated the Finance Bill. Ó Caoláin also criticised as a "gimmick" the special tax rebates for retiring professional sportspeople.
Adams demands government u-turn on EU reps (Free article)
21 February 2002
Gerry Adams was this week highly critical of the Dublin government's plan not to nominate a representative of the No campaign to represent the state at the EU Convention - which is made up of representatives from all the member states - and which will begin work on 1 March to consider the next EU Treaty and the constitutional future of the EU.
Health minister in Munster (Free article)
21 February 2002
Sinn Féin Health Minister Bairbre de Brún was in Miunster last weekend, lending her support to the election campaign of Martin Ferris and other Sinn Féin candidates.
Medical Card system is a poverty trap (Free article)
21 February 2002
Sinn Féin election candidate for Sligo/Leitrim, Councillor Seán MacManus, has described the new Medical Card income guidelines for the North Western Health Board as "an insult - a clear reason why two-tier health care must end, and free access to health care for all must be introduced as a matter of priority by the next government". MacManus…
Special Branch - still a 'force within a force' (Free article)
28 February 2002
Speaking on Monday at the launch of Sinn Féin's latest poster campaign highlighting the role of Special Branch in the current policing arrangements
Independent's propaganda war (Free article)
28 February 2002
Polls and propaganda - it's just another week in the life of Independent News and Media. In case you didn't know it, Sinn Féin have lost the next Leinster House elections. Yes, one poll conducted in a unique rural constituency has empowered the scribes in the Independent News and Media to begin to write political obituaries for Sinn Féin. 'A…
Running scared (Free article)
28 February 2002
Michael McDowell's hysterical attack on Sinn Féin last week was an act of desperation. The PD Attorney General's verbal assault said more about the electorate's unimpressed reaction to the return of their patrician saviour, as a poll showed him trailing a nationally unknown Sinn Féin candidate.
Mala Poist (Free article)
28 February 2002
Congratulations on Maidstone series A Chairde, I am writing to say I enjoyed the story you ran in An Phoblacht about the escape from the Maidstone. To me it showed what republicanism is about, the comradeship that was shown by the men on the escape and those involved in the planning. This is what struggle for self-determination is about,…
Pontius Pilate Taylor (Free article)
28 February 2002
"We are going to shoot it out with them, it's as simple as that."
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