Search results
Found 21217 results.
DUBLIN NORTH-EAST | LARRY O’TOOLE (Free article)
4 March 2011
So near and yet so far BY MÍCHEÁL Mac DONNCHA DESPITE our best efforts, elections are not scientific exercises and cannot be reduced to a formula. They are things of emotion, passion, dejection, elation. Ironically, it is at the most scientific stage of elections – the number-crunching in the count centre – that these emotions are seen…
And the winner is . . . Sinn Féin (Free article)
4 March 2011
ALMOST a quarter of a million (220,685) people voted for 41 Sinn Féin candidates in 38 constituencies in the 2011 Leinster House election, electing 14 TDs, a record performance for the party who won 9.9% of first preferences. • Carlow/Kilkenny Vote % of poll 2002 2,078 3.42% 2007 2,568 3.8% 2011 7,033 9.5%…
Poll topping performance in Louth (Free article)
4 March 2011
BY STEPHANIE LORD WALKING INTO the count centre in Dundalk on Saturday morning was unnerving. Consistent late nights over the course of the campaign and hard work from the Sinn Féin canvassers had made people tired. But they were excited and it was nothing that the a few cups of coffee couldn’t fix. There was a lot riding on this and we…
Gaillimh Thiar | TREVOR Ó CLOCHARTAIGH (Free article)
4 March 2011
Sinn Féin i bhfad níos láidre i nGaillimh Thiar LE TREVOR Ó CLOCHARTAIGH RUD AMHÁIN atá soiléir ó thorthaí Olltoghcháin 2011 ná go bhfuil tacaíocht do Shinn Féin agus ár bhfís pholaitiúil i gContae na Gaillimhe agus go náisiúnta ag fás go mór. Tá ár vóta méadaithe faoi thrí i nGaillimh Thiar agus bhí méadú de 2000 ar vóta Shinn Féin i…
Ghost of bad policing hangs over McGurk’s bomb report (Free article)
4 March 2011
A DAY of “vindication and victory” for the families of 15 people killed in the 1971 McGurk’s Bar bombing turned sour after PSNI Chief Constable Matt Baggott refused to accept Police Ombudsman Al Hutchinson’s finding of RUC bias in the force insisting republicans were responsible rather than loyalists. The bomb attack was later proven to have…
WHAT NEXT FOR SINN FÉIN? | BY DECLAN KEARNEY SINN FÉIN NATIONAL CHAIRPERSON (Free article)
4 March 2011
Beyond the Green Tide CANVASSING in Cloontagh, Inishowen: 9pm, Tuesday 22nd February “Last call,” said Roger. “A courtesy.” The courtesy turned into a privilege . . . for Pádraig (now a TD) and me. Kathleen is 84. She cares full-time for Gareth, her foster son, aged 22, once a champion boxer, now profoundly disabled. It was humbling.…
MAKING HISTORY (Free article)
4 March 2011
THESE are historic times. We remember the sacrifices of countless others and pay tribute to them through our efforts now. March 1st marks the 30th anniversary of the start of the 1981 H-Blocks Hunger Strike. March 8th marks the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. And March marks the arrival in Leinster House of Sinn Féin as a…
Eoghan Harris coughs up (Free article)
9 March 2011
FOUR YEARS is a long time in politics but it was four years ago that Eoghan Harris accepted a bet from Jude Collins which eventually cost Mr Harris one thousand pounds. Here is the story as told by Jude Collins. MONEY TALK AT TALKS BACK THERE ARE STORIES that have a happy ending and there are stories that have an unhappy…
Will Labour TDs opposing Programme for Government oppose cuts in the Dáil? (Free article)
9 March 2011
LABOUR TD Joanna Tuffy has been challenged by Sinn Féin's Eoin Ó Broin to back up her opposition at the Labour conference to the Fine Gael/Labour coalition by voting in the Dáil against public sector jobs cuts, sale of state assets and increases in university fees. Eoin Ó Broin said: The Programme for Government commits the…
Video > Sinn Féin's 14 newly-elected TDs arrive for opening of 31st Dáil (Free article)
9 March 2011
SPEAKING as the Sinn Féin TDs arrived at Leinster House for the first meeting of the new Dáil today, Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams TD said the Fine Gael/Labour Party Programme for Government represents more of the same failed policies which were just rejected by the electorate. Deputy Adams said Sinn Féin will provide strong and…
Page 72 of 2122