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Women Sinn Féin TDs make pledge on International Women’s Day (Free article)
9 March 2011
NEWLY-ELECTED Sinn Féin TDs Mary Lou McDonald and Sandra McLellan have said that women’s rights will be a priority for their party in the new Dáil. Deputies McDonald and McLellan were launching five priorities for Sinn Féin in the new Dåil to mark International Women’s Day. Speaking at Leinster House, Mary Lou said: It is very…
Tory minister cancels west Belfast visit to dodge Sinn Féin protests against cuts (Free article)
10 March 2011
A TORY MINISTER cancelled a visit to west Belfast after Sinn Féin organised protests against Conservative/Lib Dem Government cuts. Sinn Féin Councillor Janice Austin praised those who protested at the proposed visit by Tory Minister for Welfare Reform Lord Freud to west Belfast on Friday 4th March. Janice said: The proposals by…
Death of Seán Cronin, republican, IRA activist and 'Irish Times' writer (Free article)
10 March 2011
GERRY ADAMS TD has expressed his sadness at the news of the death of Seán Cronin and extended his sincere condolences to Seán ‘s wife Reva and family circle. The Sinn Féin president said: Seán Cronin was a pivotal figure in Irish republicanism for decades but particularly during the 1950s. He was an author who wrote the…
US CONGRESSIONAL HEARING FOR BALLYMURPHY MASSACRE VICTIMS OF PARACHUTE REGIMENT (Free article)
12 March 2011
A UNITED STATES Congressional Hearing will be heard in Washington DC on Wednesday into the ‘Ballymurphy Massacre’ carried out by the British Army in west Belfast in 1971. Two days after internment, 11 civilians – including a local priest and a mother of eight children – were shot dead by the British Army’s Parachute Regiment. None of…
Donegal commemoration this Sunday: Caoimhín Mac Brádaigh (1957 to 1988) (Free article)
12 March 2011
A COMMEMORATION will take place in County Donegal on Sunday 13th March at 2.30pm to mark the 23rd anniversary of Caoimhín Mac Brádaigh, who was killed along with two other nationalists by a loyalist attacker at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast on 16th March 1988. This Sunday’s commemoration will start at Paddy Óg’s in Crolly and proceed…
Dúirt Siad > Joan Burton/Susan McKay, Celia Larkin, Gerry Adams (Free article)
13 March 2011
Joan Burton should have been made Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. She was not. Why? Because a man wanted the job. Not a better qualified man. Not even an equally qualified man. Burton, an accountant, has been Labour’s finance spokeswoman for nine years. She is tough, not least because she’s taken part in far too many meetings at…
Danny Morrison to launch Hunger Strike exhibition in Omagh on Monday (Free article)
13 March 2011
THE former Assembly member for Mid-Ulster and current Secretary of the Bobby Sands Trust, Danny Morrison, will officially launch the National Hunger Strike Exhibition in the Strule Arts Centre on Monday evening at 8pm. Speaking ahead of the launch, Danny said: The Hunger Strikes of 1980 and 1981 were defining moments in recent Irish…
RIP 'Cormac' – Brian Moore – cartoonist with An Phoblacht/Republican News (Free article)
13 March 2011
BRIAN MOORE, the political and social cartoonist better known to and loved by readers of Republican News and An Phoblacht/Republican News as ‘Cormac’, passed away on Saturday night. Brian was a republican and a socialist. He supported the struggle for freedom and the Peace Process. His cartoons were incisive and funny. And…
Gerry Adams expresses ‘deep sadness’ on death of journalist Gerald Barry (Free article)
14 March 2011
SINN Féin President Gerry Adams TD has expressed his “deep sadness” at the news of the death of journalist and RTÉ broadcaster Gerald Barry. Gerry Adams said: Gerald Barry’s distinctive voice and incisive and probing interview style were sadly missing during the recent election campaign. Gerald was a thoughtful and fair…
Monitoring Commission will not be missed as final report heralds closure (Free article)
14 March 2011
THERE should be no “golden handshakes” on top of wasted millions spent for the members of the so-called Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC), which presented its final report to the British and Irish governments on Monday, Sinn Féin has said. The IMC was set up in 2004 to report on activity by non-state armed groups but has been…
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