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All parties should organise on an all-Ireland basis (Free article)
9 January 2003
Sinn Féin TD for Cavan Monaghan and Dáil Group Leader Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin has welcomed comments from the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern that Fianna Fáil is to consider organising on an all-Ireland basis and has urged other parties to follow suit.
200,000 voters missing, claims McLaughlin (Free article)
9 January 2003
Sinn Féin Foyle Assembly member, Mitchel McLaughlin, says that according to Census figures, up to 200,000 people eligible to vote are missing from the Electoral Register.
Thug dismissed but Scots Guards welcome murderers (Free article)
9 January 2003
A Scots Guard who assaulted a colleague in a Limavady pub with a broken glass two years ago, leaving his victim requiring 26 stitches, is to be dismissed from the British Army after he was found guilty of the assault in Derry Court on Wednesday.
An inspiring visit (Free article)
9 January 2003
The week before Christmas, Kerry TD Martin Ferris and I had the honour of representing Sinn Féin at the 51st national conference of the African National Congress, held on the campus of Stellenbosch University just outside Cape Town.
Sean Sabhat remembered (Free article)
9 January 2003
The annual commemoration for Sean Sabhat took place in Limerick last Sunday. Up to 200 people attended and marched from Bedford Row, led by a local colour party and the Youghal republican flute band, to the republican plot at Mount St Laurence Cemetery.
Quebec Labour expands pressure campaign on Blair (Free article)
9 January 2003
Following the recent lead of the Montreal Central Council of the Confederation des Syndicats Nationaux (CSN) trade union federation, the Confederal Council of the CSN itself, representing 280,000 workers, voted in mid-December to bring pressure on Prime Minister Tony Blair to restore the Assembly.
Colombia Three moved out of Bogota (Free article)
9 January 2003
The three Irishmen facing charges in Colombia, Niall Connolly, Jim Monaghan and Martin McCauley, were moved on Saturday 22 December from La Modela Prison in Bogota to Combita Prison, 87 miles from the capital. The shift came despite assurances made by senior Colombia government representatives to Irish foreign minister Brian Cowen that the men…
Health Minister must act on A&E closures threat (Free article)
9 January 2003
The Minister for Health and Children Mícheál Martin has been urged to act to avert the closure of Accident and Emergency units throughout the State following the coming into effect of new training rules imposed by the College of Surgeons. Sinn Féin Health spokesperson Caoimhghin Ó Caoláin TD said this latest development "could see more hospitals…
Dublin City Council in crisis as councillors reject charge increase (Free article)
9 January 2003
Dublin City Council is in crisis this week as it faces dissolution for failing to ratify this year's budget but Sinn Féin Councillor Christy Burke is adamant that he and the other Sinn Féin councillors will not give way to the threats from the city manager.
Ferris demands action on crisis in farming (Free article)
9 January 2003
As farmers from across the 26 Counties continued their tractor protest this week, which is set to culminate with a massie demonstration in Dublin city centre on Friday, Sinn Féin spokesperson on Agriculture, Martin Ferris TD, has demanded that the government take urgent action to address the crisis in farming.
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