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Return to politics of Tweedledee and Tweedledum (Free article)
19 February 2004
When is a minority better than a majority in democracy? When you're trying to become a mover and shaker in Leinster House and you're picking and choosing what parties you want onside. This is what happened last Tuesday, when Fine Gael, Labour and the Green Party decided to use the whole e-voting catastrophe to jointly attack the Dublin Government.
Sinn Féin's Force for Change - First National Conference of Elected Representatives (Free article)
19 February 2004
As Sinn Féin launches into another year of elections, the party's elected representatives from across Ireland gathered in Navan last weekend for a well-attended first national conference of the National Elected Representative Forum. The purpose, as Francie Molloy outlined in his report on the workings of this forum, was to co-ordinate the various…
Israel's Apartheid Wall challenged in International Court (Free article)
19 February 2004
On Monday 23 February, the International Court of Justice at The Hague is holding a hearing into the legality of the Wall that Israel is building on Palestinian territory to cut off the West Bank. It impedes the Palestinian people's access to land, water resources, education and medical care and violates their most basic economic and social…
The 5th Column (Free article)
19 February 2004
An Phoblacht's famous weekly satirical column. Read on...
Fight to shut Sellafield continues - Morgan addresses London conference (Free article)
19 February 2004
On Friday last 13 February, Louth TD and Sinn Féin spokesperson on the Environment Arthur Morgan travelled to London to address a conference on Sellafield organised by the Norwegian-based Bellona Foundation. The Conference was also addressed by Børge Brende, Norwegian Environment Minister; Asmund Kristoffersen, Chairman of the Nordic Council…
Aigneas Fhianna Fáil (Free article)
19 February 2004
There may be a dispute within Fianna Fáil in the West but it has nothing to do with policy but more to do with careerist personalities, writes AN DRAOI RUA Is iorónta an rud é go bhfuil rí-rá agus rúille búille ar siúl in iarthar na tíre taobh istigh de Fhianna Fáil. Tá clamhairt ar siúl eatarthu maidir le ainmniúchán teachta le seasamh do…
McElduff to tackle Taoiseach (Free article)
19 February 2004
West Tyrone MLA Barry McElduff will take advantage of Bertie Ahern's visit to Omagh today to hand him a letter signed by eight local Sinn Féin councillors highlighting a number of key issues where he as Taoiseach might actively give expression to Sinn Féin's concerns. These include requests for Ahern to take a stronger line on pressing the…
Welcome for smoking ban in workplace (Free article)
19 February 2004
Sinn Féin Health spokesperson Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD welcomed Wednesday's announcement that the ban on smoking in the workplace will commence on 29 March. He described it as "an important advance for workers in terms of the conditions in which they labour and in terms of public health generally".
Protest at mass deportations (Free article)
19 February 2004
A picket was held last Friday 13 February at Leinster House to protest at the round-up and mass deportation of 70 so-called illegals the previous day. Rosanna Flynn of Residents Against Racism and TDs Finian McGrath and Joe Costello addressed some 50 demonstrators, many of them young people, on the details of the mass deportation to Romania and…
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