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Mixing sport and politics (Free article)
1 October 2010
OUR national broadcaster has let us down again. They failed to broadcast two of the biggest sporting achievements of the year. On September 18th, Katie Taylor won her third successive Women’s World Boxing Championship title. In Barbados, she defeated China’s Cheng Dong in the final match. The fight was also Taylor’s 100th career win. The…
INTERNATIONAL SINN FÉIN MOTION WINS ACTION ON PALESTINE (Free article)
1 October 2010
Dublin City Council signs on for Second Freedom Flotilla to Gaza DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL has unanimously passed a Sinn Féin motion condemning the Israeli commando airborne assault on the Gaza First Freedom Flotilla in the summer, murdering nine civilian aid workers and injuring 30 others. The motion commends the Irish citizens on the MV Rachel…
JOBS PLAN LAUNCHED BY SINN FÉIN (Free article)
1 October 2010
DUBLIN Sinn Féin has launched a jobs plan to save and create 10,000 jobs in the capital. The proposals, ‘Let’s Get Dublin Working’, were launched in Tallaght, South County Dublin, by Sinn Féin Finance spokesperson Arthur Morgan TD and local Councillors Seán Crowe and Cathal King. The plan includes a history of employment in Dublin, a profile…
Charlie Caherty (Free article)
1 October 2010
A pillar of the Newtownhamilton community IT IS with great sadness that republicans in south Armagh and beyond learned of the death of lifelong republican Charlie Caherty. Charlie had been involved in the Republican Movement for many many years and was instrumental in the establishment of the Caraher/Caherty Sinn Féin Cumann in…
Fianna Fáil are drunk on power (Free article)
1 October 2010
FIRST it was Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s performance on RTÉ radio - was he hoarse or hungover? Then a Fine Gael TD, the worse for wear, threatening a young Garda, using the ‘mind your manners, we’ll be in power soon’ line. The ‘demon drink’ has been front and centre in political debate. As a man in Ballybough put it to me: “What in the name of…
Notices (Free article)
1 October 2010
I nDíl Chuimhne 1 October 1977: Seán Ó CONAILL , Sinn Féin (Parkhurst Prison) 1 October 1996: Pat McGEOWN , Sinn Féin 2 October 1971: Volunteer Terence McDERMOTT , Belfast Brigade, 1st Battalion 2 October 1978: Volunteer Pat HARKIN , Derry Brigade 6 October 1972: Volunteer Daniel McAREAVEY , Belfast Brigade, 2nd Battalion 9 October…
Sinn Féin ready to fight the cuts as Cowen staggers (Free article)
1 October 2010
g BY MÍCHEÁL Mac DONNCHA GROWING political storms were making the Brian Cowen-led government increasingly unstable as Sinn Féin’s Leinster House team met for its annual think-in and pledged to fight the savage cuts threatened for the December budget. With a clear head, Sinn Féin Dáil leader Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin set the agenda on RTÉ’s…
Win, lose and the National Draw (Free article)
1 October 2010
WE NEED to begin this column with an apology. Some families were on their way home to Newry, Mayobridge, Warrenpoint, Downpatrick and the like the other Sunday. They were disappointed. Their plucky little team had just been beaten in the All-Ireland Final. But worse was to come. As they passed Swords, they might have noticed two young women…
Maurice Quinlivan to fight for Dáil seat in Limerick City (Free article)
1 October 2010
MAURICE QUINLIVAN has won the unanimous backing of a Sinn Féin general election convention to fight for a Dáil seat in the new constituency of Limerick City. Maurice won a seat on Limerick City Council last year, the first Sinn Féin councillor elected in Limerick in more than 50 years. Maurice was in the national headlines earlier this year…
Tyrone two trek for Cuba (Free article)
1 October 2010
TWO young Tyrone people will be in Cuba in mid-October to trek the Caribbean island’s Sierra Maestra Mountain range in a fund-raising effort for Cuban Medical Aid. Barry McColgan, from Strathroy in Omagh, and Marie Claire Devlin, from Pomeroy, will be starting the gruelling trek of Cuba’s highest mountain range on October 15th. The Tyrone…
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