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Taoiseach: No plans to hold Donegal by-election soon (Free article)
3 July 2010
TAOISEACH Brian Cowen has told Donegal-based Highland Radio he has no immediate plans for a by-election in Donegal South-West, where Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty will be challenging for the seat. The seat has been vacant for the past year following the election of Pat the Cope Gallagher to the European Parliament. Speaking to Highland…
Westminster Government threatens 40% budget cuts to public services and jobs (Free article)
3 July 2010
THE Tory/Liberal Democrat Westminster Government has told ministers to make plans for 40% cuts in their budgets in the harshest attack on public services and jobs since the Second World War. The order comes from Conservative Party Chancellor George Osborne and it's not clear how its Liberal Democrat coalition partner's activists and rank and…
3-month Dáil break during jobs crisis slated by Mary Lou McDonald (Free article)
4 July 2010
THE Fianna Fáil/Green Party Government has been slated by Sinn Féin for taking a three-month summer break in the middle of an unemployment crisis. Sinn Féin deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald said: “As ministers prepare to down tools for the next few months, unemployment is sky-rocketing. For most people, the idea of the Dáil going on a…
Remembering Hunger-Striker Joe McDonnell (Free article)
4 July 2010
A SERIES of events will take place across Belfast from July 8-10 to mark the 29th anniversary of the death on hunger strike of IRA Volunteer Joe McDonnell in the H-blocks of Long Kesh. Joe passed away after 61 days and was the fifth man to die in the 1981 Hunger Strike. Joe's comrades who were in jail with him during the…
Irish Examiner: Sinn Féin challenges Government on jobs strategy (Free article)
4 July 2010
THE Fianna Fáil/Green Party Government is being challenged as to whether its long-promised jobs strategy actually exists. Read more: http://www.examiner.ie/breakingnews/ireland/sf-challenges-govt-on-jobs-strategy-463998.html#ixzz0shZPgkf6
Sinn Féin will resist selling off of state enterprises (Free article)
4 July 2010
SINN FÉIN says it will resist the selling off by the Fianna Fáil/Green Party Government of state enterprises. Sinn Féin Finance spokesperson Arthur Morgan said: “Sinn Féin will resist every and any attempt to sell off the family silver: state enterprises that are buoyant and actually returning money to the Exchequer.” It was not state…
An Phoblacht Archives 1997-2010 (Free article)
5 July 2010
You can now view the An Phoblacht Archives from 1997-2010 here .
Fine Gael Dublin lord mayor bars Sinn Féin bid to save public swimming pools (Free article)
5 July 2010
SINN FÉIN Dublin North-East Councillor Larry O'Toole was ordered to leave the monthly meeting of Dublin City Council yesterday evening (Monday) after he protested over the refusal of Fine Gael Lord Mayor Gerry Breen to accept a motion designed to save three City Council swimming pools threatened with closure. Councillor O'Toole said: “The…
Belfast, Thursday: Eyewitness accounts to Gaza Flotilla Massacre (Free article)
5 July 2010
BELFAST: Eyewitness accounts of Gaza Flotilla Massacre by ex-US Marine Ken O’Keefe (who was on the MV Mavi Marmara and clashed with Israeli commandos) and Fiachra Ó Luain. Thursday 7:30pm, O’Donnell’s CLCG, Whiterock Road. Talk free, social £5 or £3 unwaged/concessions. All proceeds to Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
Roof-top protest at Fianna Fáil TD's office wins public debate on youth unemployment (Free article)
6 July 2010
FIANNA FÁIL TD Noel O’Flynn has accepted a challenge to debate the Government’s attitude to youth unemployment after five Ógra Shinn Féin activists staged a two-hour roof-top protest on his constituency office in Cork on Tuesday morning. Gardaí were called to the premises on Old Mallow Road but no arrests were made and the protests ended…
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