News Archives for July, 2007
31 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney has said that when the British Army arrived on the streets in 1969 that it quickly became clear that it would be an oppressive force and was going to be used against one section of the community to maintain British rule. Read full article
31 July, 2007
This year's annual August national march in Belfast has as its theme 'March for Truth'. Read full article
31 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Councillor Maeve McLaughlin has called for people to support the "Picnic in the Park" which is taking place at Brooke Park this coming Saturday 4th August Read full article
30 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Councillor Maeve McLaughlin has called for traffic calming measures in the Foyle Road Abercorn Road area after a car narrowly avoided a child recently. Read full article
30 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Councillor Peter Anderson has said that anyone offered tools at a cheap price such refuse them as they have probably been stolen. Read full article
30 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Councillor Peter Anderson has said the findings of a new survey by the financial website Moneysupermarket.com about credit card penalty payments are very worrying. The survey revealed that 25% of those interviewed have had to pay a penalty fee to their credit card company in the past year. Read full article
30 July, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney will attend a conference in South Africa next week to discuss the transition from conflict into peaceful political struggle. He will be accompanied by party members Seanna Walsh and Bairbre de Brún MEP. Read full article
30 July, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA (Foyle) Martina Anderson has welcomed the actions taken by the PSNI in Derry against those who would peddle drugs in our community but is calling on the Police Ombudsman's Office to investigate an incident in Ballymagroarty Read full article
29 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Councillor Gerry MacLochlainn has expressed concern over the accountability of employers over deaths in the workplace after new figures showed that almost 160 people have been killed in their workplace over the past ten years but that only 31 employers had been found guilty of health and safety breaches Read full article
28 July, 2007
Pearse Doherty - First Sinn Féin Senator Read full article
28 July, 2007
Party in the Park! Read full article
27 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Waterside Councillor Lynn Fleming has welcomed a week long serious of events to mark Polish Cultural Week in the North Read full article
27 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Councillor Tony Hassan has voiced concern at millions paid out to Private Landlords in Housing Benefit over this past year. In total £55,203,995 was paid out in the Belfast area in the past year, 70% of which went to private landlords. This is an increase almost £16 million in this past 4 years. Read full article
27 July, 2007
Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has said major redevelopments planned for Derry represent an unprecedented chance to help alleviate the problem of unemployment in the city. Read full article
27 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Councillor Peter Anderson has urged elderly people to seek advice on what benefits they are entitled to after at least £870,000 initially went unclaimed last year. Read full article
27 July, 2007
Féile Folk in the Village
Metallita Read full article
26 July, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson speaking after the publication of the party's submission to the Varney Review has said that underlying structural weakness in the 6 county economy will only be addressed by a creative and innovative change in fiscal and economic policy. Read full article
26 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Human Rights and Equality Spokesperson Foyle MLA Martina Anderson, who is one of the party representatives on the Bill of Rights Forum, has said that the forum is now getting down to work of the detail on new legislation and that this is an opportunity to set new standards. Ms Anderson also called on people from all sections of society to get involved. Read full article
26 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Spokesperson, Raymond McCartney has said that the report into the NIO's appointment of the interim Victims Commissioner, Bertha McDougal highlights serious shortcomings and flaws in the process of Public Appointments and the need for a new transparent approach in all public appointments. Read full article
26 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Equality spokesperson Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has welcomed new European laws that will improve air travel for disabled and older people Read full article
26 July, 2007
Welcoming the meeting between Sinn Féin President, Gerry Adams and Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure, Edwin Poots, Raymond McCartney MLA (Foyle) said: Read full article
26 July, 2007
Roaring Meg, All Ireland Street Busking Competition Read full article
26 July, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has welcomed confirmation from British Armed Forces Minister Bob Ainsworth that the almost 40 year British military operation of the Six Counties will end on July 31st. Read full article
25 July, 2007
There will be a National mobilisation in Belfast on Sunday 12th August to protest against the British policy of collusion.
The main speaker will be Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams Read full article
25 July, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has said that the hoax devices in Derry caused only hardship to the local population and businesses. Read full article
25 July, 2007
Gasyard Music Féile '07 Programme of Events Thursday 26th -Friday 27th Read full article
25 July, 2007
Sinn Féin in Derry has expressed deep concern at the increasing incidence of drug abuse in the City which it believes cannot be divorced from the corresponding increase in anti-community activity, vandalism and criminality Read full article
25 July, 2007
Sinn Fein Cllr Maeve Mc Laughlin has welcomed the decision by a number of MEPs to visit the North West of Ireland in September. This is an important boost for the North West Region and an opportunity for us to advance the needs and aspirations of the Region. I am aware that Party Colleague Bairbre De Brun has been lobbying for some time to secure a visit to the North West of Ireland and I am pleased that this visit has now been confirmed. Read full article
25 July, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has pledged that the party will fight any attempts by the British government to lower the minimum wage here. Read full article
24 July, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has welcomed the first moves to integrate the penalty point system for driving offences between the North and the South of Ireland. Read full article
24 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Equality spokesperson Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has expressed disappointment that a new report from the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) has found that equality between men and women is potentially "generations away" Read full article
24 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Spokesperson, Martina Anderson MLA (Foyle) has welcomed the new PSNI media campaign to encourage more victims of domestic violence to come forward. But Ms Anderson added that far reaching improvements right across the policing and judicial structures in dealing with domestic violence cases and particularly in conviction rates and sentencing are needed. Read full article
24 July, 2007
Gasyard Music Féile '07 Programme of Events
Tuesday 24th -Wednesday 25th Read full article
23 July, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has appealed for Royal Mail to get into direct talks with The Communication Workers' Union (CWU) as union members step up their industrial action. Read full article
23 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Deputy Mayor of Derry Councillor Patricia Logue wished the organisers and participants of the 2007 Foyle Cup well as the City awaits the start of the week long competition Read full article
23 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has said that as society we need to be more proactive in tackling the issue of sexually transmitted infections after the Health Protection Agency found that the number of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) continues to rise Read full article
22 July, 2007
Ógra Shinn Féin launch new National Website
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21 July, 2007
Gasyard Music Féile '07
Mon 23 July Read full article
20 July, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has called for the full publication of the Stalker Report and the immediate publication for all other enquiries relating the policy of shoot-to-kill after the Police Ombudsman confirmed that she had been asked to re-open files on the killing of Gervaise McKerr, Sean Burns and Eugene Toman in North Armagh 1982 in by the RUC. Read full article
20 July, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has called on the Minister for Social Development, Margaret Ritchie, to spell out the timeframe for the Taskforce to deliver its plan of action on the recommendations of the Semple housing review on the issue of affordability and social housing. Read full article
20 July, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has wished the organisers of the Féile 07 well as the festival programme begins this weekend and hopes for successful week of events and appealed to people throughout the city to support this and the many other community based festivals taking place over the summer Read full article
20 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Health spokesperson Councillor Billy Page has urged people to take heed of public awareness campaigns aimed at educating the public to the signs of heart attacks after it was revealed by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) that Coronary heart disease (CHD) is still one of the single biggest killers claiming more than 100,00 lives in 2005. Read full article
20 July, 2007
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has urged community groups to attend an information day aimed at helping them apply for arts council funding. Read full article
19 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Policing Board member Martina Anderson MLA speaking after a meeting of the Policing Board human rights subcommittee has welcomed the call from the Equality Commission for a full Equality Impact Assessment on the introduction of TASERS and added that there is no evidence to support the introduction of these weapons here. Read full article
18 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Councillor Lynn Fleming has praised Derry City Council for the work they have carried out on the steps at the quarry leading from Spencer Road towards Gobnascale area. Read full article
18 July, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has said that many people will be shocked to learn over the past 4 years that almost £740 million was paid out to the private sector, including to Private landlords. Read full article
18 July, 2007
Sinn Fein MLA Martina Anderson has welcomed the news that Stream is to create 300 new jobs in Derry with further jobs planned for the future. Read full article
18 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Councillor Paul Fleming has welcomed the fact that Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Michelle Gildernew has chaired the first meeting of a stakeholder group looking into rural childcare issues. Read full article
18 July, 2007
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has said the largest Protestant/Unionist area in Derry is in urgent need of investment to develop vital community infrastructure,. Read full article
18 July, 2007
Foyle Assembly member Martina Anderson has revealed that home helps could soon be entitled to the same exemptions from parking charges which are available to doctors and other medical professionals, Read full article
17 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Councillor for the Greater Shantallow Area, Tony Hassan, has called the actions of the developers of a vacant house in Ardnamoyle Park as nothing less than disgraceful and he has called on them to act now to rectify the problem. Read full article
17 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney has said that there is an obvious need for one integrated body to examine and deal with Road Safety across the Island. Read full article
17 July, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has expressed dismay that, despite their obligation to undertake collaborative projects on an All-Ireland basis, Health Ministers Michael McGimpsey and Mary Harney have held no discussions about the establishment of a satellite cancer centre in the North West. Read full article
16 July, 2007
Two Republican ex-prisoners, Kevin MC Gettigan(left) and Kevin Campbell(right)who both recently graduated from University of Ulster Magee with an Honors degree in Irish Language and Literature. The two began the degree in the aftermath of funding secured by Tar Abhaile, the Republican ex-prisoners group based in Derry, to enhance the skills and employability of ex-prisoners and their families.Both are pictured with pius mc naught of Tar Abhaile Read full article
16 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Councillor Tony Hassan has called on the DRD Road Service to erect traffic warning signs and traffic calming measures at Sandbank Park. Read full article
16 July, 2007
Waterside Sinn Fein Councillor Lynn Fleming has commended the local members of the Top of the hill community forum for their prompt actions on behalf of the their community on Thursday night past. Read full article
12 July, 2007
Waterside Sinn Féin councillor Lynn Fleming has commended the young people from the Curryneirn area who took part in a recent clean up of the area in recent months. Read full article
12 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Spokesperson Martina Anderson MLA (Foyle) in a hard hitting attack on the media focus on the £3million pounds that the review of Public Administration has cost and the fact that Arlene Foster is now commissioning another review with the intention of revising the number upwards instead of focusing on the £35 million a year that such a course of action will cost said: Read full article
11 July, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has accused local MP Mark Durkan of deliberately misleading the Derry public over replies from Department of Education dealing with the Meanscoil Coláiste Bhride. Read full article
11 July, 2007
Sinn Féin activist Mary Nelis is appealing to people who have T shirts with Republican/ Prisoners/ S F or other revolutionary slogans to loan them to her for an exhibition. Read full article
11 July, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has said more must be done to tackle the issue of Firms breaching data protection after a new report found a number of companies, government departments and other public bodies have breached data protection rules in the past year. Read full article
11 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Equality spokesperson Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has said action needs to be taken on the housing shortage for older people after it was revealed by the consortium of sheltered housing -Essential Role of Sheltered Housing (ERoSH) that up to 1.5 million elderly people could be homeless by 2020 if the British Government fails to address the housing shortage. Read full article
11 July, 2007
Derry Republican youth group Tóirsire have held a protest on the main arterial route between Derry and Donegal to highlight the ongoing issue of the Derry City name change row. Read full article
11 July, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has called on more female doctors in Derry to take up additional training to enable them to support the victims of sexual attack and abuse. Read full article
11 July, 2007
Sinn Fein in Derry has expressed concern about the amount of reported incidents of masked men being seen around the Carlisle Road Area and ongoing assaults that do not seem to be getting the response from the police that they merit. Read full article
10 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Councillor Kevin Campbell has welcomed the announcement by the deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness of project funding of £570,000 as part of the Arts Council's Re-Imaging Communities Programme to 34 projects across the North including Derry City Council for an Art and Re-imaging Feasibility Study, Ballymagroarty /Hazelbank Community Partnership, Lincoln Courts Youth and Community Association - Community Garden Project Read full article
10 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has said the loophole in the Human Rights Act which renders private entities "beyond the law" when contracted from public bodies must be addressed. Read full article
10 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Deputy Mayor Patricia Logue has urged parents to warn children about the dangers of playing near electricity sub stations or electricity pylons during the summer holidays Read full article
9 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Equality spokesperson Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has said the nationalist and unionist people of Derry must find the courage to work together in order to build a new society built on genuine equality. Her comments follow on from the successful launch of the Sinn Féin Charter for Unionist Engagement in Derry Read full article
9 July, 2007
The DUP have been accused of reneging on the St. Andrew's Agreement after ruling out the transfer of policing and justice powers to the assembly by next May. The party's North Belfast MP Nigel Dodds said at the weekend that the deadline would have to be extended until such times as the unionist community had confidence that the structures of the IRA had been dismantled Read full article
7 July, 2007
Charter for Unionist Engagement PDF launched in Derry on Friday 6th July 2007 Read full article
6 July, 2007
Ógra Shinn Féin National Organiser, Barry McColgan has said An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern comments regarding suicide are unacceptable and disgraceful. Read full article
6 July, 2007
Research on Winifred Carney help needed Read full article
6 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Equality spokesperson Martina Anderson MLA speaking today at the North West Launch of the Sinn Féin Charter for Unionist Engagement in Derry (Friday 6th July) Read full article
6 July, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has said that there needs to an overall of the system which calculates Income tax , after it was revealed in a new report that Income Tax errors have effected 1million people Read full article
6 July, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has said he is disappointed that Royal Mail has refused to engage in fresh negotiations with the Communication Workers Union (CWU) in efforts to avert the second planned stoppage next week. The strike will begin at 7.00pm on 12th July and will end the following day Read full article
5 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Equality spokesperson Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has welcomed the launch of the Think Before 4 U Act campaign at Stormont this morning (Thursday 5th July ) by the First and Deputy First Minister Read full article
5 July, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has said that it is unacceptable that there are more empty houses lying vacant that there people are on the homeless list. Read full article
5 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Councillor Maeve McLaughlin has reiterated her party's commitment
to delivering 'full and proper accountability' within Derry City Council. Read full article
5 July, 2007
Sinn Féin's Councillor Elisha McLaughlin has said that the scandal of under spending for our children in the Six Counties is unsurprising and needs to be highlighted. Read full article
4 July, 2007
The following paper was recently submitted to the North South Forum: Read full article
4 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Councillor Gerry MacLochlainn has said that the rights of the workers and customers of the Waterfoot Hotel must be protected after it was announced that it is to suddenly close Read full article
4 July, 2007
Speaking following a presentation by the Independent review panel of Water and Sewage to the Regional Development Committee, Sinn Féin Committee member, Raymond Mc Cartney MLA said, Read full article
4 July, 2007
North West launch of Sinn Féin Charter for Unionist Engagement on Friday Read full article
4 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Health spokesperson Councillor Billy Page said it is very worrying that BBC's Radio One's Newsbeat programme has revealed that thousands of young diabetics could be skipping insulin injections in order to lose weight Read full article
4 July, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson speaking ahead of going to meet the committee of OFM/DFM today (Wednesday) to put the case for a particular focus to be placed on child poverty in the North. Read full article
3 July, 2007
Official support services should be immediately established in Derry to help families who have been bereaved by suicide, Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has said. Read full article
3 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Councillor Billy Page has called on the DRD Road Service to provide a right turning zone at the entrance of Springvale Park and the Northland Road. Read full article
3 July, 2007
Derry Republican Graves spokesperson Pius McNaught has congratulated all the winners of the draw that took place on Saturday night and thanked all those who bought tickets. Read full article
3 July, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has welcomed the announcement by Department of Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy of a £250million upgrade of the A6 road between Derry to Dungiven. Read full article
3 July, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has welcomed the news that mobile phone service providers in Europe will have to start offering cheaper tariffs to their customers and that the new lower rates for roaming charges must be published by 30th July 2007 Read full article
2 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Councillor Kevin Campbell has said that our national heritage is in danger of being destroyed if the Hill of Tara road is allowed to proceed. Read full article
2 July, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has said that Derry City Council is to be commended for the prompt way in which it reacted to the closure of Derry City Airport for safety reasons last month. Read full article
2 July, 2007
Sinn Féin housing spokesperson on Derry City Council, Cllr Tony Hassan has again called on the the Department of Social Development to publicly state the number of people homeless in the Derry City Council area. Read full article
2 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Environmental spokesperson Gerry MacLochlainn has said that there is the need for an Independent All-Ireland Environmental Protection Agency needed Read full article
2 July, 2007
Sinn Féin Kevin Campbell has said that many victims of the RUC would be angered at Friday's court ruling awarding millions of pounds of taxpayer's money to former members of the discredited force for stress and trauma during the conflict Read full article
2 July, 2007
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has said the party will give its full support to the Samaritans 24-7 campaign. Read full article
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