News Archives for April, 2008
30 April, 2008
In response to a question from Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney the Department of Education has revealed that £15.8 million is spent on transport in the voluntary grammar schools sector. No figures are available for the maintained grammar schools. Read full article
30 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue has called on the DRD Road Service to bring forward proposals for traffic calming measures at the top of Westland Street. Read full article
30 April, 2008
A delegation of high-powered US investors will visit Derry next month as part a major economic conference, Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has revealed. Read full article
30 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue has welcomed the news that the vacant factory at the bottom of Blighs Lane is to be demolished within months. Read full article
30 April, 2008
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has called for the Health Minister Michael McGimpsey to do more to ease the dental crisis in Derry. Read full article
30 April, 2008
Despite the ongoing issues of the Political Protocol in the University of Ulster, a successful debate titled '10 Years Since the Good Friday Agreement' took place last week. Read full article
29 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Peter Anderson has said that the levels of benefit error by the Social Security Agency, and both under and over payment and fraud - are still disappointingly high. Read full article
29 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Health spokesperson Councillor Billy Page said he is extremely worried at a warning from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) that an increase in paperwork is preventing nurses from spending enough time caring for patients Read full article
29 April, 2008
Sinn Féin councillor for the Greater Shantallow area and housing spokesperson has welcomed the completion of 10 news houses at the travellers halting site in Ballyarnett which afford travellers the opportunity to live in proper conditions for the first time. Read full article
29 April, 2008
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has said that she is disappointed to hear about the job losses at The Derry Journal and concerned about the future of other non reporting jobs in the group. Read full article
28 April, 2008
Sinn Féin councillor for the Greater Shantallow Area Elisha Mc Laughlin has voiced concerned with actions of an anti - community element who have been having massive negative impact on the people of Leafair and she has said that she will stand shoulder to shoulder with the residents in their pursuit to hold those responsible to account. Read full article
28 April, 2008
Sinn Fein Councillor Lynn Fleming has called on Derry City Council to carry out an equality impact assessment on the provision of GAA pitches in Derry. Read full article
28 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Peter Anderson has congratulated the Derry GAA Football team after they won the Allianz National Football League yesterday and called for the Mayor to have a civic reception for the team. Read full article
28 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Maeve McLaughlin has said that she is deeply concerned that the Investment Northern Ireland (INI) Corporate Plan does not have provision for to tackle regional disparity in the North West. Read full article
28 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Elisha McLaughlin has said the policing plan for the Foyle District must take into consideration the issues that affect the vast majority of people on the ground. Read full article
25 April, 2008
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney said that the meeting on Monday with Brandywell Properties is crucial in determining the future of not only the stadium but also the regeneration of the Brandywell area. Read full article
25 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Peter Anderson has welcomed the decision of the Court in the test case taken by eight Banks and Building Societies against the Office of Fair Trading in relation to fees for unauthorised overdrafts. Read full article
24 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Lynn Fleming has said that the latest increase by Phoenix Gas will only exacerbate the problems of fuel poverty faced by thousands of people. Read full article
24 April, 2008
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has welcomed a commitment from Ilex to ensure that Fort George and Ebrington deliver maximum benefit to all the people of Derry through vigorous equality proofing. Read full article
24 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Maeve McLaughlin has asked the local District Policing Partnership to write to the Police Ombudsman asking for clarification on the issue of disciplinary suspensions. Read full article
23 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Regional Development Spokesperson, Raymond McCartney MLA (Foyle) today expressed his anger at the Management of N. I. Water - the North's water and sewerage provider. Read full article
23 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Tony Hassan has said that it is about time that parents are held accountable for the actions of their children. Read full article
23 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Maeve McLaughlin has said that she was astonished to find out that the rates office no longer accepts cash. Read full article
23 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Deputy Mayor Councillor Patricia Logue has called on Northern Ireland Water to carry out an urgent review of work practices involved in a watermains replacement scheme taking place in parts of the Bogside after being inundated with complaints from local residents about the mess and upset the associated roadwork's is causing . Read full article
23 April, 2008
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has said that Lumen Christi does not provide for parental choice but caters exclusively for academic apartheid. Read full article
23 April, 2008
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness is to raise the future of the threatened Malin Head Marine Rescue Coordination Centre with the incoming Taoiseach Brian Cowen, Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has revealed. Read full article
23 April, 2008
Students of the University of Ulster campus in Magee, Derry, will be gathering in the university, this Thursday 24th April, to discuss '10 Years Since the Good Friday Agreement'.
The event, beginning at 6.30pm in Room NV007, will see representatives of all the major parties involved in the negotiations, as well as local academics, discussing the Agreement, and the change of the last ten years. Read full article
22 April, 2008
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney, speaking ahead of a Sinn Fein sponsored Assembly debate on job losses in the construction industry has said that there have been almost 1,500 jobs lost in the sector in recent months. Read full article
22 April, 2008
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has said that the British Government's abolition of the 10p tax band will leave thousands of the lowest paid workers in the North worse off. Read full article
22 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Tony Hassan has voiced concern at the lack of action on social housing after the latest publication of the DSD housing bulletin. Read full article
22 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Gerry MacLochlainn has said that the Minister of the Environment has failed to do anything to help reduce the use of plastic bags in the north. Read full article
22 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Billy Page has welcomed and endorsed the call from the Dental Association for the inclusion of Dentists on Local Commissioning Groups. Read full article
22 April, 2008
Supporting today's announcement of a judicial review regarding the 1737 Act on the use of Irish language in the courts Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún has said that there is a strong need for a change to the legislation. Read full article
22 April, 2008
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has appealed to the Minister of Finance and Personnel to ensure that promises made to encourage the take up of Rate Relief to people will be kept. Read full article
22 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Paul Fleming has described the proposal by the NIO to exclude GAA halls from a compensation scheme for local halls damaged in attacks as 'yet another blatantly sectarian scheme emanating from within the NIO'. Read full article
22 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Housing Spokesperson on Derry City Council, Cllr Tony Hassan is hopeful that a meeting between the developers and the planning service that will take place in the city this week to approve the building of 300 new social housing at the Skeoge lands will happen so that the 1,200 people that are homeless in Derry City Council area can have some kind of hope in getting a home of there own. Read full article
22 April, 2008
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has urged as many people as possible to attend a series of information days about the planned upgrade of the A5 road from Derry to Aughnacloy to a dual carriageway which are to be held in four towns along the proposed route in the coming weeks. Read full article
22 April, 2008
Derry Republican Graves Association annual grand draw with over £20,000 in prizes Read full article
22 April, 2008
Derry Ógra Shinn Féin are set to attend a National Youth Forum on Drugs in Dublin on Saturday 17 May. The drugs focussed youth forum which is being held in the Teacher's Club from 12 - 5pm is part of the youth movement's NARC (Not Another Ravaged Community) campaign. Read full article
21 April, 2008
Following the recent publication of the EU Taskforce report Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún has welcomed the recommendation of greater All Ireland links in regard to agriculture Read full article
21 April, 2008
A series of information days on the proposed improvements to the A5 route between Derry and the border at Aughnacloy will be held by Roads Service. Read full article
21 April, 2008
Ógra Shinn Féin yesterday held a protest outside Strand Road PSNI station over the introduction of tasers. Read full article
21 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Peter Anderson has called on all pensioners over the age of 70 living alone and paying rates to avail of the new lone pensioner allowance Read full article
21 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Health spokesperson Councillor Billy Page has said that the latest survey by the consumer magazine Which? that found 83% of those questioned believed irresponsible marketing was making it harder to encourage children to eat well, has reinforced the need to have a complete ban on "Junk Food" advertisements before the 9pm watershed Read full article
21 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Elisha McLaughlin has backed calls from two charities Age Concern and Help the Aged for benefits to the elderly to be paid automatically and for an urgent review of the benefits system after its was found in a new survey that six out of ten pensioners on low incomes are being put off claiming benefits because the system is too complicated Read full article
21 April, 2008
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has expressed serious concern at the uncertainty and threat being faced by the community and voluntary sector across Derry describing aspects of this as close to melt down. Read full article
18 April, 2008
Efforts to transform the Templemore Sports Complex into a first-class leisure facility are set to take a major step forward in the coming weeks, Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has revealed. Read full article
18 April, 2008
Sinn Fein's Raymond McCartney has welcomed a plan by Electoral Office which will make it easier for disabled people to vote. Read full article
18 April, 2008
Sinn Féin MLA and Equality Spokesperson Martina Anderson has welcomed a commitment that anyone applying for the US investment package for the North last week must sign up to the MacBride Principles. Read full article
18 April, 2008
Sinn Féin MEP, Bairbre de Brún has visitied St Mary's College and student Sharmin Rahman in Creggan, Derry winners of this year's recent all-Ireland photo competition on climate change which was co-sponsored by the European Parliament and the Departments of Environment, North and South. Read full article
17 April, 2008
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney is today travelling to Erbil in Kurdistan region of Iraq today to take part in a conference on power sharing Read full article
17 April, 2008
Derry Sinn Féin would like to take this opportunity to thank all the citizens of the city and district who signed our petitions calling for the retention and expansion of cancer services at Altnagelvin. Read full article
17 April, 2008
High-quality financial services courses at Magee University could help rejuvenate the local economy, Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has said. Read full article
16 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has urged businesses in the North West to tender for contracts and procurement of goods, works and services for the 2012 London Olympics Read full article
16 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Deputy Mayor Patricia Logue has urged parents to warn children about the dangers of playing near electricity sub stations or electricity pylons Read full article
16 April, 2008
Foyle MLA Martina Anderson, speaking in a Sinn Féin sponsored Assembly debate on Cancer services in Foyle has said that there should be no constraints in a regional cancer facility for the North West.
Sinn Fein Assembly members also recognised Donegal Councillor Padraig McLochlainn who has pushed for a Regional Cancer centre for the North West. Read full article
15 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Deputy Mayor Councillor Patricia Logue has condemned those involved in a vandalism attack on the railings along the pathway just below the city's walls which overlooks Fahan Street Read full article
15 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor for Shantallow Tony Hassan has again called on those responsible for dumping rubbish and other materials on the Springfield Road / Ballyarnett area of Culmore to desist from this anti-community behaviour. Read full article
15 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Maeve McLaughlin has called on Derry City Council to open a book of condolences for Dr Patrick Hillery former President of Ireland who passed away last week. Read full article
14 April, 2008
Sinn Féin MLA, Raymond McCartney, has voiced his dismay after being informed that the incentive grant for people who wish to start their own business is to be scrapped. Read full article
14 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Tony Hassan has expressed concerns about a new Local Housing Allowance which has replaced Housing Benefit for private rented sector tenants who seek financial help for the first time. Read full article
14 April, 2008
One year on from the restoration of the political institutions and 10 years after the Good Friday Agreement Sinn Féin will be holding nine public meetings across the Six Counties to mark these historic events. Read full article
14 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Peter Anderson commenting after a car was smashed up and later burned out under the Lecky Road Flyover on Saturday afternoon. Read full article
12 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Elisha McLaughlin has said the British Government must take urgent action to ensure that rates of benefits keep pace with earnings .Her call comes after a study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation found that child poverty could rise as a result of the growing imbalance between earnings and rates of benefits Read full article
12 April, 2008
Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brun has described today's announcement at the European Parliamentary plenary session that Written Declaration 111 committing the EU to ending street homelessness by 2015 as hugely significant. Read full article
12 April, 2008
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has welcomed an initiative from the University of Ulster which plans to offer computing students £3,000 to study in Derry. Read full article
12 April, 2008
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has secured an adjournment debate on Tuesday in the Assembly to debate the future of cancer services for the North West. Read full article
11 April, 2008
Sinn Fein Councillor Maeve McLaughlin has said that it is unacceptable that the North West does not feature in the corporate plan of Invest Northern Ireland that aims to deliver £567million in the North between 2008 - 2011. Read full article
11 April, 2008
Foyle Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has accused SDLP Leader Mark Durkan of colluding with the DUP in order to cover-up his failure to develop Derry's railway line. Read full article
10 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Rural Councillor, Paul Fleming has voiced concerns at reports that essential supply services for elderly patients are to be removed from Eglinton Health Centre. Read full article
10 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor for the Greater Shantallow Area, Tony Hassan, has called on Firmus Energy to ensure that the contractors who are laying the Gas pipes in the Galliagh area do so in a safe and clean manner. Read full article
10 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Health Spokesperson Councillor Billy Page has welcomed the transfer of responsibility for prisoner health from the NIO to the Department of Health.
He also called for resources to help the diagnosis of prisoners with personality disorders Read full article
10 April, 2008
AN PHOBLACHT, the Sinn Féin weekly published on Thursday, carries the third and final instalment of a rare interview with former IRA leader Brian Keenan, described during the war years by Tony Blair's Chief of Staff at 10 Downing Street as "the single biggest threat to the British state". Read full article
9 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Elisha McLaughlin has welcomed the decision by both Celtic and Rangers Football Clubs to remove the Carling beer logo from their children's replica shirts from next season. Read full article
9 April, 2008
Sinn Féin spokesperson Raymond McCartney MLA (Foyle) has accused the SDLP of 'working hand in hand with those who are seeking to promote a hierarchy of victims'. Mr McCartney's comments come after the SDLP supported unionist plans to introduce a Chief Victims Commissioner and remove the need for consensus amongst the four commissioners on decision making. Read full article
9 April, 2008
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA and Policing Board member Martina Anderson has called for all agencies to review their procedures following the investigation into the death of a Derryman who went missing in 2006. Read full article
9 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has urged parents throughout the city to be vigilant after a young man indecently exposed himself to children in several incidents which occurred in the Bogside area on Tuesday night Read full article
9 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Maeve McLaughlin has called on the Council to support the proposed scholarships in Computing and Electronics in partnership with ILEX and the Magee campus of the University of Ulster. Read full article
9 April, 2008
Derry Sinn Féin housing spokesperson, Cllr Tony Hassan, has called on the Department of Social Development and the Minister Margaret Ritchie to come clean and let people know exactly where the new housing agenda is at. Read full article
8 April, 2008
Social networking sites will remain a 'preying ground' for sexual predators if tougher measures aren't introduced according to Sinn Féin Councillor Elisha McLaughlin. Read full article
8 April, 2008
Irish Transport Minister Noel Dempsey has faced renewed calls to meet Foyle Sinn Féin MLA over the future of the threatened Malin Head Marine Rescue Coordination Centre. Read full article
8 April, 2008
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has said that the Housing Executive's announcement that the funding for the 'Supporting People' programme is to remain at last year's figure will have a huge impact on some of the most vulnerable people in our society including pensioners, homeless people and those with mental health problems. Read full article
8 April, 2008
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson, a member of the Policing Board Human Resources committee, has said that the PSNI Gender Action Plan is fundamentally incapable of addressing the under-representation and advancement of women and ethnic minorities within the police service. Read full article
7 April, 2008
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA and Policing Board member Martina Anderson has called for Rosemount Barracks site to be handed over free of charge after the Chief Constable confirmed that the PSNI will seek to sell it. Read full article
7 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Deputy Mayor Councillor Patricia Logue has welcomed the upgrading and replacement lighting scheme that is currently taking place in the Bogside and Bishop Street areas. Read full article
7 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Health spokesperson Councillor Billy Page has described as extremely worrying a new study by the University of Northumbria which found that "Binge Drinking " teenagers are at risk of turning absent minded and forgetful because of the damage alcohol is doing to their brains Read full article
5 April, 2008
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has welcomed the announcement that an interim advocate for older people will be in place here within a matter of months. Read full article
4 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Leadership Public Meeting Derry
Wednesday 16th April - Guildhall Derry
Proceedings start at 8.00pm sharp Read full article
4 April, 2008
Launch of 2008 Derry Republican Graves Association annual grand draw with over £20,000 in prizes Read full article
3 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Paul Fleming has said that he is hopeful that the Minister of Agriculture Michelle Gildernew will include the wards of Newbuildings, Culmore and Strathfoyle into the Rural Development Programme. Read full article
3 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Kevin Campbell has called on parents to ensure that their children do not approach a herd of horses that have escaped from their field and are now running around High Park. Read full article
2 April, 2008
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson while welcoming the appointments of Mr Matt McNulty and Mr Tom Fanning to the board of ILEX, the development company entrusted with the development of the former army bases at Fort George and Ebrington has said that the people of Derry need now to see product rather than appointments and plans. Read full article
2 April, 2008
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has said that the Environment Minister must ensure that a new Goods Vehicle (Licensing of Operators) Bill is introduced before the summer. Mr McCartney was speaking after meeting between the Freight Transport Association and Sinn Féin today and said that the matter had been "put on the long finger" by Direct Rule Ministers for many years. Read full article
2 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Health Spokesperson, Councillor Billy Page has said that Prescription charges act as a barrier to people accessing the medicines they need. Read full article
2 April, 2008
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has said the planned Bill of Rights can help make a real difference to the lives of people in Derry. Read full article
2 April, 2008
Sinn Féin MLA McCartney has called on all Ministers in the Executive asking them to investigate what they can do to enable the public to access relevant services offered by their Departments at Post offices franchises and therefore support the long-term viability and sustainability of the Post Office Network. Read full article
2 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor for the Greater Shantallow Area, Tony Hassan, while welcoming the opening of the new Skeoge Link has insisted that action needs to be taken to ensure that the Buncrana Road is capable of taking the new flow of traffic. Read full article
2 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has called for the introduction of free TV licences for the over 65's and for the criteria set for the availability of free TV licences to be widened Read full article
2 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney reacting to the news that over 700 people throughout Ireland have been detected drink driving over the Easter Bank holiday weekend Read full article
1 April, 2008
Sinn Fein Spokesperson on Human Rights, Martina Anderson MLA (Foyle) has welcomed the statement by Bishop Séamus Hegarty expressing the Church's support for equality for all children in accessing education. Read full article
1 April, 2008
Constituency services
Culmore /Greater Shantallow Read full article
1 April, 2008
The Assembly is to call on the Social Development Minister to 'introduce effective measures to help combat alcohol misuse' tomorrow, Tuesday 1st April. Read full article
1 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Paul Fleming has said the closure of up to 100 Post Offices will have a devastating effect on communities across the North Read full article
1 April, 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Peter Anderson whilst welcoming the new voluntary banking code set to be introduced, has expressed concerns that still remain over the issues of credit card limits and overdraft charges Read full article
1 April, 2008
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has described the SDLP opposition to accelerated passage of the Victims Legislation as contradictory and hypocritical. Read full article
1 April, 2008
Sinn Féin councillor for the Greater Shantallow Area, Cllr Elisha Mc Laughlin, is calling on the Road Service to implement a traffic calming measures in the area of Carnhill Estate that currently does not have any. Read full article
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