News Archives for March, 2009
31 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor for the Bogside and Brandywell area Patricia Logue has praised the hard work of all of those involved in the 'Brandywell sporting legends mural project', which celebrates the achievements of local sporting personalities, Read full article
31 March, 2009
Ógra Shinn Féin activists have called for equality for the Easter Lily at broadcast organisations UTV and the BBC in the city. Read full article
31 March, 2009
Huge inequalities based on religion and social status still exist in the North of Ireland according to the latest labour market statistics, Sinn Féin Equality and Human Rights spokesperson Martina Anderson has said. Read full article
31 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Lynn Fleming has said that the latest series of burglaries in the Knockwellan Park and Trench Road area were preventable and called on people to take basic precautions. Read full article
30 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Tony Hassan has called on the Minister for Social Development to go back to the drawing board with regards her proposed budget for 09-10. Read full article
30 March, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has stated to Ciaran Rogan of Translink that services must not be cut due to redundancies being carried out by Translink. Read full article
30 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Kevin Campbell has moved to ease fears that Republican Graves may have been vandalised in the city cemetery and explained that the white solution poured over headstones in recent days was part of work undertaken by the Graves Association and Magee Sinn Féin Society to refurbish the letters and markings on the headstones. Read full article
30 March, 2009
Sinn Féin will tomorrow (Tuesday) launch the annual campaign encouraging people to honour Ireland's dead and wear an Easter Lilly. Read full article
30 March, 2009
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson urged the Further Education Minister to intervene after staff at the North West Regional College passed a motion of no confidence in management at the institution. Read full article
28 March, 2009
The Dirty War... It hasn't gone away, you know
BY DECLAN KEARNEY
Sinn Féin National
Chairperson Read full article
27 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Billy Page denounced the illegal dumping of around 2000 tyres on the Whitehouse Road on land that is privately owned Read full article
27 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Assembly member in Assembly member Martina Anderson has told DUP MP Gregory Campbell that he would be better off concentrating on upping his performance as a Minister rather than trying to impede the work of the Human Rights Commissioner. Read full article
27 March, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney will speak at the Annual Conference of the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) this weekend in Templepatrick. Read full article
27 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Peter Anderson has appealed to anyone who may travelling abroad in the next few months and have European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) to ensure their cards are valid . Read full article
26 March, 2009
QUB Public Talk - The relevance of the 1916 Proclamation today?
Public Talk Read full article
26 March, 2009
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has said the one of the cities best known housing developments Lisfannon Park needs a major facelift. Her call comes after she met local residents with party colleague Councillor Patricia Logue. Read full article
26 March, 2009
Sinn Féin councillor for the Greater Shantallow Area, Tony Hassan, has called on the Road Service to urgently review the current parking arrangements on the Racecourse Road adjacent to the Shantallow House. Read full article
26 March, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA, Martina Anderson has welcomed the recent launch of new support services for victims of Human Trafficking but says much more needs to be done to tackle this horrendous crime. Read full article
26 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue has urged anyone who has an objection to a proposed planning application to place a phone mast and antennae on Blighs Lane needs to do so within the next 14 days with the local planning office Read full article
26 March, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has added Sinn Fein's support for an Autism Bill today at Stormont. The bill would see the bringing forwards of draft legislation to provide for the rights and entitlements of people with autism and their families. Read full article
26 March, 2009
Councillor Billy Page the Health Spokesperson for Sinn Féin has welcomed the announcement by Queens University that they had made a major breakthrough in dealing with MRSA Read full article
26 March, 2009
The Tax Credit system is failing the most vulnerable people in the North of Ireland, Sinn Féin Equality and Human Rights spokesperson Martina Anderson MLA has insisted. Read full article
26 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney has welcomed the announcement by DRD Minister Conor Murphy of an increase from £6,500 to £10,000 in the financial assistance being made available to householders requesting a water main extension to serve an existing property. Read full article
25 March, 2009
PUBLIC MEETINGS
10 years of Venezuelan Revolution
10 years of social progress and democracy Read full article
25 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Maeve Mc Laughlin says she welcomes the move by Arntz belting firm to suspend mandatory redundancies but encourages more clarity on the part of the management over the future of the company in Derry. Read full article
25 March, 2009
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has slammed a British Government 'snub' to young carers here Read full article
25 March, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney today welcomed the ruling in the High Court in Belfast concerning the detention of a number of people currently being held by the PSNI for periods beyond normal human rights best practice Read full article
25 March, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA and Policing Board member Martina Anderson has said that Colin Duffy should be released or he should be charged. Read full article
25 March, 2009
Special Branch not helping with inquiries-Mary Nelis Read full article
25 March, 2009
Education Minister Caitríona Ruane has said that if schools follow the Transfer 2010 Guidance, it will deliver an effective and fair system of transfer to post-primary schools. Read full article
25 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor and local DPP member Maeve McLaughlin has welcomed a new campaign to inform local school pupils aged 12-13 years old about the dangers of knife crime. Read full article
25 March, 2009
Sinn Féin councillor for the Greater Shantallow Area, Cllr Tony Hassan, has praised road service for the work that was carried out on the Racecourse Road in last few weeks. Read full article
25 March, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has said that he is disappointed that a Sinn Féin motion highlighting the difficulties people are experiencing when trying to register to vote and calling for the registration process to be simplified was opposed in the Assembly. Read full article
25 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Paul Fleming has called on the rural public to respond to the consultation on draft PPS21 (Planning in the Countryside). Read full article
24 March, 2009
Ógra Shinn Féin Doire launched their new National Campaign Educate to be Free on Saturday evening in the city centre with a leaflet drop to the people of Derry to highlight the problems that young people are facing within the education system. Read full article
24 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney speaking at the launch said Read full article
24 March, 2009
Policing Board member Martina Anderson MLA has welcomed the publication of the Board's inquiry into how the PSNI tackle the issue of domestic violence here Read full article
24 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue has expressed deep concern at the latest figures issued by the NSPCC which indicate that the number of children ringing ChildLine bases in North to talk about suicide has quadrupled in the past five years. Read full article
24 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor for Creggan Kevin Campbell has called on those responsible for dumping rubbish and other materials on the Glassagh road and Creevagh area at the weekend to desist from this anti community behaviour. Read full article
24 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Health spokesperson Councillor Billy Page has welcomed the announcement that the breast-screening programme will be extended for women up to the age of 70. As it stood previously women aged between 50 and 64 could be screened every three years. Read full article
23 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue has called on dogs owners in Derry to be more responsible as regards to the issue of "dog fouling" her comments follow complaints from constituents that a small minority of dog owners were letting their dogs fowl in many of the public parks in the city and not cleaning up the mess left behind Read full article
23 March, 2009
Sinn Féin MEP for Foyle Bairbre de Brún has confirmed that Sinn Féin has written to the Chief Electoral Officer Douglas Bain challenging legislation that excludes Irish citizens born in the North but living abroad from being able to vote in the European elections in June. Read full article
23 March, 2009
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has extended solidarity and sympathy to the family of Belfast Councillor Maire Moore who died this afternoon, Saturday March 21. Mr Adams and his wife Colette are life long friends of Ms Moore who was 72 years old. Read full article
22 March, 2009
Tir Chonaill Commemoration Committee annual supper dance Read full article
21 March, 2009
An unpublished interview with Sir John Blelloch, a member of MI5 who had been seconded to the NIO as a Deputy Secretary at the time of the 1980 and 1981 hunger strikes, has come into the possession of the Bobby Sands Trust Read full article
21 March, 2009
A SEASONED republican commentator, a former internee and republican prisoner who was an adviser to the Sinn Féin team negotiating the Good Friday Agreement, says that the political landscape in which the IRA fought its campaign has totally changed Read full article
20 March, 2009
Sinn Féin spokesperson Raymond McCartney MLA (Foyle) today said if there is evidence against an individual then that person should be charged and that evidence put before the courts. If there is no evidence then that person should be released. Mr McCartney said that his party was opposed to the detention of people by the PSNI for questioning beyond the existing seven days. Read full article
20 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Health spokesperson Councillor Billy Page has given his support to Prostate Cancer Awareness Month 2009 and has called on any man in Derry who thinks he may have the symptoms of the illness to go their GP straight away Read full article
20 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Housing spokesperson Councillor Tony Hassan has described as "very worrying" news that there has been a 31% rise in the number of mortgage accounts in arrears in 2008 Read full article
20 March, 2009
Joint first minister Martin McGuinness has offered this sincere condolences to Neeson`s family Read full article
20 March, 2009
Martina Anderson MLA (Foyle) has held discussions in Boston with Massachusetts State Treasurer Tim Cahill and other senior Legislators seeking investment in the North West. Read full article
20 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Health spokesperson Councillor Billy Page has said more needs to be done to tackle rising levels of obesity. Read full article
19 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue has said that Derry must build on the success of these years St Patrick's Day Carnival but must take it to a higher level to compete with other cities and towns across Ireland Read full article
19 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Peter Anderson has welcomed moves by the regulator Ofcom to tackle the problem of mis-selling of fixed-line and mobile phone contracts. Read full article
19 March, 2009
Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún will meet with the North West's leading Irish language Arts and Cultural organisation - An Gaeláras, in Derry City tomorrow, Thursday 19th March. Read full article
19 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Kevin Campbell has called on bosses at both the BBC and UTV to explain why so little airtime was allotted in both terms of programming and news output to this year St Patrick's days parades and festivals held across the North in comparison to the airtime given to the 12th July Read full article
19 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Elisha McLaughlin has said that the people who attacked cars along the Glengalliagh Road put people lives in danger. Read full article
18 March, 2009
Strong resolute leadership required-Martina Anderson MLA Read full article
18 March, 2009
Sinn Féin councillor, Tony Hassan has welcomed the commitment given by Northern Ireland Water to the sewage and water infrastructure in the city Read full article
18 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Billy Page has said that the dumping of household waste on the Groarty Road is leading to an increase in vermin in the area. Read full article
17 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Peter Anderson has welcomed clarification from the Department of Social Development regarding the household fuel payment scheme. Read full article
17 March, 2009
Derry Ógra Shinn Féin launched their new national campaign Educate 2 B Free on Saturday evening in the city centre with a leaflet drop to the people of Derry to highlight the problems that young people are facing within the education system. Read full article
17 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Kevin Campbell has welcomed the news that there are now over 3,300 pupils being educated in Irish medium schools compared to less than 400 in 1991. Read full article
17 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has backed the 'Don't drown with your shamrock' campaign by the Divert Project and praised the efforts of the local vintners association and Derry City Council in their efforts at promoting safe and responsible behaviour in the run-up to the St. Patrick's Day celebrations. Read full article
16 March, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has said that the information event for local companies to help them access major government contacts was a great success. Read full article
16 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue commenting following the intervention by local voluntary community workers in the Bogside on Friday afternoon which prevented hours of disruption and upset due to an incident in which a hoax device was left in a car on Fahan Street. Read full article
16 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Kevin Campbell says that the decision by the European Parliament to cap the cost of roaming charges will be welcomed by frustrated mobile phone users and particularly in border areas like Derry and Donegal. Read full article
15 March, 2009
Three candidates nominated for Sinn Féin Buncrana Town Council convention
Sinn Féin have confirmed that their Buncrana Town Council convention is to take place this Thursday evening, 19th March, at 7.30pm in the Lake of Shadows Hotel, Buncrana. Read full article
14 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue has said that her party we will continue to support the family of Human Rights Lawyer Rosemary Nelson in their pursuit for truth and justice ,on the 10th Anniversary of her murder
Councillor Logue said Read full article
13 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Peter Anderson has welcomed a number of road improvements at a major junction in the Bogside Read full article
13 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Health spokesperson Councillor Billy Page said he is worried at the results of a new survey by the consumer watchdog magazine Which? Read full article
12 March, 2009
South Armagh Republican elected to Student Union Body in Jordanstown
Belleek/Whitecross Sinn Féin activist Caolan Quinn was elected to University of Ulster Students Union last week. Read full article
12 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue has described an attack on the House in the Wells on Tuesday night as "Despicable". This is the second attack on the building in the past nine months Read full article
12 March, 2009
Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has congratulated a number of local Derry schools on recent success in sport Read full article
12 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has urged people in Derry to support the annual Trócaire's Lenten campaign. This year's campaign focuses on people who have been forced from their homes by war. Read full article
12 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Health spokesperson Councillor Billy Page has called on the Health Minister to review whether the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) are doing their job effectively. Read full article
12 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney has welcomed a debate in the Assembly calling for adequate protection and guidelines for teachers suffering any type of abuse stating that it further highlights the concern and that the department has brought forward mechanisms to deal with this serious issue Read full article
12 March, 2009
Communication from the Commission to the European Council
A Economic Recovery Plan Read full article
11 March, 2009
Shantallow Volunteers Memorial Cup Presentation on St Patrick's Day Read full article
11 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Billy Page has said that No Smoking Day was an opportunity for those people still smoking to endeavour to quit the habit. Read full article
11 March, 2009
Sinn Féin MEP for Foyle Bairbre de Brún has said that a number of developments in the farming sector mean there is now an opportunity to focus on the needs of small farmers, particularly in the sheep sector and hill farmers. Read full article
11 March, 2009
Sinn Féin MEP for Foyle Bairbre de Brún has said that the Executive should follow the lead of countries across Europe by grasping the opportunities and investing in 'green jobs' Read full article
11 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Peter Anderson has welcomed the news that the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is taking action against more than a dozen businesses which set up repayment plans for people struggling with debt on the internet. Read full article
10 March, 2009
Bairbre de Brun said she was delighted to host the International Women's Day conference held in the Balmoral Hotel on Saturday 7 March, which was attended by over 100 people. Read full article
10 March, 2009
Gerry Adams blogs on Antrim shooting incident Read full article
10 March, 2009
Launch of 2009 Derry Republican Graves Association annual grand draw with over £20,000 in prizes Read full article
10 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Health spokesperson Councillor Billy Page has said that there needs to be a"Big" debate similar to the one currently taking place in Scotland on problems caused by the over consumption of alcohol in the North and the "pocket money prices" of drink charged by the leading supermarkets Read full article
9 March, 2009
Sinn Féin MEP for Foyle Bairbre de Brún has called on Israel to immediately halt the demolition of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem. This follows a leaked EU report citing that this particular Israeli policy is severely damaging the prospects for peace. She has also called on the EU to act decisively on the contents of this report Read full article
9 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Maeve McLaughlin has called on those responsible for a number of drink fuelled sectarian incidents in the Wapping Lane /Tillies Brae area over the weekend to stop before someone is killed or seriously injured Read full article
8 March, 2009
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has welcomed confirmation from the Education Minister, Caitriona Ruane, that she intends to extend the school uniform grant scheme to include primary school children Read full article
8 March, 2009
Commenting on last night's attack in county Antrim Mr. Adams said: Read full article
7 March, 2009
The Sinn Féin leadership met in Dublin this afternoon to sign off on Sinn Féin's Job Creation proposals for getting Ireland back to work which are due to be released later next week. They also discussed the revelation that PSNI Chief Constable Hugh Orde has requested the deployment of British Special Forces to the North. Read full article
7 March, 2009
Unravelling 'extraordinary rendition'
Article by Mary Nelis Read full article
6 March, 2009
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams MP MLA will this afternoon participate in the Dublin Book Festival in City Hall Dublin. The debate is entitled Dáil 90: A debate on the Past and Future of Dáil Éireann. Read full article
6 March, 2009
Education Minister, Caitríona Ruane, has today announced budget allocations to schools and Education and Library Boards for the incoming financial year. Read full article
6 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Maeve McLaughlin has said that the focus of the electoral office should be to encourage people to vote rather than enforcing a policy of removing people from the electoral list and denying them this fundamental civil right. Read full article
6 March, 2009
LAST weekend's Sinn Féin Ard Fheis saw the further emergence of the new, young Sinn Féin leadership from across the island, North and South. Again and again young, highly articulate republicans - some of them already elected representatives, some not, addressed the Ard Fheis with passion on a range of issues facing the country Read full article
6 March, 2009
Sinn Féin is to host an information event for local companies to help them access major government contacts, the party's Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has said Read full article
6 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Tourism Spokesperson, Cllr Maeve Mc Laughlin has said that a robust tourism strategy and a focussed delivery mechanism with clear commitment from NITB and Tourism Ireland has an ability to deliver for Derry. Read full article
6 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue has said she has been inundated with calls from local residents and parents of children who attend several schools on Bligh's Lane with serious concerns after it emerged that a planning application has been made by the phone company 02 to site a phone mast there Read full article
6 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor and Chairperson of the local District Policing Partnership Elisha McLaughlin has said that while the latest PSNI report shows a worrying increase in burglaries and robberies there are also areas of improvement and encouragement. Read full article
5 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue has called on those celebrating International Women's Day this year to also remember the 10th Anniversary of the murder of Human Rights Lawyer Rosemary Nelson Read full article
5 March, 2009
Derry Sinn Féin Councillor Gerry MacLochlainn remembers the 1984 Miners strike and Legacy of Thatcher government that is still evident today in Britain and Ireland Read full article
5 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has said that any attempt to dilute or cut local programme time at BBC Radio Foyle would be a backward step. Read full article
4 March, 2009
The Strabane branch of Sinn Féin's youth wing, Ógra Shinn Féin this week launched a new mural situated at Meetinghouse Street in the town. The mural was erected by the Republican youth activists to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution which falls this year Read full article
4 March, 2009
Following on from yesterdays guilty verdict in the McIlwaine and Robb murder case, Sinn Féin Policing Board member Martina Anderson will raise at this week's Policing Board meeting the issue of police contracts being awarded to construction companies linked to active loyalist paramilitary figures. Read full article
4 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney has said that community engagement must be of vital importance to the Assembly.
Raymond McCartney was speaking in advance of a motion before the Assembly stating, Read full article
4 March, 2009
Commenting on the beginning of the process of passage of the legislation on the transfer of powers on policing and justice through the British House of Commons today, Sinn Féin spokesperson on Policing, Martina Anderson MLA (Foyle) said: Read full article
3 March, 2009
Sinn Féin -Join online Twitter network Read full article
3 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Housing spokesperson Councillor Tony Hassan, has called on Margaret Ritchie to actually answer a question at Ministerial Question Time without referring to her budget Read full article
3 March, 2009
Derry Republican cinema-The Gibraltar Milltown 20th Anniversary Read full article
3 March, 2009
Ógra Shinn Féin recently (17 - 19 Feb) attended an International Festival in Corsica. The Scontri Internaziunali, was organised by youth movement Ghjuventú Indipendentista, and held in Corte, the historic Capital of the Corsican Nation. Read full article
3 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Billy Page has said that the people who are stealing home heating oil from the Ballymagroarty area seem to be willing to kill in order to carry out their crime Read full article
3 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Lynn Fleming says that while there was considerable interest shown in the PEACE III Small Grants Programme before Friday's 27 February deadline, it is clear that many local groups were ultimately deterred from applying because of daunting application form that had to be filled in. Read full article
2 March, 2009
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams will today, Monday, 2 March, launch the party's planned events for Seachtain na Gaeilge (Irish language week) 2009. Read full article
2 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Health spokesperson Councillor Billy Page as welcomed the announcement by the Health Minster, Michael McGimpsey, is to provide an eating disorder unit for the north of Ireland Read full article
2 March, 2009
Sinn Féin Housing spokesperson on Derry City Council, Cllr Tony Hassan, has challenged the Department for Social Development to publicly state how many social units will be built this year on the Skeoge Lands Read full article
2 March, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has met with the Destined group to discuss how to develop a strategy that promotes life long participation in sport for those with learning disabilities. Read full article
1 March, 2009
This year's Sinn Féin Ard Fheis saw a growing number of young speakers, especially women. The youth presence was felt through the confident speeches, the Ógra Shinn Féin stall and the inaugural youth fringe event. Read full article
1 March, 2009
Ógra Shinn Féin are organizing for an 'Educate to be Free' National day of action, and they are urging maximum mobilization for the upcoming day, Wednesday 11th March 2009. Read full article
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