News Archives for April, 2009
30 April, 2009
Sinn Fein Councillor Billy Page has said that the DRD Road Service should act immediately on the recommendations of Judge Marrinan and designate the Coshquin Road a thirty mile an hour zone. Read full article
29 April, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has stated that today's ruling by the Court of Appeal upholding the unlawfulness of the appoint by the former British Secretary of State Peter Hain of Victims Commissioner Bertha McDougall should now be a bench mark for future appointments. Read full article
29 April, 2009
Sinn Féin MEP for Foyle Bairbre de Brún has submitted her nomination papers for the European Election at the Electoral Office in Belfast City Centre. Read full article
29 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Billy Page has called on the contractor granted planning permission for the site at Belfield Park and Chippendale Park in Foyle Springs to take ownership and secure it as soon as possible. Read full article
29 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Maeve McLaughlin has called on Translink to ensure that all buses on school runs do not carry advertisements for alcohol. Read full article
29 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Housing spokesperson Councillor Tony Hassan , has called on Nigel Dodd's to challenge the Social Development Minister to give an honest assessment as to where her Programme for Government commitments towards the reaching of targets for social and affordable housing currently sit. Read full article
28 April, 2009
All-Ireland economic vision required now more than ever
The Mitchel McLaughlin Column Read full article
28 April, 2009
Bairbre de Brún MEP will officially hand in her nomination papers for the European Election at 1.30pm on Tuesday the 28th April 2009 at St Anne's House,15 Church Street, Belfast. Ms de Brún will be accompanied by Sinn Féin President, Gerry Adams MP MLA Read full article
28 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor for the Bogside ,Peter Anderson commenting on the news that a number of cars have been vandalised in the Cable Street area over the past few weeks Read full article
28 April, 2009
Foyle Sinn Fein MLA's Martina Anderson and Raymond McCartney have met with the new Chief Executive of InvestNI Alastair Hamilton in Belfast. The Foyle MLA's challenged Invest NI to intervene in a bid to save 20 jobs at the Gem call centre in Derry. Read full article
28 April, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has welcomed the announcement by DSD Minister Margaret Ritchie of £3.2 million for remedial and infrastructure works at Fort George, Derry which will enhance access to the river Foyle and allow for recreation along its banks. Read full article
28 April, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has urged everyone who, for whatever reason, will be unable to vote in person on the day of the European Election Thursday 4 June to apply to vote by post or by proxy before the absent voter deadline expires on the 14th May. Read full article
28 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Housing spokesperson Councillor Tony Hassan has stated that the Social Development Minister must come forward and explain why house repossession have increased by a staggering 64% locally compared to 4% in England and Wales. Read full article
27 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Maeve McLaughlin has welcomed the announcement of a strategy to fulfil the full potential of Derry City Walls. Read full article
27 April, 2009
Sinn Féin MEP for Foyle Bairbre de Brún has welcomed the commitment by Arlene Foster to pursue higher levels of energy generation form renewable sources Read full article
26 April, 2009
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has condemned those who left a hoax object outside the home of a party MLA in the Bogside early this morning. Read full article
25 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has been contacted by the PSNI in recent days and informed that a threat to his life existed from so called dissident republicans. Read full article
24 April, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has described the meeting between the families of those murdered on Bloody Sunday and the British Government was constructive and useful Read full article
24 April, 2009
Welcoming the appointment of a new Dean of Academic Development at Magee University, Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson insisted the new Dean must now deliver on Magee's expansion. Read full article
24 April, 2009
Sinn Féin consumer spokesperson Councillor Peter Anderson has welcomed the news that MEPs have voted overwhelmingly to cut the cost of texting and using the internet on mobiles abroad Read full article
24 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney commenting on Wednesdays British Budget said: Read full article
23 April, 2009
Pól Brennan - Urgent Appeal For Action Read full article
23 April, 2009
This years quiz for the coveted "5th May Trophy" will be held in the Abercorn Bar on Friday the 8th May starting at 9-30pm Read full article
23 April, 2009
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams speaking at a public last night in Galbally, County Tyrone said: Read full article
23 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor for the Greater Shantallow Area and Housing spokesperson on Derry City Council, Cllr, Tony Hassan, has expressed his deep concern that the proposed work on 280 social homes at the Skeoge lands has not yet happened Read full article
23 April, 2009
Sinn Féin's MLA Martina Anderson has declared that draft consultation proposals on planning reform by DOE minister Sammy Wilson must be grounded in equality. Read full article
23 April, 2009
Speaking prior to the British Chancellor Alastair Darling tabling his budget , Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson said: Read full article
23 April, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney will hold a meeting with Derry City Council to discuss the lack of facilities for people with learning disabilities. Read full article
23 April, 2009
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has welcomed a commitment by the Assembly and the Dáil to adopt closer working relationships. Read full article
23 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Billy Page has welcomed the announcement by the DRD Road Service to upgrade the lighting on the Bantry Road. Read full article
22 April, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA and spokesperson on Human Rights, Martina Anderson has stated recommendation issued in a report on Immigration within the north of Ireland must be speedily acted upon to protect the Human Rights of some of the most vulnerable people. Read full article
22 April, 2009
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has urged cultural and arts groups to apply for a €400 million European funding programme. Read full article
22 April, 2009
Statement from Catholic secondary schools welcomed-Fleming Read full article
22 April, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has warned the Health Minister, Michael McGimpsey that the loss of 700 nursing staff will devastate frontline health care. Read full article
21 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has announced details of 10 public meetings to be held across the North in the coming weeks as part of the programme of nation building. Read full article
21 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Elisha McLaughlin has said that the recent spate of anti social behaviour in the Moss Park area has the ability to spiral out of control and cause a serious injury or death to someone. Read full article
20 April, 2009
Yesterday Sunday 19th of April, roughly 500 people gathered outside 16 Moore Street to demand respect for the national monument by the planners of Dublin city. Read full article
20 April, 2009
Commenting on the announced job losses at the GEM call centre in Derry Sinn Fein MLA, Martina Anderson (Foyle) has said that this calls into question the recent announcement by the company that it intends to create a further 900 jobs at various locations in the North. On the back of this announcement, InvestNI (INI) pledged £5.5 million financial assistance to GEM, which should now be re-evaluated. Read full article
20 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Tony Hassan has condemned those involved in a robbery at St Brigids Chapel on Saturday while a wedding ceremony was taking place in the chapel. Read full article
20 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Peter Anderson has said that the community has a right to be told who is carrying out these so-called punishment attacks. Read full article
20 April, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has demanded the development of a strategy to boost the availability of affordable and accessible childcare provision within the North of Ireland. Speaking before a Sinn Féin motion on this issue to be debated in the Assembly on Monday the 20th of April Ms Anderson said: Read full article
20 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Kevin Campbell has called on young people not to get involved in graffiti campaigns that do nothing but ghettoise areas. Read full article
19 April, 2009
Paying off the bigots- The Mary Nelis Column Read full article
17 April, 2009
Families Bereaved Through Car Crime Present Posters and an Anti- Car Crime Banner
To Derry Community Groups Read full article
17 April, 2009
There are now in place, democratic structures to ensure that the Republic can be achieved without armed struggle-By Gerry Mc Cartney
Republican Activist
Ex Prisoner Read full article
17 April, 2009
Ógra Shinn Féin activists have returned from an international delegation to the Basque Country over the past week. Read full article
17 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Billy Page has called as a matter of urgency for a review of ongoing nightly problems at various buildings and land at the junction of Foyle Road ,Craigavon Bridge out to the Foyle Valley Railway Museum Read full article
17 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councilor Patricia Logue who has been working closely with residents in the Marlborough Area on provision of a safe neighbourhood project. Read full article
17 April, 2009
Business as usual at Ráth Mór Sinn Féin Offices following arson attack-McCartney Read full article
17 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue has appealed to people to check the authenticity of callers at their homes under the guise of offering to carryout cheap maintenance work.There have been cases in the last few years where people have been charged extortionate amounts of money for the smallest of jobs. Read full article
17 April, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA and Policing Board member Martina Anderson has today commented on the news that PSNI Chief Constable Hugh Orde is to take up post as President of the association of Chief Police Officers. Read full article
16 April, 2009
Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness MP, MLA has participated in discussions with a group of former Israeli and Palestinian Combatants in the Tower Hotel in Derry Read full article
16 April, 2009
Sinn Féin MEP Foyle Bairbre de Brún has welcomed news that the Electoral Office will now use records from the Department of Work and Pensions database in order to verify addresses of citizens on the electoral register. Read full article
16 April, 2009
Republicans in the Top of the Hill have removed graffiti which has plagued their community for years. Read full article
16 April, 2009
16 Moore Street, site of the last headquarters of the 1916 garrison, is still under threat from developers who want to build a shopping mall around the site Read full article
15 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has welcomed the news that the household fuel payments of £150 for those most in need, have been week released through the benefits system in the past week. Read full article
14 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue has called on DRD road services to introduce speed ramps in parts of the Bogside after residents in Meenan Drive, Drumcliffe Ave, and Abbots Walk called for their introduction to reduce the speed and dangers of traffic on the roadway behind their homes. Read full article
14 April, 2009
Commenting on implied threats against unnamed republican leadership figures by so called republican dissidents in Derry today Sinn Féin spokesperson Raymond Mc Cartney said: Read full article
14 April, 2009
Commenting on the Irish government's recognition of the right of citizens living in the North of Ireland to choose the designation of Londonderry as their place of birth Sinn Féin Human Rights Spokesperson Martina Anderson MLA said: Read full article
14 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Billy Page has expressed concerns about an upsurge of vandalism attacks on the Foyle Valley Railway museum and also that the area between the museum and the former Tillie and Henderson is now becoming a new weekend focal point for anti community activity and underage drinking . Read full article
14 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor, Patricia Logue (Brandywell) has congratulated Ladbrookes, Derry City F.C. and Derry GAA on their cooperation on funding young people in the Brandywell to paint a mural continuing the depiction of the sporting spirit of the area. Read full article
13 April, 2009
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams today gave the Easter Rising Commemoration oration at the republican plot in Milltown Cemetery Read full article
13 April, 2009
CONOR MURPHY
EASTER SPEECH - DERRY 2009 Read full article
13 April, 2009
Derry Sinn Féin Chairperson, Paul Fleming has described those responsible for the arson attack on the Party's Constituency Office last night as cowards doing the work of those in the British establishment who want to see the Sinn Féin strategy for Irish unity fail. Read full article
12 April, 2009
IN the run-up to the 20th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising, Sinn Féin has commissioned world-famous artist Robert Ballagh to create a series of prints representing each of the seven signatories to The Proclamation of the Republic. Read full article
12 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Peter Anderson has called on the youth of the Brandywell and Bogside to follow the example of the Top of the Hill and remove all flags from lamp posts after the Easter period. Read full article
10 April, 2009
Ráiteas na Cásca ó Ceannaireacht Shinn Féin Read full article
10 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Leadership Easter Statement- Read full article
10 April, 2009
THE Easter Lily is worn by Republicans every year around Easter time.It was designed in 1925 by Cumann na mBan. It's dual purpose was to raise money for the Republican Prisoners' Dependants Fund and to honour the sacrifice made by the men and women of the 1916 Rising. Read full article
10 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor, Maeve McLaughlin has strongly criticised the owner of the former Tillie & Henderson site for the unconcerned attitude he has shown to the people and City of Derry. Read full article
9 April, 2009
I DON'T suppose many of the children from the Shankill Road or Sandy Row attend the Royal Belfast Academical Institute. Read full article
9 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Tony Hassan has called on all people on the homeless list to be re-evaluated after it was revealed a woman on the waiting list for two years should have had seventy more points and therefore would have been housed several months ago. Read full article
9 April, 2009
Commenting on todays statement from OFM/dFM concerning the future of the Maze/Long Kesh site, confirming an end to the stadium element of the development, Sinn Fin Assembly member for Foyle Raymond McCartney said Read full article
8 April, 2009
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams this morning entered Gaza at the start of a two day visit to the area and part of a wider visit to Israel and the west Bank Read full article
8 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Bairbre de Brún MEP for Foyle marked International Roma Day (8 April) by recalling the positive role that the EU can play Read full article
8 April, 2009
Derry Sinn Féin's quarterly newspaper, the Glór Dhoire, was published this week and activists have been out right across Derry delivering the paper to homes. Read full article
8 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney , has welcomed the latest findings that show Translink are meeting punctuality targets. Mr McCartney stated that this news will encourage people to both take-up and increase their use of public transport and consider it as a first choice rather than a last resort. Read full article
8 April, 2009
The 93rd Anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising will be remembered at a series of Commemorations and wreath-laying ceremonies in Derry City at the weekend. Read full article
8 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Human Rights spokesperson, Martina Anderson MLA (Foyle) has welcomed NIHRC Chief Commissioner Monica McWilliams comments on the lack of available personality disorder services here in the North. Read full article
7 April, 2009
In this the 93rd anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising, Ógra Shinn Féin remembers proudly all those who died for the freedom of Ireland. Read full article
7 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue has called on the owners of vacant land at the junction of Marlborough Street and Beechwood Avenue to update and secure the fencing around it Read full article
6 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has stated that there is equal measure of criticism and credit within the report by the Criminal Justice Inspectorate into levels of neighbourhood policing and from this improvements remain to be made. Read full article
6 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Peter Anderson has called people wishing to vote in the forthcoming European Election to ensure that they have the proper photographic ID.
The European election will take place on Thursday 4th June. Read full article
6 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney has condemned those involved in a vandalism attack on the Museum of Free Derry at the weekend. Read full article
6 April, 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
6 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue has congratulated St Cecilia's College following the schools netball team winning the Northern Ireland Schools Plate Final Read full article
6 April, 2009
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams today outlined details of his visit this week to Israel and Palestine where he will meet senior members of the Palestinian Authority. Read full article
4 April, 2009
A former IRA commander says there is no place for violence in modern Irish politics
Sean Lynch was Officer Commanding the IRA in Long Kesh from 1992 until 1995 and is now chairman of Sinn Féin in Fermanagh Read full article
3 April, 2009
VRT OFFICE IN BRIDGEND NOT THE ANSWER: LALOR Read full article
3 April, 2009
"The vast majority of those who risked life and liberty for the republican cause are still with the Sinn Fein leadership" Danny Morrison Read full article
3 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Equality and Human Rights Spokesperson Martina Anderson MLA (Foyle) has called on the British Government to honour its commitments to implement a Bill of Rights for the north without delay. Read full article
3 April, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has stated that the senior management from Translink will appear before the Department of Regional Development scrutiny committee after Easter to outline the proposed voluntary redundancy. Read full article
3 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Lynn Fleming has said that several families have been put out of pocket after their wheelie bins were burnt in the Top of the Hill area last night. Read full article
3 April, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has welcomed the news that the notorious Sandyknowes section of the M2 motorway will be finished ahead of schedule by the end of April. Read full article
3 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Kevin Campbell has said that the people who carried out the shootings over the past few nights were totally out of touch with the feelings of the community. Read full article
2 April, 2009
Following recent incidents, including the shootings in Antrim and Craigavon, Sinn Féin Belfast Chairperson Bobby Storey writes in the West Belfast News about the groups involved and gives a background to their activitie Read full article
2 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue has appealed to motorists using the car park at Templemore sports complex not to park in designated disabled parking spaces there unless they are entitled to the Blue Badge Permit Read full article
2 April, 2009
Vital home improvements and adaptations for disabled residents in Derry are being delayed because of the Department of Social Development's failure to provide the required funds, Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has said. Read full article
2 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Lynn Fleming has welcomed the commitment from DRD Road Service to look at traffic calming measures for Knockwellan Park. Read full article
2 April, 2009
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson is urging Education Minister Caitriona Ruane fund an Irish language youth development scheme in Derry. Read full article
2 April, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has welcomed the launch of the new Public Health Agency stating that the Agency must now strive to address the regional and specific health inequalities that exist within the six counties Read full article
1 April, 2009
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has welcomed confirmation that a small business rates relief scheme will be in place by next year. Read full article
1 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Peter Anderson has described the youths involved in the burning of a car and debris causing the blocking of roads in the Bogside last night as criminals intent in terrorising their own community. Read full article
1 April, 2009
Speaking at the launch of a badge to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the Battle of the Bogside Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Martina Anderson said Read full article
1 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has said insurance companies must be penalised if they continue to discriminate against people living in the north of Ireland Read full article
1 April, 2009
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney today welcomed research on customer views of water and sewerage services. Read full article
1 April, 2009
Commenting on the Executive's response to the European Union Task Force report and the meetings of the Executive Ministers delegation with Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Sinn Féin MEP for the Six Counties Bairbre de Brún said: Read full article
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