News Archives for May, 2009
31 May, 2009
The biggest escape of republican Prisoners from a British jail will be recounted on Tuesday night in Carrickmore as three of the escapees will hold a public talk. Three of the escapees, Sean McGlichey and Joe Corey from South Derry alongside Tyrone escapee Seamus Campbell will recount their story of the escape in September 1983. Read full article
31 May, 2009
Sinn Féin East Derry MLA Francie Brolly has encouraged people from across across the north, and from all sections of the community to support a solidarity vigil for the family of Kevin McDaid organised for Sunday the 31st of May in Somerset Drive at 9pm. Read full article
30 May, 2009
Following the visit by the First and deputy First Minister to Coleraine this morning Martin McGuinness MP, MLA (Mid-Ulster) has accused the UDA of intimidating witnesses to the murder of Kevin McDaid. Read full article
29 May, 2009
Bairbre de Brún MEP welcomed the decision of the Constitutional Court in Spain to overturn the Supreme Court decision earlier this week to ban the electoral list Iniciativa Internacional-Solidaridad entre los Pueblos (Solidarity between peoples - II-SP) from contesting the elections to the European Parliament. Read full article
28 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Health spokesperson Councillor Billy Page has said it is very worrying that this week the charity Cancer Research has stated the numbers of people being diagnosed with the deadliest form of skin cancer malignant melanoma is set to rise to 10,000 each year Read full article
28 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Maeve McLaughlin has said that the increase in violent robberies in the city needs to be tackled by PSNI but this will only happen if they get the support of the local community. Read full article
28 May, 2009
This Year marks the 28th Anniversary of the 1981 Hungerstrikes, this time was a very emotional time for republicans having to stand by and watch their comrades die in prison, on the outside the volunteers of Óglaigh Na hÉireann were engaged in all out war with the British Armed forces. In Derry the republican community gathered to mourn the death of the 4th Hungerstriker Pasty O' Hara but 4 days after the burial of Pasty O' Hara they were once again mourning the lost of two brave volunteers Óglach George Mc Brearty and Óglach Charles 'Pop' Maguire. Read full article
27 May, 2009
It has now transpired that Coleraine loyalists have threatened "some form of action" against one of murdered Kevin McDaid's sons. Read full article
27 May, 2009
Speaking in the Assembly today in support of a motion on anti-Racism, Sinn Féin Human Rights and Equality Spokesperson Martina Anderson MLA (Foyle) will state that: Read full article
27 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Housing Spokesperson on Derry City Council, Cllr Tony Hassan is calling on the Minister Margaret Ritchie to explain why the Skeoge development is been put on hold, information has come to me that the Department of Social Development (DSD) has put back this development and will not allow 280 new social homes at Skeoge to start until March of next year 2010. Read full article
27 May, 2009
Foyle MLA, Martina Anderson is encouraging local manufacturing and tradable services businesses in the North West to take advantage of the fund announced by Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster to support businesses experiencing difficulties. Read full article
26 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Derry City Councillor Gerry Mac Lochlainn has said that he cannot understand why medical aid destined for Gaza has been blocked at the Egypt-Palestine border. Read full article
26 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney has paid tribute to local actor and veteran Derry republican Kevin McCallion who passed away at the weekend Read full article
26 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Consumer spokesperson Councillor Peter Anderson has welcomed the news that the independent regulator and competition authority for the communications industries Ofcom has unveiled new plans to ensure consumers continue to enjoy competitive mobile phone deals over the next ten years . Read full article
26 May, 2009
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA, Martina Anderson while welcoming the announcement by Employment and Learning Minister, Reg Empey of over £200 Million funding for the North's Universities said that she will be interested to see how much of this money, if any, will be coming to Magee Campus. Read full article
26 May, 2009
Derry Sinn Féin Health spokesperson Councillor Billy Page has welcomed the news from the University of Durham that a quick three-minute test for prostate cancer is being developed by scientists Read full article
26 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Kevin Campbell has stated that Board of Governors in primary schools have a responsibility to ensure school recourses are only used to provide the curriculum set by the Education Board.. Read full article
25 May, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has said that she is delighted that the future of the Kelvin Project telehouse has been sorted with the confirmation by Hibernia Atlantic that it will definitely be sited in Derry. Read full article
25 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor for the Greater Shantallow Area, Cllr Tony Hassan, has called on the people of Galliagh, Carnhill, Shantallow and Culmore area of the city to support the street clean up which will be organised by Derry City Council in conjunction with the residents groups and the Greater Shantallow Area Partnership from the 27th of May to the 1st of July Read full article
25 May, 2009
Speech by Martin McGuinness - Commemoration for hunger striker Kevin Lynch at Park, Co Derry Read full article
25 May, 2009
Press Update
Convoy of Hope for Gaza
European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza Read full article
24 May, 2009
Sinn Fein Six County European Manifesto Launch Read full article
24 May, 2009
Sinn Féin EU elections six counties party political broadcast Read full article
23 May, 2009
Building a Mass Youth Movement
Eoin O'Broin
First National Organiser
Ógra Shinn Féin Read full article
23 May, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has voiced concerns that the Chief Electoral Officer will make it more difficult for nationalists and republicans living in West Belfast and Derry to cast their votes on June 4th, the day of the European election. Read full article
22 May, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has said that the community and political leaders in the Fountain have spurned the opportunities presented over the past six years created by republican activists who were engaged in a community rota to prevent trouble at the interface. Read full article
22 May, 2009
Publishing her expenses, Sinn Féin MEP for Foyle Bairbre de Brún said that Sinn Féin has argued for the expenses system within the European Parliament to be streamlined, simplified and made more transparent. Read full article
21 May, 2009
Sinn Féin has launched it's EU manifesto for the upcoming election on June 4th. Read full article
21 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue has called for greater reasonability and accountability from owners of vacant properties across the city. Read full article
20 May, 2009
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has called on the Boards of Governors of schools who are continuing with their own unregulated tests, to abandon their bid to replace the 11 plus. Raymond McCartney was speaking as registration started for these tests, which are attempting to continue discredited process of academic selection Read full article
20 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor for the Culmore area Tony Hassan ,has welcomed the road service decision to construct the new traffic management measures at the Culmore roundabout in this financial year 2009. Read full article
20 May, 2009
Education Minister, Caitríona Ruane, has said that funding must continue for the Middletown Centre for Autism Read full article
20 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has said that there is no stronger advocate for our rural communities in this European election than Bairbre de Brún. Read full article
19 May, 2009
SINN FÉIN President Gerry Adams launched the party's EU campaign in the Gresham Hotel in Dublin this afternoon. Speaking at the launch, the Sinn Féin President said the elections will be a verdict on the government. Read full article
19 May, 2009
Sinn Féin's equality spokesperson, Martina Anderson MLA, has asked the Minister for Finance and Personnel, Nigel Dodds, to publicly explain why the Civil Service equal pay claim has still not been sorted out. Read full article
19 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue has welcomed the opening of a new bottle bank recycling facility situated at the Brandywell Sports Centre and has called for further sites to be acquired in the greater Bogside and Creggan area Read full article
18 May, 2009
Irish language Policing Board meeting Read full article
18 May, 2009
Derry Sinn Féin Housing spokesperson Councillor Tony Hassan has said today's statement by the Housing Executive, announcing how it will spend its budget 'gives no comfort to those people expecting major repair schemes or replacement grants'. Read full article
18 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA and former Hunger Striker Raymond McCartney has called on people in Derry to attended the unveiling of a memorial stone in the village of Park to the memory of Volunteer Kevin Lynch who died on the 1981 Hunger Strike Read full article
17 May, 2009
Speaking after Buncrana Town Council nominations Councillors Daren Lalor and Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and candidate Ciaran McGuinness said they were confident of electing three town councillors after the June elections. Read full article
17 May, 2009
FERMANAGH/SOUTH TYRONE: Jim Gibney back with the communities who elected Bobby Sands as 'The People's MP' Read full article
17 May, 2009
Unequal treatment-The Mary Nelis Column Read full article
17 May, 2009
Essential Information for Voters
The European election will take place on Thursday 4th June. Read full article
16 May, 2009
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams MP MLA has today called on all political parties to publish full accounts of monies they receive in salaries and allowances. Read full article
15 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has called for an early resolution of the long running Civil Service equal pay issue. Read full article
15 May, 2009
On Saturday 16th May Sinn Fein Councillor, Gerry MacLochlainn, joins elected representatives from across Europe to accompany the latest aid convoy for Gaza across the Rafah border. Read full article
15 May, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has stated he hopes that the announcement by a senior Seagate manager that the redundancies are a revaluation of their workforce and will not be the beginning of more redundancies at the Springtown plant. Read full article
14 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Council group leader Maeve McLaughlin has confirmed that Paul Fleming will be put forward as the next Mayor of the city. Read full article
14 May, 2009
MEP for Foyle Bairbre de Brún has said that Sinn Féin is determined to put the interests of older people first, here at home and in Europe and campaign for a guaranteed minimum income in order to ensure the right to a dignified life for everybody and will also campaign for a link between pensions and average earnings. Read full article
14 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue has said she is disappointed that DRD have informed her that they have no plans to introduce speed ramps in parts of the Bogside after residents in Meenan Drive, Drumcliffe Ave, and Abbots Walk called for there introduction to reduce the speed and dangers of traffic on the roadway behind their homes. Read full article
14 May, 2009
Connecting the 30% of the EU's rural population that has no high speed internet access should be a priority for achieving 'broadband for all' by 2010, the European Commission has said. Read full article
14 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Billy Page has welcomed the announcement by Minister of Health Michael McGimpsey to appoint four new health service dentists to the Derry area. Read full article
14 May, 2009
Sinn Féin's equality spokesperson, Martina Anderson MLA, has called for the Equality Commission to retract comments suggesting that the promotion of equality is 'dependent' on economic prosperity Read full article
13 May, 2009
By MEP for Foyle Bairbre de Brún Read full article
13 May, 2009
Talking about a national conversation by Mitchel McLaughlin Read full article
13 May, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson responding to the Criminal Justice Inspectorate Report has branded it as a 'damning indictment' of the bias inherent in the Criminal Justice system here. Read full article
13 May, 2009
MEMORIAL STONE UNVEILING
IN HONOUR OF
VOL KEVIN LYNCH Read full article
13 May, 2009
THE ELECTIONS: Ella O'Dwyer hears Brian Tumilty, Sinn Féin National Director of Elections, appeal to republicans: Read full article
13 May, 2009
The needs of ordinary people struggling in the current economic crisis must be central to a reformed EU economic strategy, Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún has declared. Read full article
13 May, 2009
Sinn Féin MEP for Foyle Bairbre de Brún speaking at her campaign launch for the European elections on June 4th has said that Sinn Fein are fighting for every vote in every county in Ireland Read full article
13 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Kevin Campbell has urged people to register to vote in the upcoming elections, scheduled to take place on June 4th. People will be able to register to vote until Tuesday 19th of May. However the deadline for applications for postal and proxy votes will end on 5pm on Thursday 14th May. Read full article
13 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney has criticised a proposal which would see a 20% hike in planning application fees. Read full article
12 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Tony Hassan has stated that the fire at a home in Dundrean Park had the potential to cause the loss of life if it had of spread. Read full article
12 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Lynn Fleming speaking at an event held at the Republican Monument and garden at Rose Court in the Waterside to mark the half way point of the Derry Republican Graves Association annual £20,000 prize draw. Read full article
12 May, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has said that recent cuts in the size of Social Fund loans available affects the most vulnerable in society. Mr McCartney was speaking after he was contacted by a constituent. Read full article
12 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Local Government Spokesperson on Tourism, Councillor Maeve McLaughlin has called for a lighting upgrade project for the District incorporating the Bogside Murals and Free Derry Corner Read full article
11 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Leader Martin MCGuinness MP,MLA has called on 32CSM spokesperson, Gary Donnelly as a representative of the organisation who facilitated the event at which threats against the Sinn Féin Leadership were made in Derry City Cemetery on Easter Monday to publicly condemn the attacks on the home of Mitchel McLaughlin and his family. Read full article
11 May, 2009
Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún has called for the harmonisation of fees for postal workers delivering items such as European election leaflets. This follows the refusal of postal staff in Derry to handle EU election material in protest at stark pay differentials for the delivery of such items across the north. Read full article
11 May, 2009
Sinn Féin west Tyrone MP Pat Doherty has described reports in today's 'Sunday Telegraph' regarding claims by Sinn Féin MPs as 'a deliberate attempt to misrepresent the situation in the run up to an election'. He made it clear that all Sinn Féin employees receive the same industrial wage. Read full article
11 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor for the Bogside area Peter Anderson has condemned an attack on the Fire Service attending the scene of a car fire on Fahan Street, Saturday night . Read full article
11 May, 2009
Commenting on an overnight attack on his home in which a number of petrol bombs were thrown, Sinn Féin's Mitchel McLaughlin said: Read full article
11 May, 2009
Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún in a statement to mark Europe Day on May 9th has said that we need a Europe where people are at the heart of decision making and that it is vital that people become more engaged with Europe and its institutions. Read full article
8 May, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has welcomed the opening on Saturday 9th May of the third lane of the M2 motorway between Sandyknowes and Greencastle junctions. Read full article
8 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue has said it is vital pensioners get all the benefits they are entitled to after the Pensions Policy Institute said many may not have sufficient resources to cover the additional costs of later life, such as disability, being widowed or needing long-term care. Read full article
8 May, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has called on the Royal Mail to pay its Derry workers the same rate of pay to deliver election material as other areas. Read full article
7 May, 2009
Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness MP MLA has called for dialogue and an immediate end to hostilities in Sri Lanka. This follows weeks of intense fighting between the Singhalese government and the LTTE which has seen over 80,000 civilians displaced and countless others killed or injured. Read full article
7 May, 2009
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness MP MLA has told an audience of business leaders that renewable energy has a vital role to play in the local economy. Read full article
7 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue and Foyle MLA Martina Anderson accompanied residents from the Marlborough Street /Road area of the city to hand in letters of support for the need and implementation of a traffic calming scheme there which has been stalled due a small number of objections . Read full article
7 May, 2009
Derry Sinn Féin Health spokesperson Councillor Billy Page warned of the dangers of alcohol misuse and has called for more services to be put in place for those people suffering as a result of alcohol abuse. Read full article
7 May, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has welcomed the announcement by Department of Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy to a start date of the upgrading of the Derry to Belfast road including the Dungiven bypass. Read full article
6 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Human Rights and Equality spokesperson Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has said it's ridiculous that the British Government is set to press ahead with a proposed ID card after a catalogue of well publicised concerns over civil liberties and the billions of pounds wasted on its production so far. Read full article
6 May, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has welcomed the most recent guidelines from the Irish National Teachers Organisation directing their members "to have no involvement whatsoever with the proposed entrance tests". Read full article
6 May, 2009
Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún has called on the Assembly to use Article 64 of Standing Orders, which permit committees to work together on specific projects, to look at Job Creation through the use of Renewable Energy. Read full article
6 May, 2009
Sinn Féin councillor for the Greater Shantallow Area and Housing spokesperson on Derry City Council, Tony Hassan, has expressed his deep concern that 1,450 people are considered homeless in the Derry city council area Read full article
5 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Gerry MacLochlainn has welcomed a proposal from Regional Development minister Conor Murphy to defer water charges for another three years. Read full article
5 May, 2009
On 5 May 1981 IRA Volunteer, Hunger Striker and Fermanagh South/Tyrone MP Bobby Sands died in the H-Block prison hospital at Long Kesh. He had endured 65 days without food, and had spent his last two days in a coma. Sands' emaciated body, lying in state at his home in Belfast's Twinbrook estate, told the story of the torment and suffering which he had endured. Read full article
5 May, 2009
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson is to host an influential delegation of US politicians to Derry this Friday, May 8th to discuss the economic regeneration of the City and Region Read full article
5 May, 2009
Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney speaking ahead of the Sinn Féin Leadership addressing a public meeting in Derry this coming Thursday night Read full article
4 May, 2009
Sinn Féin MEP for the Six Counties, Bairbre de Brún, last night delivered the annual Bobby Sands Memorial Lecture, the theme of which was 'Countess Markievicz and the 100th anniversary of Na Fianna Éireann. The full text is carried below. Read full article
4 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Education spokesperson Councillor Paul Fleming has stated that the Children's Commissioner should be focusing on those who wish to maintain the discriminatory practice of academic selection in order to protect the rights of all of our children. Read full article
4 May, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has criticised Margaret Ritchie's attitude to yesterdays court ruling that her decision to block funding to the loyalist CTI was wrong, branding the entire process as an exercise of political posturing and headline chasing. Read full article
4 May, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has said that any review of economic policy in the North must look at supporting and developing local businesses and investment opportunities on an all island basis. Read full article
3 May, 2009
Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brn has issued a May Day message of support to workers across Ireland. Read full article
3 May, 2009
Painting themselves into a corner-----
Mary Nelis Column Read full article
3 May, 2009
Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness MP,MLA has extended his sympathy and that of Sinn Féin to the family of Bloody Sunday victim Michael Bradley who died suddenly this morning. Read full article
1 May, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has criticised Margaret Ritchie's attitude to yesterdays court ruling that her decision to block funding to the loyalist CTI was wrong, branding the entire process as an exercise of political posturing and headline chasing. Read full article
1 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue has welcomed the inclusion of Lisfannon Park in a proposed residents parking scheme for the Bogside area. Read full article
1 May, 2009
Small businesses in Derry and throughout the North have missed out in the past on vital funding because of a lack of engagement with Europe, Sinn Féin MEP for Foyle Bairbre de Brún has revealed. Read full article
1 May, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has called on Artnz Belting Company to outline its long term future after another tranche of job losses were announced Read full article
1 May, 2009
Sinn Féin MEP for Foyle Bairbre de Brún has blasted the Department of culture Arts and Leisure as well as Minister Gregory Campbell in relation to the implementation of the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages. Read full article
1 May, 2009
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has welcomed the announcement by the Education Minister, Caitríona Ruane, that 29,000 children are to benefit from her budget scheme which will see £35 per child available under a newly introduced scheme for school uniforms. Read full article
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