News Archives for April, 2010
30 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney has welcomed news from the DRD Road service that consideration is being given to introduce traffic calming measures at the entrance of Roskeen Park in Derry Read full article
30 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Councillor and DPP member Elisha McLaughlin has warned residents in greater Galliagh area to be on the alert following a number of break-ins in the area over the past fortnight Read full article
29 April, 2010
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has welcomed the latest moves towards resolving the ongoing residents parking problems in the Aberfoyle area of Derry. Read full article
29 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Martina has raised the issue of the lack of NHS dentists in the Derry area with the Health Minister Michael McGimpsey and said those dentists trained at the public expense - should have to put something back in terms of providing an adequate service for NHS patients Read full article
29 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Councillor Peter Anderson has welcomed the clean up of the Derry Walls and called on people to refrain from writing on them again. Read full article
29 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Creggan Councillor Kevin Campbell has called on the Water Service to repair a collapsed drain at the New Road area of Creggan as a matter of urgency amid concerns it was causing a possible public health hazard to residents and pedestrians Read full article
29 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has welcomed news today that a resolution has been found to a long running dispute at the Derry Sorting Office over payment rates for the delivery of election literature. Read full article
28 April, 2010
Sinn Féin MEP, Bairbre de Brún will address an event to celebrate the European Day of Solidarity Between Generations at the Belfast campus of University Ulster on Thursday 29th April. Read full article
28 April, 2010
Speaking this morning at the Sinn Féin Westminster 2010 Manifesto Launch in Belfast party President Gerry Adams said: Read full article
28 April, 2010
Derry Ógra Shinn Féin activists hit a busy city centre on Saturday alongside Sinn Féin's Foyle Westminster Candidate Martina Anderson MLA to canvass young and first time voters. Read full article
28 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue has said that people do not need a polling card to vote in the forthcoming Westminster Election which will take place next Thursday (6th May ) Read full article
27 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Northlands Councillor Maeve McLaughlin has welcomed an Assembly probe into the high cost of insurance in the North. Read full article
27 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney has called on the SDLP to state publicly if they are still in favour of linking up with the UUP/Tories and if they support their proposed cuts to the public sector in the north of Ireland. Read full article
26 April, 2010
On the eve of the launch of the Unionist and Conservative Party's
Manifesto Gerry Adams said Read full article
25 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Councillor for the Northlands Billy Page has said parents need to take urgent action to prevent young people getting caught up in a spate of fires which have been started in the Hazlebank Glen area on several nights this week . Read full article
24 April, 2010
Derry Sinn Féin
Constituency Office Read full article
24 April, 2010
Constituency services
Culmore /Greater Shantallow Read full article
24 April, 2010
Martina Anderson is now on facebook Read full article
24 April, 2010
Jim McVeigh of Coiste na nÍarchimí is warning former republican POWs to check their insurance policies after it emerged that a Six County-based company refused to insure a West Belfast man. Read full article
23 April, 2010
Vice-Chairperson of the Assembly Justice Committee, Raymond McCartney MLA (Foyle) has welcomed Justice Minister David Ford's announcement of a review of the operation of the North's three prisons. Read full article
23 April, 2010
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has welcomed the Education Minister's decision to extend free school meals to an additional 20,000 children. Read full article
23 April, 2010
Sinn Féin's candidate Michelle Gildernew, responding to comments from SDLP leader Margaret Ritchie speaking at the launch of her party's manifesto yesterday that the SDLP's objective in Fermanagh South Tyrone was securing a future Assembly seat for Fergal McKinney, said that these comments exposed the SDLP's willingness to sacrifice nationalist interests in the interest of their own party. Read full article
22 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Party leader Gerry Adams was in South Belfast this morning with Alex Maskey and Michelle Gildernew. Read full article
22 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Councillor for the Northlands ward Maeve McLaughlin has called on the DRD Road Service in Derry to review the way it carries out upgrade and repair work to footpaths in the city after receiving complaints from three separate areas about unfinished work and possible damage being caused to homes. Read full article
22 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue has warned people in Derry hoping to cast their on 6th May of a number of deadlines applying for Electoral Identity Cards and applications for exceptional circumstances for postal and proxy votes. Read full article
22 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has welcomed efforts being made by local Transport providers to alleviate the plight of stranded air travellers. Read full article
22 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Councillor for the Northlands ward Maeve McLaughlin has called on the DRD Road Service in Derry to review the way it carries out upgrade and repair work to footpaths in the city after receiving complaints from three separate areas about unfinished work and possible damage being caused to homes. Read full article
20 April, 2010
Commenting on the publication of the draft legislation on parading which goes out to consultation today, Sinn Féin Assembly member for Foyle Raymond McCartney said Read full article
20 April, 2010
Sinn Féin South Belfast candidate Alex Maskey today withdrew his nomination for the forthcoming Westminster election. The Sinn Féin decision to maximise nationalist representation comes after a unionist unity candidate was put forward in Fermanagh and South Tyrone and the SDLP rebuffed earlier discussions on an electoral pact. This Sinn Féin initiative is aimed at protecting the two nationalist seats under threat from unionism Read full article
20 April, 2010
Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has handed in her nomination papers as a candidate for the constituency of Foyle in the forthcoming Westminster election on the 6th May Read full article
20 April, 2010
Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has welcomed the news that Sinn Féin has successfully today called on the Assembly to bring forward legislation to enable the development of a 'Café Culture' in our towns and cities. Read full article
19 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Councillor Elisha McLaughlin and member of the local DPP has stated today that those behind exploding a pipe bomb at a house in Culmore last night need to realise that the community does not want these type of attacks to occur and that they need to stop. Read full article
19 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Councillor Tony Hassan has expressed concerns that the NI housing Executive in Derry is merging its management teams at its office in Waterloo Place and Collon Terrace and fears this may have an effect on the overall service of the Housing Executive in the city Read full article
19 April, 2010
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has offered to convene a meeting with the Assembly's Environment committee to allow local business people to challenge the failings of the Planning Service. Read full article
18 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Election Broadcast 2010 Read full article
17 April, 2010
The Mayor Councillor Paul Fleming is looking forward to a special charity variety concert organised in aid of HURT and Foyle Branch of Parkinson's' Disease Society. The concert will take place in the City Hotel on Saturday 24th April at 8.00pm and promises a night of great entertainment with top class performances and prize draws. Read full article
17 April, 2010
The Mary Nelis Column Read full article
15 April, 2010
Speaking today in the Moy, Fermanagh South Tyrone MP Michelle Gildernew said that there was 'anger, dismay and disappointment' at the decision of the SDLP to reject Sinn Féin attempts to maximise nationalist representation. She called on the SDLP leader Margaret Ritchie to come to Fermanagh and explain to the nationalist community why she has rejected this initiative. Read full article
14 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Councillor for the Bogside and Brandywell area Patricia Logue has stated that the shooting of a 24 year old man in the area on Tuesday night will achieve nothing and has called on those responsible to desist from these actions. Read full article
14 April, 2010
Gerry Adams gives key note address at Derry Meeting Read full article
13 April, 2010
Speaking in after powers on policing and justice were transferred away from London and into the hands of locally elected politicians, Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams said: Read full article
13 April, 2010
Foyle MLA urges Nationwide to rethink restriction on small cash counter withdrawals Read full article
13 April, 2010
Former Long Kesh Blanket man and Hunger Striker, Raymond McCartney has been appointed Vice-Chairperson of the new Department of Policing and Justice. Read full article
13 April, 2010
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams will join the party's Foyle election candidate Martina Anderson and local MLA Raymond McCartney in addressing a major public meeting in Derry this evening. Read full article
12 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Martina Anderson has expressed her sympathies to the Polish community in Derry following the air tragedy in Russia in which 96 people lost their lives including the Polish President Lech Kaczynski. Read full article
12 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Assembly member Alex Maskey today described the intervention by the Orange Order into the election campaign in South Belfast, as' the latest example of the cultural mask slipping'. Read full article
12 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Housing spokesperson on Derry City Council, Cllr Tony Hassan has called on the Department of Social Development and the Housing Minister Margaret Ritchie to publicly state the reason why the first phase of the Skeoge development has been put back until the end of June. Read full article
12 April, 2010
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams and Foyle MLA Martina Anderson are to address a major public meeting in Derry on Tuesday night at 8.00pm at the Tower Hotel .Sinn Féin are to hold ten public meetings in constituencies across the six counties over the next two weeks. Read full article
9 April, 2010
Speaking after Sinn Fein voters in Newtownabby were disenfranchised at a special meeting of Newtownabby Council last night North Belfast Assembly member Gerry Kelly said: Read full article
9 April, 2010
Fermanagh and South Tyrone MP Michelle Gildernew has called on people in the constituency to 'unite and defeat the sectarian candidate'. Ms Gildernews call comes after the unionist parties cobbled together an agreement on a single candidate in the forthcoming Westminster election Read full article
9 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney has welcomed confirmation from the Housing Executive that there is to be a window replacement scheme at homes in the Marianus Park area of Hazlebank. Read full article
9 April, 2010
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has welcomed confirmation that work has begun on the first data centre linked to the Project Kelvin scheme. Read full article
9 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Councillor and member of the local DPP Maeve McLaughlin has called for greater resources to be deployed to apprehend those involved in a number of robberies of local shops in the past week. Read full article
8 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA and Policing Board Member, Martina Anderson has offered her sincere condolences to the family and loved ones of the young man who tragically lost his life in the River Faughan this evening. Read full article
8 April, 2010
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has welcomed a decision to cut the cost of making mobile phone calls, Read full article
8 April, 2010
Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has said that she is disappointed that given the recent job losses in Derry that Social Development Minister Margaret Ritchie is still determined to take more jobs from the city by effectively closing the Derry's Social Security Office, Read full article
8 April, 2010
The last time I stood in this cemetery was to attend the funeral of JB O Hagan in 2001.
As a youngster growing up, I often heard of JB spoken about. I formed a childlike impression of this seemingly mythic republican figure.
In later years I came to know him and his family. The mythic impressions ended then, but he was no less iconic in my eyes. Read full article
8 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Creggan Councillor Kevin Campbell has condemned an attack by stone throwers on a bus belonging to the Fold Day Care centre carrying people with dementia on Monday afternoon. Read full article
7 April, 2010
Responding to a new book by a former member of the RUC acknowledging collusion in the murder of Pat Finucane, Sinn Féin Assembly member for Foyle Raymond McCartney said Read full article
7 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Foyle Assembly member Raymond McCartney has called on the prison authorities to treat Republican prisoners in Maghaberry prison with respect and dignity. Read full article
6 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Policing Board member Martina Anderson is urging community and political leaders within unionism to end the 'deafening silence' around the brutal attack on Derryman Paul McCauley. Read full article
6 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Councillor Kevin Campbell is urging all eligible voters in Derry to secure their right to vote. Cllr Campbell made the appeal with a Westminster Election expected to be announced this week. Read full article
6 April, 2010
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has welcomed the announcement by the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown that the General election will take place on May 6th. Read full article
5 April, 2010
I am extremely honoured to be asked to speak at this, the 94th anniversary commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising. Read full article
5 April, 2010
Republicans across Ireland will gather today as we have here in Carrickmore to remember and to pay tribute to those who have paid the ultimate price in the pursuit of Irish Freedom. Read full article
5 April, 2010
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams MP MLA has been told by Paul Goggins, British Minister of State that following a recent 'up to date threat assessment' that the threat level against him is at 'Substantial - an attack is a strong possibility.' Read full article
3 April, 2010
It all looks so frightenly familiar. Just when the hope that some vestige of truth might emerge on the sordid dealings of collusion in Britain's dirty war of the past 30-odd years, the goalposts have been moved yet again Read full article
3 April, 2010
There was a certain amount of media focus this week on the publication of a new book by Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre, which carries claims made in interviews McIntyre carried out with the late Belfast republican Brendan Hughes some years before he died and when he was in poor health and politically estranged from his former republican comrades. Read full article
2 April, 2010
Republicans from across Ireland will gather at commemorations throughout the country this weekend to mark the 94th anniversary of the 1916 Rising and to commemorate all those who have given their lives in pursuit of Irish Freedom. Read full article
2 April, 2010
Sinn Féin spokesperson on Equality and Human Rights Martina Anderson MLA has handed over Sinn Féin's formal submission to the consulation on a Bill of Rights for the north. Read full article
2 April, 2010
Ballymagroarty Sinn Féin Councillor Billy Page has called for mediation in an attempt to halt plans to relocate the Post Office at Springtown shopping centre. Read full article
2 April, 2010
Energy companies are to come under renewed pressure to introduce social tariffs to reduce bills for vulnerable customers, Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has said. Read full article
2 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Councillor Billy Page has called on the DRD Roads service to have an urgent review of the road surface at the Strangford Park area of Foyle springs. Read full article
2 April, 2010
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney has announced details of this weekend events to mark 94th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising Read full article
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