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Sinn Féin will finalise its pre-budget submission to the Government today which details how €4bn in spending cuts and taxes can be achieved in December's Budget.
Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
A year ago today I set off for my week's holiday in Paris. Before I left I spoke with the UUP's Alex Kane by phone and we discussed the ongoing refusal of Sinn Fein/IRA to work devolved government due to their childish fit of pique over the devolution of polcing and justice 'powers' (in reality it is nothing more than transferring the budget from London to Belfast as the police will retain operational...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
BBC NI political editor Mark Devenport reports the DUP leader Peter Robinson’s response to the threatened sulk by his party’s partner in OFMDFM. From the BBC report [Peter Robinson] said his party will neither submit to blackmail nor negotiate in a climate of blackmail. “I know it is hard for Sinn Fein to come to terms with the new circumstances in which they can no longer bully and...
The Daily Rant (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
With the deaths earlier this year of Harry Patch and Henry Allingham next week's Remembrance Sunday service will be the first without any survivors from the First World War alive today in the U.K. Only three men to serve in the devastating 'War to End All Wars' remain, the youngest 108 years old. A recent collection of photographs marks the passing of their generation. The utter brutality and shocking...
The Final Redoubt (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
To quote: Nigel Farage has thrown his toys out of his pram, and accused the House of Commons authorities of being "fascistic", after the Commons decided to withdraw Commons passes from serving MEPs. (Iain Dale) Sorry Iain but you are so wrong on this. The BNP are legally elected Ministers whether you like what they say or not, and a lot of people have accepted the fact they were right about...
Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The passing of the Bill to create the 'NAMA' bad bank by the Lower House in Leinster House following further surrender by Green coalition partners condemns the population of the 26-Counties to suffer for generations, Republican Sinn Féin have stated.
Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Statement by the Vice President of Republican Sinn Féin Des Dalton The Czech Republic’s ratification of the Lisbon Treaty on November 3, paving the way for its adoption as EU law does not mark the end of history. The principles of upon which the campaign against the Lisbon Treaty was fought are timeless and will hold true as long as the human race exists.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
SINN FÉIN has hinted it could pull out of the Northern Executive and Assembly if the Democratic Unionist Party delays the transfer of policing and justice powers until after the British general election scheduled for early June at the latest.
Belfast Media | Home (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
SCORES of residents in a West Belfast street were evacuated from their homes for a several hours on Halloween night after a suspicious object was found on the windowsill of a local home. The alert took on a worrying new aspect as trick-or-treating local children had been knocking on doors in the street. The alert in St James' Crescent started at around 7.20pm on Saturday when a suspicious object was...
Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Statement by the Vice President of Republican Sinn Féin Des Dalton
Enemies of the People (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Kelly Report on M.P.s’ Expenses Scandal 2009 Posted in State-crime Tagged: Conservative Party, Lib-Dem, New Labour, Parasite, Plaid Cymru, Respect Party, Sinn Fein, SNP, State-crime, U.K.I.P.
BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
It looks like we are soon going to get a couple of new MLAs. The SDLP's Carmel Hanna (who is currently sitting in a Health Committee meeting) is planning to retire. A selection meeting has been arranged for next month in South Belfast with Belfast councillor Bernie Kelly and former SDLP spin doctor and well known blogger Conall McDevitt thought to be in the running. In East Londonderry, as was confirmed...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Sinn Féin councillor Conor Maskey has criticised the DUP MEP Diane Dodds for double-jobbing - she’s still a councillor apparently - “Sinn Féin is committed to ending dual-mandates within our party..”. Meanwhile the party has selected Northern Ireland Executive Junior Minister, Gerry Kelly, MLA, as their candidate for north Belfast in the next general election. Do they...
Unenlightened Commentary. (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Beatrix Campbell OBE, diverts her attention away from uncovering ritual abuse to look at Northern Ireland . The coverage of the Independent Monitoring Commission's (IMC's) 22nd report on paramilitary activities , vindicates that tradition. Shootings by dissident republican sects at war with both the British and Sinn Féin defined the news . A month ago when US secretary of state Hillary Clinton...
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
In view of Hilary Armstrong's splendid holding to the old Fabian and Christian Socialist line on drugs in the House of Commons this week, in view of the absence from her latest (last') constituency communication of any reference to a successor, in view of the very public ongoing collapse of the already beleaguered Constituency Labour Party on that question, in view of the BNP's promise to contest this...
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