News Archives for November, 2007
30 November, 2007
Clondalkin Sinn Féin Councillor has slammed the treatment of customers in the Allied Irish Bank in Clondalkin: Read full article
30 November, 2007
Sinn Féin's Dublin Spokesperson on the Environment and Chair of Dublin City Council's Planning Committee, Cllr. Daithí Doolan, will today head a cross party delegation to meet the Minister for Environment John Gormley. Read full article
28 November, 2007
Speaking this evening on the report put to the EU Parliament on 'Flexicurity' Sinn Féin Dublin MEP Mary Lou McDonald warned that the primary objective contained within the report was to erode workers rights. Read full article
28 November, 2007
Speaking during a consultation of Joint Policing Committee (JPC) members hosted by the Minister for Justice, Sinn Féin TD and Community Safety Spokesman Aengus Ó Snodaigh said: "Today's evaluation of the JPCs' work to date offers a real opportunity for the Minister to address the shortcomings experienced thus far so as to ensure the future success of all JPCs including the remaining 85 which are set to be established next year." Read full article
28 November, 2007
Speaking during a Dáil motion on the dispatch of defence forces personnel to Chad as part of an EU battle group adventure Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh emphasised the party's concern for the deteriorating situation in Chad, agreed that international support and peace keeping s urgently needed but opposed the use of EU battle groups for this urpose. Read full article
27 November, 2007
SINN FÉIN in Dublin 15 will hold their annual commemoration to mark the 88th anniversary of the death of IRA Volunteer Martin Savage on Saturday 8th December. The march will assemble at 2pm opposite Myo's Public House in Castleknock Village and it will proceed to the commemorative stone at the Halfway House roundabout near Ashtown for a wreath laying ceremony. Read full article
26 November, 2007
Sinn Féin welcomes Acute Hospitals Committee decision to call on Health Minister to cover expenses for women recalled for breast checks Read full article
26 November, 2007
Clondalkin Sinn Féin Councillor Shane O'Connor has publicly called on John Curran TD and Paul Gogarty TD to come out of their hiding places and support the Motion of No Confidence in the Minister Of Health Mary Harney in the Dail this week. Read full article
26 November, 2007
Sinn Féin TD and party spokesperson on Community Safety Aengus Ó Snodaigh has called on the government to immediately resource and implement a strategy to tackle the growing cocaine crisis in Ireland. Read full article
23 November, 2007
Commenting on the ongoing dispute between the Health Service Executiveand the Irish Pharmaceutical Union (IPU) regarding the pricing of medicines, Sinn Féin Clondalkin Councillor Shane O'Connor has called for the Minister for Health and Children Mary Harney to intervene directly. He stated: Read full article
22 November, 2007
Clondalkin Sinn Féin Councillor has welcomed the news today that Bus Éireann are to increase their capacity on the Dublin/Belfast/Dublin to a hourly service operating 24 hours/seven days per week. Read full article
21 November, 2007
Sinn Féin TD and Justice Spokesperson Aengus Ó has this morning sought an adjournment of the Dáil to discuss the loss of sensitive data relating to 25 million individuals living in Britain. Read full article
20 November, 2007
Commenting on the Tribunal of Inquiry Bill 2005 which commences debate in the Dáil today Sinn Féin TD and Justice Spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh has described the Bill as an affront to democracy. Read full article
19 November, 2007
Sinn Féin's Dublin Spokesperson on the Environment, Cllr. Daithí Doolan, has today expressed deep disappointment and anger as An Bord Pleanála gave the go ahead for the proposed incinerator for Poolbeg Peninsula. Read full article
19 November, 2007
Clondalkin Sinn Féin Councllor Shane O'Connor has commended the good work by the local Cairde Groups in the Clondalkin area for their continued support and fundraising in the area. Read full article
19 November, 2007
Sinn Féin's Cllr. Daithí Doolan, chair of Dublin City Councils Planning Committee, has ensured that, "fire protection in Dublin's apartments is top of tonight's City Council agenda." Read full article
16 November, 2007
On Thursday November 25th Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Council commenced demolition of the Mounttown Flats, Fitzgerald Park, Monkstown. The move follows a concerted community campaign to have the flats taken down. Sinn Féin Dun Laoghaire representative Eoin Ó Broin has described the development "as a victory of the local community". Read full article
15 November, 2007
Responding to last nights armed robbery where two gardaí were held at gunpoint last night Sinn Féin TD and Justice Spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh has described the actions of the raiders as 'outrageous'. Read full article
15 November, 2007
Sinn Féin Councillor and party group leader on Dublin City Council Christy Burke has today welcomed the news that Smithfield on Ice has secured a sponsor for the annual Christmas event. Read full article
15 November, 2007
Sinn Féin Dublin TD and Spokesperson on Community Safety this morning sought an adjournment of the Dáil to facilitate a debate on the escalating gun crime in the city. The adjournment was not agreed to by the Dáil Ceann Chomairle. Read full article
12 November, 2007
Sinn Féin Dublin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh and party Spokesperson on Community Safety has again called on the Minister for Justice Brian Lenihan to immediately initiate a robust programme of civilianisation of administrative Garda tasks and re-deploy fully trained Gardaí into the fight against crime. Read full article
12 November, 2007
Today Clondalkin Sinn Féin in conjunction with Dublin Sinn Féin are launching its campaign to create safer communities. The campaign aims to put pressure on the Minister for Justice to free up Gardaí from administrative duties to be re-deployed into the fight against crime. Read full article
10 November, 2007
Speaking to more than 100 Dublin Sinn Féin activists at a conference this morning Dublin South Central TD and party Justice Spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh announced details of a campaign to create safer communities and commended Gardaí for apprehending two men after a shooting in his own constituency last night. Read full article
10 November, 2007
Speaking to more than 100 Sinn Féin activists at a conference in Dublin this morning MEP Mary Lou McDonald said Sinn Féin's priorities for Dublin are to create safer Dublin communities, end the housing crisis in the city, end the unequal two-tier health system and to promote republican politics in the capital city. Ms. McDonald also said Sinn Féin in Dublin will lead a robust campaign against the EU reform treaty and called on all republicans in the city to get involved with the party. Read full article
9 November, 2007
Dublin Sinn Féin will hold a city wide conference tomorrow (Saturday November 10th) entitled a vision for Dublin. This is part of the lead up to a major conference in early December when the party will launch its political objectives and priority campaigns in the run up to the 2009 local elections. The EU Reform Treaty Campaign will also feature during tomorrow's internal debate. Read full article
8 November, 2007
Sinn Féin's Cllr. Daithí Doolan, chair of Dublin City Councils Planning Committee, has announced that the "City is in the running for two prestigious Planning Awards." Read full article
6 November, 2007
Speaking at a demonstration held today outside Leinster House by the Irish American lobby group Families of the Undocumented Aengus Ó Snodaigh said it was simply wrong that so may thousands of Irish in America were facing yet another Christmas unable to visit friends and families at home. Read full article
5 November, 2007
Sinn Féin's Cllr. Daithí Doolan, chair of Dublin City Councils Planning Committee, has announced that he will be proposing an, "Emergency Motion at tonight's City Council meeting calling for a radical overhaul of the management of the city's apartment buildings." Read full article
5 November, 2007
Sinn Féin Dublin MEP Mary Lou McDonald has described the results in today's Irish Times poll on the publics waning support over the last two years for the EU Reform Treaty as 'not surprising.' Read full article
5 November, 2007
Speaking as seven men appeared in court in connection with Friday's attempted robbery of a cash in transit van at Celbridge, Sinn Féin Justice Spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh commended the Gardaí involved in the arrest operation and called for the fight against organised crime to be stepped up. Read full article
3 November, 2007
Sinn Féin's Cllr. Daithí Doolan, chair of Dublin City Councils Planning Committee, has today announced that he will be proposing an, "Emergency Motion at the forthcoming City Council meeting calling for a radical overhaul of the management of the city's apartment buildings."
Speaking ahead of Monday's meeting Cllr. Doolan claimed: Read full article
1 November, 2007
Sinn Féin National Chairperson and Dublin MEP Mary Lou McDonald has today described the Community Childcare Subvention Scheme as a government cutback in disguise. Read full article
1 November, 2007
Speaking today as Justice Minister Brian Lenihan published his policing priorities for 2008 Sinn Féin Justice Spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD described as a disgrace the fact that tackling domestic and sexual violence has once again been left out of the Minister's named priorities. Read full article
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