News Archives for October, 2007
30 October, 2007
West Tyrone MLA Barry Mc Elduff says that Sinn Fein is determined that progress continues apace in removing obstacles to cross border mobility after the party ensured that the issue was to the fore of the agenda of the second meeting of the North/South Ministerial Council (NSMC) held in the Ballymascanlon Hotel in Dundalk yesterday. Read full article
29 October, 2007
Sinn Féin Newry and Armagh MLA Mickey Brady speaking ahead of attending the Positive Ageing cross-border Advocacy conference in the Hillgrove Hotel in Monaghan on Thursday has said that advocacy a key way to bring older people back into society. Read full article
28 October, 2007
Delivering the opening address at Sinn Féin's All-Ireland Department seminar in Tí Chulainn in South Armagh yesterday Sinn Féin TD and party Dáil leader Caoimhghin Ó Caoláin said it was the party's job to turn All-Ireland aspirations into realities. Read full article
25 October, 2007
Speaking ahead of a meeting of the North South Ministerial Council tomorrow Donegal Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty called on the Council to push ahead with a proposal to locate 30 jobs for Foras na Gaeilge in Goath Dobhair in Donegal. Senator Doherty said the proposal was made in 2003 and is now only awaiting agreement from the North South Ministerial Council. Read full article
25 October, 2007
West Belfast Sinn Féin MLA Paul Maskey has reacted with anger over the news that FIFA, the International Football Body has ruled that the FAI will no longer allow six county footballers to play for Ireland. Read full article
22 October, 2007
Sinn Féin All-Ireland coordinator Sean Oliver is one of two First and Deputy First Minister appointments to the Review team looking at the areas of all-Ireland co-operation and implementation bodies. Read full article
22 October, 2007
West Tyrone Sinn Féin MP Pat Doherty has described as 'significant' the recent change in attitude by North/South Health Ministers Michael McGimpsey and Mary Harney towards the demand for a satellite cancer centre to be established in the Northwest. Read full article
19 October, 2007
Donegal Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty has secured a debate in the Seanad with the Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey on the infrastructure needs of the West. Read full article
19 October, 2007
Sinn Féin Donegal Senator Pearse Doherty has tonight taken part in a Trinity Historical Society debate on the proposition 'That there should be a united Ireland'. Sharing the platform are Jeffrey Donaldson DUP, David McNarry UUP and Mark Durkan of the SDLP. Read full article
19 October, 2007
Sinn Féin Agriculture Minister, Michelle Gildernew MP MLA, has addressed a Cross Border Conference on the Future of the Dairy Industry at Glencarn Hotel, Castleblaney. Read full article
19 October, 2007
Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has called for greater North-South co-operation in further and higher education. Read full article
17 October, 2007
Sinn Féin Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy is accompanying the DUP's Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure at the North/South Ministerial Council meeting with Éamon Ó Cuív TD, Minister for Community, Rural Affairs and Gaeltacht Affairs.on Inland Waterways Sectoral meeting at Slieve Russell, Co.Cavan today. Read full article
5 October, 2007
Sinn Féin Education Minister in the North of Ireland, Caitríona Ruane MLA and the Minister for Education and Science, Mary Hanafin TD and today jointly launched Foras na Gaeilge's scheme, 'GLEO' at St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra. The primary aim of the scheme is to recognise best practice in the promotion of oral Irish in creative and innovative ways in English-medium primary and post-primary schools on the island of Ireland. Read full article
3 October, 2007
Sinn Féin Economy Spokesperson, Mitchel McLaughlin MLA (South Antrim) has strongly welcomed the call from Dr Alan Gillespie, Chairperson of the Ulster Bank Group for the amalgamation of the two job promotion agencies on the island, the IDA and Invest NI. Read full article
3 October, 2007
In an all-island initiative Sinn Féin representatives from the throughout the North West region have today presented a letter and petition of protest to Minister for Health Mary Harney and her northern counterpart Michael McGimpsey over the continued failure of their departments to progress plans for a satellite radiation unit based in the North West of Ireland serving cancer patients on a cross border basis. Read full article
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