News Archives for October, 2008
31 October, 2008
Speaking today at a press conference, North Belfast Assembly member Gerry Kelly MLA said that;
"Sinn Féin is determined that the focus of our protest is the British Army march and the irresponsible decision by the British MoD to stage such an event in Belfast.
The clear opposition to this military parade points up the stupidity involved in staging such an event."
Mr. Kelly went on to say that Sinn Féin is determined "that those attending the protest can do so safely. Therefore we are proposing to switch our rally and protest to the Grosvenor Road/Fisherwick Place, with Dunville Park as the Assembly point. Read full article
29 October, 2008
Sinn Féin MLA for West Belfast Jennifer McCann has stated that those responsible for bomb hoaxes at St Colm's School in Twinbrook must stop immediately. This follows the seventh bomb scare inside three weeks. Read full article
29 October, 2008
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams MP MLA has expressed "serious concern at the failure of British Secretary of State Shaun Woodward to recognise the provocation offered by the British Army military parade in Belfast City centre". Read full article
28 October, 2008
Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún and MLA for West Belfast Jennifer McCann were joined today by family members, who have lost loved ones at the hands of the British Army, to call for the British Ministry of Defence to cancel the British army parade planned for Belfast on November the 2nd. Read full article
16 October, 2008
Sinn Fein will hold a protest march and rally in Belfast city centre during a planned 'homecoming' parade for British soldiers returning from the wars of occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read full article
15 October, 2008
Andersonstown Sinn Fein councillor Chrissie Mhic Giolla Mhin has welcomed the news that Belfast City Council will permanently deploy an anti dog dirt machine in west Belfast after lobbying by Sinn Fein. Read full article
11 October, 2008
Sinn Fein MEP Bairbre de Brun has commended those who turned out in enormous numbers on Saturday, October 11, to support the demand for an Irish language act.
Ms de Brun was accompanied at the march by the Sinn Fein president and west Belfast MP, Gerry Adams, Belfast mayor Tom Hartley, many of Sinn Fein's elected representatives and members of the west Belfast Sinn Fein Irish language cumann, cumann Caoimhin Mac Bradaigh. Read full article
11 October, 2008
Sinn Fein councillor Paul Maskey has slammed the SDLP after Upper Falls SDLP councillor Tim Attwood abstained on a proposal, at a council meeting, to twin a British destroyer battleship with Belfast, saying that he felt it was not important enough of an issue to vote against. Read full article
9 October, 2008
Sinn Fein MEP Bairbre de Brun has been selected as the party's candidate for the North of Ireland for the 2009 European elections. Read full article
9 October, 2008
Sinn Fein councillor Chrissie Mhic Giolla Mhin has reacted angrily after the 3 SDLP councillors on Belfast City Council's Health and Environment Committee voted, at their meeting on Wednesday 8th October, against the continuation of a pilot scheme on bilingual street signage whereby any application submitted through local elected representatives progressed directly to survey stage. Read full article
4 October, 2008
A Sinn Fein election rally will take place on Thursday, October 9, at 7pm in the Europa Hotel.
West Belfast Sinn Fein activist and MEP Bairbre de Brun will be nominated as the party's candidate in the 6 counties for the 2009 European elections. Read full article
4 October, 2008
West Belfast Sinn Féin MLA Fra McCann has said that the lack of clarity from Minister for Social Development Margaret Ritchie about the future of the Neighbourhood Renewal Scheme is putting hundreds of jobs at risk. Read full article
4 October, 2008
Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún has slammed Gregory Campbell's proposal for a 'language strategy' in the Six Counties as opposed to a comprehensive Irish language Act as agreed at St Andrews. Read full article
4 October, 2008
Sinn Féin Lagan Valley MLA Paul Butler has called for the DUP to end their internal debates over the future of the Long Kesh site and urged the Culture Minister Gregory Campbell to get on with delivering on the sites potential and the creation thousands of much needed jobs. Read full article
4 October, 2008
Sinn Fein was present at the Freshers Day held in St Marys College on Wednesday, October 1.
West Belfast Ogra Shinn Fein activists joined a number of senior party members at the Sinn Fein stall where an increased number of students applied to join the party.
Among the Sinn Fein representatives present were MEP Bairbre de Brun, Belfast Mayor Tom Hartley, Colin councillor Charlene O'Hara, Paul Maskey MLA, Paul Butler MLA and John O'Dowd MLA. Read full article
2 October, 2008
This Saturday, October 4, a 40-strong group of west Belfast republicans will take part in a 26-mile endurance walk across the Mourne Mountains.
They will be competing for the Brian Keenan memorial shield, in memory of the recently deceased army leader. Read full article
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