News Archives for March, 2009
31 March, 2009
With only a few weeks to go before the European election on Thursday 4th June 2009, Sinn Fein MEP Bairbre de Brun is urging everyone to ensure they are on the electoral register. Read full article
31 March, 2009
Following recent incidents, including the shootings in Antrim and Craigavon, Sinn Féin Belfast Chairperson Bobby Storey writes in the West Belfast News about the groups involved and gives a background to their activities. Read full article
31 March, 2009
The West Belfast policing plan for 2009/2010 will be launched by Belfast Sinn Féin Mayor Tom Hartley at Clarendon Dock this Friday, 3rd April, at 11.30am. Read full article
31 March, 2009
West Belfast Sinn Féin councillor Maire Cush has called on those responsible for a number of bomb scares and hijackings across West and North Belfast on Monday and Tuesday to come forward and explain how these actions will in any shape or form advance a united Ireland. Read full article
31 March, 2009
Republicans gathered at the republican plot in Milltown Cemetery today, Tuesday 31 March, for the launch of the Belfast Easter lily campaign and the launch of the Belfast Easter parade and commemoration. Read full article
31 March, 2009
A glossy leaflet encouraging citizens to register to vote was launched by Sinn Fein councillor Tom Hartley on Tuesday, 31 March. Read full article
30 March, 2009
West Belfast Sinn Fein's quarterly newspaper, the West Belfast News, was published this week and activists have been out right across West Belfast delivering the paper to homes. Read full article
26 March, 2009
The Electoral Office is to hold two electoral registration and photographic ID sessions in West Belfast. Read full article
25 March, 2009
A delegation comprising Sinn Fein MEP Bairbre de Brun, Sinn Fein Balmoral representative Vincent Parker and SDLP member Margaret Walsh, along with Steven Corr and Gerry McConville from the Falls Community Council, submitted hundreds of electoral registration forms to the Electoral Office Headquarters in Belfast on behalf of concerned constituents in West Belfast on Wednesday, 25 March. Read full article
25 March, 2009
Sinn Féin President and West Belfast MP Gerry Adams spoke on Tuesday, 24 March, at a public debate in St. Mary's University College on the recent report by the Consultative Group on the Past. Read full article
25 March, 2009
The West Belfast MP Gerry Adams addressed a delegation from the Irish Chamber of Commerce USA on the evening of Tuesday, 24 March, as part of a business development trade mission that is focusing on creating economic development opportunities in the life sciences, information technology and travel and tourism. Read full article
25 March, 2009
Sinn Féin MLA and Policing Board member Alex Maskey has said that Colin Duffy should be released or he should be charged. Read full article
25 March, 2009
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams today welcomed the ruling in the High Court in Belfast concerning the detention of a number of people currently being held by the PSNI for periods beyond normal human rights best practice. Read full article
21 March, 2009
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has extended solidarity and sympathy to the family of Belfast Councillor Maire Moore who died this afternoon, Saturday March 21. Mr Adams and his wife Colette are life long friends of Ms Moore. Read full article
19 March, 2009
Sinn Féin spokesperson on Policing issues Alex Maskey today said if there is evidence against an individual then that person should be charged and that evidence put before the courts. If there is no evidence then that person should be released. Mr Maskey said that his party was opposed to the detention of people by the PSNI for questioning beyond the existing seven days. Read full article
18 March, 2009
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams MP MLA yesterday attended the Speakers lunch as part of the Saint Patrick's Day celebrations in Washington. Read full article
18 March, 2009
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams MP MLA, and the party's US representative Rita O Hare, yesterday met with the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Deputy Secretary of State Jim Steinberg at the State Department. Read full article
18 March, 2009
Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún has confirmed that the party have written to the Chief Electoral Officer Douglas Bain challenging legislation that excludes Irish citizens born in the North but living abroad from being able to vote in the European elections in June. Read full article
16 March, 2009
Gerry Adams this morning spoke to a large media contingent at the National Press Club in Washington DC on the Sinn Fein strategy to acheive freedom and justice in Ireland Read full article
16 March, 2009
The Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams today welcomed the decision by the New York State Comptroller to commit tens of millions of state pension funds to investments in the north of Ireland. Read full article
14 March, 2009
As part of the Seachtain na Gaeilge (Irish week) celebrations, Sinn Féin held an intensive Irish language course for activists in the Roddy McCorley club on the Glen Road on Saturday 14 March. Read full article
11 March, 2009
Sinn Féin has called on DSD Minister Margaret Ritchie to heed local community needs and demands and designate the Andersonstown Barracks site for a social, public or community use. Read full article
9 March, 2009
Sinn Fein President and West Belfast MP Gerry Adams has written a blog on the attack on the peace process that occured in Antrim on Saturday night. This blog can also be viewed on http://leargas.blogspot.com/ Read full article
7 March, 2009
Sinn Fein MEP Bairbre de Brun said she was delighted to host the International Women's Day conference held in the Balmoral Hotel on Saturday 7 March, which was attended by over 100 people. Read full article
6 March, 2009
Nancy Coro Aguiar, the General Secretary of the Cuban Federation of Women, was in Belfast on Friday, 6 March, to meet with Sinn Fein as part of a visit to Ireland to celebrate International Women's Day and the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution. Read full article
5 March, 2009
Republicans gathered in Turf Lodge last Thursday, 5 March, to see Sinn Fein MEP Bairbre de Brun officially rededicate the Upper Springfield Sinn Fein advice centre in honour of former Sinn Fein MP and Fianna Eireann founder, Countess Markievicz. Read full article
5 March, 2009
"Nothing in all my life, in all the years of conflict I've seen in the North of Ireland, prepared me for the devastation I saw in Gaza," Sinn Fein MEP Bairbre de Brun told a meeting that filled An Culturlann on March 5. Read full article
2 March, 2009
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams will today, Monday, 2 March, launch the party's planned events for Seachtain na Gaeilge (Irish language week) 2009. Read full article
1 March, 2009
The last day Read full article
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