News Archives for June, 2006
30 June, 2006
Sinn Féin Cllr Pearse Doherty has welcomed the announcement that a permanent Breast Surgeon has been appointed to Letterkenny. However, he said that a dedicated regional cancer care service in the North West is the only way to address services in Donegal. Read full article
29 June, 2006
Sinn Féin Cllr Thomas Pringle has today said that fishermen and women in Ireland require fair play. Cllr Pringle was speaking following the opening of Fish Ireland this morning and the announcement on the establishment of a 'Strategic Review Group' for the fishing industry. Read full article
29 June, 2006
Sinn Féin County Councillor Pearse Doherty has said he is disappointed at the failure of his colleagues in the County Council to enshrine 'Power-Sharing' in future Council business. Read full article
29 June, 2006
Cllr Tony McDaid has welcomed the follow up report presented by Gardai last night at the public meeting in Lifford to address resident concerns about anti-social behaviour in the Lifford area. Read full article
29 June, 2006
Sinn Féin Cllr Pearse Doherty has welcomed the support from the Minister for Finance, Brian Cowen, for increased north-south integration, which will be included in the National Development Plan (NDP) 2007-1013 currently being prepared. Read full article
28 June, 2006
Sinn Féin Cllr Pádraig Mac Lochlainn addressed the GUE/NGL conference in Sweden on the need to develop Donegal and the North West of Ireland. The conference aims to influence European policy and funding to assist disadvantaged regions like the North West of Ireland. Read full article
28 June, 2006
Sinn Féin Údarás Member Gráinne Mhic Geidigh has welcomed the announcement of a plan to give pensioners free travel on public transport on an all-Ireland basis. However, the Údarás Member has called for the upgrading of transport services in rural areas. Read full article
28 June, 2006
Sinn Féin Cllr Pearse Doherty who is the Party Spokesman for Irish Emigrants abroad has said his party colleague Seán Crowe TD will travel to Washington in support of the undocumented Irish in the US. Deputy Crowe will join the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform rally on Capitol Hill on Wednesday afternoon. Read full article
28 June, 2006
Sinn Féin Cllr Gerry McMonagle has expressed his disappointment at the news that the licence to run the town bus has expired. Read full article
27 June, 2006
Sinn Féin Letterkenny Town Councillor, Gerry McMonagle is backing the residents of McNeely Villas in the Oldtown area of Letterkenny in their objections to the construction of Four Town houses at 217 Ros Suighle facing onto the only entrance in to McNeely Villas. Read full article
27 June, 2006
Sinn Féin representative for the Milford Electoral Area, Donal Cullen, has called for an immediate end to the illegal dumping of household waste by the roadside. Read full article
27 June, 2006
Sinn Féin Cllr Pearse Doherty has welcomed the report submitted to the Glenties area meeting of Donegal County Council on the progress of the possible construction of a bridge to link Carrickfin airport with Gweedore. Read full article
27 June, 2006
Sinn Féin Cllr Pearse Doherty has called on Health Minister Mary Harney to provide full medical cards for all children. He was reacting to the Minister's announcement of measures to make it easier for people to qualify for the GP visit card. Read full article
26 June, 2006
Sinn Féin Cllr Pádraig Mac Lochlainn has said he is not surprised that government spending on health is one of the lowest of any developed country. Cllr Mac Lochlainn was speaking in advance on a report to be released this week by the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Read full article
26 June, 2006
Sinn Féin Cllr Daren Lalor has called on the residents of new and existing housing developments to organize themselves into good working Residents Associations. Read full article
26 June, 2006
Sinn Féin Cllr Pádraig Mac Lochlainn has accused the government of facilitating increases in house prices after it was revealed today that the average price of houses has increased by 15% each year for the last decade. Read full article
26 June, 2006
Sinn Féin Cllr Daren Lalor has called for the 26-County Environmental Protection Agency to be reconstituted as an all-Ireland body with strong enforcement powers. Read full article
26 June, 2006
Sinn Fein Cllr Pádraig MacLochlainn will travel with MEP Bairbre de Brún today on a four day long conference on EU peripheral regions in Kiruna, Sweden. The event will bring together MEP's from large number of EU member states to look at the impact of peripheral underdevelopment and its causes. The conference will also explore practical solutions to peripherality. Speakers from Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Sweden will look at the specific situations in each country as part of a process of sharing knowledge and experience of the relevant issues. Read full article
23 June, 2006
Sinn Féin Cllr Tony McDaid has welcomed the proposed public meeting due to take place this coming week in response to a commitment made last April by the Gardai to pass on concerns expressed at the lack of adequate response to anti-social behaviour in the town. Read full article
21 June, 2006
Sinn Féin Údarás Member Gráinne Mhic Géidigh has demanded an urgent public response to the proposal by Enda Kenny's for the abolition of Gaeilge as a compulsory subject in our secondary level education system. Read full article
19 June, 2006
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19 June, 2006
Sinn Féin Cllr Pádraig Mac Lochlainn has repeated the party's call for a statewide co-ordinating body for the 37 local fire authorities in the 26 Counties. Read full article
19 June, 2006
Sinn Féin County Councillor Pearse Doherty has welcomed conference, which calls on two governments to develop the transport infrastructure from Sligo to Belfast and from Dublin to Derry. Read full article
16 June, 2006
Commenting on the newly published Cancer Control Strategy, Sinn Féin Cllr Pádraig Mac Lochlainn has criticised the "absence of detail" from the document prepared by the National Cancer Forum. Read full article
16 June, 2006
Sinn Féin Cllr Pearse Doherty has called on the public to support the planned VRT (Vehicle Registration Tax) protest in Lifford Today. Read full article
16 June, 2006
Sinn Féin have demanded that Donegal County Council set up the steering committee and confirm definite dates for the proposed meetings with the Minister for Transport and MLA's, which was agreed last April. Read full article
16 June, 2006
Sinn Féin Cllr Pearse Doherty has welcomed the creation of 19 full time
jobs in the An Curragh Co-op which is located in Falcarragh and wished
them every success in advance of their official launch this evening. Read full article
14 June, 2006
Sinn Féin County Councillor Pádraig Mac Lochlainn has expressed concern at the lengthy delay in finishing vital repairs on the Drung Road, which is a section of the main artery from Derry to Moville. Read full article
14 June, 2006
Sinn Féin Cllr Pádraig Mac Lochlainn has said he is extremely happy at the progress which is being made on the Barrack Hill Development following a meeting of the Inishowen Electoral Area of Donegal County Council last Tuesday. Read full article
13 June, 2006
The Drumboe Martyrs Cumann, Donegal Town, has been formed and its office holders officially elected at the first AGM on Wednesday 31 May 2006. "Sinn Fein in Donegal continues to grow from strength to strength as yet another Cumann is formed in the county" stated County Sinn Fein Chairperson, Mick Quinn. Read full article
13 June, 2006
Speaking after the acceptance of his motion Cllr Mac Lochlainn said the Cunningham family, although belated, would welcome this offer of solidarity. Read full article
13 June, 2006
Sinn Féin County Councillor Pearse Doherty has welcomed the all-party support for his motion calling on the council to mark the 25th Anniversary of the 1981 Hunger Strike by planting ten trees in Drumkeen following yesterday's County Council meeting in Lifford. Read full article
13 June, 2006
Sinn Fein Representative for the Milford Electoral Area Donal Cullen has welcomed the decision taken by Donegal County Council to seek funding for the four bridges on the main Milford to Carrigart Road. The four bridges concerned are the Bunlin Bridge, Iron Bridge Carrigart, the Ballyohagan Bridge at the old Barracks in Carrigart and the Stracam Bridge in Carrick. Read full article
12 June, 2006
Sinn Féin Cllr Pearse Doherty has said his party are looking forward to getting the opportunity to quiz the Shell conglomerate when they address Donegal County Council. Read full article
9 June, 2006
Sinn Féin in Donegal have today delivered the first of 55,000 copies of their Newspaper, which is entitled The Donegal Voice, Glór Dhún Na nGall. The Newspaper, which is free of charge, will be delivered to every household in Donegal over the next number of weeks. Read full article
9 June, 2006
Sinn Fein Buncrana Town Cllr Daren Lalor has reminded employers that they have specific obligations when employing U18's during the schools holiday period. Read full article
7 June, 2006
Sinn Féin Donegal County Cllr Pádraig Mac Lochlainn has called on his fellow councillors to back a motion of support for the family of murdered teenager,
Henry Cunningham, when they meet this coming Monday the12th of June.
Henry Cunningham from Carndonagh was murdered by the UVF in August 9th 1973. Read full article
7 June, 2006
Sinn Féin County Cllr and General Election Candidate has wished Dinny McGinley success for the future.
Cllr Doherty was speaking following the announcement that the Fine Gael TD would not be contesting the next general election. Read full article
7 June, 2006
Sinn Féin Cllr Pádraig Mac Lochlainn will be seeking an urgent meeting with the Housing Executive of Donegal County Council in the Milford Electoral Area to raise resident concerns that were brought to him during a recent canvass in the area. Read full article
2 June, 2006
Sinn Féin County Councillor Padraig MacLochlainn has expressed his regret at the decision of Consultants in Letterkenny Hospital to stop treating breast cancer patients in protest at the Health Service Executive's refusal to appoint a permanent breast surgeon. Councillor MacLochlainn said 'it is time that the government treated the demand for cancer care services for the North West more seriously. Read full article
2 June, 2006
Sinn Féin has raised concerns with some sections of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006 but has said they are facilitating the passage of this legislation to cover the gap in the law. Read full article
2 June, 2006
Sinn Féin Cllr Pearse Doherty has called on third level tuition fees introduced by the British government be scrapped and has called on the Irish government to introduce alternative arrangements. Read full article
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