News Archives for October, 2006
25 October, 2006
Sinn Féin Councillor Padraig Mac Lochlainn has given a guarded welcome to the news by British Direct Rule Health Minister Paul Goggins that cancer patients in Donegal will be treated in the Belfast Cancer Centre. Read full article
25 October, 2006
Sinn Féin Education candidate for Donegal North East, Cllr Padraig Mac Lochlainn has strongly criticised the Department of Education and the Government for neglecting information technology in our schools. Cllr Mac Lochlainn went on to point out that this was unsurprising considering our overall investment in education is near the bottom of the OECD league table. Read full article
23 October, 2006
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23 October, 2006
Sinn Féin representative for the Milford Electoral Area, Donal Cullen has welcomed news that a Sinn Féin motion has been passed instructing the roads section of Donegal County Council to lead up an initiative to construct bus shelters across the county in consultation with school boards of management and parents committees at various locations funded by business advertisements. Read full article
21 October, 2006
Speaking after attending Sinn Féin's health rally in Dublin last Saturday, general election candidates, Cllr Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Cllr Pearse Doherty have called on people across Donegal to increase pressure on the government to deliver a public health system that delivers on the basis of need and not ability to pay. They said this government's disastrous privatisation agenda is causing huge hardship and has meant that there is now huge inequality in healthcare delivery. Read full article
21 October, 2006
Speaking after attending Sinn Féin's health rally in Dublin last Saturday, general election candidates, Cllr Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Cllr Pearse Doherty have called on people across Donegal to increase pressure on the government to deliver a public health system that delivers on the basis of need and not ability to pay. They said this government's disastrous privatisation agenda is causing huge hardship and has meant that there is now huge inequality in healthcare delivery. Read full article
21 October, 2006
Donegal Sinn Féin councillor and general election candidate, Pearse Doherty, has said that the European Union has a significant role to play in bringing about a united Ireland, and has called for the northwest to be assigned objective one status. Cllr. Doherty was speaking following a visit to the European Parliament in Brussels last week as part of a Sinn Féin delegation that attended a major conference on how the EU can assist the process of Irish reunification. Read full article
21 October, 2006
Donegal Sinn Fiin councillor and general election candidate, Pearse Doherty, has said that the European Union has a significant role to play in bringing about a united Ireland, and has called for the northwest to be assigned objective one status. Cllr. Doherty was speaking following a visit to the European Parliament in Brussels last week as part of a Sinn Fiin delegation that attended a major conference on how the EU can assist the process of Irish reunification. Read full article
19 October, 2006
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17 October, 2006
Donegal south west general election candidate Pearse Doherty along with Sinn Fiin Zdaras na Gaeltachta member Grainne Mhic Geidigh will attend a major one day conference on Wednesday (18th October) at the European Parliament, Brussels, on how the EU can assist the process of Irish reunification. Read full article
10 October, 2006
Sinn Féin general election candidate for Donegal North East, Cllr Padraig Mac Lochlainn has said the Government has no mandate from the people for it's plan to provide land at public hospital sites to developers of private for-profit hospitals. Read full article
8 October, 2006
It has been confirmed that Sinn Féin Cllrs Pearse Doherty and Padraig Mac Lochlainn will join their party's negotiating team at this week's crucial talks on the restoration of the Northern institutions at St Andrews in Scotland. There will be a strong Donegal input in to the Sinn Féin team with Cllrs Doherty and Mac Lochlainn joining their colleague, Pat Doherty, MP. Read full article
5 October, 2006
Sinn Féin County councillor, Pearse Doherty has called on Donegal County Council to resolve the outstanding matters in relation to the ongoing dispute with temporary roads workers. The Sinn Féin general election candidate will propose a motion at the reconvened meeting of the council on Monday 16th October, allowing the councillors to express their dissatisfaction with the current situation. Read full article
5 October, 2006
Sinn Féin County councillor, Pearse Doherty has called on Donegal County Council to resolve the outstanding matters in relation to the ongoing dispute with temporary roads workers. The Sinn Féin general election candidate will propose a motion at the reconvened meeting of the council on Monday 16th October, allowing the councillors to express their dissatisfaction with the current situation. Read full article
2 October, 2006
Sinn Féin Cllr Padraig Mac Lochlainn has called on Donegal County Manager, Michael McLoone to advance the case for a motorway from Dublin to Donegal and the rebuilding of a railway network in the county as part of his ongoing meetings with the Government in relation to their recently launched 'Interdepartmental Group Report on Donegal'. He was speaking at a recent meeting of Donegal County Council. Read full article
2 October, 2006
Hugh Doherty, Chairperson of the Donegal H Block Committee, has described last Sunday's event in the Radisson Hotel, Letterkenny, commemorating the 1981 Hunger Strikes as a huge success. Around 650 republicans were in attendance. Speaking after the event, The Carrigart based republican said: "Active, confident, republicanism has never been stronger in Donegal than it is today". Read full article
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