Irish Politics, Politicians in Ireland, TDs, Irish Government

SF’s Martin Ferris TD arrested for drink driving

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I’m sure I won’t be the first to say “LOL!“. The RTE report says he was arrested “under suspicion” of drink driving, and a sample has been sent for analysis which will determine whether or not he will be prosecuted. Ferris’s wikipedia entry has already been updated to include this information, along with stuff about his IRA past (he spent 10... Continue reading »

SF TD confirms arrest on drink-driving charges

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Sinn Féin TD Martin Ferris has been arrested on suspicion of drink-driving.... Continue reading »

No specific details of funding for Kerry from NDP

Seen on Kerry News Blog

No specific details of funding for Kerry from NDP January 25, 2007 at 12:14 pm · Filed under kerry_news No specific details of funding for Kerry from NDP Minister John O’Donoghue has admitted the new 33 billion euro National Development Plan does not as yet give specific details of funding projects in the county. Under the plan, Killarney... Continue reading »

Accepting the Statelet, part II

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The Irish Independent reports: “Another group of senior IRA figures, including one who controls one of its most lucrative rackets, have left the organisation in the North over recognition of the PSNI. The Tyrone-based senior IRA man runs a tax-exemption certificate racket responsible for raising huge amounts of money for the IRA going back to... Continue reading »

Show Racism the Red Card wins political support

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Show Racism the Red Card recently applied to the government for funding its work to deliver coordination of its work on a national level and produce education resources and deliver a number of integration programmes. We recently made a presentation to the Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Sport and Tourism. In making the presentation we spelled out... Continue reading »

Polls

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Polls Writes Simon of The Dossing Times on November 17th, 2006 Read More: Uncategorized, Sinn Féin, Labour Party, Kerry North, Polls Not more polls you say. But it seems that Labour could be back with a bang in Kerry. The Kerryman reports that two polls in North Kerry show Labour’s Cllr Terry O’Brien winning a seat if not topping the poll.... Continue reading »

Kerry Polls

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Kerry Polls Writes Simon of The Dossing Times on November 17th, 2006 Read More: Sinn Féin, Labour Party, Kerry North, Polls Not more polls, you say! But it appears that Labour could be back with a bang in Kerry. The Kerryman reports that two polls in North Kerry show Labour Cllr. Terry O’Brien winning a seat if not topping the poll. It also... Continue reading »

Time For Debate - Power in Your Hands!

Seen on Ógra Shinn Féin

The whole media spin on last weeks St Andrews talks created an untrue allegation that agreement had been reached. The only people who have signed up to the document at St Andrews are the Dublin and British Governments. However Sinn Féin did agree to consult their grass roots on the document before taking any discision. Also Sinn Féin’s... Continue reading »

Ard Chomhairle discuss St Andrews

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I see that the Ard Chomhairle will meet this afternoon to get briefed on the Governments proposals from St Andrews. The Ard Chomhairle will also decide on the consultation which will take place in the party during the coming weeks. I have yet to fully make up my mind on the deal but I am leaning towards rejecting it as the reforms of the... Continue reading »

Fine Gael on sport in Schools

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Fine Gael on sport in Schools Writes Simon of The Dossing Times on September 15th, 2006 Read More: Uncategorized, Fine Gael Fine Gael Jimmy Deenihan outlined some of Fine Gaels proposals on sports while it was mainly about what we should spend more on rather then how we will actually pay for it. It has some interesting ideas with in it and... Continue reading »

O Brien To Be Selected For Labour North Kerry

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O Brien To Be Selected For Labour North Kerry Writes Cian of Where’s Me Country? July 27th, 2006 Read more: Uncategorized, Fianna Fail, Labour Party, Fine Gael, Kerry North From the Indo, former Mayor Terry O Brien is due to be selected tonight as Labour’s candidate for Kerry North. They are trying to win back Dick Spring’s seat which... Continue reading »

Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com: SINN FÉIN: …

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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com: SINN FÉIN: Government need to tell Shell to shift - Ferris Posted by Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com at July 14th, 2006 From noticias.info (press release), Spain    Sinn Féin TD Martin Ferris said that it is not surprising that the mediation process between the Rossport 5 and Shell has not been successful as the only... Continue reading »

Fruitlootopia: beyond the wingut-opedia

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The problem of badman’s heroic endeavour to provide a catalogue of wingnuts on the irish internet is that it’s just not fair to bracket all of the lunatics together. On the one hand you have your common-or-garden wingnuts whose styles are entirely “borrowed” from the copious number of US based right wing bigoted ignoramuses political... Continue reading »

The IRA, Sinn Féin and Jean McConville: An …

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There has been widespread condemnation in the media and by politicians of the IRA’s claim that murder victim Jean McConville was a British informer. They also censure Gerry Adams’ refusal to condemn her killing. Incidents such as this reveal the true disrespect for life and human rights which the provisional movement harbours- the IRA may be... Continue reading »

Hit Articles - Securities Operations (Securities…

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Securities Operations (Securities operations) Securities Operations Michael Simmons’ Securities Operations is a definitive text on “back office” procedures for securities firms. For many years, Weiss (1993) was the book to … Source: www.contingencyanalysis.com European Financial Regulation The CAD established uniform capital... Continue reading »

Martin Ferris in the Dáil today

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Mr. Ferris: Like previous speakers, I welcome the second report of the Morris tribunal. The belief that what happened in Donegal was as a result of a small number of gardaí effectively being out of control is something that needs to be examined. If that were the case, one would assume there was never a heavy gang in the State. While a prisoner in... Continue reading »