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Northern Ireland: Stop the health cuts! Print E-mail
Written by Pat Lawlor   
Wednesday, 03 March 2010 10:43

The Assembly Executive is to carry out cuts amounting to £113 million from the health service this year. This decision, collectively agreed by the parties in the Executive, as part of the Draft Expenditure Plans 2010/11, is a direct attack on health services which will have a major impact on thousands of patients.

 
Northern Ireland: Deal won't deliver for working class Print E-mail
Written by Ciaran Mulholland   
Monday, 08 February 2010 11:44

On 5 February the DUP and Sinn Fein agreed a deal on policing, justice and parades. The deal was announced in triumph as a “historic breakthrough” by Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness sitting along side Gordon Brown and Brian Cowen.

 
Hughes Christensen: No more job losses in East Belfast Print E-mail
Written by Tommy Black   
Tuesday, 02 February 2010 22:46

The political parties in the Assembly Executive were today accused of “gross negligence for their complete lack of action to save jobs at Hughes Christensen factory” in East Belfast.

 
First Minister steps down - Crisis, corruption, sectarianism Print E-mail
Written by Joe Higgins MEP   
Tuesday, 19 January 2010 10:29

Although the crisis surrounding the ’sidestepped’ Northern Ireland First Minister, Peter Robinson, and his wife, Iris, has appeared to temporarily subside, the fact that the whole structure of power sharing and the power-sharing Executive might be in danger of collapse over the controversy, graphically illustrates the artificial nature of that entity.

 
Iris Robinson - Corruption at the heart of the political establishment Print E-mail
Written by Gary Mulcahy   
Friday, 08 January 2010 23:51

THE JAWDROPPING sequence of events surrounding Iris Robinson soliciting £50,000 from two millionaire property developers (the late Fred Fraser and Ken Campbell) has opened a Pandora’s Box of corruption which goes right to the heart of the political establishment.

 
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