The first poll after the General Election has put Labour ahead by six points, while Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn were tied on ‘who would make the best prime minister’. Survation, who along with YouGov were one of the closest pollsters to predicting the result, had Labour on 45% (+5), Conservatives on 39% (-3), Lib Dems […]
Posts Tagged ‘Sinn Fein’
Labour has a six-point lead against a weak minority government propped up by extremists – we just need another election
Jun 13th, 2017 by James Elliott.
Perfidious Albion
May 17th, 2014 by Gerry Adams.The decision by Drew Harris, the Assistant Chief Constable of the PSNI, not to investigate killings carried out by the secret British Army Military Reaction Force (MRF) of the early 1970s will surprise few within the nationalist community. The MRF was the subject of a BBC programme last year. In it members of that clandestine force […]
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The IRA is gone… there is only one way for our society to go and that is forward
May 5th, 2014 by Gerry Adams.Gerry Adams made the following statement after being released after four nights in police custody. I came voluntarily from the Dáil in Dublin to Antrim PSNI barracks last Wednesday having contacted the PSNI two months ago through my solicitor Seamus Collins, to tell them that I was available to meet them following yet another spate […]
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Pat Finucane: 25 years later the search for truth continues
Feb 9th, 2014 by Gerry Adams.The story of Pat Finucane has been told and retold many times. He was one of almost 4,000 citizens to die as a result of the war in the north. Pat was also one of hundreds, perhaps over a thousand, to die as a consequence of state sponsored collusion between British state forces and unionist […]
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Pat Finucane and the Smithwick Inquiry report
Dec 5th, 2013 by Gerry Adams.Eight years after it was established, the report of the Smithwick Tribunal was finally published on Tuesday evening. I want to commend Justice Smithwick for his hard work of many years. I am very mindful that at the heart of the Smithwick Inquiry there are two bereaved families and I hope the report helps bring […]
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Sinn Féin opposed to austerity, North and South
Nov 25th, 2013 by Declan Kearney.Mike Penning, former Tory Northern Ireland Office minister, and now Work and Pensions Minister flew briefly into Belfast last week on a mission. He threatened that unless his government’s cuts agenda is implemented here, penalties will be imposed on the Executive. Incredibly he said welfare cuts was a matter of fairness. He arrogantly accused those of us […]
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The past cannot be an obstacle to the future
Nov 11th, 2013 by Gerry Adams.November 8 was the anniversary of the 1987 Enniskillen bomb attack in which 11 people were killed in an IRA bomb attack. Just before I left Belfast to travel to the USA I was interviewed for a documentary on the Ballymurphy Massacre in August 1971 in which 11 people were killed by the British Parachute Regiment. […]
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Adams and Powell to address Ireland conference in London
Sep 4th, 2013 by Newsdesk.A conference in London next month will see Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams and others address a series of themes relating to the place of Ireland in the twenty-first century. Titled “Towards a new Ireland – a new phase of the peace process”, the conference, hosted by Sinn Féin, will consider the economic future of the […]
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Austerity is hurting Ireland, north and south
Jul 19th, 2013 by Conor Murphy.People in Ireland are struggling under the impact of austerity policies. So too are people in Britain. We often have more in common than we think. In many countries in the Euro Area the ‘Troika’, the EU Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF have imposed very harsh austerity measures. But in 2008 the […]
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The Good Friday Agreement and the promise of a new society
Apr 10th, 2013 by Gerry Adams.On the signing of the Good Friday Agreement George Mitchel famously said that that was the easy bit. The hard part was going to be implementing it. And he was right. The twists and turns from April 10th 1998 to April 2013 have been many. At times the process has collapsed. At other times it […]
