This week's Sunday Read comes in the form of a podcast, as Sinn Féin TD for Cavan-Monaghan Pauline Tully sits down with Ciara Phelan of the Irish Mirror to discuss her personal experience with domestic violence, the legacy of her teaching career and the pride she has in her students' achievements. The podcast is available at the following links
Welcome to The Weekly Digest from Sinn Féin where we bring you a flavour of the work and campaigns that we have been involved in over the course of the week. Fáilte go hIris Choimriúcháin na Seachtaine ag Sinn Féin ina gcuirfear in iúl daoibh blaiseadh den obair agus de na feachtais a raibh muid ag
The brutal murder of Ashling Murphy cast a renewed light on gender-based violence and started conversations about the violence women in all walks of life incur - including sex workers and vulnerable women. The sexism and misogyny that pervades our society does not come from nowhere – it starts at the top – in our laws
Fianna Fáil MEP Billy Kelleher has said that today's results on the ANIT Recommendations vote were a decisive victory for common sense. "Both compromises that I proposed on the issues of pregnant and unweaned animals were carried by the Parliament this morning, and a very concerning amendment attempting to limit journey times to eight hours was
This week we bring you a Sit Down Sunday listen. In An Phoblacht's first podcast of 2022, Hilary Dully, editor of the recently published memoirs of Máire Comerford is interviewed by Mícheál Mac Donncha. In 'On Dangerous Ground' Máire tells her own story, bringing to life the revolutionary years 1916 to 1923 and beyond. She fought the Black
On January 30th, 1972, 13 innocent people in Derry were callously murdered by members of the British army's Parachute Regiment. Half a century on, the British establishment continues to obstruct moves to hold it to account for these criminal actions. The long march for justice continues.2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the terrible event known
Welcome to The Weekly Digest from Sinn Féin where we bring you a flavour of the work and campaigns that we have been involved in over the course of the week. The Weekly Digest Legislation to tackle failure to collect derelict sites levy Sinn Féin TD for Cork North Central, Thomas Gould, has today launched legislation aiming to
- Kelleher secures Renew Europe support as EPP and S&G groups also join the campaign - Fianna Fáil MEP Billy Kelleher has said that "we are one step closer to getting rid of the impracticable and damaging proposals on pregnant and unweaned animals from the ANIT recommendation" following his success at convincing his Renew Europe colleagues
In partnership with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation & Science and the IMI, Enterprise Ireland has developed the Spotlight on Skills programme. This programme helps businesses create a company skills plan to identify and address their critical skills needs, build capability and achieve strategic growth. Wednesday 19th January 2022. Who should participate The programme
Our campaign is working! Thousands of people across the country have signed our petition demanding that the Minister for Education, Norma Foley gives certainty to final year students and introduces a Hybrid Leaving Cert for 2022. This is our final push to get as many Labour members, students, parents and people in our communities to sign our #HybridLC2022
