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> Sunday/Monday, 6/7 June, 1999
>
>
> 1. SCHOOL BOMB BID TO WRECK PEACE
> 2. Irish school discrimination exposed
> 3. Sinn Fein call for local democracy
> 4. Biotech firm corners God
> 5. Analysis: Local Power - A National Right
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>
> >>>>>> SCHOOL BOMB BID TO WRECK PEACE
>
>
> British Prime Minister Tony Blair was urged to call peace talks as soon
as
> possible after loyalists today planted a bomb at a Catholic primary
school
> in Ballymena, County Antrim.
>
> Over 120 children up to the age of twelve had to be evacuated while the
> deadly pipe bomb was defused. Saint Mary's school in Ballymena has
> previously been subject to arson attacks in incidents linked to last
year's
> marching season and efforts to force sectarian parades through the
> nearby nationalist village of Dunloy.
>
> The attack on St Mary's took place on the same day as the funeral in
> Portadown of grandmother Elizabeth O'Neill, who was killed by a similar
> device which was hurled into her livingroom on Saturday.
>
> One of Mrs O'Neill's two sons, Martin, said her death was pointless and
not
> worth the seven-minute walk local Orangemen are attempting to force down
the
> nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown.
>
> Speaking before the low-key funeral in Portadown today, he said: "A
> 59-year-old woman blown up ... it didn't take a hard man to do that.
>
> "If a seven-minute walk down the road done this to my mother, is it worth
> that, is it worth it? How many more innocent people are going to suffer
> like this ?"
>
> At least six bombings were carried out against Catholic homes over the
> weekend, including two in west Belfast overnight. There was deep concern
> that loyalists would mount fresh attacks so shortly after the
> Portadown murder.
>
> Nationalists living in isolated communities now fear a wave of sectarian
> "cleansing" to force them out as doubts grow over the future of the peace
> process. Ten men, women and children have already died as a result of
> loyalist bomb and gun attacks on nationalists and the intimidation of the
> Garvaghy Road community.
>
> Tony Blair was urged to end the political vacuum generated by the failure
> thus far to implement last year's Good Friday Agreement. Sinn Fein
> President, Gerry Adams called for talks to be reconvened immediately
after
> the election to prepare for the June 30 deadline, the date by which
> devolution of powers to a new coalition executive is to take place.
>
> He said: "The rejectionists and the right wing of unionism are being
> allowed to dictate the political agenda, to subvert the peace press and
> undermine public morale. This situation needs to be reversed. All of the
> parties need to be brought together.
>
> "Too much time has already been wasted," he added.
>
> Unionist opposition to Sinn Fein's participation in the agreed new
> Executive has not relented despite Britain's governor in Ireland Mo
Mowlam
> declaration today that her government will stand by its promise to
> establish the Executive by June 30.
>
> She warned: "We are moving into dangerous times and it would be well to
> reach agreement. People know what the month of July means, the potential
> danger and instability."
>
> In Portadown, there is increasing concern for the safety of several other
> families living in certain areas. A rally, which was to have been held
this
> Sunday in support of the besieged community, has been postponed in an
> attempt to dampen tension.
>
> Nationalist spokesman Breandan Mac Cionnaith described a claim by the
> Orangemen that the Garvaghy residents supported ethnic cleansing as
> "outrageous".
>
> Referring to Mrs O'Neill's murder, he added: "When one takes into account
> the 24 hours before, we have a prime example of ethnic cleansing in
> Portadown and it was not nationalists who were responsible for it.
>
> "Nineteen families have moved out of Portadown over the last few months
and
> I have not heard the Orange Order issuing any condemnation."
>
> The Orange Order are still planning to go ahead with a "mini-12th parade"
> in Portadown in advance of the feared standoff over the annual Drumcree
> parade on the Saturday before 'The Twelfth'.
>
> Proximity talks to defuse the major crisis looming around the July 4
march
> met with little success over the weekend as Orangemen demanded to be
> allowed to "complete" last year's Drumcree march before again parading
down
> the Garvaghy Road on July 4.
>
> Garvaghy residents meanwhile pointed out there was little chance of
success
> while the Orange Order refused to meet their representatives for direct
> talks -- Orangemen are insisting that a mediator shuttle messages back
and
> forth between the delegations. But they were also infuriated by
> professional mediator Frank Blair, who they said had a "complete bias"
> against their position.
>
> The talks, which were overshadowed by the murder of Mrs O'Neill, broke up
> on Saturday but are expected to resume some time later this week in
> Belfast.
>
> Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams said the onus was on Tony Blair and the
> British government to uphold the rights of the people on the Garvaghy
Road.
>
> "This beleaguered community have suffered greatly at the hands of Orange
> fundamentalists and the nationalist people of Portadown have been
targeted
> as part of a vicious sectarian campaign," he said.
>
> The demand of the Portadown Orangemen to march down the Garvaghy Road was
> "at the core" of the loyalist campaign of violence, he added.
>
> "There is no absolute right to march," he said. "But there is an
obligation
> on both the British government and the Irish government to uphold the
> rights of the people of Portadown to be free from sectarian harassment."
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>
>
> >>>>>> Irish school discrimination exposed
>
>
> Discrimination against Irish schools across the North is increasing,
> particularly in rural areas. In one of the latest developments,
> illustrating the attitude of the North East Education Library Board
(NEELB)
> and the Education Department (DENI) towards Irish language schools,
Dunloy
> Bunscoil Dhal Riada Media Primary School students have been denied
funding
> on the basis that they have been refused school transport.
>
> According to parents, the NEELB and DENI have taken the "unnecessarily
> restrictive and narrow-sighted view" that under the current legislation,
> arrangements can only be permitted to be made to transport pupils to
Grant
> Aided Schools and Institutions of further Education.
>
> The parents argue that the legislation doe not restrict pupils fromm
> non-grant aided schools to use any spare seats on a concessionary basis.
> Currently, there are extra available seats in buses for the children who
> attend St. Joseph's Primary School, situated beside the Bunscoil.
>
> The parents have also pointed out that there would be no extra financial
> expense involved for taking children attending the Bunscoil as the school
> bus drives past the houses of some of the Bunscoil pupils every morning
and
> evening.
>
> Talks are underway with the NEELB but so far there has been no progress.
> Parents continue to have to rely on the goodwill of other parents or walk
> along the busy road accompanied by the younger children.
>
> They are hoping that the government will reconsider its decision not to
> provide funding to the Bunscoil and revise its policy with regard to
> transport.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>
>
> >>>>>> Sinn Fein call for local democracy
>
>
> Sinn Fein is mounting its greatest campaign for election to the South's
> local councils in recent years, standing candidates in all counties
except
> Longford, Roscommon, Kilkenny and Carlow.
>
> The party is standing 110 candidates to contest 131 wards, 20
corporations,
> 55 County Councils, 45 urban district councils and 11 town commissions.
>
> "Sinn Fein has a vision for local government in Ireland," said Dublin EU
> Candidate, Sean Crowe, speaking at the launch of the party's Local
> Government Manifesto today.
>
> "We want to see the people of Ireland in control of local government. We
> want to see them running their local health services, organising regional
> enterprise, builiding their own houses and planning their own local
> economies.
>
> "In short we want to put people first, give them power over their local
> communities. We want to give them control of the resources to develop and
> grow those communities. We want to do this throughout Ireland."
>
> Sinn Fein is proposing:
>
> * All-Ireland local government structures.
>
> * Constitutional provisions to be made guaranteeing the rights and
> powers of local government structures and arguing that this should
> ultimately happen on an all-Ireland basis. In this context the party
> supports the proposed insertion of a section in the Constitution on local
> government.
>
> * A system of financing local government that has its own revenue
> raising powers -- currently in the 26 Counties less than 10% of total
> spending comes under the remit of local government while the EU average
is
> between 30% and 40%.
>
> * A system of local government that allows for directly elected
> regional, county, district and community councils.
>
> * Substantial devolution of powers and finances from central government.
>
> "We can stamp out discrimination and corruption. We can roll back the
> influences of central government. We can deliver local democracy," Crowe
> declared.
>
> "We do not have local democracy in this county, instead we
> have an outmoded system of local administration with an elected tier with
> little or now real power."
>
> "Local government in this state is based on the framework laid down 100
> years ago. It was inadequate then and it has deteriorated over time.
The
> City and County Managers Acts give virtually dictatorial powers to
> unelected officials in every county and borough. Successive governments
> removed more powers from local councils while establishing numerous
> statutory agencies which took over or duplicated many of the functions of
> local government. It was not the councillors who lost out but the people
> who elected them.
>
> "Sinn Fein is calling for a root and branch reform of this system. Local
> authorities must be given the powers to retain locally and spend locally
a
> proportion of income tax. Local government must be financed and
empowered
> in the context of fundamental tax reform, including a specific tax on the
> financial sector. Our proposals on local government are radical and
> courageous. They grasp the political nettle from which other parties
> flinch. They are vital if we are to establish real local democracy."
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
>
>
> >>>>>> Monsanto corners God
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> Robert Allen explains the bizarre world of genetically modified food --
> suicide genes, terminator seeds, hormone-flavoured milk and meat -- all
> delivered by bio-tech revolutionaries, Monsanto.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
>
>
> 'Render under Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the
things
> that are God's.'
>
> You might not be very keen on doing either, but when it comes to
> agriculture, or just plain eating, you might have no choice. Monsanto,
> which in the past contributed Agent Orange, dioxins and PCBs to humanity,
> has now made some further modifications of 'God's works', which, if let,
> will give the company a patent on the crops upon which the world depends
> for its food.
>
> The 'debate' about GM food is the struggle to determine whether Monsanto
> will be let corner the food market.
>
>
> * Tying seeds and farmers to proprietary chemicals
>
>
> Monsanto has produced a 'super' weedkiller called Roundup. Roundup
> (glyphosate herbicide) is so effective it kills every weed and saves
hours
> of labour putting out herbicides. Monsanto then modified the seed, like
> soya, so it was strong enough to resist 'Roundup'. Now farmers can spew
> 'Roundup' all around with impunity, the soya survives.
>
> And if you want 'Roundup-ready soya' you have to enter into a contract
with
> Monsanto promising, on pain of huge penalties, never to save or replant
it,
> and to use Monsanto's Roundup.
>
> A Kentucky farmer, D. Chaney, one of 1,000 so far prosecuted for breaking
> contract, settled for a mere $35,000 damages to Monsanto. Herbicides are
> big business. U.S. farmers spend $4.3 billion annually controlling weeds.
> Roundup is a nice little earner.
>
> 'Roundup', which is already on the shelves in Ireland, causes nausea,
skin
> and eye inflammation, bronchial constriction and nervous system
disorders.
> (One in three of children here now have asthma. Nobody can work out
why. -
> The Lancet)
>
>
> * Suicide genes
>
> Not content with this 'sledge-hammer' herbicide, which farmers can get
> hooked on, Monsanto has recently produced seeds which include a suicide
> gene. It means that instead of plants reproducing themselves, they are
> programmed, by interfering with their DNA, not to have seed which
> germinates. That keeps farmers going back to Monsanto every year for
their
> new seed. They are called 'Terminator' seeds. It is reported they'll be
on
> stream in five years. At present, 80% of crops grown in the Third World
> are grown from farm-saved seeds. With the new seed, the farmers will have
> to come back every year for more.
>
> With suicide genes, and Roundup contracts, Monsanto has a patent ad
> futurum. God didn't even have that. Monsanto boasts that U.S. soya
> production in the year 2000 will be 100% genetically modified. That is 60
> million acres, in the US alone.
>
> Cotton is a special case again. Monsanto bought up Calgene, which had
> modified cotton genes to withstand a good dose of a herbicide,
> BXN(Bromoxynil) which happens to be recognised by the U.S. EPA as a cause
> of cancer and birth defects, including water on the brain (hydrocephaly)
> and spine and skull defects. Rabbits developed all these 'defects' when
> they were fed BXN.
>
> Now humans mignt not directly eat cotton plants, but they do eat meat,
and
> BXN is fat soluble and accumulates in the meat of animals which eat
cotton
> plant as silage in the states.
>
>
> * Testing times
>
> Independent testing of Monsanto's new products is both rare and
hazardous.
> Most often, test results have emerged from Monsanto's own 150 labs at
base
> camp, St, Louis, Missouri, and have been readily accepted by the U.S. EPA
> and the U.S. Food and Drugs Administration, as proving crops to be quite
> safe. A potato is still after all a potato, and we've eaten them for
> years. That's what Monsanto said anyway.
>
> Recently Dr. Pusztai, at the Rowett Institute in Aberdeen, researched
> Monsanto's genetically modified potato by feeding it to rats. He found
that
> the spud weakened the rats' immune system and damaged vital body organs,
> heart, liver, brain and stomach.
>
> Dr. Pusztai, who is 68, went on Granada TV with the Institute's
permission,
> to talk about his results. He was promptly suspended and then sacked from
> his job. The Rowlett Research Institute recently received a donation of
> #140,000 from Monsanto.
>
> A group of 20 scientists, in an unprecedented move, supported his
findings
> called for his reinstatement. They also called for funding for extensive
> research into Dr. Pusztai's results, which investigated the effects of
> Lectin in the GM potato. Lectin has also been introduced into a range of
> modified foods, including maize.
>
>
> * Roundup Ready Soya is everywhere
>
> You perhaps don't think that people eat much soya. You'd be wrong. Soya
is
> in 60% of all processed food sold in Britain, from bread, beer, biscuits,
> baby food, and so on. 80% of U.S. vegetable oils come from soy beans.
> You're talking genetically engineered crop products in crisps, salad
> dressings, chocolate, burgers, margarine, biscuits, infant formulas,
oils,
> chips, and, wait for it, MacDonalds french fries (which spends a
phenomenal
> $2 billion a year on its advertising.) In all, 30,000 items in U.S.
grocery
> stores contain genetically modified ingredients.
>
> And that is where GM labelling comes in. Without labelling GM products,
> nobody knows what they are consuming, and the damage to health, perhaps 5
> or 10 years down the road, can never be established. The U.S. Government
> FDA does not consider labelling is necessary, thanks to strong bipartisan
> lobbying by Monsanto. After all, why would you need to label a potato,
asks
> Monsanto. It's a potato.
>
>
> * On/off germination genes
>
> But hot on the heels of 'terminator' genes, are 'verminator' genes, which
> link the plant's ability to germinate, or grow at all, to the application
> of proprietary chemicals. If you switch off germination at end of season,
> the farmer has to come back for more seed. That means Monsanto has to
keep
> producing seed. But with verminator genes, the farmer only has to buy a
> chemical to switch germination on again. That is cheaper for Monsanto.
And
> you have to buy it. RAFI (Rural Advancement Foundation International)
calls
> them junkie seeds - like Lazarus they rise again, under the blessed
> chemical from Monsanto. Novartis (the Swiss owned conglomerate of Sandoz
> asnd Ciba-Geigy) has even gone so far as to genetically engineer
switching
> off the plants' natural resistance to infections. (The SAR system) Only
a
> proprietary Novartis-produced chemical can then switch them on again.
>
>
> * Persuading the Persuaders
>
> How did Monsanto get away with it? Last year Monsanto made a gross profit
> of $5 billion on gross revenue of $8.6 billion. Not only have they
> contributed to the election campaigns of Clinton and Blair, they have
also
> been walking in and out of the 'open door' at the White House with
> judicious selection of Congressmen and government advisers to take into
> their pay - a place on the board earns them $100,000 per annum.
>
> An article in Chicago's 'In These Times' gives a wide list of Monsanto
> lobbyists who are drawn from the ranks of Congressmen, Government and
past
> and present presidential aides. Monsanto's public relations chief,
Virginia
> Weldon, is a member of Clinton's Committee of Scientific Advisors and
> Gore's Sustainable Development Roundtable; Mickey Kantor, a former
> Secretary of Commerce, and adviser to Clinton, has joined William
> Ruckleshaus, a former director of the U.S. EPA, on the Monsanto Board.
The
> same article refers to top Clinton aides, including Madeleine Albright,
Dan
> Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture, and William Daley, Secretary of
> Commerce, lobbying EU counterparts on Monsanto's behalf, and mentions
> Bertie Ahern and Lionel Jospin as objects of their attentions.
Monsanto's
> CEO Shapiro has been named by Clinton as a "special trade
representative."
>
> Could it be that their attention to Bertie Ahern caused his swift, if not
> unique U-turn, (remember PfP) when Ahern forgot his last election
> undertaking of total opposition to genetically modified foodstuffs and
> trials thereof -- which have since been conducted on Teagasc (state
Research
> and Development company for Agriculture) land at Oakpark, Carlow.
>
> The crop was destroyed by opponents of GM. "What else was open to them?"
> says Dublin European election candidate Sean Crowe, who has voiced
concerns
> over GM foods encroaching into Ireland.
>
> The EPA first granted Monsanto a licence to grow Roundup ready sugar
beet,
> on Teagasc land in County Carlow. Genetic Concern tried every avenue to
> contest the licence. In the end, Clare Watson took a case by way of
> judicial review, and lost. Monsanto insisted to the judge that she
should
> bear costs, estimated to run to #400,000.
>
> It is a practice well known to corporations in the States -- it's called
> slapps, where a sharp and high cost reminder is delivered to protestors
to
> shut them up. Genetic Concern has not shut up.
>
> This year, although the Dublin Minister for the Environment, Noel
Dempsey,
> talked of his interest in a GM crop moratorium, Monsanto is going ahead
> this year with 'trials' all over the place, in Cork, in Tipperary, in
> Meath, Wexford, Kildare and Carlow and Dempsey has set up an 'exploratory
> debate' which started last week.
>
> Meanwhile the CEO of the Food and Safety Authority of Ireland, Patrick
> Wall, gave as its considered opinion 2 weeks that GM food "was quite
safe",
> and Dr. Fenton Howell, of no less a body than the Irish Medical
> Organisation, said he thought that this opinion was "welcome and
sensible".
>
> Minister Dempsey thinks that a general moratorium on GM food would be
> illegal under the EU regulations. He might have considered other EU
> countries, like Greece, which placed a moratorium on all GM crop tests;
> Austria and Luxembourg, which have GM food bans; France and Denmark,
which
> have restrictions. In Britain, where Blair is 'gung ho' for GM, the
British
> Medical Association, representing 15,000 doctors, called for a moratorium
> on all GM crop planting, and the Local Government Association in Britain
> has supported a 5-year freeze on 'Frankenstein Foods', which gives
children
> in school and people in care the right to a GM-free diet.
>
> Sinn Fein Councillor Cionnaith O Suilleabhain, from Clonakilty, in Cork,
> initiated just such a lead to Irish councils in a resolution he put to
> Clonakilty UDC last February, calling for an end to planting GM crops and
> the labelling of GM food and support for other EU states which are
> resisting the bureaucrats in Brussels.
>
> The craven attitude taken by Ahern's government, a stance mirrored within
> the establishment parties, means that local authorities have not taken up
> Cionnaith's challenge. Local authorities across the state have final
> authority over planning decisions, but have not used their powers to stop
> GM, still less to ensure the preservation of Ireland's trading image as
> 'green safe food', which might yet ensure the continuation of Irish
> agricultural production and trade in a world where Ireland cannot compete
> with world prices of the U.S. and Oceania.
>
>
> * Hormone stuffed beef
>
> Two weeks ago a showdown was billed between EU Commissioner Franz
Fischler
> and U.S. Agriculture Secretary, Dan Glickman, over whether the EU would
> allow imports of hormone-treated meat, rBGH, which the World Trade
> Organisation has declared cannot be banned. Hormone-treated beef has been
> banned for ten years in the EU.
>
> Cattle are treated with growth promoting hormones which include doses of
> testosterone, progesterone and worst, oestradiol 17 beta. (The latter 2
> hormones compose the contraceptive pill, the former is a male sex
hormone).
> The hormones accumulate in milk and the meat. Just this month, the EU
> veterinary committee announced that it had uncovered new evidence that
> oestradiol 17 beta has both tumour-initiating and tumour-promoting
effects.
> Oestradiol, as far back as the 1950s, was known to have been a cause of
> vaginal cancers in women and cancers in their offspring. In Italy, babies
> fed on hormone treated cattle products developed breasts. A picture of a
> baby's head on a female body on the front of Der Spiegel damned the
product
> in Europe, yet its use has been cleared by such organisations as the U.S.
> FDA, the World Health Organisation and the UN FAO. Monsanto hopes to get
> the ban lifted at the WHO conference in Rome this summer.
>
>
> * Trade War over GM and BGH
>
> The U.S., which has been selling 30,000 tonnes of supposedly
'hormone-free'
> beef to the EU annually, was caught out two weeks ago, when growth
> promoters were discovered in supposedly hormone-free beef. Attitudes have
> hardened and the EU, according to EU Agriculture Commissioner Franz
> Fischler, has no intention of revoking the ban. The World Trade
> Organisation has adjudicated the EU ban to be illegal.
>
> So the U.S. has retaliated by threatening a trade war and has drawn up a
> hit list of mainly agricultural products worth $900 million, upon which
the
> U.S. threatened 100% tariffs unless the beef ban was withdrawn by 13 May.
> It wasn't. The U.S. hit list affects only some #10 million of Irish
exports
> to the US, mostly pigmeat.
>
> The battle over EU bans on rBGH beef, or GM foods is one between
immensely
> powerful corporations looking to control the food market and the staple
> crops which feed the world. It's not so much Frankenstein seeds, but
> Frankenstein on the board of directors. The ban on beef using hormone
> growth promoters, as the dispute over genetically modified crops, is one
> important way for the EU to protect its farmers the hand of Monsanto
> cornering God and the food market, but also the US taking over our food
> markets.
>
> In April this year, seven of the largest grocery chains in Europe
> went GM free: Tesco, Safeway, Sainsbury's, Iceland, Marks and Spencer,
the
> Co-op and Waitrose are all looking for products which are 100% free of GM
> organisms. Then Unilever, which had been an aggressive supporter of GM,
> threw in the towel, then Nestle, and the next day, Cadbury Schweppes all
> joined the GM-free European consortium. Dunnes Stores is still assessing
> its position.
>
> At the end of the day, it's not a scientific analysis which will
determine
> the outcome, but a power play for control of markets - for who is going
to
> be let to corner the food market. It just so happens that it is also our
> survival, and that of the animals and their furry friends, the
> caterpillers, that are at stake too.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
>
> >>>>>> Analysis: Local Power - A National Right
>
>
> You could be forgiven for having a feeling of deja vu.about this month's
> local government elections in the 26 Counties. Eight years ago, there
were
> also local elections. Fianna Fail and the Progressive Democrats were in
> power and the corruption mill was beginning to grind on with allegations
> and disclosures.
>
> Now Fianna Fail and the Progressive Democrats are back in power, the
> corruption mill is still grinding and its election time again. In 1991,
the
> turnout of 55% was considered to be apallingly low. Now, a poll of 55%
next
> week would be considered high.
>
> Sinn Fein came out of the 1991 county council elections with six seats.
> This time around, the party is aiming to add seats throughout the 26
> Counties, with hopes high of breakthroughs in areas such as Kerry, Cork,
> Dublin, Donegal, Louth, Leitrim, Limerick, Tipperary, Sligo, Mayo,
Galway,
> Offaly, Waterford, Meath, Wexford, Wicklow, Clare and Cavan.
>
> When you count in the UDC and Town Commission elections you get a total
of
> 110 Sinn Fein candidates running in 131 wards. Sinn Fein's vote share has
> grown since 1991, with gains made in the 1994 local elections as well as
> the 1997 Leinster House elections.
>
> Fianna Fail and the Progressive Democrats are hoping they can pull out
> their core vote while the apathetic anti-establishment voters stay at
home.
> This strategy could backfire, however, as public disillusionment with the
> establishment political parties is at an all-time high. Labour and Fine
> Gael are approaching the election as if they were never in government
> during the 1990s.
>
> In 1991, Sinn Fein entered the local elections with a policy document
> called Local Power - A democratic right. This year, the Sinn Fein ard
fheis
> endorsed a new policy document called Local Power - A national right.
>
> The documents highlight the failure of successive Dublin Governments to
> deliver on the promise of local government reform, to devolve real power
> and the promise to provide adequate funding for local government.
>
> The only anwer to these governmental failures is to vote Sinn Fein and
use
> your preferences wisely.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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