News

24 July, 2006

Condoleezza Rice must tell Israel to end bombardment of Lebanon and Palestine

Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún has today called upon the United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to "use her influence to bring the Israeli bombardment to an end". View More

24 July, 2006

Immigrants should not be held in prisons - Mary Lou McDonald

Sinn Féin National Chairperson Mary Lou McDonald MEP has today visited Cloverhill Prison in West Dublin. Upon completion of the visit, Ms McDonald said that 'such facilities are not where those with immigration issues should be' View More

21 July, 2006

Sinn Féin delegation to travel to Cloverhill prison to view conditions in which immigrants are held

Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún will join party colleagues Mary Lou McDonald MEP and Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD in a visit to West Dublin’s Cloverhill prison this coming Monday (24.07.06). View More

20 July, 2006

Welcome for EU aid to Lebanon but political pressure required to end Israeli bombardment

Sinn Féin National Chairperson Mary Lou McDonald MEP has this morning welcomed an EU pledge of 10 million Euros to aid Lebanese civilians. Ms McDonald, whilst welcoming EU financial support, said that ‘only by bringing political pressure to bear on Israel would the EU have any long term effect’. View More

18 July, 2006

Sinn Féin backs calls for public awareness campaign to end attacks on fire fighters and ambulance crews

Also on the delegation were Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD and Councillors Daithí Doolan and Felix Gallagher. The Sinn Féin delegation backed calls for greater support for emergency workers including a public awareness campaign aimed at reducing attacks on Fire Fighters and Ambulance Crews. View More

18 July, 2006

de Brún backs protest after PSNI arrest woman for speaking Irish on Belfast street

Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún has described the arrest of an Irish language school teacher in Belfast for speaking Irish as ‘treatment which brings us back to the days of the penal laws’. View More

13 July, 2006

European Union must set the bar high with regards Irish language implementation – de Brún

Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún has today called upon her fellow Irish MEPs to work together ‘to ensure that Irish is treated on a par with the other languages of the European Union’. View More

11 July, 2006

Illegal apartheid wall in Palestine must be torn down – Mary Lou McDonald

Sinn Féin National Chairperson and Dublin MEP Mary Lou McDonald has today called for the removal of the illegal ‘separation wall’ which runs through Palestine’s West Bank territory. View More

11 July, 2006

de Brún welcomes British recognition that nuclear power is not viable in Six Counties

Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún has today welcomed Peter Hain’s recognition that nuclear power stations would not be built in the Six Counties. View More

10 July, 2006

Funding must be on basis of objective need and not political bias – Bairbre de Brún

Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún has today said that funding allocation in the Six Counties ‘must be on the sole basis of objective need.’ View More

6 July, 2006

EU Barometer survey fails to mask huge gulf between institutions and people

Commenting on today’s survey that Ireland is the ‘most positive EU country’, Sinn Féin Dublin MEP Mary Lou McDonald has said that no amount of EU surveys can mask the fact that a huge democratic deficit exists within the European Union. View More

5 July, 2006

Irish Government must say what it knows about latest allegations regarding illegal transport of prisoners

Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún has said that the ‘position, role and facilities of peacekeeping missions must not be abused’. View More

4 July, 2006

Jim Nicholson exposes his anti-Irish agenda – Bairbre de Brún

Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún has today said that Jim Nicholson MEP 'should put aside his obvious disdain for the Irish language and recognize that Irish deserves to be on a par with the other languages of Europe'. View More

4 July, 2006

de Brún welcomes EU Structural and PEACE Funding for Ireland

Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún has this morning welcomed the news that 308 billion Euros (representing 35.7% of the EU's total budget) will be spent on structural funds over the next period (2007 - 2014). View More

3 July, 2006

de Brún urges new European Presidency to prioritise fight against racism and homophobia

Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún has today urged the Finnish Presidency of the European Union to work to combat both the rise in homophobia and racism across the European Union. View More

3 July, 2006

de Brún to tell MEPs that peace process requires both governments to face down DUP

Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún is this evening expected to deliver a speech in the European Parliament where she will tell assembled MEPs that ‘there is a huge responsibility on both the British and Irish governments to move the peace process forward’. View More