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Chris O'Leary
CORK Sinn Féin this morning (Wednesday, July 28th) launched a major new initiative aimed at tackling the growing housing crisis across Cork city. There are now more than 8,000 families on the housing waiting list in Cork which has grown by more than 1,000 in just two months.
“Let’s End the Wait” aims to make tackling the housing crisis a top priority in Cork and outlines a number of actions that can be taken now, at a local level, to make a difference.
Chris O'Leary
SINN Féin has increased their numbers on Cork City Council to five representatives following the announcement by independent councillor Chris O’Leary that he is joining the party.
Cllr O’Leary has been a member of Cork City Council since 2003 when he was elected as a Green Party candidate. He stood as a European candidate for the party in 2004 and also in the General Election in 2007 in Cork North Central but was unsuccessful.
Sean Kelly
ANTI -Lisbon campaigners have been accused this week of deliberately ignoring a key feature of the Lisbon Treaty that protects small member states during voting procedures.
Groups including Sinn Féin, Cóir and the UK Independence Party are claiming that the redistribution of voting weights in Lisbon is pitched in favour of larger countries and will lessen Ireland’s power to influence EU decision-making. However Munster MEPs have criticised the ‘No’ campaign this week for ‘only telling half the story’. Read the FULL STORY or leave a COMMENT »
Brian Crowley
CORK MEP Brian Crowley has said that claims by Coir and Sinn Fein that Ireland’s voting weight will be reduced under the Lisbon Treaty are highly misleading.
“The new double majority voting system is more transparent and places smaller countries like Ireland on an equal footing with the larger states.
“This means Ireland will have the same voting weight as Britain, France and Germany. It does this by introducing two elements to the voting system which requires a 65 per cent majority of the EU’s population and a 55 per cent majority of EU member states.
Gerry Adams
SINN Féin President Gerry Adams, will be in Clonakilty, west Cork later this afternoon to accompany local activists campaigning for a no vote in the upcoming Lisbon Treaty referendum.
