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What you need to do is create an atmosphere and opportunity where business can flourish."The Action Plan for Jobs aims to get 100,000 people back in work by 2016 and another 100,000 by 2020.Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams attacked the Government's plan,...
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Enda Kenny has defended as "common sense" the Government's controversial septic tank registration plans.But he refused to be drawn on calls for a grant-aid programme for financially struggling countryside householders who cannot afford upgrades or replacements.Sinn...
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Sinn Fein's President Gerry Adams (L) smiles as he listens to Sinn Fein presidential candidate Martin McGuinness speaks with the media in Dublin Castle in Dublin, Ireland on October 28, 2011. Martin McGuinness looks to have finished third in the Irish... View Photo »
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You say many times that we're all in this together, but there are 30 former politicians earning pensions in excess of 100,000 euro. These elites take this money home every single year and it's coming out of the people's pockets. So we're not all in this together.
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Enda Kenny has defended as "common sense" the government's controversial septic tank registration plans.But he refused to be drawn on calls for a grant-aid programme for financially struggling countryside householders who can't afford upgrades or replacements.Sinn...
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And last week Gerry Adams took advantage when he accused Enda Kenny in the Dail of acting "like an eejit" in his encounter with Nicolas Sarkozy in Brussels.Now, as it happened, the incident with Sarkozy, in which the Frenchman could be seen ruffling...
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Therese Ruane is a prospective Sinn Fein candidate in Mayo on whom the party is resting its hopes in Enda Kenny's own constituency.Thomas Sharkey is a former party hopeful in Louth who was usurped from his position of Arthur Morgan's heir-apparent when...
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Sinn Fein candidate Martin McGuinness (L) smiles with a shopkeeper as he campaigns along with Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams (R) in Dublin on October 26, 2011 during his final day of canvassing. The voters go to the polls on October 27 to elect a new... View Photo »
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Sorry, Gerry Adams is not really the moral authority to consult on the topic of serial killings by a regiment of the British army, not least because the IRA killed many more people
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In the UK, they didn't touch Helen because she was their darling. They behaved towards me as if I was an IRA bomber. It was appalling," she adds.There were further running battles with journalists when she began consorting with Gerry Adams and Martin...
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...third of the Dail and the majority of the Seanad support it.The group of 16 TDs, made up of Independents and the United Left Alliance, has called on other members of the Oireachtas to support them.THERE were heated exchanges in the Dail last night during...
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Gerry Adams MP (Irish: Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh; born 6 October 1948) is an Irish Republican politician and abstentionist Westminster Member of Parliament for Belfast West. He is the president of Sinn Féin, which is the second largest political party in Northern Ireland and fourth largest party in the Republic of Ireland. Full Article
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Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams (standing) pretends to cut Irish Presidential candidate Martin McGuinness' hair in a barbers shop on the final day of canvassing ahead of polling day, in the Ballyfermot area of Dublin. October 26, 2011.
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Sinn Fein presidential candidate Martin McGuinness (L) speaks with the media outside Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, Ireland on October 25, 2011 as Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams (R) looks on during his final two days of canvassing. Voters go to the polls on October 27 to...
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Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, left, and Gerry Adams, right, stop to speak to the media while canvassing in Drogheda, Ireland, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011. Irish Presidential candidate Martin McGuinness was out canvassing ahead of Thursday presidential election.
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Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, front, and Gerry Adams, right, stop to speak to the media while canvassing for votes in Drogheda, Ireland, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011. Irish Presidential candidate Martin McGuinness was out canvassing ahead of Thursday presidential election public vote.
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International negotiators including former Irish premier Bertie Ahern called on armed Basque group ETA to declare a definitive end to violence. Negotiators pressed Spain and France to greet such a move by starting talks to deal exclusively with the consequences of the conflict, which...
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Northern Irish Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, right, waves to the media as he arrives to the international conference to find a solution for the troubled Spanish region of the Basque Country, in San Sebastian, northern Spain Monday Oct. 17, 2011. ETA has killed 829 people in bombings and...
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Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness (L) and party President Gerry Adams (R) shake hands with supporters as they arrive for a press conference after being officially ratified by his party to be a candidate for the Irish Presidential election at the Writers' Centre in Dublin, Ireland on...
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Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, left, and Gerry Adams speak to the media during a press conference in Dublin, Ireland, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011. Martin McGuinness has been formally declared as Sinn Fein's candidate in the Irish presidental election. The 61-year-old's nomination was...
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Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams speaks to delegates at his party's annual conference at the Waterfront Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011.
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File - In this Oct.17, 2011 file photo Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams, second from left waves at the end of the International Peace Conference in San Sebastian, northern Spain. The Basque daily Gara says the armed group ETA has issued a statement Thursday Oct. 20, 2011 saying it is...
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Sinn Fein candidate Martin McGuinness (L) smiles with a shopkeeper as he campaigns along with Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams (R) in Dublin on October 26, 2011 during his final day of canvassing. The voters go to the polls on October 27 to elect a new President.
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