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15 August, 2008

Mortgage relief proposals must be forthcoming - Sinn Féin

Sinn Fein Omagh town councillor Sean Begley has said Social Development minister Margaret Richie must bring forward and implement proposals aimed at addressing the growing mortgage crisis. Read full article

12 August, 2008

Urgency call on Miniburns Road Works

Sinn Féin West Tyrone councillor Frankie Donnelly has called upon road service to undertake vital road works on the Minburns road as a matter of urgency. Councillor Donnelly said that urgent action must be taken at the Miniburns junction of the Omagh, Dromore, Drumquin and Lack roads if serious traffic accidents are to be averted. Read full article

11 August, 2008

Sinn Féin lobbies for improvements to Adult Special Needs provision in Strabane.

Sinn Féin representatives Claire Mc Gill MLA and Cllr Michaela Boyle met with Department of Health officials in Strabane this morning to press for progress on issues of concern expressed by parents of young adults transferring from Knockavoe Special School to Glenside Adult Training Centre as well as to lobby for much needed investment to improve the physical environment at the Glenside facility itself. Read full article

11 August, 2008

Sinn Fein hits out at graffiti attack at home of young Strabane family

Strabane Sinn Fein Cllr Michaela Boyle has registered her disgust at an incident over the weekend in which graffiti was scrawled over a home in Castlegrange Park in the town in which a couple and their four young children live. Read full article

11 August, 2008

Ambulance cuts further depletion of acute health provision in Omagh - Fitzgerald

Sinn Féin Mid Tyrone councillor and chairperson of Omagh District councils healthcare committee Anne Maire Fitzgerald has said recent cuts to ambulance provision in the north will affect many throughout the Omagh District, particularly those living in rural communities. Read full article

7 August, 2008

North West Gateway Initiative must begin to deliver

Sinn Féin says that North West Gateway Initiative (NWGI), the intergovernmental initiative originally announced in May 2005 and billed as the primary vehicle which would take forward the socio-economic regeneration of this part of Ireland, must now concentrate on delivery on the ground for areas like Strabane District and its Donegal hinterlands- areas that have bourn the brunt of marginilasation and neglect down through the years. Read full article

7 August, 2008

Lack of BBC GAA Coverage Unacceptable - Begley

Sinn Fein's Sean Begley has slammed the BBC after they revealed they would not be broadcasting any of the GAA quarter final matches due to be played over the next number of weeks. Read full article

6 August, 2008

Omagh District Chairperson attended unfurling of National Flag in Belfast.

Omagh Council Chairperson and Sinn Féin councillor Martin McColgan was in Belfast last week for the unfurling of the National flag in the office of Belfast's first citizen Tom Hartley. Mr. Hartley placed the Tricolour alongside the Union flag in his office on Tuesday. The Sinn Fein lord Mayor says the gesture will give parity of esteem to both nationalists and unionists in Belfast city. Read full article

6 August, 2008

McAleer Welcomes 'Txt 2 Join' Recruitment Drive

Sinn Féin Councillor Declan McAleer has welcomed the party's 'Text to Join' initiative. Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams launched the scheme which Sinn Féin say makes the party more accessible to more people. Read full article