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MEP’s BLIND SPOT MIRROR PROPOSAL FOR ALL TRUCKS
Date: January 23, 2006
EU MINISTERS TO DECIDE ON BLIND SPOT MIRROR PROPOSAL FOR ALL TRUCKS IN MARCH[more]
MEP CONGRATULATES DONEGAL'S YOUNG SCIENTISTS
Date: January 16, 2006
The very evident presence of entries from schools throughout Co. Donegal in the Young Scientist 2006 Exhibition at the RDS, Dublin was heartening evidence of the importance placed by the county’s educators on the role of...[more]
INVESTMENT AT KNOCK WELCOMED
Date: January 16, 2006
The expansion of services and passenger numbers through Ireland West Airport at Knock reflected great credit on the company’s Chairman Joe Kennedy, Chief Executive Liam Scollan and the Board they led.[more]
TAOISEACH’S SOCIALIST PRINCIPLES QUESTIONED ON DEPORTATION
Date: January 15, 2006
The socialist credentials of Taoiseach Bertie Aherne had to be called into serious question when his Government’s policy resulted in forcibly deporting a family into a proven situation of personal danger.[more]
CALL FOR BORD GAIS TO EXPAND GAS CONNECTION
Date: January 11, 2006
Independent MEP Marian Harkin has welcomed the proposal of Bord Gais to extend natural gas service to towns in Mayo and Galway but has called on the company to include all other areas of the West and North-West.[more]
M.E.P. QUESTIONS IDA FIGURES
Date: January 9, 2006
In the absence of any real breakdown of where new enterprise had located or where new investments were sited in 2005, the assertion by IDA Ireland that there was even regional distribution was open to question. This was stated by...[more]
TOURIST PRODUCT MUST IMPROVE OR WEST REVENUE WILL CONTINUE TO DECLINE SAYS M.E.P.
Date: January 1, 2006
Unless a radical approach was adopted which committed regions like the West of Ireland to developing a distinctive tourism product they would continue to lose market share and vitally important tourism revenues.[more]
Harkin Opens New EU support for SME's
Date: December 5, 2005
Small and medium sized enterprises were the core of the economy of the North West and the EU and deserved every support from the Government and the European Union. This was stated by Independent TD and MEP Marian Harkin when...[more]
Great Debt owed to emigrants - Harkin tells Sligo Assoc. in London
Date: December 5, 2005
Irish emigrants in the period from the 1940s to the 1970s had through their remittances home been one of the main builders of the foundations for the growth of the Celtic Tiger. This was the view expressed by Independent TD...
Early Bird Train must be retained says Harkin
Date: December 5, 2005
Independent TD Marian Harkin has called on Iranrod Eireann to rescind it’s decision to discontinue the early bird Sligo to Dublin train which is used each week by approximately 50 people.[more]
