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Women Won’t Wait! Abortion Rights Now!
None of the main parties support a woman’s right to choose. The DUP and SDLP are entirely opposed to any reform, as are the majority of UUP MLAs. Sinn Féin and most Alliance MLAs oppose abortion rights outside the narrow circumstances of sexual crime and fatal foetal abnormality.
Residential care must be for people, not profit
On Wednesday 23rd August, for the first time since it was established in 2005, the Regulations and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) intervened to close a privately-owned and managed nursing home, the Ashbrooke Nursing Home, operating on the edge of Enniskillen.
March for Marriage Equality – People power can win change!
It has been two years since the demonstration in Belfast which brought 20,000 people to the streets in support of marriage equality. Prior to this point, the issue had been brought up a number of times in Stormont, but was repeatedly rejected by elected representatives.
Court fails to deliver abortion progress
Another abortion rights case is currently on its way to the European Court of Human Rights. This case aims to challenge the decision by Tory Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to deny women from Northern Ireland free access to abortions under the NHS in England.
Leisure centres should be for people, not profit
From the beginning of 2015, leisure centres formerly managed by Belfast City Council have been outsourced to Greenwich Leisure Limited. Although GLL is registered as a charitable social enterprise and claims to reinvest its surplus back into service provision, the company is winning an ever increasing number of contracts by slashing wages, staffing and training while paying its directors exorbitantly.
G8 a “colossal waste of public resources”
By Donal O’Cofaigh, Fermanagh Socialist Party The news that the cost of hosting the G8 has doubled to…
G8 Summit: What did those behind the ‘Ring of Steel’ decide?
Representatives of the 1% pledge more austerity, war and environmental degradation By Kevin Henry Sixty million spent on…
Defiant opposition to G8 Summit
By Gary Mulcahy, Up to 3,000 protesters marched through the streets of Enniskillen on 17 June to oppose…
G8 – Stop drone attacks!
By Matt Gordon “To say a military tactic is legal, or even effective, is not to say it…