Key Facts ·         Provision of an MRI Scanner for Connolly Hospital welcomed – Though Ministers indicate its delivery is a condition of cuts in 2012 ·         Defend Blanchardstown Hospital Campaign calls for scanner to be provided immediately and without condition ·         Scanner will save money as patients no longer ferried in taxies to other hospitals…

{13cork} 1.wav Listen on Posterous Finally… People with Cork ancestry could soon by forking out 40 euro for a “Certificate of Corkness” under a novel proposal being discussed by Cork city council tonight. Local Fine Gael Councillor Laura McGonigle has tabled a motion for a “Cork Passport”  – for anyone in the world who can…

Press Statement: Paul Murphy MEP (Socialist Party / United Left Alliance) 15 November 2011  Press Conference in European Parliament: ·        Free Gaza MEP demands European response to illegal detention of EU citizens – calls for European Parliament to revoke credentials from Israeli embassy ·        Claudia Saba (Irish Ship to Gaza organiser) details conditions facing people…

United Left Alliance supports tomorrow's USI demonstration and calls for students to link up with other sectors to fight austerity Minister Quinn's U-turn on proposed reintroduction of fees a nasty con on students Ahead of tomorrow's USI demonstration which promises to be the biggest anti-austerity mobilisation so far this year the five ULA TDs made…

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