Posts Tagged ‘Evening Echo Article’

This article was published in the Evening Echo on Wednesday 20th October 2010 The current unemployment crisis among people who have recently graduated means that emigration once again haunts the dreams of people across Ireland. As a nation we run the risk of being the victim of a brain drain as thousands of our best [...]

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Thu21Oct2010

THE number of Gardaí stationed in Cork city and county have risen slightly since 2008 despite the ban on recruitment.

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Tue1Jun2010

NAMA is a €54 billion bailout. It will use taxpayers’ money to overpay the banks for toxic loans. Bankers and developers who gambled on the property market and lost will gain at the expense of Irish taxpayers.

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Thu24Sep2009

Public Transport in Cork will be a target for cutbacks in the months to come. The social, financial and environmental benefits of public transport are in danger of being ignored.

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Wed19Aug2009

Children have been targeted by a number of cuts including the canellation of the cervical cancer vaccine, cuts at Crumlin Hospital, reduced supports for Special Needs Children, increased pupil/teacher ratios, the withdrawl of the Early Childcare Supplement and changes to Child Benefit next year.

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Thu2Jul2009

What we needed was a Budget designed to stimulate the economy, protect and create jobs and reform our whole system. What we got was a vicious attack on low and middle income families. There is an alternative.

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Wed15Apr2009

Fine Gael’s policy to reform the higher education sector includes an alternative to the Government’s plans to reintroduce third level fees. This would see the abolition of registration fees and the introducation of a deferred contribution system where new students would pay 30% of the cost of their education after graduation.

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Tue31Mar2009

The Government’s attitude to education is an act of national sabotage that will do long term damage to our country

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Tue17Feb2009

The Government consider investment in Education not as the key to getting out of the recession but as an area where cuts can be made.

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Tue17Feb2009

The time has come to enhance consumer rights and reduce the cost of living and Fine Gael has set out its proposals in our Finding Real Value policy.

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Wed11Feb2009