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Sinn Fein Councillor Kathleen Funchion made a stand against the election process for the mayoral title and abstained from voting on Monday evening in what was the first vote in her career as a councillor.

It is finally all over. Not only are the candidates all exhausted but we are all a little exhausted from politics at the moment and from now on it will be winding down.

Kilkenny Borough Councillor Sinn Fein’s Kathleen Funchion has said that the Fianna Fáil/Green Government has no mandate to implement the sweeping measures in the McCarthy report.

Why do we listen to lies from people who are lying about the Lisbon Treaty?

Mayo Sinn Féin is challenging representatives from political parties advocating a Yes vote on Lisbon to a public debate on the issues. A public meeting has been organised for Thursday September 24 at 8.30pm in the Fáilte Suite of the Welcome Inn Hotel.

“Lisbon will worsen the economic crisis both in Ireland and throughout Europe” according to Sinn Fein Councillor Rose Conway-Walsh. “The threat to our economy is not in a rejection of Lisbon. It is in the ongoing privatisation policies of the government and the failure to properly invest in education, health, childcare, research and development and broadband.” Rectifying these failures will be all the more difficult if the Lisbon Treaty is ratified, the councillor claims.

The new series of the flagship current affairs programme Saturday Forum is now well under way on CRC 102.9 FM from 11.30am.