ESSAY  COMPETITION  FOR  SECOND  LEVEL  STUDENTS  IN  IRELAND  2012 The Friends of the International brigades in Ireland (FIBI) are launching our first essay competition for all second level students in Ireland. The winner will be invited to read their essay in Madrid on Friday 15th Febuary 2013, and to attend the annual Jarama commemoration on […]

Crowe meets Dr Aleida Guevara Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Seán Crowe TD, today met Dr Aleida Guevara, Ché Guevara’s daughter, in Leinster House. Dr Guevara, who is a paediatrician, was visiting Ireland to attend the Ché do Bheatha festival in Kilkee and also launch her book “Remembering Ché: My Time […]

Crowe supports Bar Workers   Dublin South West representative Seán Crowe TDhas today called on UCD Students Bar to honour an agreement reached with workers on the 15th of Dublin August with respect to redundancy and unpaid wages. He said it was unacceptable that workers were left without wages since the end of August. The […]

Crowe calls for the end of the Gaza blockade Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and the Diaspora, Seán Crowe TD, has called for Israel to remove its blockade of Gaza. The Dublin South West TD spoke about the SV Estelle which has left Sweden to break the naval blockade of Gaza by delivering […]

Bank of Ireland interest rate hike will push mortgage holders over the edge – Sinn Fein Dublin South West representative Seán Crowe TD responding to news that Bank of Ireland has hiked its interest rate by half a percentage point said the move is guaranteed to push some mortgage owners over the edge, potentially taking […]

Literacy and Numeracy- direct link to salary Dublin South West representative Seán Crowe TD attended the start of National Literacy Awareness Week in the Vocational Education Office in Tallaght where and the publication of Literacy and Numeracy Difficulties in the Workplace was launched. Crowe said that the report was an important piece of research that […]

ESRI should hang its head in shame Dublin South West representative Seán Crowe TD described the Economic and Social Research Institute report released this week as a flawed and ideologically loaded analysis that is contributing absolutely nothing to the debate around the State’s potential recovery. Deputy Crowe said he was at loss at why the […]

Magdalene Laundries to be raised in Dail Dublin South West TD Seán Crowe has said that his party Sinn Fein are to use its Private Members time in the Dáil next week to move a motion on the abuses that took place in the Magdalene Laundries. The motion has been tabled by Sinn Féin with the support of 17 […]

Government Health  a shambles-Crowe Dublin South West TD Seán Crowe has said that the longer waiting lists, the deepening  financial and political crisis in Health combined with a dysfunctional relationship between Minister of State for Health Róisín Shortall and Minister for Health Dr. James Reilly  highlights  the  rudderless shambles that increased numbers of sick people have to deal with on a daily basis. […]

Shatter needs to stop Spinning on Garda  cuts- Sinn Féin’s Seán Crowe TD has called on Minister Alan Shatter to “stop spinning yarns and passing the buck” back to the Garda Commissioner, Martin Callinan and his officers over Garda cuts and closures. Crowe said  that the cuts are damaging  Garda  morale and impacting directly on communities. He was speaking after hearing from Minister Shatter that station […]