Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and Trade, Seán Crowe TD, today met Gilberto Luis Martinez, a member of the Executive Committee of the National Central Unit of Colombian Workers (CUT). Gilberto was in Ireland to speak about on going human rights abuses in Colombia, and specifically the violent targeting of trade union leaders by the Government, […]
Sinn Féin’s Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has welcomed the Government’s announcement that it will not cut its Overseas Development Assistance in Budget 2015. Deputy Crowe, however, expressed the view that much more needs to be in the Government’s foreign affairs policy to support development, peace, reconciliation and human rights, actions which would […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has criticised the Irish Government for voting against a motion, at the recent International Atomic and Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting, which called on Israel to sign the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and open its nuclear sites to IAEA inspection. Deputy Seán Crowe, […]
Dublin South West TD, Seán Crowe, has raised issues surrounding the upcoming all-party talks on the North with the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Dáil today. Deputy Crowe, who is also a member of the Committee for the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, called for the talks to take place in an atmosphere […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Seán Crowe TD, met with representatives from the Crosscare Migrant Project today and supported their proposal for the creation of an Emigrant Register. Deputy Seán Crowe said: “Crosscare Migrant Project came before the Oireachtas Foreign Affairs Committee today to discuss their Emigrant Register proposal, which calls […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has called for Ibrahim Halawa to be freed by the Egyptian authorities as there is no possibility he will receive a fair trial. Ibrahim, who is from Dublin, was arrested at a pro-democracy protest and has been jailed for over one year and has still not […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe, has called on Israel to immediately end its brutal bombardment and invasion of Gaza which has now killed at least 650 Palestinians. As the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, arrives in the region, Crowe also backed the calls of the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, who has […]
Sinn Féin spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, raised the case of the kidnapping of over 200 school girls in Nigeria by the radical Islamist group Bok Haram in Leinster House today. Crowe was speaking at the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement Committee, which was discussing the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution […]
Sinn Féin has today submitted a policy paper to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s review of Ireland’s engagement with the Irish diaspora. Speaking after making the submission to the review, Seán Crowe TD, Sinn Féin Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, said: “I welcome that the Government has decided to review its […]
Sinn Féin’s Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, is encouraging people to check the expiry date on their passports now to avoid any headaches or heartaches during the coming summer holiday period. Deputy Crowe said: “Many people are in the process of, or have already booked, summer holidays outside of Ireland, and it is […]
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