O'Ceallaigh Praises Garine's Work

President Tomás Ó Ceallaigh has praised the work of Alex Garine, the Premier of the Tománn Republic of East Fealsamthom (TREF), on attempting to get the place up and running. Recently Garine has completed work on a draft constitution for the TREF. This lays down the loose framework to create a fully functional workers-council based autonomous region.

The President said of Garine;

Alex is undoubtably putting in a great amount of effort to try and
stabilise the region and to lay down a foundation for the future of the TREF.
With a constitution in place the TREF will become a much easier place to govern.
He has my support in all the actions he is taking.

The work now continues towards getting the 'communist enclave' fully active and operational; a task that Ó Ceallaigh believes Garine will tackle head-on.

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SPORT: EIFA World Cup Update+

Regio Mayo 5 - 5 Republic of Talamthom
Republic of Talamthom 1 - 8 Hullande

Talamthom's campaign in the EIFA World Cup is drawing to a close. With only a draw and loss in the second group stage it is looking unlikely that they will qualify for the knock-out stages. In order for Talamthom to qualify for the next stage of the competition they must defeat Astor, the very team they opened their World Cup against, and indeed the team beat them 1-0 in that match. The Republic's hope now rests on their shoulders, but that hope is fading fast.

In other sport news, FC Maritmo, a team made up of Tománnachs abroad is currently competing in the large international club league, organised by the Kingdom of Anelka, called the KAFL. The team is owned by the President who oversees the teams progress. The team share a ground with Golden Harps at the Freetown Bay Stadium. They were given the Portugese name following a trip by the President to Portugal whereby he fell in love with their namesake. The team have had a tough start to their season so far and rest 15th in the KAFL 2nd Division of 16 teams. This week they have a tough competition in form of 13th place SC Deutschland today and 10th place Timor on Wednesday. Matches against the lower placed teams are crucial if Maritimo are to get away from the bottom. Results so far:

FC Maritimo 4 - 6 FC d'Aurgès
HFC Kaisersberg 3 - 0 FC Maritimo

Talamthom Heads Towards The Southern Seas

With the submission of the Tománnach Military Act our Republic is finally getting nearer to establishing a fully functioning military. The act sets out the provisions needed for the governance of such a body within the Republic and in her overseas territories. The Act will establish a Ministry of Defence and a Defence Minister in addition to laying out such things as the Commander in Chief's powers.

Talamthom will be the centre of the Military when established. As well as the establishment of a base in Tománn Indo-China, the Tománnach colony bought from the Chinese Soviet Republic in late 2004, there will be a base established on a small island called Santos Laguna in the South-Western Seas. The Island has been claimed and subsequently acquired soley for the purpose of establishing a base there. All that is known of the history of the island is that its discoverers, and subsequent first idigenous population, were a mutinous crew of Spanish merchants that got themselves shipwrecked, in 1792. The original population of the island is believed to have died out in the late 1880s.

There has been a bill submitted, The Santos Laguna Act, to define the governance of the island. The island as a result of its status as a military base will be governed by the Defence Minister via the Ministry of Defence, with the Tománnach Constitution used as the highest point of law.

Yesterday, the Labour Party of Talamthom leader Alex Garine launched an unprecedented attack in his Aontacht Newspaper on the Democratic Labour Party. He accused them of 'selling out', supporting imperialism and being right-wing. The DLP today responded via their in-house newspaper, The Sapphire Sunrise, to Alex Garine's article by claiming that the LPT was prepared to compromise national security in favour of party ideology.

This battleground looks set to overshadow the current Dáil proceedings and the establishment of the Military if it doesn't cease any time soon. We may see protest voting in the Dáil from the LPT in the weeks to come, much in the same vein as Vindrus York's famed 'virtual apathy'. Curiously though Alex Garine has proposed an amendment to the Dáil procedural rules whereby the abstentions from voting don't effect voting thresholds. Is he digging in for war?