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Sinn Féin MEP for Dublin, Mary Lou McDonald has urged people throughout Ireland to stand with ethnic minority communities against the scourge of racism. The Sinn Féin MEP said the party is committed to tackling all forms of racism and building an inclusive and multicultural Ireland.

DUP cannot be allowed paralyse the process

Gerry Adams and General President of the Laborers' International Union of North America, Terence M O'Sullivan, addressed the standing-room-only crowd at a Chicago fundraiser held by Friends of Sinn Féin on Saturday 7 November

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams will return today, Thursday 11 November, from a nine-day visit to the US, which saw him attend events in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington. As well as taking part in Friends of Sinn Féin functions, he met with senior Congress members, Senators and Governors, and with Irish American organisations, to update them on the ongoing efforts in the Peace Process.

Photo: Gerry Adams and General President of the Laborers' International Union of North America, Terence M O'Sullivan, addressed the standing-room-only crowd at a Chicago fundraiser held by Friends of Sinn Féin on Saturday 7 November

No credibility - IMC and Policing Board report

Maura McCrory, whose son is one of the four men facing charges arising out of the alleged abduction of Belfastman Bobby Tohill, is pictured at a picket outside Belfast High Court

The International Mon-itoring Commission has no credibility within the broad nationalist and republican community and the contents of the latest IMC report are of little interest to it, said Sinn Féin's spokesperson on Justice Gerry Kelly after the publication of the IMC's third report last week.

Photo: Maura McCrory, whose son is one of the four men facing charges arising out of the alleged abduction of Belfastman Bobby Tohill, is pictured at a picket outside Belfast High Court

"Monaghan Hospital cuts neither forgiven nor forgotten" - Ó Caoláin

The axing of key services in Monaghan General Hospital has been "neither forgotten nor forgiven" and the community in Monaghan "remains absolutely determined" to ensure the return of these services, according to TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin. He was speaking in a Dáil debate highlighting the shortfalls in health provision in the Northeastern Health Board area.

Photo: Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin

Day of Reflection to remember all war dead

Sinn Féin will hold civic ceremonies throughout the Six Counties remembering all those who died during the conflict and the two world wars on 10 December, International Human Rights day. At a press conference in Belfast on Tuesday, five of the party's mayors and chairs in the Six Counties, Gearóid Ó hEára (Derry), Jarlath McNulty (Strabane), Seán Clarke (Omagh), Gerry McHugh (Fermanagh) and Patsy Groogan (Magherafelt), announced a series of events to be held in their districts on that day.

Photo: Séan Clarke (Omagh), Patsy Croogan (Magherafelt), Gearóid Ó hÉara (Derry), Gerry McHugh (Fermanagh) and Jarlath McNulty (Strabane)

Shot because they thought he was Irish - Met officers suspended after unlawful killing verdict

Up to 120 members of the Metropolitan Police force's firearms unit, SO19, refused to carry weapons for several days last week when two of their colleagues were suspended from duty for the killing of Harry Stanley.

Photo: Harry Stanley

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