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16 March, 2006 |
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Political policing: new campaign launched 
"Political policing is a threat to everyone," was Gerry Adams's meassage at the launch of a new Sinn Féin campaign to end political policing in the North. Pay off: Sectarian militia members receive golden handshake 
The British government announced last week that 3,000 serving members of the Royal Irish Regiment are to be rewarded with golden handshakes of £28,000 (€40,600) to each full time soldier - on top of their redundancy package and army pensions - and £14,000 (€20,300) for the part-timers. But no amount of money or medals, can disguise the UDR/RIR's institutional criminality, enabled and encouraged by the British government and political Unionism. Aer Lingus: Privatisation imminent 
The impending government decision to sell Aer Lingus will be strongly opposed by a SIPTU campaign growing in momentum. Members in Shannon and Dublin Airports have enthusiastically backed proposals for a protective ballot on industrial action. A meeting in Cork Airport is expected to yield a similar result. Photo: SIPTU national industrial secretary Michael Halpenny Adams in US: Seeking support for process 
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams MP departed for the US last weekend to attend a series of engagements in New York, Washington DC and Massachusetts, where he will seek US support for Sinn Féin's strategy for the speedy restoration of the all Ireland political institutions. Photo: Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams MP 
Sinn Féin spokesperson on International Affairs, Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD, joined members of the the Oireachtas in a protest in Shannon Airport on Wednesday. They were part of a wider group of anti-war activists protesting at the continued use of Shannon Airport by the US military participating in conflicts in the Middle East. Photo: Insignia of American Military Forces fighting in Iraq, in the bar of the transit Lounge in Shanonn Airport Sectarian upsurge in wake of UDA arrests 
Claims that the UDA intends to end it's sectarian campaign have been dismissed, as nationalists across the North face an upsurge in loyalist death theats and sectarian attacks. Dismissing the UDA statement Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness said "we need to hear and see from the UDA evidence that their violent campaign against Catholics is over". 1916 auction: TD calls for government action 
Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh has described as "scandalous" the planned auction of priceless historical documents and other artefacts associated with the 1916 Rising and the Irish independence struggle, in a sale planned by two auction houses in the week of the 90th anniversary of the Rising. Photo: the last letters of executed signatories of the Proclamation, Seán Mac Diarmada Fógraí bháis: Tireless campaigner for Inquiry into father's murder 
I met Albert Fullerton six years ago as the 10th anniversary of his father's murder was approaching. I was sent to write a story for this paper. In the succeeding months after the piece was written my car learned the way from Letterkenny to Cockhill in Buncrana. I was always made welcome, as Albert became my tutor in the minutiae of the Eddie Fullerton case. Photo: The funeral of Albert Fullerton Campaign: Discriminators to be named and shamed 
Following An Phoblacht's coverage last week of the launch of Sinn Féin's anti-discrimination campaign, Smash Discrimination Anois, ARAN FOLEY spoke this week to Caitríona Ruane MLA and Paul Butler, Sinn Féin Group Leader on Lisburn Council, about the new campaign. |
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