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15 May, 2008 |
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Interview : Joint First Minister Martin McGuinness, one year on from the new Executive 
A YEAR after the re-establishment of the political institutions of the Good Friday Agreement, including a power-sharing Executive headed by Sinn Féin and the DUP, joint First Minister MARTIN McGUINNESS speaks to An Phoblacht Editor SEÁN Mac BRÁDAIGH about the current political situation, his relationship with Ian Paisley, the critical importance of having policing and justice powers transferred from London to the Six Counties, and the ongoing campaign by elements of the Establishment against Sinn Féin Education Minister Caitríona Ruane. Interview : Seán 'Spike' Murray, member of the Strategic Review of Parading Body 
THE PARADES body's interim report last month created anxiety amongst some key residents' groups who feared that the proposals would lead to a 'pre-1998 situation'. Seán Murray, a republican former POW and member of the Strategic Review of Parading Body, speaks to An Phoblacht to address those fears. Photo: SEÁN MURRAY: ‘It is only through a process of sustained engagement that nationalists and unionists can better understand one another’ 
REPUBLICANS throughout Ireland and further afield have been shocked and saddened at the death on Friday, 9 May, of veteran republican Ivan Barr. Photo: CIVIL RIGHTS: Ivan Barr (third from right) with Liam McElhinney (second from right) on a march in Strabane Ministers at sea over Lisbon Treaty 
GOVERNMENT ministers Willie O'Dea and Micheál Martin have shown in two RTÉ radio debates with Sinn Féin that they don't know key facts about the Lisbon Treaty that have serious implications for Irish business and farming and EU militarisation, according to Sinn Féin MEP Mary Lou McDonald. Photo: Sinn Féin MEP Mary Lou McDonald Major campaign to regenerate the West 
SINN FÉIN Senator Pearse Doherty and Kerry North TD Martin Ferris this week launched a major campaign around the regeneration of the west of Ireland. The title of the campaign is 'The West's Awake - From Kerry to Donegal we demand our rights.' Photo: THE WEST’S AWAKE: Senator Pearse Doherty and Councillor Pádraig Mac Lochlainn at the Donegal launch O'Keeffe must reverse directive on immersion teaching 
SINN FÉIN mounted a protest at Leinster House on Tuesday evening against Government plans to end Irish-language immersion teaching. West Belfast Community Safety Forum announced 
A WEST Belfast Community Safety Forum was announced this week by local MP Gerry Adams and British Direct Rule Minister Paul Goggins, who still has responsibility for policing and justice matters in the North. Photo: Gerry Adams with Paul Goggins at the launch of West Belfast’s Community Safety Forum Catholic man injured in Ballymena attack 
A YOUNG Catholic man says he is lucky to be alive after an attack by a sectarian gang in Ballymena. Photo: Daithí McKay |
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