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Despite the fact that the British Government has given a public commitment to withdraw the use of plastic bullets, over £1 million has been spent buying plastic bullets within the last two years and a further half-a-million pounds in training PSNI officers in their use.

Photo: A protest in West Belfast last year highlights some of the victims of plastic bullets

Dúirt siad - The week in quotes

At last, the DUP has been smoked out, fundamentalist unionism exposed to the world. It was never about the IRA, IRA weapons, IRA threats. It was and is about civil rights. - Danny Morrison, Andersonstown News, 20 September

Ionradh Eile

Ireland has suffered many invasions throughout its history. Now, it seems that the zebra mussel has invaded in force over the past decade, writes AN DRAOI RUA.

Photo: Zebra mussels

The 5th Column

An Phoblacht's famous weekly satirical column. Read on...

Have you seen anything suspicious?

John Grieve, former head of the Terrorism Squad at Scotland Yard (grey hair and glasses), is pictured clutching his copy of Hope and History and waiting patiently in the queue for it to be signed by Gerry Adams in a London bookstore earlier this month.

Future for farming must be all-Ireland

-BY MICHELLE GILDERNEW MP, MLA (Sinn Féin Spokesperson on Agriculture) - On many occasions I have said to both governments and to local activists that a British solution has never worked in addressing an Irish problem.

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