Tory MP and Home Office minister David Maclean last week referred to Roisín McAliskey as an `IRA prisoner'' and implied that she should be treated similarly to Myra Hindley, a child murderer who is serving natural life. Free article

As the Westminster election campaign gets under way two writers analyse the implications of a possible Labour victory Free article

Reports of a compromise made by the local Orange Order in Dromore, County Tyrone, and residents in relation to the contentious parade to take place there on July 12 has been confused and put in doubt after wrangling between local Lodge members and hardline outsiders. Free article

West Belfast man Damien Sullivan walked free last week after having a life sentence quashed. Sullivan was sentenced to life in May 1994 in connection with the shooting of a security guard at Anderson and McAuley's store in the centre of Belfast. Free article

In two attacks launched within 12 hours of each other against crown forces patrols in East and North Belfast, two British soldiers and a notorious RUC member operating out of Mountpottinger RUC barracks in the Short Strand received serious injuries. Free article

An Phoblacht has learned that the IRA had no involvement in a shooting incident near Aldergrove airport in January when three shots were reportedly fired at an Isuzu Trooper jeep that was said to have been carrying a senior British army officer and his driver. Free article

Sean McGirr, Sinn Féin candidate for Armagh City in the forthcoming local elections, spoke this week of a campaign of harassment against him by the crown forces which he considers has escalated to a point where he might be assassinated. Free article

A TRADES UNIONIST WHO attended last Saturday's United Against Bigotry (UAB) demonstration at Our Lady's church in Harryville spoke to An Phoblacht after the demonstration and told us why he had gone to support the Catholic parishoners of Ballymena who have been subjected to a 27 week picket by loyalists. Free article

Robert Allen urges environmentalists to look at a socialist agenda Free article

Almost fifty concerned parents and community activists attended a meeting organised by Sinn Fein's Galway representative, Mike Egan, in the Westside Community Centre this week to hear Christy Burke outline the response of Dublin communities to the plague of drugs. Free article