In keeping with this year's Féile an Phobail theme of anti-racism, the West Belfast Economic Forum was once again at the forefront with its 5th Frank Cahill Memorial Lecture. Entitled Confronting Racism in Ireland, the discussion was a fitting tribute to a man whose life epitomised the struggle for community equality. Free article

The sixteenth commemoration for hunger striker Kevin Lynch was held in Dungiven on 3 August with a crowd of over two hundred people present. Free article

Fuascailt, the Irish Political Prisoners Campaign, staged a high-profile picket outside 10 Downing Street on 3 August to demand the immediate release of all Irish political prisoners as a ``confidence-building measure to underpin the histroic IRA cessation of July 1997.'' Free article