The Sinn Féin Mayor of Sligo, Alderman Seán MacManus, will be among a delegation of five mayors meeting Environment Minister Noel Dempsey TD at Leinster House today, Thursday 9 November. Free article

Four years ago, after a long campaign, Cork Corporation agreed to close the city's Kinsale Road waste dump. Only six weeks ago, councillors passed two resolutions calling for an alternative site to be found for the location of a new planned Mixed Refuse Facility (MRF). They called on the City Manager to investigate other possibilities. Free article

A Dublin motorcycle courier recently won a landmark battle to prove that he is a company employee and not a contractor. Martin McMahon fears, however, that his victory over Securicor Omega Express Ireland Ltd may yet be overturned on appeal because he has been denied funding for proper legal representation. An Phoblacht's MICHAEL PIERSE reports. Free article

It's a beautiful spot, high up in the mountains, a marvellous tourist resort for fishing and boating, yet there is not even a sign to mark the Fullerton Pollan Dam or to remember Eddie Fullerton's vision for the area. It's like the bridge in Buncrana across which Wolfe Tone must have passed, which Donegal County Council now wants to call `Victoria Bridge'. It's as if the county councillors want to write out of history our republican heritage, and with it the memory of Councillor Eddie Fullerton. Free article

A call has been made for Minister for the Environment and Local Government Noel Dempsey to halt plans to build a network of waste incinerators throughout the 26 Counties. This comes in the wake of revelations from England that the Department of the Environment there concealed figures showing that 88 people die and 168 are hospitalised every year from lung diseases associated with emissions from incinerators. Free article

Sinn Féin have selected Ard Chomhairle member Vincent Wood as the party's Mayo candidate to contest the next general election. Free article

Over 200 delegates from throughout the island attended the Ógra Shinn Féin National Congress in Belfast last weekend, where they debated and discussed issues ranging from the Peace Process to the living conditions of young people in Ireland today. Free article

Rita O'Hare, Sinn Féin's representative to the United States, visited Seattle on Friday and Saturday, 3 and 4 November. She spoke to a variety of audiences, articulating Sinn Féin's continuing efforts to push the Irish Peace Process forward and urging Irish Americans and other supporters to maintain their commitment to a peaceful, just and united Ireland. Free article

Sinn Féin Chairperson, Mitchel McLaughlin has said that the party's upcoming Conference on Regional Regeneration will be a reflection of growing concerns over the ``economic exclusion currently experienced in the Northwest region''. Free article

Thousands of third level students marched through the streets of Dublin on Wednesday, 8 November, to protest the low level of student grants. Free article