As the pictures below demonstrate, this year's St Patrick's Day festivities were a great success in Dublin, Belfast and London. The Dublin celebrations have gone from strength to strength in recent years and now encompass an entire weekend, but the impressive turnouts in Belfast and London, as reported below, were hugely sigfificant. Free article

A number of loyalists entered the grounds of St Comgall's school in Larne, County Antrim, last Friday 15 March and attacked a pupil and teacher. Free article

Sinn Féin Mid Ulster MP Martin McGuinness MLA has said that any attempt by David Trimble to interfere with the ministerial work of either Sinn Féin minister is unacceptable. Free article

A minute's silence was held at Free Derry Corner at 1pm on Friday 15 March to mark the third anniversary of the assassination of solicitor and human rights defender Rosemary Nelson, killed outside her Lurgan home on 15 March 1999. Free article

Sinn Féin Cavan/Monaghan TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin has welcomed the breakthrough in the Accident and Emergency dispute. Free article

At a function in Ballinasloe last Friday night a brother of one of the Colombia Three was presented with a cheque by Dermot Connolly of Sinn Féin. Dan Connolly, a brother of Niall Connolly, thanked all those present and said the families were grateful to Sinn Féin members North and South of the border for their continued fundraising activities. Money is needed for the expected trial, family visits, legal visits and the upkeep of the men while they are held in La Picota high security prison in Bogota. Free article

The Coleman/Fullerton Sinn Féin cumann will welcome Assembly member Dr Dara O'Hagan to Swords for the campaign launch of Dublin North candidate Mick Davis on Sunday 24 March in the River Valley Community Centre at 4pm. Free article

Ché Guevara has touched the imaginations, the political and thinking lives, of peoples across the world. His struggle to liberate the impoverished peoples of central and south America from imperialism has inspired thousands on every continent. That spirit is by no means dead in Ireland. Free article

While Bertie Ahern was asking his EU counterparts to consider committing themselves to a declaration on Irish neutrality, the other 14 EU leaders and their foreign ministers who were gathered in Barcelona last weekend were moving on with their plans to create "the most competitive knowledge based economy in the world". Free article

Sinn Féin Assembly member for North Belfast, Gerry Kelly, is pictured with Sinn Féin Councillor Dessie Ellis in Finglas on a recent visit to Dublin North West. Free article