The lively debates that have been taking place in cumann meetings, on the floor of the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis and in the pages of this paper concerning the rights and wrongs of water fluoridation may at last have come to a conclusion Free article

Clonakilty Sinn Féin Councillor Cionnaith Ó Súilleabháin was one of several speakers who addressed a public awareness meeting in West Cork recently on Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), conditions that affect thousands of children and young adults across the country. Free article

The role of disgraced former Fianna Fáil Minister Ray Burke in granting licences to oil companies for off-shore exploration during the 1980s and 1990s came under the spotlight again at a press conference in Dublin this week. Speaking in Buswell's Hotel on Tuesday, the chairperson of the newly formed Campaign for the Protection of Resources, Padhraig Campbell, said that "Ray Burke, against the advice of senior officials in his department, held a meeting on his own with the oil companies after which the terms and conditions previously attached to licenses were changed dramatically in favour of the companies". Free article

Ógra Sinn Féin organised an extremely successful event in Dublin last Saturday where nearly a hundred people came into workshops to discuss the development of the Cuban revolution, current power complexes behind the Palestine situation, and the role of the media and its effects upon revolutionary struggles. Free article