The IRA has released the following statement to An Phoblacht this week: Free article

A senior scientific officer has claimed that RUC/PSNI officers put pressure on forensic experts to cover up their mistakes. The revelation was made during a two-week court case in Draperstown. Free article

The arson attack that destroyed one of two mobile classrooms at an Irish language nursery school in Poleglass was carried out by "people with no values", says Sinn Féin councillor Michael Ferguson. Free article

Breandán Mac Cionnaith of the Garvaghy Road Residents' Coalition said serious questions still remain unanswered about RUC evidence used against him in an unsuccessful prosecution for protesting against the imposition of an Orange Order parade at Drumcree in 1995. Free article

At a Belfast City Council town planning committee meeting on Thursday night, 18 September, unionist councillors combined to reject a planning application for a new housing development in nationalist West Belfast. Free article

On the occasion of the official opening of Ghaelscoil an Dhamba in West Belfast last Friday, Sinn Féin's Bairbre de Brún paid tribute to those working tirelessly to promote Irish medium education. Ghaelscoil an Dhamba is the first ever Irish medium primary school to receive statutory funding from the day it opened. Free article