22 April 2004 Edition
McCann's home attacked again
22 April 2004
West Belfast Sinn Féin Assembly member Fra McCann had his living room window broken after a number of ballbearings were fired at the front of his Lower Falls home. Free article
Third attempt to expel killer Brits
22 April 2004
Jean McBride, whose son Peter was shot dead by Scots Guardsmen Mark Wright and James Fisher in 1992, waited anxiously on Tuesday 20 April for the outcome of her third legal challenge to have the two killers thrown out of the British Army. Free article
Anti-collusion picketers target police conference
22 April 2004
Members of An Fhírinne, took their campaign to expose the British Government's role in assisting unionist death squads to assassinate Irish nationalists and republicans to the Ramada Hotel on the outskirts of South Belfast on Monday 19 April. Free article
Ógra protest at Omagh case
22 April 2004
Ógra Shinn Féin held a protest outside Omagh Courthouse on Tuesday 20 April, during the ongoing trial of local Ógra member Daniel Turnbull. Free article
Worrying rise in homophobic attacks
22 April 2004
A spokesperson for the Rainbow Project - which provides health services for the gay community - has expressed concern that recent attacks on gay men in Derry City are causing anxiety. Free article
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Domestic violence centre should not be in barracks
22 April 2004
Derry Sinn Féin Councillor Maeve McLaughlin, commenting on the opening of a Domestic Violence Centre at Strand Road PSNI Barracks, said that while this is a growing problem in society and action has to be taken to address it: "I do not believe that a centre located inside a PSNI Barracks staffed entirely by PSNI personnel is the solution." Free article
New Derry bid to drop London
22 April 2004
Sinn Féin Derry City Councillor Barney O'Hagan has renewed the party's call for the British Government to officially recognise Derry as the name of the city and to drop the prefix London from its name. Free article
Sectarian graffiti a typical Kilkeel welcome
22 April 2004
Sinn Féin's spokesperon on Human Rights, Caitríona Ruane MLA, has described the loyalist graffiti daubed on walls in Kilkeel last Thursday as sinister and threatening. Free article
Loyalists spike roads
22 April 2004
Sinn Féin North Antrim Assembly member Philip McGuigan says loyalists are behind a campaign to destroy car tyres and cause accidents by spreading nails on the roads leading into the nationalist village of Dunloy. Free article
Loyalist no 'cross-community' worker
22 April 2004
Sinn Féin in Derry has dismissed claims by the mouthpiece of the UDA, the Ulster Political Research Group (UPRG), that a well-known loyalist spotted in the Bogside area is a 'cross community worker'. Free article