At a packed pre-election rally held by Louth Sinn Féin in Castlebellingham, republicans from all over the county heard Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, Arthur Morgan and Tomás Sharkey set out the manifesto for all 15 Louth candidates in the local elections. Arthur Morgan TD said with the 15 candidates Sinn Féin is set to take 18 seats (some are standing in dual constituencies) and thereby change the political landscape of County Louth forever. Free article

British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL), the state owned British company responsible for Sellafield and numerous other nuclear power plants and facilities, broke new ground this week with the announcement that it is entering the nuclear clean-up business. Having polluted Britain and Ireland for decades, BNFL now wants to take advantage of what it believes is a growing worldwide nuclear clean-up market worth £3 billion annually. Free article

Upwards of 100 people crowded into the courtyard in front of the new North Antrim Constituency Office in Dunloy on Friday 30 April to see North Antrim Sinn Féin MLA Philip McGuigan and the party's Six-County EU candidate Bairbre de Brún perform the official opening ceremony. Free article

Sinn Féin Vice President and the party's Director of Elections, Pat Doherty MP, has said that the publication of the Six-County electoral register on Tuesday, showing another drop of around 20,000 people, should act as a wake up call to the British Government. Free article

"No Pasaran!" will be engraved on a memorial sculpture in Waterford City this summer. At a meeting of nearly 150 people in City Hall on 25 March an appeal was launched to fund a monument to the eleven Waterford Volunteers who fought in the International Brigade in the anti-fascist war in Spain in 1936-'38. The appeal, which needs about €15,500, has the unanimous support of Waterford City Council and is expected to attract funds from a number of trade unions. Free article

Sinn Féin Health spokesperson Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD has accused the Minister for Health and Children Mícheál Martin of massaging hospital waiting list figures in order to mask the Government's failure to fulfil its promise to end waiting lists within two years. This was after the Minister gave responsibility to the National Treatment Purchase Fund for the collation of waiting list figures and reclassified thousands of patients to 'reduce' the waiting list. Free article

Sinn Féin National Chairperson Mitchel McLaughlin, North Antrim MLA Philip McGuigan and North Belfast MLA Kathy Stanton on Wednesday met at Stormont with representatives of the British Labour Party Parliamentary Grouping. The Sinn Féin delegation raised a number of issues with the Labour Party group, including the wiping off of a further 20,000 voters from the latest electoral register. Free article

Sinn Féin's Pearse Doherty has challenged the 26-County Government to explain what it is doing to increase voter turnout after a warning from the National Youth Council that up to 100,000 young people may not be able to cast their ballot on 11 June because they are not on the electoral register. Free article

West Belfast MP Gerry Adams on Wednesday welcomed the application by the West Belfast Taskforce Joint Working Group to the Integrated Development Fund, to secure the economic regeneration of West Belfast. Free article

Ballymena Democratic Unionist Party Councillor Robin Stirling has caused uproar by describing the town's Dunclug Estate as a "foreign ghetto". Free article