A report released on Thursday 13 May shows that racially motivated and homophobic attacks across the Six Counties have almost doubled in the last year. The report was released just days after a woman was assaulted in a race attack in Belfast and a teenager was injured in a homophobic attack in Derry. Free article

Soccer star Neil Lennon may be forced to leave Glasgow Celtic after yet another sectarian attack directed against the 32-year-old this weekend. Lennon awoke last Sunday morning to find " You are a dead man" and other sectarian slogans scrawled on the walls outside his home. Free article

Brendan Curran from Lurgan in County Armagh, whose partner, Sheena Campbell, was assassinated in 1992, addressed members of the Troops Out Movement and many others at a public meeting titled 'The British Government and Collusion in Ireland: Time for Truth' on Wednesday evening, 12 May, in the Grand Committee Room of the House of Commons in London. Free article

CLAIRE PRENDEVILLE examines how the Coalition Government's supposedly voluntary scheme of decentralising government departments and agencies has ignored the fact that most workers don't want to move. Free article

A plaque in memory of three men killed when loyalists bombed Kelly's Bar in West Belfast was unveiled on Thursday 13 May to mark the 32nd anniversary of the attack. Free article

The Sinn Féin Dáil spokesperson on Agriculture, Martin Ferris TD, has launched a strong attack on the Coalition Government's role in lifting the EU embargo on Genetically Modified food. Deputy Ferris was speaking as the EU Commission moved on Wednesday morning to lift the ban on a genetically modified maize. Free article

County Wicklow Sinn Féin local election candidates are pictured handing in their nomination papers at the Wicklow County Buildings on Monday 17 May. This is a record number of Sinn Fein candidates fielded in the county since the foundation of the state and all of the canvassers are returning a positive response on the doors. Seated left to right are, Marie Gavaghan, David Gahan, John Brady, Gerry O'Neil, Eamonn Long and Adrian O'Reilly. Free article

Pete Middleton, Denis Grace and Marie Wynne from the London based Wolfe Tone Society are pictured presenting Sinn Féin EU candidate Bairbre de Brún with a cheque for £1,000 to help cover the party's election expenses. The trio met up with de Brún at Belfast City Hall on Tuesday 18 May. Free article

Sinn Féin's Kerry County Council candidates are pictured on Tuesday following their nominations at County Buildings in Tralee. Pictured from left to right are Risteárd Ó Fuaráin, Mike O'Leary, Cllr Toiréasa Ferris, Maisie Houlihan, Robert Beasley and Pat O'Shea. Free article