Sinn Féin Dáil leader Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin has described as "scandalous" the charging of Vincent McAnespie and Gerry McGeough following their arrest on the day of the count in the Six County Assembly elections. Free article

The loyalist thugs who attacked a 16-year-old Catholic in the Alliance Avenue area of Ardoyne just before midnight on Saturday night 10 March were intent on killing him says Sinn Féin councillor Margaret McClenaghan. Free article

Community workers and representatives of local organisations from across Dublin joined Sinn Féin activists and elected representatives at a Sinn Féin organised conference on the drugs crisis on Monday, 12 March. Free article

The results of the Northern election once more showed an overwhelming endorsement for continued political and social change. Free article

Sinn Féin Transport Spokesperson Seán Crowe TD has said that the 2006 pre-tax and operating profit figures for Aer Lingus, announced this week, "vindicated the view that Aer Lingus operated as a state asset and not a liability, and the decision by this Government to sell our former national airline was a political decision and not an economic one". Free article

Sinn Féin Spokesperson on Natural Resources Martin Ferris TD has outlined the party's strong opposition to the Government's proposed break-up of the Electricity Supply Board. Ferris was reacting to the announcement this week by Minister Noel Dempsey that ownership of the electricity grid would pass to Eirgrid. Free article

This is a tale of two presidents, a geographically similar journey and wildly differing public receptions. On the one hand, we have a president castigated as a demagogue and a dictator, on the other is the self-styled 'leader of the free world' (wherever that is). Free article

Exploitation of construction workers rising, Fixed-term contract worker wins case, T&G and Amicus to form 'super union' and SIPTU and Aer Lingus hold talks Free article

Mauritania, Nigeria, Palestine and Sri Lanka Free article

Martin Óg Meehan with his daughter Niamh and son Conúil at the launch in Belfast this week of his book Finely Tempered Steel. Seán McCaughey and the IRA.  The book tells the story of Belfast republican, and former IRA Chief of Staff Seán McCaughey, who died on hunger strike in Portlaoise Jail in 1946.