SPEAKING directly to the micro group which claimed responsibility for the shooting of an off-duty policeman while leaving his child to school in Derry last Thursday, 8 November, Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said they should wake up to the reality that the war is over. Free article

Retention of the Agricultural Wages Board (AWB) is key to protecting the rights of agricultural workers in the North. That was the main message from Sinn Féin Agriculture and Rural Development Minister, Michelle Gildernew to Assembly members during the week. Free article

ONE PERSON was injured and three others arrested as a huge force of gardaí confronted several hundred Shell to Sea protestors, including members of Ógra Shinn Féin on Friday, 9 November, at Bellinaboy, County Mayo. Free article

HOMES and cars in the Whitewell area of Belfast were damaged in a sectarian attack in the early hours of Monday, 12 November. Free article

The Dáil's Enterprise, Trade and Employment Committee has agreed to a proposal by Sinn Féin TD Arthur Morgan that the committee visit two of the state's worst economic blackspots, East Cork and West Waterford. Free article

MORE THAN 200 delegates from across Europe met in London last weekend for the first pan-European conference to support democracy and social progress in Venezuela. Free article

CAMPAIGNERS against the Shell gas refinery in County Mayo are vowing to appeal a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to grant a licence for the project. Free article

Ag caint i ndiospoireacht san AE, Parlaimint na hEorpa areir, dúirt FPE Bairbre de Brún go bhfuil se in am do na haerlínte bheith páirteach sa troid in aghaidh athraithe aeráide. Free article

THIS YEAR marks the 25th anniversary of the murder of six men in the North Armagh area by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) as part of a series of summary executions by British state forces. The policy became known as 'shoot-to-kill'. Free article

THE members of the Kilmichael Commemoration Committee are urging republicans to make a special effort to attend this year's event in West Cork to not just "express the gratitude of a younger generation of Irish men and women to those illustrious freedom fighters" who fought the ruthless Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries but to send a message to modern-day anti-republican revisionists "who seek to besmirch the memory of the Boys of Kilmichael". Free article