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This week's roundup of sectarian attacks across the North Photo: New collusion mural on Whiterock Road in Belfast Pharmaceutical deal offers new hope in AIDS battle 
Agreement between four pharmaceutical companies and the governments of developing countries to facilitate access to cheap drugs is bringing hope that the battle against AIDS may yet be won. AIDS organisations have hailed the deal as a breakthrough, with the potential to save millions of lives. Photo: Vital drugs for AIDS sufferers Dishonesty marked London hearings After 13 long and difficult months, the Saville Inquiry's sojourn in London finally drew to a close last week. It has been a memorable period, partly because the major players in the events of Bloody Sunday have been called, in person, to provide an honest of their role on that day, and partly because of the refusal of most of them to do so. Ten million Italian workers downed tools and left their desks last week for four hours in protest at plans by Silvio Berlusconi to raise the retirement age by five years. Economy: DUP strong on rhetoric weak on responsibility Sinn Féin Finance spokesperson, Mid Ulster Assembly candidate Cllr Francie Molloy has hit back at DUP deputy leader Peter Robinson's accusations that the main political parties are 'fiscally irresponsible'. LVF drugs captured in the Netherlands A drugs haul of more than 750,000 ecstasy tablets with a street value of around £8 million, destined for the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF), was seized outside Amsterdam by Dutch police before it could be transported to the Six Counties. Council homelessness plan a 'disgrace' says Morgan 
Dublin City Council's plan to remove homeless people from city centre's streets was attacked by Simon and Sinn Féin's Arthur Morgan at a housing meeting this week. Photo: Arthur Morgan, Marylou McDonald and Daithi Doolan of Sinn Féin and Bob Jordan from the Simon Community at the public meeting "Publish Barron Report without delay" - Ó Caoláin As the Report of Justice Barron on the Dublin and Monaghan bombings and a number of other tragedies in the 26 Counties arising from the conflict in the North, was presented to the Dublin Government on Wednesday, Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin called for its publication "without delay". Military jets in near miss with Irish airliner According to the Celtic League, which has a long history of military minororing in the Irish Sea area, an incident during a NATO exercise last month in which RAF fighter jets strayed into the path of an Irish civil airliner flying between Cork and Edinburgh is being classed by the British Ministry of Defence as an 'Airprox'. O'Brien's new millennium manifesto Forget the 1916 Proclamation or the UN charter of Human Rights; we have a new manifesto for the millennium. It comes to us from the 1998 entrepreneur of the year, radio station owner, investor, multimillionaire tax exile, Denis O'Brien. Ireland, according to O'Brien, is a land of 'communists' where "people are screaming like spoiled children" and "there is too much shite going on inside Ireland at the moment". Milk price war threat to producers 
The Sinn Féin spokesperson on Agriculture, Martin Ferris TD, has attacked the threat by dairies to cut the price it pays for milk bought from farmers, due to the milk war between the major retailers. Dunnes, Supervalu and Tesco are currently engaged in a price war that has seen the price of own-label milk cut to 99c per two litres. Photo: Supermarket chains are engaged in a milk price war Sinn Féin launches Charter for Senior Citizens Sinn Féin today launches the party's Charter for Senior Citizens at the party's Sevastopol Street Offices on the Falls Road, Belfast. Children and youth safety week a great success 
An initiative designed to help protect the health, safety and wellbeing of children and young people in the West Belfast areas of Twinbrook, Poleglass and Lagmore met with great public support this past week. Photo: Michael Ferguson and bairbre de Brún with a young participant in the Youth Safety Week IAUC Convention honours Oliver Kearney The 20th Anniversary Irish American Unity Conference National Convention was held in New York from 17-19 October. This year's convention was dedicated to the legacy and memory of civil rights activist Oliver Kearney, who passed away on 24 July. Oliver's son, Jarlath Kearney, gave a touching account of his father's life and love for Ireland. Upper Springfield remembers its fallen 
On Sunday 26 October, hundreds of republicans from the Upper Springfield area of West Belfast marched from Turf Lodge to the Republican Plot in Milltown Cemetery to remember the IRA Volunteers and Sinn Féin members who have given their lives in the struggle for Irish freedom. Photo: Relatives gather in Milltown cemetery Keenan honoured at Derry Volunteers' function 
Derry Volunteers Commemoration Committee held its Annual Dinner Dance in the City Hotel, Derry, last Saturday 28 October. As is customary at this event, Derry republicans each year honour an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the struggle for freedom, justice and peace in Ireland. This year's recipient was lifelong Belfast republican Brian Keenan. Photo: Brian Keenan Daughter of Sinn Féin activist killed in road crash South Antrim Councillor Martin Meehan has expressed his deepest sympathy to Antrim Sinn Féin Chairman Paddy Murray and his family on the tragic death of his daughter, Frances. National Graves Appeal for funds for new monument 
The National Graves Association (NGA), which is refurbishing the Republican Plot in Milltown Cemetery in Belfast and adding a wall of remembrance dedicated to fallen Volunteers from Belfast, is appealing for donations to cover the cost of construction. Photo: Work underway on the Milltown monument For all republican motorcycle fans, the newly set-up Saoirse Motorcycle Club should take your fancy. The organisers say the club, which is intended to organise across the 32 Counties, has a distinctly republican ethos. They are hoping for sufficient support to organise a large motorcycle rally next summer. |
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