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11 December, 2003 |
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Stepping up the fight against HIV/AIDS 
Too worried about their Christmas shopping, many would not have even noticed that Monday 1 December marked World AIDS Day. However, tens of thousands of activists and health workers rallied worldwide, while officials hailed new initiatives, new funding and a new pill to fight the disease that has infected 42 million people and killed 3.1 million in 2003, which kills more than 8,000 men, women and children every day. PSNI asked forensic lab to doctor evidence British Army and PSNI interference with forensic material has called into question all convictions based upon forensic evidence over the last 30 years. This revelation followed the discovery by a Belfast defence lawyer that suggests the PSNI routinely request government forensic scientists to doctor the evidence and further revelations that the British Army was deliberately allowed to contaminate material gathered as evidence in a recent case. Spanish and French Prisons today - Basque and Irish political ex-prisoners talk 7.30pm Friday 12 December 2003 - Teachers Club (room 2), 64 Parnell Sq. West The event will be a public presentation of the situation of the political prisoners currently being held in Spanish and French prisons as a consequence of the political conflict between the Basque Country and the Spanish State. 
Last Thursday, 4 December, a Sinn Féin delegation met with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Foreign Affairs minister Brian Cowen to discuss the Cory report into collusion. The delegation, led by Gerry Adams, included Martin McGuinness, Bairbre de Brún, Mary Lou McDonald, Mitchel McLaughlin and Dessie Macken. The meeting took place in Government Buildings in Dublin and lasted an hour and a half. Photo: Sinn Féin MLA Conor Murphy talks to the media at an An Fhírinne picket at Stormont on Thursday 4 December highlighting collusion PSNI wait six weeks to warn of death threat 
Antrim Sinn Féin councillor Martin Meehan is furious that the PSNI took six weeks to warn him of a death threat against himself and party colleagues, choosing to inform him as he attended the South Antrim Assemby election count centre on 27 November. Photo: Martin Meehan The family of the North Belfast teenager Peter McBride returned to court last week and won the right to challenge the British Army over its refusal to dismiss the two Scots Guards convicted of his 1992 killing. International Human Rights Day - A time to implement international standards 
Sinn Féin South Down MLA Caitríona Ruane, marking international Human Rights Day on Wednesday, said it is time that governments throughout the world committed themselves to the highest international human rights standards. Photo: Caitríona Ruane House of love, State of desperation - BY CAOILFHIONN Ní DHONNABHÁIN RTÉ's new series, The House of Love, gives viewers a weekly reminder that there is an unprecedented housing crisis in the 26 Counties. This game show is based on the premise that, because of the housing crisis, an ordinary semi detached house in a housing estate in the Midlands has now become a much sought after commodity. Ferris attacks miserly attitude to social welfare 
Speaking in Leinster House on Wednesday on the Social Welfare Bill, Sinn Féin TD Martin Ferris contrasted the attitude of those in power towards the wealthy, with what he described as their "miserly" attitude to those living on social welfare and low wages. He contrasted the manner in which working-class communities were treated when it came to social welfare increases and grants, to the generosity displayed towards the rich in terms of tax breaks and the recent funding of the Punchestown Equestrian Centre. Photo: Martin Ferris Sinn Féin Dáil spokesperson on Fisheries, Martin Ferris, has strongly criticised the latest EU proposals to further reduce the number of days Irish fishermen can spend at sea. The measures would prevent Irish Sea fishermen from spending more than 15 days at sea, or ten days in the case of some categories. With yet another bypass opened in Kildare, AN DRAOI RUA asks if we now live in a 'land of roundabouts' and if so, is it to our advantage? Chuir áititheoirí Bhaile Chill Dara fáilte is fiche roimh an chuarbhóthar nua thart ar an bhaile nuair a fosclaíodh é Dé Luain seo chaite. Next week, a group of people linked to Galway's Left will launch an initiative to reclaim Padraic Ó Conaire from what they term the "grip of the establishment". Coiste Uí Chonaire will be holding a bilingual celebration of Padraic Ó Conaire's life in Áras na nGael, Dominick St at 8pm next Friday, 12 December. Launseáil leabhar - Tom Barry - IRA Freedom fighter 
• Ag launseail leabhair 'Tom Barry IRA freedom fighter'le Meda Uí Riain, le déanaí i nDroichead na Banndan ó chlé Conchúr Ó Murchú Iar Uachtarán CLG, Emmet Ó Murchú, Seanadóir, Labhrás Ó Murchú, Seamas Ó Cuinneagáin agus Donnchadh Ó Sé Sinn Féin, An Sciobairín. Bhí dhá chéad daoine i láthair ag an launseáil. Michael Dwyer-Wicklow United Irishman 
This week marks the 200th anniversary of the cessation of United Irish resistance in Wicklow, spanning the Rebellion of 1798 to the Rising of 1803. The event is being marked by a lecture in Dunlavin on 5 December by Dr Ruan O'Donnell of the University of Limerick and by the unveiling of a monument to Michael Dwyer in Kiltegan on 14 December at 2pm. Photo: Michael Dwyer Sinn Féin to oppose estimates in Wexford 
Sinn Féin councillors in Wexford, Enniscorthy, New Ross and Gorey will vote against the annual estimates on all four local authorities in County Wexford this month. Speaking following a meeting of Councillors and local election candidates in Gorey on Sunday, Cllr John Dwyer outlined Sinn Féin's position in relation to the local authority budgets. Photo: John Dwyer Minister negligent over violence against women 
Minister for Justice Michael McDowell has shown negligence by failing to take any "decisive action" during this year's 16 Days Against Violence Against Women, says Sinn Féin Dáil spokesperson on Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Aengus Ó Snodaigh. The Dublin TD tackled McDowell during Order of Business in the Dáil on Wednesday. Photo: Justice Minister Michael McDowell UDA up tempo in sectarian intimidations A Dunmurry pensioner's home has been the subject of a sectarian attack for the 36th time by members of the UDA. Trevor George (73), who lives on the edge of the loyalist Seymour estate with his wife Alice (69), was at home on Monday 3 December when masked UDA members pelted his home and conservatory with petrol bombs, breaking a number of windows and causing scorch marks to the outside of the building. Two Dublin Sinn Féin members, from opposite sides of the city, were rudely awakened in Special Branch raids last Friday morning. Under the pretext of suspicion of possession of firearms, their homes were searched and the pair were arrested under the catchall Offences Against the State Act. McGuinness follows Emmet to Trinity Sinn Féin cumainn in colleges across the 32 Counties play a vital role in the party's political project. This was the message Martin McGuinness brought to the weekly meeting of the Uí Chadhain/Tone Cumann on his visit to Trinity College in Dublin last week. In both their role in providing an important activist base on the ground in colleges and bringing a youthful perspective on politics to the party, the importance of student republican activists cannot be overemphasised, he said. SF candidates selected in Milford and Letterkenny 
Sinn Féin has selected candidates to contest next year's local election in Milford and Letterkenny town. The Milford convention, which took place on Sunday in the Milford Hotel, unaminously selected 22-year-old Donal Cullen from Devlinreagh, Carrigart, as the sole Sinn Féin candidate to contest the county council election in the Milford electoral Area. 
Mickey Bravender from Monaghan has recently been appointed National Organiser of Ógra Shinn Féin. He dropped into the An Phoblacht offices this week to talk about his plans for Ógra. 
Martin McGuinness is pictured with Warren Allmand, former Solicitor General of Canada at a recent Friends of Sinn Féin reception in Toronto, Canada. |
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