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It is the business of a cement company to build walls. That we know. But what company would want to be involved in the building of a wall which has been dubbed the 'Apartheid Wall', by not only human rights organisations, but leaders of virtually every country in the world? The answer is Irish company Cement Roadstone Holdings. Sinn Féin's Force for Change - First National Conference of Elected Representatives 
As Sinn Féin launches into another year of elections, the party's elected representatives from across Ireland gathered in Navan last weekend for a well-attended first national conference of the National Elected Representative Forum. The purpose, as Francie Molloy outlined in his report on the workings of this forum, was to co-ordinate the various strands of our elected representation of 170 councillors, TDs, MLAs and MPs, so strengthen "the very powerful force it is, across the island - a force for change". Israel's Apartheid Wall challenged in International Court On Monday 23 February, the International Court of Justice at The Hague is holding a hearing into the legality of the Wall that Israel is building on Palestinian territory to cut off the West Bank. It impedes the Palestinian people's access to land, water resources, education and medical care and violates their most basic economic and social rights. So far, Israel's government, leaded by ultra-conservative Ariel Sharon, is refusing to attend the Court hearing. Fight to shut Sellafield continues - Morgan addresses London conference 
On Friday last 13 February, Louth TD and Sinn Féin spokesperson on the Environment Arthur Morgan travelled to London to address a conference on Sellafield organised by the Norwegian-based Bellona Foundation. The Conference was also addressed by Børge Brende, Norwegian Environment Minister; Asmund Kristoffersen, Chairman of the Nordic Council Environment and Natural Resources Committee; Frederic Hauge, Director of the Bellona Environment Foundation; Bruce McKirdy of NIREX; and Rex Strong, Head of Environmental Management at BNFL. Photo: Arthur Morgan 
West Tyrone MLA Barry McElduff will take advantage of Bertie Ahern's visit to Omagh today to hand him a letter signed by eight local Sinn Féin councillors highlighting a number of key issues where he as Taoiseach might actively give expression to Sinn Féin's concerns. These include requests for Ahern to take a stronger line on pressing the British with regard to collusion and the publication of the Cory report, to press the British Government to introduce democratic legislation which will see the return of tens of thousands of voters onto the register in the Six Counties. Photo: Barry McElduff Welcome for smoking ban in workplace 
Sinn Féin Health spokesperson Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD welcomed Wednesday's announcement that the ban on smoking in the workplace will commence on 29 March. He described it as "an important advance for workers in terms of the conditions in which they labour and in terms of public health generally". 
A picket was held last Friday 13 February at Leinster House to protest at the round-up and mass deportation of 70 so-called illegals the previous day. Rosanna Flynn of Residents Against Racism and TDs Finian McGrath and Joe Costello addressed some 50 demonstrators, many of them young people, on the details of the mass deportation to Romania and Moldova which had left the state at 7.50am the previous day carrying 65 people, including 12 or 13 children, accompanied by 35 Gardaí, doctors and interpreters. Garda Bill must be exactly right, not partly right Responding to the publication of the Garda Siochána Bill 2004 on Tuesday, Sinn Féin Dáil spokesperson on Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Aengus Ó Snodaigh, said he "recognised that improvements had been made" to the Minister's original proposals but that the Bill was still deficient. "We need to get this critical area of public policy exactly right, not partly right," he said. St Patrick's Website launched in Belfast 
The St Patrick's Day Carnival Committee launched its new website in Belfast City Centre on Tuesday 17 February. The new website, www.stpatricksdaybelfast.com, will act as a marketing and fundraising site for the St Patrick's Carnival Committee, which is campaigning for Belfast City Council to fund an event outside the City Hall on 17 March. Photo: Irene Sherry and Stephen Corr of the Carnival Committee at the website launch Sinn Féin proposes three new Departments in Six-County Executive 
Sinn Féin Assembly group leader, Newry/Armagh MLA Conor Murphy, has confirmed that Sinn Féin is proposing the establishment of three new departments in the Six-County Executive as part of the Review of the Agreement. Two new departments, for Equality and Policing and Justice, respectively, are both consistent with the Good Friday Agreement. The third, a Department for Children and Young People, is a long standing Sinn Féin objective and was raised as far back as the negotiations leading up to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. Photo: Conor Murphy Dublin Government must demand the truth - The 12th annual Joe MacManus/Kevin Coen lecture 
Sinn Féin EU candidate for the Northwest, Pearse Doherty, delivering the 12th annual Joe MacManus/Kevin Coen Lecture at the weekend, slammed the decision of British Secretary of State Paul Murphy to once again refuse to provide answers in relation to the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings. He said it was time that the Dublin Government stood up to the securocrats in the British system and demanded the truth. Photo: Pearse Doherty Cullen urged to cease inappropriate use of female models Sinn Féin spokesperson on the Environment, Heritage and Local Government Arthur Morgan TD has questioned Minister Martin Cullen on the inappropriate practice employed by his Department of using models in promotions for public information campaigns. Morgan said he raised this issue with the Minister because on a number of occasions he has used female models in promotions for public information campaigns. Sinn Féin selects Tralee candidates 
Sinn Féin in Kerry has chosen two candidates to run for the Tralee area of Kerry County Council and three candidates for Tralee Town Council in next June's local elections. Sitting Councillor Toiréasa Ní Fhearaíosa (23), who took over from her father, Martin Ferris last September, will be joined in the County Council campaign by Tralee woman Maisie Houlihan (53), from the Strand Road area of the town. Derry remembers Cllr John Davey: There must be full disclosure on collusion - de Brún 
Sinn Féin candidate in the forthcoming European elections, Bairbre de Brún, was the guest speaker at last Sunday's republican commemoration in honour of assassinated Sinn Féin Councillor John Davey at St Mary's Churchyard, Lavey. Councillor Davey (61) was shot by the UVF on 14 February 1989 as he drove his car into the driveway of his home at Gulladuff. Photo: Magherafelt District Councillor Seán McPeake, Bairbre de Brun and Mary Davey are pictured at the Cllr. John Davey 15th Anniversary Commemoration in Lavey 
BY PAUL CONFREY - Sinn Féin launched its waste management charter earlier this week, at a press conference where the focus was on the campaign against incineration and for a proper waste management strategy. The charter reiterates the party's support for the abolition of local authority refuse charges that penalise the householder, who produces less than 10% of all solid waste. Photo: Daithí Doolan, Arthur Morgan, Mary Lou McDonald and Sinead Pembroke 
"It's a strange world," said Gerry Adams to a packed audience in Melbourne. "Eight years ago, your Prime Minister refused me permission to visit Australia on the very same basis that tens of thousands were sent here in the first place." The Sinn Féin President was addressing almost 600 people at a literary lunch sponsored by The Age newspaper in Melbourne. Photo: Gerry Adams is pictured with Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and with former Australian PM Paul Keating SF critical of Ombudsman report Sinn Féin Assembly Group leader Conor Murphy has said that a report by the Police Ombudsman finding no evidence of wrongdoing regarding the PSNI political raid on the Sinn Féin Offices in Stormont was deeply flawed. "It simply repeats information given to it by the PSNI and passes no judgement on its reliability," said Murphy. Ó Caoláin challenges Ahern on support for Iraq war The Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was challenged in the Dáil this week on his support for the war in Iraq by allowing Shannon to be used as a military air base and his acceptance of discredited US and British Government claims about weapons of mass destruction. Sinn Féin Dáil leader Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin said both governments had now been forced to establish inquiries "into the so-called intelligence they peddled" to justify the war. 
Arsonists torch nationalist home A West Belfast man whose Springfield Road home was the target of an arson attack by loyalists on Saturday night last said the attack was a deliberate attempt to kill him and his four-year-old son. The man, who wishes to remain anonymous, was due to move into his new home on Saturday but those plans have been put on hold after it was extensively damaged in the arson attack. |
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