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23 September 2004 Bloody dictator still evades justice - 88-year-old dictator "feels his end is near" Every time justice nears him, Chile's former dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, managed to pull a 'sicky' to delay or walk free from the judicial process. It worked in the case of his detention in Britain in 1999, where he was arrested during a trip to undergo some back surgery. Donegal County Council backs action on fishing crisis 
Sinn Féin Councillor Thomas Pringle had a motion unanimously passed at the last meeting of Donegal County Council calling on all stakeholders in the Fishing Industry to come together to plan for the future. Rights for migrant workers urged A campaign to recognise the positive contributions that immigrant communities have made to Irish society by urging the government to provide an amnesty for immigrants was launched last Saturday in Liberty Hall. 
Sinn Féin Dungannon Councillor Francie Molloy MLA was officially appointed as President of NILGA, the Six-County Local Government Association, on Friday 17 September at its AGM in the Craigavon Civic Centre. Photo: Francie Molloy 
Sinn Féin's Daithi Ó Cinnéide, a party candidate for next year's local council elections in North Belfast, and Palestinian activist Mohammed Samaana, attended a vigil on the Falls Road on Saturday 18 September to commemorate the thousands of Palestinian men, women and chidren slaughtered by Israel and its right-wing allies in Lebanon in 1982. Photo: Palestinian activist Mohammed Samaana and Sinn Féin's Daithi Ó Cinnéide City Management tries to force incinerator through Dublin City Management are attempting to go ahead with plans to erect an incinerator at Dublin's Poolbeg Peninsula, despite the overwhelming support received by a Sinn Féin motion last week which prevents an incinerator from being built there. Plight of Palestinian children in photos 
Sinn Féin Councillor Ray Corcoran and Seán Ó Donaíle, headmaster of Gealscoil Bharra in the North Dublin suburb of Cabra are pictured at an exhibition of photographs of Palestinian children at the Axis Arts Centre in Ballymun, Dublin on Thursday 16 September. Photo: Sinn Féin Councillor Ray Corcoran and Seán Ó Donaíle, headmaster of Gealscoil Bharra in the North Dublin suburb of Cabra Life for sectarian killing of Protestant Former Orange Order District Master Harry Speers gave friends and relatives a 'thumbs up' sign after he was sentenced to life for the murder of 49-year-old Trevor Lowry in a sectarian attack in Glengormley, North Belfast in March 2001. 
Sinn Féin in Derry is calling for the controversial CS Spray employed by the PSNI to be banned. Councillor Paul Fleming made the call after a young nationalist, Gareth Coyle, was deliberately sprayed in the face with the weapon by the PSNI earlier this month. Photo: Councillor Paul Fleming Unionists force by-election over flag row Limavady rate payers face a bill of between £8,000 and £10,000 after Unionist Councillor Boyd Douglas forced a by-election to fill the seat left vacant by Sinn Féin's Francie Brolly, who resigned from the council last month. Anti-Poverty Conference in West Belfast 
West Belfast Economic Forum and the Anti-Poverty Network hosted a major conference on poverty in West Belfast last week. Bringing together leading academics, voluntary sector activists and political lobbyists, the conference aimed to identify the causes of poverty and debate proposals for the creation of an anti-poverty strategy. Photo: Una Gillespie of the West Belfast Economic Forum Former SDLP Mayor of Belfast, Councillor Martin Morgan, announced last week that he was resigning from the party. Although citing personal reasons for his retirement and a desire to concentrate on his career as a social worker, it is thought the North Belfast councillor has become disillusioned with the party. Significant social housing victory Ballyfermot Sinn Féin Councillor Tony Smithers has achieved a significant victory in the battle to reform the City Council's plans for a major new development in Cherry Orchard. At a meeting of the City Council on Tuesday night, he successfully sought the inclusion of 10% social housing in the plan. A round-up of the rest of the week's news stories. 
Sinn Féin and An Phoblacht shared the Solidarité Irlande marquee earlier this month at the annual Fête de l'Humanité outside Paris, which this year attracted some 600,000 people. Visitors to the marquee were given political information about the situation in Ireland, could sample Irish food and drink or purchase republican publications and other wares, including, of course, An Phoblacht Photo: The republican marquee at the Fête Record number of SF councillors attend AMAI conference 
• Some of the Sinn Féin Councillors who attended last week's 91st Annual Conference of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland in Listowel. Included are: Seán Conlon, (Monaghan); Jackie Crowe, (Castleblaney); Séamus Morris, (Nenagh); John Dwyer, (Wexford); Paul Hogan, (Athlone); Robbie Sargent, (Dublin); Cionnaith Ó Súilleabháin, (Clonakilty); Brian Stanley, (Portlaoise); Tony Smithers, (Dublin); Joe Reilly, (Navan); Maurice Roche, (Wexford); Nicky Kehoe, (Dublin); Christy Burke, (Dublin); and Jimmy McDonnell, (Longford). On the evening of the 28 September 1964, 40 years ago, a detachment of the RUC, acting on the direct instruction of Brian McConnell, then Minister of Home Affairs, attacked the Divis Street headquarters of the Republican Party (Sinn Féin had been outlawed that year) in West Belfast. Their perilous mission was to remove an Irish Tricolour. • Philip Emmet, a direct descendant of Robert Emmet, lays a wreath at the site of Emmet's 1803 execution at Saint Catherine's Church on Thomas Street, Dublin on Monday evening, 20 September. The commemoration, organised by the Emmet Memorial Committee, marked the 201st anniversary of the patriot's execution by British forces following his failed rising. 
Belfast's Brian Keenan addressed a commemoration in Crumlin last Saturday to honour the late Dublin republican Charlie McGlade, speaking of "a long time friend, without whose lifetime work with the movement, we would not be where we are today". Photo: Brian Keenan addresses the commemoration |
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