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With two significant disputes this week in An Post and Irish Ferries, where nearly a thousand workers have been laid off by management and where government is failing to accept its responsibilities, how should we write about strikes and industrial relations conflicts in the Irish economy?

Photo: 7,000 postal workers marched in Dublin

They are still dying in Bhopal

20 years on - Multinational still refuses to accept liability On 3 December, BBC World and BBC News 24 ran an interview with a Jude Finisterra, identified as a spokesperson for Dow Chemical, the multinational that incorporates Union Carbide, which was responsible for the 1984 Bhopal tragedy in India.

Sinn Fein TDs back the postal workers - Government has its head in the sand - Ó Caoláin

Sinn Féin TDs Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, Sean Crowe and Martin Ferris have all called for support his week for the postal workers. Ó Caoláin said that Bertie Ahern's response to the dispute showed the Government "had its head in the sand as a vital State service is downgraded".

Photo: Sean Crowe TD on the postal march

SIPTU rep's solidarity visit to Colombia

Anne Speed, Branch Secretary of SIPTU's Drinks and Wholesale Distribution branch, returned recently from a fact-finding trip to Colombia. An Phoblacht interviewed her on Tuesday last on her experiences.

Photo: The trade union delegation in Bogota

Ahern admits British Inquiries Bill must be changed

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has admitted that the British Government's new Inquiries Bill, which will have an impact on how inquiries, like the one into Patrick Finucane's death, will be held, is inadequate and must be changed.

MEPs address underinvestment in Northwest

Sinn Féin MEPs Bairbre de Brún and Mary Lou McDonald addressed an audience of almost 100 representatives of the business, community, trades union and civic sectors of society throughout Derry and Donegal at Da Vinci's Hotel, Derry on Monday.

Photo: Mary Lou McDonald, Bairbre de Brún and Mitchel McLaughlin

Home Rule or the Republic?

The offices of the European Parliament on Molesworth Street in Dublin's city centre are rarely seen as a centre for Euro-critical thought, but last Saturday this was the venue for a half-day seminar organised by the Peace and Neutrality Alliance (PANA) on the proposed EU Constitution.

Photo: Carol Fox and Roger Cole of PANA with Mary Lou McDonald MEP

Prisoner community's story of conflict - Donegal project launches video

A large gathering of around 200 people were in the Holiday Inn, Letterkenny, on Tuesday evening 30 November for the launch of a video documenting stories from republican ex-prisoners and displaced people living in Donegal.

Nationalist teen attacked with hammer and knife

A teenager escaped with his life after a loyalist gang attacked him as he walked home along the Antrim Road, North Belfast, at around 12.30am on Sunday morning 5 December.

PSNI abuse Turkish man

A Turkish national is accusing the PSNI of racially abusing and assaulting him in Belfast city centre on Saturday 27 November. Musa Gulusen (36), who has lived in Belfast for more than a decade, said he was called a "kebab boy" during PSNI raids on unlicensed stalls in Belfast's Royal Avenue and claimed he was surrounded by PSNI men who forced him to the ground and held his arms behind his back.

Race hate attacks continue

Three Polish men were attacked in a public house in the Waterside area of Derry, the latest racist attack on the Polish community in the city in the last week. The men were assaulted as they had a drink in the Upstairs Downstairs bar on the Dungiven Road at around 2.30am on Sunday 5 December.

Charges against PSNI man dropped

A charge of dangerous driving brought against a PSNI member after an investigation by the Police Ombudsman's Office was dropped at a Belfast Court on Monday 29 November.

Milnes freed on bail

Sinn Féin Assembly member Michael Ferguson is pictured with Poleglass man Kieran Milnes, who was released on bail from Maghaberry prison on Wednesday 1 December.

PFC makes bid for Guinness Book of Records

The Pat Finucane Centre has officially submitted Rosemount PSNI Barracks in Derry in a bid for a world record with the Guinness Book of Records.

GP-only medical cards a quarter of the value

Sinn Féin Dáil leader and Health spokesperson, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, has revealed that the promised GP-only medical card will be only a quarter of the value of the real Medical Card. In reply to a Dáil Question from Ó Caoláin, the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney, stated that while the GP-only card will cost approximately €250 per year, the cost per year of the full medical card is €1,000 per year.

Reilly selected in Meath

Sinn Féin Meath County Councillor and Ard Chomhairle member Joe Reilly was on Wednesday evening 1 December, selected as the party's candidate for the forthcoming Meath by-election. Also attending the convention were Sinn Féin MEP Mary Lou McDonald and party President Gerry Adams MP.

Photo: Joe Reilly

Conor McCrann

It was with deep shock that the family and friends of Conor McCrann learnt of his untimely death in September. An active member of the James Crossan/Kieran Doherty Sinn Féin Cumann in Ballyconnell, County Cavan, Conor's passing has been mourned by political activists far and wide.

Photo: The late Conor McCrann

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