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14 April, 2005 |
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Basque election candidates banned A violent police assault on the leaders and supporters of Batasuna during a pro-independence rally on Basque National Day (Easter Sunday) in Iruña, the capital of the Basques, was not an isolated incident or down to overzealous police officers. If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything 
The SDLP is a party in crisis and, literally, it doesn't know which way to turn. One moment it is declaring its republican credentials, the next it is courting Ulster Unionist votes. One moment, it's throwing in the towel to promote an independent candidate, the next declaring its intention to contest every seat; one moment post-nationalist, the next the unacknowledged true heirs of Irish republicanism. Photo: SDLP leader Mark Durkan (right) faces a tough battle to try to hold the Foyle seat vacated by John Hume (left) 
Sinn Féin TDs in Leinster House raised the case of Donegal Sinn Féin County Councillor Eddie Fullerton in the Dáil last Tuesday, with a series of questions to Justice Minister Michael McDowell. Photo: The late Eddie Fullerton Nurses protest A&E overcrowding 
A series of protests by the Irish Nurses' Organisation began on Tuesday, with action taken at Dublin's Mater Hospital, Cork University Hospital and Roscommon General. The protests are part of a campaign to highlight the continuing problem of overcrowding, which Minister for Health Mary Harney promised would be improved by March. 
Sinn Féin TD Arthur Morgan (pictured) joined over 300 Gama employees, who have been on work stoppage for over a week, as they protested outside the Dáil on Tuesday. The men are demanding government intervention in their dispute with Gama, which is accused of systematically underpaying and exploiting its workers, and the publication of a Department of Enterprise report on their working conditions. 
Hundreds of former republican political prisoners and their families gathered in the Europa Hotel in Belfast on Monday evening 11 April, for an anti-criminalisation rally organised by Coiste na nIarchimí. Photo: Children of ex-POWs with a banner they made for the Tar Isteach ex-prisoner group from the New Lodge area of North Belfast Callanan calls on people to join trade unions - BY RAY O'REILLY 
Speaking at the Independent Workers' Union annual conference in Galway last week, Sinn Féin Councillor Daniel Callanan called on people to join trade unions and protect their rights. Photo: Daniel Callanan with IWU President Jim Cosgrave Sources close to the UDA are warning of an internal power struggle within the loyalist paramilitary organisation. East Belfast UDA boss Jim Gray was ousted from his position last week and there is now speculation that UDA leaders in North and West Belfast, Andre Shoukri (pictured) and Jim Spence, are also under threat. Bradley and Attwood ignore resign calls Policing Board vice chair Denis Bradley and the SDLP's Alex Attwood have said they will not resign from the Policing Board, despite a number of human rights groups expressing anger at the decision of the board to approve the PSNI's purchase of a new model of plastic bullet. 
Republicans from all over Ireland took part in a nationwide day of action last Saturday. Members of Ógra Shinn Féin took to the streets in Belfast, Derry, Dublin, Omagh, Strabane, South Armagh, Down, Cork, Galway and Leitrim. The purpose of the protest was to remember the election of Bobby Sands MP in the constituency of Fermanagh/South Tyrone. South Armagh Paras told to get out 
Sinn Féin South Armagh local election candidates Mary Campbell and Anthony Flynn are pictured at a demonstration last Saturday evening outside Forkhill Barracks in South Armagh, where they served an eviction notice on the PSNI and unwelcome British paratroopers inside. Ahern refuses to rule out re-run of EU referendum 
Speaking on Wednesday after the Taoiseach confirmed that a referendum on the EU Constitution will be held in 2006, Sinn Féin Dáil leader, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláín TD expressed concern over the Taoiseach's unwillingness to rule out a second referendum if the people vote against the Constitution. Photo: Bertie Ahern Polish workers down tools over anti-Catholic abuse Polish workers downed tools and walked out of a Derry meat plant after they were racially abused by colleagues during the Pope's funeral on Friday last. The 30 Polish employees at Foyle Meats met with the Derry Trades Council at the weekend. The migrant workers said the abuse had been happening all week but came to a head during the funeral, when they were subjected to catcalls of "Polish bastards" and "f*** the Pope". Omagh District Council is to embark on a major consultation exercise with local school Principals and with the Trade Unions to assess the prospective impact of extensive cuts in front line education services. Two senior UUP figures back DUP candidate In a surprise move, former leader of the UUP James Molyneaux and South Belfast MP Martin Smyth have endorsed the DUP candidate in South Belfast, Jimmy Spratt. The two men appeared in an election leaflet for the DUP man and Smyth said he would would "make an excellent member for Parliament". Candidate under loyalist threat 
Upper Bann Sinn Féin MLA and Westminster election candidate John O'Dowd has been warned by the PSNI to review his personal security arrangements after they told him that his details had been found in the possession of a loyalist paramilitary who was recently arrested. Photo: Upper Bann candidate John O'Dowd Only Sinn Féin can challenge DUP in North Belfast Sinn FÉin Westminster candidate for North Belfast Gerry Kelly says he is the only nationalist in the field who can challenge the current DUP MP. South Down campaign launched in Newcastle 
At a packed meeting in the Shimna Suite of the Slieve Donard Hotel on Wednesday night, 6 April, Sinn Féin formally launched its Westminster campaign in South Down. To a standing ovation, Caitríona Ruane MLA, the party's Westminster candidate, was joined on stage by 15 council candidates standing for Down District, Newry and Mourne and Banbridge District Councils in May's local government elections. Murphy confident in Newry and Armagh 
At the launch of his Westminster election campaign in the Armagh City Hotel on Tuesday, Sinn Féin MLA for Newry and Armagh, Conor Murphy, told a packed hall of supporters that community, business and sporting organisations the length and breadth of the constituency "want an MP who will provide active, effective representation. Photo: Conor Murphy Foyle Sinn Féin manifesto launched 
Sinn Féin General Secretary Mitchel McLaughlin launched his Westminster election manifesto for Foyle on Wednesday. McKeown selected for East Antrim James McKeown has been unanimously selected by party colleagues to contest the East Antrim Westminster seat on behalf of Sinn Féin. Speaking after his selection, McKeown is a 47-year-old married father of three grown up children and is a full time carer. 
Everybody who knew Kathleen Deery will have a story to tell. Kathleen was a multi-dimensional person. She was a mother, a grandmother, a sister, an aunt, a comrade and a friend. She was a lifelong republican, a community activist in Twinbrook originally from the Short Strand. Photo: The late Kathleen Deery |
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