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21 April, 2005 |
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Ricardo Galindez wears the marks of his support for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on his hands, neck and chest. Broken bones and bullet holes are the right-wing opposition's imprints on the body of a man who happily declares that, apart from that and some headaches, the presidency of Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution have brought hope and happiness to his life. Photo: Ricardo Galindez Sun shines on Sinn Féin in North Antrim 
THE sun shone on Sinn Féin last Friday when the party president, Gerry Adams, toured the North Antrim constituency with Philip McGuigan, candidate in the upcoming Westminster election, and the party's hopefuls for Moyle, Ballymena and Ballymoney Councils. Photo: Gerry Adams with local election candidates outside Fairhill Shopping Centre in Ballymena Nine seats for Basque independent left It came as a surprise. From the outset, the presence of the Communist Party of the Basque Lands (EHAK) in last weekend's Basque Parliament elections was unexpected, as was the result it obtained in the Sunday 17 April poll. Voting trends show Sinn Féin is on the up 
When Philip McGuigan won Sinn Féin's first Assembly seat in North Antrim in November 2003, not only did his election mark a major breakthrough for the party, it saw Sinn Féin supplant the SDLP as the biggest nationalist party in North Antrim. Photo: Philip McGuigan was accompanied by Martin McGuinness when he handed in his nomination papers Dialogue and Inclusion required in the Basque Country Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams expressed deep concern at the continued exclusion of political parties from contesting regional elections in the Basque Country. "Following the Good Friday Agreement I travelled to the Basque Country and the message that I brought was the need for a peace process to be established and that it was essential that it be on the basis of equality, not criminalisation and exclusion," he said. 
As part of his tour through North Antrim, Gerry Adams visited Carnlough, where he met up with the party's candidate for East Antrim, James McKeown. There, the Sinn Féin President endorsed the local campaign to keep Carnlough's library open. Photo: Gerry Adams with James McKeown in Carnlough Library, which the party is campaigning to save from closure East Antrim Sinn Féin representative James McKeown says unionist politicians in Larne should be ashamed after local SDLP representative Danny O'Connor announced that he was leaving his home in the town after years of attacks and harassment. British imperialism - then and now Carrying out some research last week, I was struck by the following article from the Republican newspaper, Poblacht na hÉireann, of 15 June 1922, less than a fortnight before the outbreak of the Civil War. Headlined 'England's Mutinous Eastern Empire' it was a roundup of British repression from India to Palestine, Syria and Egypt. And most striking in light of today's events is this piece on the British bombing of civilians in Iraq. McGuinness meets Irish American leaders 
Mid-Ulster MP and Sinn Féin Chief Negotiator Martin McGuinness has just completed an extremely busy schedule in the United States, where he met with the main Irish-American lobby groups as well as influential political figures from both the Republican and Democratic parties. O'Rourke questions deportation policy 
Athlone people last Saturday demonstrated outrage at the deportation last month of two local mothers of Irish born children, who were taken away, without even seeing their children, and put on a night plane back to Nigeria. Conference to probe British State violence Families affected by British state violence were joined by former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds in Belfast's Europa Hotel on Monday at the press launch of a conference on state sponsored violence spearheaded by the campaign group Relatives for Justice. 
On Friday 15 April, residents of the Lower Falls area in West Belfast sent out a clear message to the thugs involved in anti-social activity in the area that their behaviour will not be tolerated, when they organised a fun day of events for all the community. The PSNI has provoked outrage in Dungannon, County Tyrone, after it harassed Sinn Féin election workers last Wednesday night. A number of police vehicles circled the workers as they canvassed and puts up posters, eventually stopping to question them for a considerable period of time. Dungannon Sinn Féin Councillor Barry Monteith said the intimidation would not stop activists from carrying out their election work. TD says parents must be with children 
Sinn Féin spokesperson on Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD has called on the Minister for Justice to make "an explicit commitment that no Irish child will be deprived of the care and company of their parents as the result of a deportation order made by him". 
Gerry Adams, speaking in Belfast at the weekend ahead of a visit to the city by the PD Justice Minister, said Michael McDowell is "a racist Minister for accusations". Photo: Michael McDowell MEP hosts Euro childcare conference Sinn Féin MEP Mary Lou McDonald is to host a conference on childcare in Europe in Dublin next Saturday, 23 April. The conference, in the Axis Centre, Ballymun, will be addressed by speakers, childcare experts and political representatives from Ireland, Italy and Finland. Taoiseach challenged on A&E crisis 
The crisis in hospital Accident and Emergency units and the Irish Nurses Organisation 'Enough is Enough' campaign were raised with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern by Sinn Féin's Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin in the Dáil on Wednesday. The party's Health spokesperson challenged the Taoiseach on the report of the Health and Safety Authority that A&E units are unsafe and have been reported to fire officers. Photo: Nursing Union and patient representatives protest outside St Vincent's hospital in Dublin Sinn Féin publishes Equality agenda 
The rights of those seeking full equality in our society are being consistently undermined by policy makers and by Direct Rule British Ministers, said Sinn Féin's Caitríona Ruane at the launch of the party's Equality platform on Wednesday. Photo: Caitríona Ruane and Alex Maskey at the launch of Sinn Féin's Equality agenda Families of Hunger Strikers to speak in Dromore 
Families, friends and comrades of the 1981 Hunger Strikers will gather in Dromore, County Tyrone, this Saturday evening for a talk on the historic protest. The event is being organised by the Patsy Kelly Sinn Féin Cumann as part of the area's Céad Bliain celebrations. Photo: Volunteers Ian Milne and Francis Hughes, pictured in the 1970s Major Sinn Féin rally in Carrickmore 
Hundreds of Sinn Féin supporters are expected to attend a major pre-election rally in Carrickmore this Sunday evening. The event is also aimed at celebrating the 100th anniversary of Sinn Féin's formation and will feature historical pageantry, music and song, and a keynote address from Party Vice President and West Tyrone MP Pat Doherty (above). Photo: West Tyrone MP Pat Doherty will address the rally |
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