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SF MEPs support GUE/NGL resolution on McCartney Sinn Féin MEPs Bairbre de Brún and Mary Lou McDonald on Tuesday supported a GUE/NGL resolution in the European Parliament supporting the McCartney family's campaign for justice. That motion was rejected by the parliament, which backed a motion on the issue that Sinn Féin could not support. The Sinn Féin MEPs abstained on the motion that was passed, which decided to allocate EU funds to the McCartneys to take a civil action should the PSNI criminal investigation not result in charges. On 4 May, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, Alvaro Gil-Robles, published his preliminary report on the human rights situation of the Roma and Travellers of Europe. The report is damning of the treatment that Travellers and Roma receive all over Europe, and Ireland is reprimanded for the discriminatory treatment of the Traveller Community. The passage of time will not diminish our demand for truth 
"PSNI and former RUC members and British Army undercover intelligence agents are increasingly in a battle with each other, as each revelation about the dirty war threatens to expose the extent of the role played by the British in state-sponsored killings throughout the North," says Robert McClenaghan of An Fhírinne. Photo: Gerry Armstrong, whose brother Paul was killed in 1974 SF Dáil leader suspended after clash with Taoiseach - Ó Caoláin challenges Taoiseach on 
The Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has been challenged by Sinn Féin Dáil leader Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin to change the "fundamentally flawed" Disability Bill. The Disability Legislation Consultation Group, representing disability organisations, is threatening to pull out of the process and oppose the Bill. Deputy Ó Caoláin urged the Taoiseach to meet the Group and adopt their five minimum demands to salvage the Bill. Taoiseach challenged on housing 
Sinn Féin Dáil Leader, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD has said he is "appaled" that the Taoiseach seems to be satisfied that the 10,000 affordable houses promised under the Sustaining Progress Agreement will be delivered "whenever". Photo: Bertie Ahern Doherty welcomes driving test backlog measures 
Donegal Sinn Féin Councillor Pearse Doherty has welcomed reports that the government has agreed a package of measures designed to reduce the backlog of learner drivers waiting for full licences. Soccer team pulls out after sectarian attack A nationalist soccer team based in Carnlough, County Antrim, has pulled out of the junior league after a loyalist mob attacked their bus, breaking windows and injuring some of the players as they left a football tournament in Ballymena on Saturday 7 May. 
All roads led North through the last number of weeks as Ógra and Sinn Féin members in the 26 Counties came to give local Sinn Féin cumainn a helping hand in the run up to the 5 May elections. Management at Sellafield in "cover-up" mode Sinn Féin Dáil spokesperson on the Environment, Arthur Morgan, has slammed as unacceptable the three-day delay by BNFL in notifying Irish authorities of a leak of some 20 tonnes of a highly dangerous mixture, containing uranium and plutonium, which occurred at the plant on 18 April. The Louth TD said the delay in notifying Irish authorities confirms that management at Sellafield remain in "cover-up" mode, adding that they would "happily have covered-up this incident, given half a chance". Court victory for bin tax campaign Councillor Daithí Doolan has welcomed Tuesday's Circuit Court ruling against Dublin City Council's bin charges as a victory for justice. "Now we must step up the campaign and bury the tax once and for all," he says. City Manager proposal on casual trading fees rejected Councillor Killian Forde, Sinn Féin Finance spokesperson on Dublin City Council has welcomed the support given by all political parties on Monday night rejecting a proposed exorbitant increase in casual trading fees. Honouring the Volunteers of Crossbarry 
Several hundred people attended the recent annual Crossbarry commemoration in Cork in memory of the historic victory by Tom Barry's flying column over a vastly superior force of British troops. Photo: Derek Warfield gave the oration at Crossbarry. Also pictured are Seán Kelleher and Con O'Callaghan Large turnout for Thomas Kent Commemoration Last Sunday the sun shone on one of the largest turnouts at the annual Thomas Kent commemoration in recent years. Proceeding through Castlelyons in County Cork to the Kent family plot, the commemoration was accompanied by two bands. Massive turnout at Glasgow Hunger Strike Commemoration 
In one of the biggest ever republican turnouts in Scotland up to 3,000 people marched through Glasgow on Saturday 7 May in a parade commemorating the 24th Anniversary of the 1981 H-Block Hunger Strike. Ógra Shinn Féin remember Bobby Sands 
Members of Ógra Shinn Féin in Carrickmore, County Tyrone, held a protest at the local polling station on Thursday 5 May to highlight the death of Bobby Sands 24 years earlier. It was one of a number of events held nationwide to remember the death of Bobby Sands, who was an MP at the time of his death. Bray remembers the Hunger Strikers 
• Ógra ShinFéin in Bray, County Wicklow, organised a picket to mark the 24th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands |
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