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16 February, 2006 |
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All Ireland agenda-time for action Sinn Féin's General Secretary Mitchel McLaughlin has said there had been enough rhetoric and promises and that it is "now time for action" to achieve progress on the all Ireland agenda of the Good Friday Agreement US abuse in Guantanamo. British role exposed in Iraq The British secret service agency MI5 is due to assume primacy in intelligence gathering in the Six Counties 
Irish airline Ryanair was at the centre of a storm this week over safety and working conditions following a damning television exposé of practices at the company Photo: Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O Leary Housing: nationalists being forced out of North Belfast 
Catherine McLoughlin lives with her two young children in a one of seven tower blocks in the nationalist New Lodge in North Belfast. Five years ago she was told by the Housing Executive that it would only be a temporary arrangement "But now they are saying there is no hope of us ever being allocated a proper house" Photo: Catherine McLoughlin Irish American campaign builds for immigration reform Over the next four months or so, the US Congress and White House will make key decisions on illegal immigration, decisions which will affect the estimated 40,000 Irish undocumented. The Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform wants to make sure there is an Irish voice in the immigration debate Fianna Fáil's privatisation agenda rolls on 
An Phoblacht's ROBBIE SMYTH says that Great Southern hotel group undermined Government policies Photo: Bertie Ahern and his government needlessly undermined their own hotel investment, while those who were paying no tax got another leg up from the government 
Photo: Hugh McElroy points a free for Monaghan Thirty-three years ago Jim Sloan, Jim McCann, John Loughran, Brendan Maguire, Tony 'TC' Campbell and Ambrose Hardy were shot dead by the British Army on the New Lodge Road. On Friday 3 February families and friends of the victims gathered with other members of the community to yet again demand justice Tony Gormley remembered in Kileeshil 
The Tony Gormley Cumann, Sinn Féin in Killeeshil, County Tyrone held a very successful historical night in Quinn's Corner on 9 December Photo: TonyGormley 
A round-up of the rest of the week's news. Photo: Shane O'Connor, Joanne Corcoran and Martin McGuinness at the selection convention in the Pollyhops Pub, Newcastle for Dublin Mid-West |
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