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16 November, 2006 |
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Interview - Cuban Ambassador to Ireland, Noel Carrillo 
In the second of a two-part interview, Cuban ambassador to Ireland, Noel Carrillo speaks to An Phoblacht's INAKI IRIGOIEN about the Cuban health system, the Irish Hunger Strike and the peace process here. Photo: Cuban ambassador to Ireland, Noel Carrillo Call to prevent British nuclear ship travelling through Irish waters 
Arthur Morgan TD, Sinn Féin Spokesperson on the Environment called on Government last Tuesday to prevent the nuclear transportation ship the Atlantic Osprey from travelling through Irish waters because of the danger that it poses to people here. Photo: The PNTL ship carrying plutonium through the Irish sea in 2002 
Launching a new panel of the Remembering Quilt, spokesperson for Relatives for Justice, Andree Murphy said the quilt lives beyond the past or even the present and reaches into the future. Photo: Gerry Kelly and Priscilla Jana, South African Ambassador to Ireland at newly launched section of remembrance quilt Shocking Leas Cross report indicts government 
Friday, 10 November saw the publication of the 26 County Health Service Executive (HSE) commissioned report into deaths at Leas Cross, a north Dublin nursing home. The report's author Professor Des O'Neill concluded that what he had uncovered amounted to "institutional abuse." 
Sinn Féin Dublin Mid-West representative Joanne Spain was joined on the canvass trail in Lucan last Saturday 11 November by a 35-strong group of women activists from across the Six Counties, including Six-County MEP Bairbre de Brún and Fermanagh/South Tyrone MP Michelle Gildernew. A similar delegation travelled to Mary Lou McDonald's constituency in Dublin central. 'To be successful you have to be daring' 
Former political prisoner Jim Monaghan delivered the oration last weekend at the commemoration in Dublin to honour Seán Russell, Chief of Staff of the IRA in 1938 who died from a perforated ulcer, 100 miles off the Galway coast, on 14 August 1940, on a German U-boat. Monument in honour of Máire Drumm unveiled in South Armagh 
Several hundred people attended the unveiling of a monument in honour of the late Máire Drumm (nee MacAteer) in Killean South Armagh last week in recognition of the 30th anniversary of the assassination of the former Sinn Féin Vice President. Economic sectarianism reared its head this week as the ESB denied it was seeking to buy out the Irish operations of Viridian, the main Northern Ireland electricity provider, though the claim made in the news media last weekend prompted Ulster Unionist leader and former Assembly Enterprise minister Reg Empey to attack the proposed merger. Assembly should meet on 24 November- McGuinness, Breach of neutrality puts Ireland at Risk - Ó Snodaigh and McGuigan condemns racist attacks This weeks quotes |
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