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7 December, 2006 |
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International: Elections confirm left wing trend across Latin America "Long live the revolution. Venezuela is demonstrating that a new and better world is possible, and we are building it." With these words, President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez celebrated his third decisive presidential electoral victory this week since first coming to power in 1998. Crowe presses Hanafin on education disadvantage 
Seventy thousand children in the 26 Counties attend breakfast clubs every week, which in 2006 will cost the Department of Education _10.4 million. In the same modern Ireland high income earning parents will spend over _120 million on fee paying and grind schools to help their children into university places. Ecuador - social movements overthrow political elite It started in Venezuela, followed by Argentina and Brazil, it happened too in Uruguay and then came Bolivia, and now it is finally the turn of Ecuador. After several botched attempts, including a coup d'etat led by the indigenous movement and part of the army, Ecuadoran social movements have finally managed to get rid of the political elites that for hundreds of years imposed poverty and discrimination against the indigenous and the poor. 
Wicklow Sinn Féin Councillor John Brady has condemned a campaign of harassment against young Sinn Féin members in Bray. According to Brady, for the past four months 18-year-old Jason Doyle has been at the receiving end of relentless harassment from local Gardaí. Photo: Young republicans Stephen Collins and Jason Doyle with Wicklow Sinn Féin Councillor John Brady Councils must target gaps in electoral register - Crowe 
Speaking last Monday, after a successful weekend electoral registration drive by Sinn Féin in his constituency of Dublin South West, the party's Social Affairs spokesperson Seán Crowe TD said that South Dublin County Council had failed to put in the time, energy and resources to ensure that the register was up to date. Sinn Féin West Belfast MP Gerry Adams has described the disenfranchisement of over 80,000 people from the current electoral register for the north as a 'damning indictment of the registration process' and he has urged 'those who have had their right to vote taken away to challenge the electoral office's decision and register to vote now.' Skills training: Successful programme continues 
Last weekend witnessed the second of two women's skills training sessions, organised by Sinn Féin at the Tí Chulainn Cultural Centre in Mullach Bán, County Armagh. Photo: Women's skills training session, Tí Chulainn Cultural Centre, Mullach Bán, Co. Armagh O'Hanlon and Sabhat to be remembered in commemorative booklet 
January 1 2007 will mark the 50th Anniversary of the deaths of IRA Volunteers Feargal O'Hanlon and Seán Sabhat and as part of a series of events to commemorate the men The Feargal O'hAnnluain and Sean Sabhat Commemorative Committee are launching a commemorative booklet. Photo: IRA Volunteers Feargal O'Hanlon and Seán Sabhat Towards 2016 - Where to now for the unions? 
Sinn Féin Dublin Trade Union Group hosted a very successful discussion in the Teachers' Club, Parnell Square on the 30 November on the new social partnership agreement, Towards 2016 and where to now for trade unions in the 26 counties. Photo: Brendan Ogle, Regional Industrial Organiser for the ATGWU Greencore profits underline case of former sugar workers, Labour Court's Calls for Minimum Wage Increase, Oil Delivery Workers Ballot on Strike Action, Job Losses in Kildare at Magna Donnelly and Gate Gourmet move described by union as "sinister" Capt. Michael McVerry Commemorated 
The 33rd Anniversary of Volunteer Capt. Michael, McVerry who was killed in action during an attack on Keady barracks in 1973, was marked on 13 November 2006. Capt. Michael McVerry was born in the Cargie, Cullyhanna and at a young age joined Óglaigh na hÉireann to right the wrongs perpetrated by the British forces on the streets of Ireland. Photo: At the republican monument in Cullyhanna - Sinn Féin MP Conor Murphy, Barry McElduff MLA, Peter John Caraher, Councillor Colman Burns, Councillor Pat McGinn and others who attended the Michael McVerry Commemoration 
Iris editor Seán Mac Brádaigh, Sinn Féin General Secretary Mitchel Mclaughlin and former political prisoner and current head of Sinn Féin's Roinn an Chlutúir, Séanna Walsh at the official relaunch of Iris, the republican magazine, in Dublin on Saturday, 2 December. The return of Iris has been marked with a special edition dedicated to the memory of the sacrifice of the Hunger Strikers of 1981 
Death of Mary Reilly and David McCabe Photo: Mary Reilly Cabra honours the Hunger Strikers 
Members of the original Cabra H-Block/Armagh Action Group from 1981 last weekend unveiled a plaque in memory of the H-Block hunger strike martyrs aswell as hunger strikers Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg who died in 1974 and 1976 respectively. Mick Finnegan, a member of the original action group and of the Caroll/Ashe Cumann, Sinn Féin carried out the unveiling at the bridge on Fassaugh Avenue. The ceremony was attended by Cabra republicans and local Sinn Féin Councillor Nicky Kehoe Mayo County Council to mark 1981 Hunger Strike Owen Carron, election agent for Bobby Sands during the Hunger Striker's successful bid for a Westminster seat in 1981 will be the guest speaker of Mayo County Council in Ballina Library this Friday, 8 December. MEP welcomes Naomh Fionnbarra hurlers to EU Parliament 
Last weekend on a field just north of Brussels, close to where Napoleon met his Waterloo, another battle took place when a delegation of hurlers from Naomh Fionnbarra GAA, Cabra played the newly formed Brussels hurling team. The event was organised by Mary Lou McDonald MEP who gingerly threw the sliotar in and the two teams got tore into each other. Plaque unveiled to 1916 Volunteer 
Sinn Féin Dublin City Councillors Nicky Kehoe and Dessie Ellis with relatives of Volunteer Seán Howard on Saturday, 2 December at the unveiling of a plaque where he died on Dublin's Church Street during the 1916 Rising. |
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