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Gildernew updates Assembly on bluetongue threat 
Updating the Six County Assembly on the bluetongue disease situation in Britain, Sinn Féin Agriculture Michelle Gildernew MP MLA said she was taking all necessary precautions to help prevent the disease spreading to Ireland. These steps include testing cattle and sheep imported from continental Europe and keeping them isolated on farm until negative test results are received. Photo: Michelle Gildernew Sinn Féin support motion of No Confidence in Taoiseach 
SPEAKING during last week's Dáil debate on the Motion of No Confidence in the Taoiseach, Sinn Féin Dáil leader Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin said: Ahern, Harney cannot hide behind HSE 
TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern and Health Minister Mary Harney must bear full responsibility for the cuts being imposed by the 26-County Health Service Executive, Sinn Féin Dáil leader and Health spokesperson Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin said. 
MARTIN McGuinness wants child poverty in the North halved in three years and eradicated by 2020. The Deputy First Minister told the Assembly that addressing child poverty is a "top priority" for the Office of First Minister and Deputy First Minister, (OFMDFM). Photo: Sue Ramsey Loyalism : Mindsets as well as guns need to be decommissioned THE last week in September was book-ended with the latest instalment in the UDA feud, a bomb attack on a house in Carrickfergus, and news of death threats being issued against leading members of Sinn Féin and a newspaper editor. UUP and DUP attack Irish-language rights THE news that Health Minister Michael McGimpsey is to halt the use of Irish in job advertisements and press releases from his department is being described as an attack on the Irish language. Aer Lingus workers' pay freeze - Doherty hits out 
AER LINGUS management's pay freeze on all staff until a cost-cutting plan has been implemented has been criticised by Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty, who asked what sacrifices airline executives will make. Secret British Army document from 1971 uncovered 
A SECRET British Army document from September 1971 shows that military interrogators in Long Kesh wanted to continue using brutal torture methods against men who had been interned without charge or trial and later ruled by the European Court of Human Rights as "inhumane and degrading treatment". INTERNATIONAL : Oil giants under fire from 'Robin Hoods' KIDNAPPERS of oil-rig workers in Nigeria have been denounced by the authorities as criminals but some could see the organisation behind the attacks, the indigenous Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), as 'the Robin Hoods of Africa'. And MEND has just declared full-scale war on the Lagos regime and the oil giants from Nigeria's Independence Day, 1 October. Sinn Féin get highly positive response at Labour conference 
With rising speculation about an imminent Westminster General Election, the British Labour Party Conference took place in Bournemouth at the end of September, and saw Sinn Féin's delegation receive a highly positive response to the party's role in moving forward the political process in the Six Counties. Photo: Pat Doherty HSE continues recruitment ban, Pay deals don't protect all workers, Classroom assistants strike, Mail staff to leave posts and Union row at Dublin Port Tunnel Paris salute to H-Block martyrs 
CONOR MURPHY MP and Séanna Walsh, one of Bobby Sands's comrades in jail, laid a wreath in memory of the H-Block hunger strikers at Bobby Sands Street in Paris in a ceremony hosted by the Mayor of Saint-Denis before the France v Ireland World Cup rugby match. McNeela and D'Arcy remembered in Mayo 
REPUBLICANS from Mayo and from many parts of Ireland and Scotland gathered last Sunday, 30 September, to commemorate Volunteer Seán 'Jack' McNeela, from Ballycroy, who died on hunger strike in 1940 under the de Valera Fianna Fáil government. Photo: Rose Conway Walsh addressing the commemoration 
A new Sinn Féin centre in Inishowen, Donegal was officially opened on Saturday, 28 September by the party's newly elected Senator Pearse Doherty. Photo: Susan Fullerton, sister of Donegal Sinn Féin Councillor Eddie Fullerton, who was murdered by pro-British elements in 1991, with former Councillor Jim Ferry outside a room in the new centre named in honour of Eddie Fullerton |
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