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Keep disability issues on political agenda - Mary Lou 
To mark European Disability Week in the South-East, Sinn Féin MEP Mary Lou McDonald travelled to Enniscorthy in County Wexford on Monday to take part in a lunchtime talk at the invitation of the Wexford network of People With Disabilities in Ireland (PWDI) in the Riverside Hotel on the banks of the Slaney. Mary Lou was accompanied by Wexford Sinn Féin councillors Noirin Sheridan, Maurice Roche and John Dwyer. Photo: Mary Lou McDonald MEP in Enniscorthy with Catherine Quigley (People with Disabilities in Ireland), Paula Carolan (Wexford Education Centre) and Patt Goff (Irish Primary Principals’ Network) and Seán O’Leary (Special Education Support Service) Further threats against republicans in Belfast and Antrim 
Sinn FÉin representatives in Belfast and Antrim have once again been the target of threats by micro groups claiming to be republicans. Sinn Féin's Gerry Kelly has branded those behind the latest bomb threat to councillor Briege Meehan as, "a disgrace". The North Belfast MLA was speaking after bomb warnings and threats were made against a number of republicans across Belfast over the course of last weekend. Photo: Briege Meehan Battle continues for effective community policing 
Changes to policing across the 26 Counties are in the pipeline for 2008. These changes include further opportunities for critical engagement by Sinn Féin representatives. Opening a consultation seminar on Thursday, 29 November, evaluating the existing 29 pilot Joint Policing Committees (JPCs), Minister for Justice Brian Lenihan announced his intention to establish a committee in each local authority as early as possible in 2008, thereby increasing the number of JPCs to a total of 114. Lenihan also endorsed the Garda Commissioner's proposals to change Garda boundaries to achieve a closer alignment between the functional areas of local authorities and Garda Divisional Boundaries (provision for changes outside of Dublin will be made in the Garda Policing Plan 2008). Photo: Sinn Féin Councillors Christy Burke and Críona Ní Dhalaigh and TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh at the Joint Policing Committees consultation meeting Murphy calls for 'soldier spy' claims to be investigated 
CLAIMS made at the weekend by a man who says he is a former British soldier involved in covert spying operations against republicans for Military Intelligence after the Good Friday Agreement must be investigated, Sinn Féin Minister Conor Murphy has said. Murphy was speaking after the unidentified man met with Mark Thompson of Relatives for Justice in their West Belfast offices. He also spoke to journalists from two Belfast-based newspapers. He told them that, despite public declarations from the British Government that it was pulling its soldiers out of the North, it continued to mount covert surveillance operations on republicans in West Belfast and South Armagh. Photo: Sinn Féin Minister Conor Murphy Dublin City Council passes Sinn Féin motion against domestic violence 
Dublin City Sinn Féin Councillors tabled an emergency motion to the December meeting of Dublin City Council last Monday to mark the international 16 Days of Action Against Violence Against Women. The motion, which called for the use of unsuitable private B&Bs to be phased out and a sufficient quantity of emergency refuge accommodation to be brought online, was passed unanimously with all-party support. Photo: Sinn Féin Equality Officer Helen McCormack (second left) with Councillors Ray McHugh, Daithí Doolan and Louise Minihan alongside Mary Lou McDonald MEP and Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD at the Dublin City Council debate on domestic violence €1.75 billion shortfall shows tax cuts were never viable 
SINN FÉIN'S spokesperson on Economic Affairs, Arthur Morgan TD, said that the '2008 Estimates of Receipts and Expenditure' in the 26 Counties shows that the party was right to oppose unviable tax-cutting promises made by Fianna Fáil and other parties in advance of the general election. "The 2008 Estimates of Receipts and Expenditure states that tax receipts are now forecast to be €1.75 billion below the 2007 Budget day target," Arthur Morgan said. Photo: Sinn Féin spokesperson on Economic Affairs, Arthur Morgan TD INTERNATIONAL: Election defeat for Oz's right-wing Prime Minister, John Howard AUSTRALIA'S 11 years of conservative rule under the right-wing John Howard officially ended on Monday when the centre-left Australian Labour Party leader Kevin Rudd was sworn in as the country's new prime minister, nine days after a landslide election victory. Plus Poll setback for Chavez, Chad rebels attack army and US admits Iran halted nuclear moves in 2003 Abbott job losses severe blow to West 
THE Abbott Laboratories factory in Galway is to close next year with the loss of all 500 jobs. A company spokesperson blamed excess manufacturing capacity in its vascular division sites in Galway, Tipperary and Temecula, California. These sites manufacture stents which are used to improve blood flow. Photo: Sinn Féin Councillor Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Sinn Féin hosts World Aids Day conference 
Sinn Féin Health Spokesperson Carál Ní Chuilín MLA hosted a World Aids Day conference in conjunction with the HIV support centre in Stormont on Saturday, 1 December. Speaking before the event and before a symbolic 'balloon launch' with Sinn Féin Junior Minister Gerry Kelly on Friday, 30 November, at Belfast City Hall, Sinn Féin Health spokesperson Ní Chuilín said: Photo: North Belfast Sinn Féin MLA Carál Ní Chuilín with Andre and Graham, owners of the Kremlin Bar in Belfast An bhfuil dearmad déanta ar an lucht oibre? 
Is dócha gur oiriúnach an t-am anois é comhrá a thosú faoi stad na gnáth oibrithe sa tír seo. Tá dhá buiséad idir lámha ar an oileán beag seo againne faoi láthair, agus ceachtar acu ag déanamh mórán maitheasa do lucht oibre na tíre seo, in aineoin go bhfuilimid féin sa rialtas ó thuaidh. An rud is náirí áfach ná go bhfuil na polaiteoirí go léir (muid féin san áireamh arís) á rá go bhfuil an réiteach is fearr faighte sna coinníollacha atá ann faoi láthair. Níl le déanamh againn anois, a deirtear linn, más rud é go bhfuilimid gann fós, ach an crios a theannú beagainín níos mó. Galway action saves bin charge waivers 
SINN FÉIN activists turned up at Galway City Hall on Monday, 3 December, to protest at the proposed abolition of the bin charges waiver in Galway City. Councillors were to discuss the Galway City budget for the upcoming year, including a proposal put forward by the City Manager to do away with the current waiver for the bins. Ógra urged to get active for Prisoners' Month 
ÓGRA Shinn Féin National Organiser Barry McColgan has urged Ógra Shinn Féin to get active throughout the month of December to remember POWs who are still held in jail this Christmas. According to McColgan, whilst many protests, leaflet drops and vigils will be highlighting the incarceration of Irish republican POWs, a number of other actions will highlight international POWs. Prisoners held as a result of anti-imperialist struggles such as The Miami 5 and Leonard Peltier will be the focus of a number of events. Creggan school wins climate change photo competition 
Sinn Féin MEP, Bairbre de Brún has congratulated St Mary's College in Creggan, Derry, on winning this year's all-Ireland photo competition on climate change, which was co-sponsored by the European Parliament and the Departments of Environment, North and South. Students aged 16 to 18 throughout the 32 Counties of Ireland were asked to submit photographs with accompanying captions, based on the theme 'Climate Change - Causes, Effects, Solutions' and the winning entries were selected by an independent panel. The competition was organised by the EP Information Office in Ireland and co-sponsored by the Departments of Environment, North and South. Photo: Sharmin Rahman with Bairbre de Brún Nuacht na nOibrithe BY STEPHANIE LORD Argos flies in scab workers, Migrant workers face homelessness as governments block worker protections and Mexican workers take over sugar mills Toireasa Ferris pays tribute to Kilmichael heroes 
OVER a thousand people gathered on 25 November at the annual Kilmichael commemoration in West Cork to hear Sinn Féin Councillor Toireasa Ferris pay tribute to the Tan War heroes. Con O'Callaghan, Chair of the Kilmichael/Crossbarry Committee, opened proceedings by outlining the events of that day, when the West Cork Flying Column, led by Tom Barry, ambushed and killed 18 Auxiliaries in one of the crucial battles of the Tan War. Photo: Toireasa Ferris and Chair of the commemoration committee, Conchúr Ó Ceallacháin Kilkenny honours Manchester Martyrs 
REPUBLICANS from across the south-east gathered in Hugginstown, County Kilkenny, on Friday evening, 23 November, to remember Allen, Larkin and O'Brien, The Manchester Martyrs. The commemoration, which has taken place for the past 30 years, is one of the last torch-lit processions in the country. Photo: The Manchester Martyrs — William Allen, Michael Larkin and Michael O'Brien |
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