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Poots must do more for Irish language broadcasting - Adams 
SINN FÉIN President Gerry Adams has said that Six-County Culture Minister Edwin Poots must do more to safeguard the future status of Irish-language broadcasting in the North once the current allocation of funding ends. Photo: Six-County Culture Minister Edwin Poots 
Sinn Féin North Antrim MLA Daithí McKay has condemned a bomb threat against local Sinn Féin Councillor Oliver McMullan. Photo: Oliver McMullan Gender equality must be central to North's Bill of Rights Sinn Féin Derry City Cllr Maeve McLaughlin has said that it is imperative that a Bill of Rights in the North of Ireland includes social and economic rights in its broadest sense and that it is crucial that we do not limit our view of rights in order to ensure that this Bill of Rights is the correct framework to support the rights of those most disadvantaged and marginalised in society. Need for devolution of Policing and Justice reaffirmed Sinn Féin Assembly Member Carál Ní Chuilín, speaking this week after a meeting of the Executive Review Committee with Hugh Orde as part of its Inquiry into the devolution of Policing and Justice Powers has said that it is no longer a question of if but of when and how policing and justice powers are devolved. Health apartheid "biggest reason for Taoiseach to resign" 
The Taoiseach's financial affairs as raised at the tribunals and the doubts about his tax compliance are serious but they "pale into insignificance" when compared to public-private apartheid in our health services over which he has presided, according to Sinn Féin Dáil leader and Health & Children spokesperson Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin. Commenting on the latest survey showing quicker access to cancer services for fee-paying patients as against public patients, Deputy Ó Caoláin said: Photo: Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin Sinn Féin steps up opposition to Eirgrid pylon plan 
SINN FÉIN elected representatives from both sides of the border met in County Monaghan on 4 January to plan an intensified, co-ordinated cross-border opposition to proposals by Eirgrid and NIE to erect new power structures. Photo: Sinn Féin elected representatives meet to address the vexed issue of the Eirgrid/ NIE proposals to erect pylon-supported power lines Irish Medical Aid for Palestinians launched 
A NEW charitable organisation has been launched - Irish Medical Aid for Palestinians (Irish MAP). Photo: Aengus Ó Snodaigh All Irish political institutions opposed North Antrim Sinn Féin MLA Daithí McKay has said that British Government plans to introduce nuclear power plants would be met with political opposition from across Ireland. In October McKay tabled a motion calling for the closure of Sellafield Nuclear Power Plant which was backed by the Assembly. New Sinn Féin Councillor in Dublin On Monday, 7 January Seamus McGrattan was co-opted onto Dublin City Council in place of Nicky Kehoe as the Sinn Féin Councillor in the Cabra/Glasnevin ward. School inspection for healthy eating needed 
ALL SCHOOLS should have healthy eating programmes, Sinn Féin senator Pearse Doherty said this week after it was revealed that although some have excellent initiatives in others they are non-existent. He called on the Education Minister to carry out an audit of school healthy eating programmes. Photo: Pearse Doherty Dublin City Council backs Sinn Féin motion to wipe out school water charges 
DUBLIN City Council has unanimously backed a Sinn Féin motion calling on the Government to introduce a waiver system for schools with water charges arrears or grant aid them to pay the bills. Photo: Christy Burke Brigid Hannon celebrates 90th birthday 
ON Thursday, 3 January, republicans throughout Belfast and beyond joined to wish a very happy 90th birthday to veteran Belfast republican Brigid Hannon. The day was marked with cards, letters and good wishes from her family, friends and comrades in the Republican Movement. Caraher family still seeking justice after 17 years 
SPEAKING at the 17th anniversary commemoration of 20-year-old Fergal Caraher, who was shot dead by the British Army in the village of Cullyhanna on 30 December 1990, Newry and Mourne Sinn Féin Councillor Brendan Curran told people at the candle-lit procession in the South Armagh village, that 17 years later the Caraher family still awaited justice over the brutal murder of their son. Photo: Sinn Féin MP Conor Murphy, Fergal Caraher’s parents, Mary and Peter John, and Sinn Féin Councillors Brendan Curran and Colman Burns at the memorial in South Armagh dedicated to Fergal Caraher Doherty slams Lisbon Treaty at Seán Sabhat commemoration HUNDREDS of people attended the annual commemoration in Limerick City on Sunday, 6 January, of the death in 1957 of Seán Sabhat. 
Brian O'Gorman 
Owen McCaughey Photo: Owen and Bridget McCaughey HSE pays women less and Employee drug tests in doubt |
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