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Gerry Adams wishes Fidel well on his retirement 
SINN FÉIN President Gerry Adams has wished Cuban leader Fidel Castro well in his retirement. Adams who has in the past visited Cuba and met with Fidel Castro was speaking after the Cuban Revolutionary leader announced his intention not to seek re-election to the Cuban Presidency. Martin McGuinness pays tribute to Maggie Hughes 
Sinn Féin MP for Mid Ulster Martin McGuinness has paid tribute to Maggie Hughes the mother of IRA Hunger Striker Francis Hughes who passed away on Tuesday. Photo: Maggie and Joe Hughes Sinn Féin in Westminster to press transfer on policing and justice powers 
ALEX MASKEY MLA, Sinn Féin spokesperson on policing and justice issues, travelled to Westminster on Wednesday 19 February, to brief MPs, representatives of London Embassies and the media on the current situation in the political process in the North of Ireland, and in particular the issue of Policing and Justice and the transfer of powers to the Assembly. Unionist point-scoring doesn't help victims 
SPECULATION that the British Government-appointed Consultative Group on the Past could suggest that the conflict in the North of Ireland be officially classified as a war led several DUP MLAs to sponsor a motion in the Assembly this week that this should not happen. The DUP motion was passed by 46 votes to 20. Photo: Sinn Féin MLA Jennifer McCann has criticised unionists for the Assembly motion which she said would do nothing for the victims of conflict Call for full inquiry into Stoneyford loyalist intimidation 
A FULL INQUIRY into PSNI handling of a loyalist campaign of intimidation in Stoneyford has been called for after the PSNI confirmed that disciplinary proceedings have been recommended into police handling of the issue. 
SINN FÉIN Health spokesperson Carál Ní Chuilín says that the first-ever joint meeting between the North's Assembly Health Committee and the Leinster House Joint Committee on Health and Children in Dublin (as An Phoblacht goes to print on Thursday, 21 February) as part of the Inquiry into Suicide is a welcome step in addressing this serious on an all-Ireland basis. Photo: Carál Ní Chuilín Government responsible for Portlaoise Gaelscoil predicament 
NEWS that the lease for the site of a Gaelscoil in Portlaoise is to be terminated this summer has placed the school and parents in an awful predicament. Photo: Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty with Councillor Brian Stanley at Gaelscoil Phortlaoise Grove Turkeys redundancies raised with Minister Gildernew 
A DELEGATION of turkey growers, supported by broiler and pig producers and led by Monaghan IFA Executive Chairperson Kathleen Ward, accompanied Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin and Monaghan County Councillor Pat Treanor to meet with Northern Executive Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development Michelle Gildernew MP MLA in Stormont on Monday. The backdrop to the meeting was the recently-announced decision of Grove Turkeys (Smithboro) to let go 130 of their 200 workforce. This decision directly affects some 85 turkey growers on both sides of the border. Photo: Sinn Féin Agriculture Minister Michelle Gildernew with the delegation of turkey growers, supported by broiler and pig producers and accompanied by Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin and Councillor Pat Treanor at Stormont 
IF the barriers faced by people living with disability in the workplace are to be overcome, their experiences need to be listened to, Sinn Féin's Sue Ramsey said during a presentation by disability groups in Stormont this week. Sue is Chair of the Assembly's Employment and Learning Committee. She said: Photo: Sue Ramsey Sinn Féin intensifies anti-pylon effort 
SINN FÉIN councillors and elected representatives at all levels have been engaged in a programme of heightened activity in their opposition to overhead pylon-supported power lines over the several weeks since the turn of the New Year. Photo: Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún MEP signs off on the text of her questions to the European Commission with Monaghan County Councillors Noel Keelan and Jackie Crowe Cumann Chaoimhín Mhic Bhrádaigh, Óglach 
Tá teachtaireacht shoiléir ag Sinn Féin do lucht na Gaeilge; Is é an príomhchuspóir atá againn ná an méid seo a leanas a chinntiú:- Caitheamh cothrom le gach earnáil eile, Acht na Gaeilge a rith, an ceart do shaol a chaitheamh trí mheán na Gaeilge, an ceart ar sheirbhísí poiblí trí mheán na Gaeilge, an ceart ar Ghaeloideachas do do pháistí agus duit féin ag gach leibhéal, tacaíocht do thograí pobail as Gaeilge, gealltanas d'fhorbairt na Ceathrún Gaeltachta, tacaíocht do Ráidió Fáilte, tacaíocht do Lá Nua. Scrap privatisation of Dublin Bus routes 
THE Government decision not to privatise a number of Dublin Bus routes has been welcomed by Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty, who called on Transport Minister Noel Dempsey to scrap all privatisation plans for Dublin Bus services. Fidel steps down, Pakistan president loses general election, Campaign against cluster bombs meets in NZ and Afghan student appeals death sentence Bradley must address SDLP hypocrisy on Irish language SDLP COUNCILLORS refused to support a motion before Newry and Mourne Council this week asking that Ministers of all Departments and all government agencies and bodies in the North ensure that signage in the environs of their buildings and offices will be in Irish and English, in line with the policy of Newry and Mourne District Council. MEP welcomes start of International Solidarity Week with Basque Country SINN FÉIN MEP Bairbre de Brún has welcomed the start of International Solidarity Week with the Basque Country. Novum staff strike is last resort, IBEC hypocrisy on consumer price index and Chinese worker awarded €15,000 by Equality Tribunal 
WEST TYRONE Ógra Shinn Féin has unveiled a mural in Strathroy Estate, Omagh, on the youth organisation's current drug and alcohol awareness campaign. They where joined at the lauch on Saturday, 16 February, by local Sinn Féin Councillor Martin McColgan. 
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