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20 March, 2008 |
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Sinn Féin promotes wearing of Easter Lily 
SINN FÉIN has made a major effort this year to promote the wearing of the Easter Lily to celebrate the memory of the 1916 Easter rising and to further popularise the cause of Irish unity. Last week the party's four TDs and Senator Pearse Doherty launched a country-wide Easter Lily campaign. Over the Easter period, Sinn Féin activists are distributing more than 100,000 leaflets, while Easter commemorations will take place across the country. Photo: Ann Murray, Gerry Kelly, Liam Shannon and Annie Cahill promoting the Easter Lily in Belfast last week 'Latest attack on Monaghan Hospital must be resisted' 
Sinn Féin Health spokesperson and Cavan-Monaghan TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin has learned that the Ventilation Unit at Monaghan General Hospital is to close on 7 April. Stating that this would be "another grievous blow to healthcare provision in this region", Deputy Ó Caoláin called on people to mobilise to resist the closure. He stated: Photo: Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin Miami massacre book wins award 
THE recently-published book, The Miami Showband Massacre, about survivor Stephen Travers's search for the truth behind the 1975 attack, has been named as Irish Book of the Year by an Irish community newspaper in Britain, The Irish World. Photo: Stephen Travers ESRI predicts slowest economic growth in 20 years 
SINN FÉIN'S Economic Affairs spokesperson in the Dáil has challenged Finance Minister Brian Cowen to spell out what action his government will take in answer to last week's Quarterly Economic Commentary by the Economic and Social Research Institute which predicts that the 26-County economy is set to grow at its slowest pace for 20 years. Photo: Brian Cowen 
Seoladh Féile Raifteirí 28-30 Márta 2008 mar chlabhsúr d'imeachtaí Sheachtain na Gaeilge i mBaile Locha Riach le deireannas. Bhí seisiún ceoil eagraithe Oíche Fhéile Pádraig agus Meaitie Jó Shéamuis Ó Fátharta is Johnny Connolly mar aoi-cheoltóirí ag an seisiún gaelach. Photo: Meaitie Jó Shéamais Ó Fatharta ag seoladh ‘Féile Raifteirí’ le linn sheisiúin ceoil i mBaile Locha Riach le deireanas. Feictear Johnny Connolly, Ian Rafferty agus Nóirín Ní Ghrádaigh sa Sinn Féin lodges agency workers' council motion in every county 
Sinn Féin TD and Economic Spokesperson Arthur Morgan has launched a council motion on agency workers that will be lodged in local authorities in every county in the 26 Counties over the coming weeks. Morgan was joined by Louth Councillors Jim Loughran and Tomás Sharkey who controversially lodged a similar motion last month. Photo: Arthur Morgan A Bill of Rights offers hope for many 
DELIVERING on a Bill of Rights in the Six Counties will protect women and political and religious freedoms and establish rights to housing and to join trade unions, Sinn Féin Human Rights spokesperson Martina Anderson has said. Photo: Martina Anderson Property developers want pay cuts, Doctors say HSE has no money for new consultants, HSE hopes to make hundreds redundant and Labour Court doubles compensation to immigrant worker British PM's Iraq inquiry pledge, UN policeman dies after Kosovo clash and Bear necessities Large attendance at fifth anniversary of murdered IRA Volunteer 
SPEAKING at last weekend's fifth annual commemoration of IRA Volunteer Keith Rogers, Louth County Councillor Tomás Sharkey reminded the large attendance of the words of the highly respected Irish republican, Brian Keenan, who, speaking on the first anniversary of the death of the young IRA man, stated: Caoimhín Mac Brádaigh remembered 
A wreath laying ceremony in memory of IRA Volunteer Caoimhín Mac Brádaigh took place at Meenaleck, Gaoth Dobhair, County Donegal on Sunday 16 March. Mac Brádaigh was killed along with John Murray and Thomas McErlean during a unionist paramilitary gun and bomb attack at Milltown Cemetery on the 16 March 1988 during the funerals of the Gibraltar Three. The three men bravely sought to prevent the attacker from injuring or killing others in the cemetery. Photo: Senator Pearse Doherty, Cllr Marie Therese Gallagher, Ann and Bríd Nic Bhrádaigh and Gráinne Mhic Ghéidigh at the memorial to Caoimhín in Meenaleck Volunteer Tom Smith commemorated 
THE 33rd annual Volunteer Tom Smith took place in Dublin on St Patrick's Day with a large crowd, including members of Tom's family, parading from Berkeley Road Church to Glasnevin Cemetery New Barnsley memorial restored 
REPUBLICANS from the New Barnsley area of West Belfast have shown their determination to honour the area's republican dead by rebuilding the commemoration plaque destroyed last year. Photo: Republicans Eddie Duffy, Seamy Martin, John Brady and Anton O'Neill from the Upper Springfield area working on the new monument Dundalk remembers Gibraltar Three 
The 20th anniversary of the deaths of the Gibraltar Three, Mairéad Farrell, Dan McCann and Seán Savage was marked in Dundalk when hundreds of people marched by candlelight from Dundalk Shopping Centre to Bridge Street. |
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