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Billl will ensure strong and effective Victims' Commission 
FRANCIE MOLLOY, Sinn Féin spokesperson on Victims issues has said that a Bill which passed through the North's Assembly this week would ensure that a strong and effective Victims' Commission in the Six Counties is put in place. Photo: FRANCIE MOLLOY Morgan welcomes opening of new Boyne Visitor Centre 
Speaking after attending the opening of the new Boyne visitor centre by Bertie Ahern and Ian Paisley on Tuesday, Sinn Féin TD Arthur Morgan welcomed the significant media attention on what should be a hugely successful tourist attraction. Photo: Bertie Ahern and Ian Paisley at the opening ceremony of the new Boyne Visitor Centre SDLP criticised on May Day over Lisbon Treaty stance 
SDLP leader Mark Durkan's support for the Lisbon Treaty is disappointing given the fact that it will fundamentally undermine workers' rights, Sinn Féin MLA Paul Maskey said during last week's May Day celebrations organised by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions in Belfast. Photo: Sinn Féin MLA Paul Maskey Ballymun Plaza workers continue protests 
THE 65 workers previously employed at the Ballymun Plaza Hotel in Dublin are continuing their efforts to flag up the handling of job creation by the Ballymun Regeneration Project through protests and by gathering a petition with 5,500 local signatures which calls for the reopening of the hotel. Photo: Sinn Féin Councillors Larry O’Toole and Dessie Ellis with Arthur Morgan TD (centre) show solidarity with the Plaza workers Basque Youth Delegation to Tour Ireland 
A delegation of Basque youth will be touring Ireland next week. The group, hosted by Ógra Shinn Féin will be engaged in a number of public meetings, and will also use the mobilisation to learn of the Peace Process in Ireland. Gang violence in Ballymena: 'Only a matter of time before someone else is killed' 
IT HAD been hoped that the public outcry following the vicious sectarian murder of Catholic schoolboy Michael McIlveen in 2006 would have drawn a line in Ballymena which would never be crossed again. Yet, two years later, local Sinn Féin MLA Daithí McKay has warned that it is only a matter of time before another fatal gang attack takes place in the town. Photo: Sinn Féin MLA Daithí McKay: ‘Catholic teenagers are afraid to leave their homes at night’ Ná brú an Bearla ar ár bpáistí Ag seoladh agóid ar son tumoideachas, Teach Laighean 13 Bealtaine 6in, dúirt Seanadóir Pearse Doherty, Comhdháil Gheilleagair Chultúrtha na Ceathrún Gaeltachta Inniu beidh Comhdháil Gheilleagair Chultúrtha na Ceathrún Gaeltachta, eagraithe ag Forbairt Feirste. Díreoidh sí ar an Cheathrú Ghaeltachta in Iarthar Bhéal Feirste agus Díreoidh sí ar dhá ábhar treorach: Ceantar agus Teanga. Party training for women members 
SINN FÉIN's Party Development Department, responsible for youth, education, training and gender equality has organised the first in a series of training sessions for women party members for 31 May in the Tí Chulann centre in South Armagh. Nuacht na nOibrithe BY STEPHANIE LORD Psychiatric nurses step up action and BT still refuses recognition Bobby Sands remembered in his home area 
On Monday, 5 May, the 27th anniversary of the death of republican Hunger Striker Bobby Sands, over 200 people attended a white line picket in memory of the 1981 Hunger Strike leader and former MP for Fermanagh/South Tyrone in his home area of Twinbrook in Belfast. The demonstration on the Stewartstown Road was organised by Colin Sinn Féin and coincided with the launch of a new Sinn Féin cumann in the area - the Rooney/Farrell/Sands Cumann 1981 Hunger Strike Commemorated in Limerick City 
On the Anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands on Monday 5 May a crowd of more than 30 Limerick republicans gathered at the 1916 memorial on Sarsfield Bridge. The commemoration to remember Bobby Sands and the nine other 1981 Hunger strikers has been held continuously in Limerick City on the 5 May since the Hunger Strike in 1981. Ballinasloe marks Bobby Sands anniversary 
SINN FÉIN Councillor Dermot Connolly gave the oration at a commemoration in Ballinasloe, County Galway on Bank Holiday Monday to mark the day that Bobby Sands died after 66 days of protest in 1981. Photo: Councillor Dermot Connolly introducing Séanna Walsh (to his right) at the Bobby Sands memorial in Ballinasloe, Bank Holiday Monday Limerick Sinn Féin launches No to Lisbon Campaign 
Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty speaking at the Limerick launch of the party's 'Vote No to Lisbon Campaign' said the referendum campaign is very different to previous EU referenda. Photo: Senator Pearse Doherty, Pádraig Malone, Tom Collopy and Maurice Quinlivan Sinn Féin and Labour debate Lisbon Treaty in Lucan 
A debate on the Lisbon Treaty between Sinn Féin Dublin MEP Mary Lou McDonald and Labour Party TD Joanna Tuffy in the Spa Hotel in Lucan on Tuesday, 29 April was attended by a local crowd and the debate was recorded by Liffey Sound FM to be aired in early June just before polling in the referendum. A further encounter between the two political representatives is scheduled for the Neilstown Community centre in Clondalkin on Tuesday 13 May. Photo: Mary Lou McDonald MEP, Stephen McCormick Chair of Black/Ryan Sinn Féin cumann and Joanna Tuffy Labour TD for Dublin Mid West Remembering Ballymurphy Volunteers AS PART of a five year plan to commemorate and celebrate the lives of deceased Volunteers from the Ballymurphy area of West Belfast The Remember Our Volunteers Committee has organised a number of events aimed at remembering two young men who were killed by the British army. |
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