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3 July, 2008 |
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No rationale for parade on Garvaghy Road, Adams tells Orange Order 
THE NEWS this week that Gerry Adams has met with representatives of Portadown Orangemen about Garvaghy Road last week comes after repeated requests by the Sinn Féin leader for such a face-to-face meeting. Photo: Portadown Orange march Coleraine unionism: living in the 1980s 
WHEN President Mary McAleese visited the Protestant Millburn Primary School in Coleraine, County Derry, three weeks ago, she was subjected to sectarian abuse by a mob of 30 to 40 screaming loyalists. Photo: LEONARD: ‘Loyalism and unionism in Coleraine will be the last to change’ Concern at serious sectarian attack 
A serious sectarian attack on a young man walking home from the Docks area in North Belfast on Monday night is heightening tension in the area. Photo: Sinn Féin MLA Carál Ní Chuilín and local priest Fr Aidan Troy at the North Queen Street interface recently British collusion in Donegal killing confirmed 
THERE was British collusion in the murder of a Donegal teenager in 1973, according to the latest probe into the killing of Henry Cunningham carried out by the PSNI's Historical Enquires Team (HET). The 16-year-old, from Carndonagh, was shot dead as he travelled back to Donegal from a Belfast building site on 9 August 1973. Photo: Robert and Herbert Cunningham from Carndonagh County Donegal attending Wednesday’s press conference at the Pat Finucane Centre in Derry with Paul O'Connor. Respect for Short Strand residents demanded in wake of sectarian display 
In the wake of the loyalist 'mini-Twelfth' march past the nationalist Short Strand district in east Belfast on Tuesday 1 July, Sinn Féin spokesperson Niall Ó Donghaile speaking to An Phoblacht criticised the behaviour of bandsmen who took part. Photo: Hangers-on jeer at Short Strand residents Arrest sparks new call for release of Loughinisland report 
A MAN has been arrested in England in connection with the unionist paramilitary massacre at The Heights Bar in Loughinisland, County Down, in 1994, in which six people were killed by the UVF while watching the Ireland v Italy World Cup match. Photo: HEIGHTS BAR: Where six were killed watching Ireland’s World Cup match O'Dowd welcomes Hamill Inquiry Ruling 
A decision in the High Court in Belfast, calling on British Secretary of Sate Shaun Woodward to once again re-examine the remit of the Robert Hamill Inquiry has been welcomed by Sinn Féin MLA John O'Dowd. Photo: Robert Hamill England tour's spotlight on collusion 
THE grandson of one of the 15 people killed in the McGurk's Bar bombing in Belfast in 1971 has been on a tour of four English cities to highlight the families' campaign for an "independent international truth commission" into collusion between British state forces and unionist death squads. Photo: McCLENAGHAN: ‘We want the truth’ Common Fisheries Policy must be renegotiated 
MARTIN FERRIS has called for a fundamental renegotiation of the Common Fisheries Policy and its effects on the Irish fishing industry. The North Kerry TD was speaking in the Dáil on his proposed amendment to a Fine Gael Private Member's Motion on Irish fisheries. Photo: Martin Ferris Ógra republican youth camp success 
ÓGRA Shinn Féin's fifth annual Campa Náisiúnta Óige was held in south Armagh the weekend before last with young republicans taking part in three days of debates, workshops, activities and music. Photo: ÓGRA: Giving voice to young republicans Social partnership talks continue, Government underpays teachers and Council workers to strike 
A large crowd of North Belfast republicans turned out last Saturday to mark the 30th anniversary of three IRA Volunteers who were killed on active service in 1978. Book launch: The Impact of 1916 Among the Nations 
A NEW BOOK, The Impact of 1916 Among the Nations, edited by Ruane O'Donnell, was launched by renowned Irish artist Robert Ballagh last Thursday at Pearse House in Dublin. Fógraí bháis: Joshua 'Josh' Kielty 
THE republican family has lost one of its most loyal sons with the death of Volunteer Josh (Joshua) Kielty in his 89th year. He was one of life's true gentlemen. Photo: Josh Kielty gives Martin McGuinness a warm welcome as Maurice Roche looks on Fógraí bháis: 'Irish Billy' Briggs 
THE death on Sunday, 15 June, of Billy Briggs was mourned in his own area of Trenton, New Jersey, USA, and widely elsewhere in America and in Ireland. McKay bomb threat, Offensive loyalist flags in Armagh Mall, Second term for Walsh as mayor of Carrick-on-Suir, Sinn Féin deputy mayor in Nenagh, Pomeroy events mark 20th anniversary of death of Volunteer Seamus Woods, Public inquiry call on Ringsend water plant and Protest over hydrogen cyanide disposal |
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