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17 July, 2008 |
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Féile an Phobail's 20th Birthday Party: 3rd to 10th August 2008 
BELFAST'S Sinn Féin mayor, Councillor Tom Hartley, last week launched this year's Féile an Phobail in west Belfast, celebrating the 20th birthday of Europe's largest community festival. Photo: PUTTING ON A SHOW: Jim Hughes and Peter Hunter provide some of the fun of Féile at the launch Sellafield a byword for negligence and incompetence - Willie Clarke 
JUST days after the Westminster Public Accounts Committee revealed that the cost of cleaning up Britain's ageing nuclear power stations would be significantly more than the current estimate of £73 billion, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has committed the British Government to building eight new nuclear power stations. Photo: Willie Clarke Sinn Féin support for North's council workers 
Thousands of local government workers across the North are are on strike in a bid for better pay. Photo: Sue Ramsey Small Firms Association wants minimum wage cut 
SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP talks in the 26 Counties have continued this week but made little progress as a row emerged between trade unions and the Small Firms Association (SFA) which has proposed to cut the minimum wage by €1. Photo: O’CONNOR: Crucifying low-paid workers won’t solve problems Ferris slams failure to provide relief for Fishermen 
THE FAILURE of EU Ministers to provide immediate and meaningful aid to fishermen in the face of the current crisis exacerbated by rising fuel costs is strongly criticized by Sinn Féin. Photo: Martin Ferris 
THE PSNI has launched an investigation into the Union Jack Shop on Belfast's Newtownards Road which was exposed in the media last week for promoting hatred and sectarianism when it openly sold Irish Tricolours as "Fenian Flags to Burn". Photo: Niall Ó Donnghaile Mayo fishermen in flotilla protest against Shell 
THE protest over the controversial Corrib gas pipeline moved to sea this week as north Mayo fishermen in a flotilla of over 30 boats, and up to 100 fishermen, pulled into Broadhaven Bay on Monday. The fishermen were applauded by a large crowd of supporters who had gathered on the quayside. Meath VEC feels pain of public spending cutbacks 
THE vocational education system in County Meath is facing a major financial crisis as the latest Government cutbacks threaten to slash €3 million from its budget for teachers' pay. Photo: Joe Reilly Media coverage of the Twelfth unbalanced 
MEDIA outlets in the North have been criticised over coverage of the Orange Twelfth of July marches. Photo: ÓGRA: A spokesperson for the youth group has slammed imbalance in coverage of the Twelfth of July Orange demonstrations Anger brews over Starbucks sackings,Council workers strike in North, Newbridge jobs under threat, Hibernian staff ballot for industrial action and Strike notice served at Dublin Port Tunnel Graveside memories of Hunger Strikers 
A GROUP of up to 50 Derry republicans was joined by relatives of Belfast Hunger Strikers Kieran Doherty and Joe McDonnell at the Republican Plot in Milltown Cemetery, Belfast, on Sunday, 13 July, for a ceremony commemorating the 1981 Hunger Strikers. Photo: REMEMBRANCE: Ex-POWs and young republicans from Ógra Shinn Féin join members of the Doherty and McDonnell families in the wreath-laying ceremony at Milltown Cemetery 
MARTIN HURSON died on hunger strike on 13 July 1981 in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh; 27 years later, 2,000 republicans from all over Tyrone turned in Galbally out to show much Martin and his comrades' sacrifice still mean to our struggle. 
KATHLEEN GLAVEY, from Dunblaney, Dunmore, in the county of Galway, passed away on Sunday, 6 July. She was surrounded by family members and spent the last precious days in their company. |
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