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UUP have nothing to fear from Irish language - Brolly 
Responding to comments made in the Belfast-based Newsletter by Ulster Unionist Party MLA David McNarry in which he said unionists will continue to oppose an Irish Language Act, Sinn Féin spokesperson on the Irish language Francie Brolly MLA said that the UUP have missed the point. Photo: Francie Brolly Call for urgent action to stem influx of crystal meth 
A MAN was arrested this week in connection with the biggest ever seizure of the highly-addictive synthetic drug crystal meth. Photo: Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD Green Ministers urged to suspend Shell operation as Corduff arrested 
TWELVE people, including 2007 Goldman Environment Prize winner Willie Corduff of the Rossport Five were arrested on Tuesday, 22 July during a peaceful protest against Shell contractors working at the landfall site at Glengad. Derry youth victim of sectarian attack 
UP TO six teenagers were involved in a sectarian attack on a 12-year-old Derry boy on Sunday afternoon 20 July. In the attack, which took place in the Carlisle Road area of the city centre, the young boy suffered cuts and bruises to his neck and face. A second 12-year-old who was with the boy escaped uninjured. Photo: Peter Anderson Mandelson proposals will devastate Irish agriculture - de Brún 
OVER 1,200 farmers protested at Government Buildings in Dublin on Monday against EU Commissioner Peter Mandelson's World Trade Organisation (WTO) proposals. The protest coincided with the visit of French President Nicholas Sarkozy. Photo: PROTEST: Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún and Councillor Pádraig Mac Lochlainn with North Louth/South Armagh farmer Henry McIlroy outside Government Buildings on Monday Adams extends best wishes to Mandela on 90th birthday 
Sinn FÉin President Gerry Adams last week added his voice to those extending their best wishes to former South African President Nelson Mandela on his 90th birthday. Photo: Gerry Adams with Neslon Mandela Call for dismantling of Mountpottinger barracks 
SINN FÉIN East Belfast representative Niall Ó Donnghaile has formally submitted the party's submission to a consultation on the future of Mountpottinger PSNI Barracks in the Short Strand area. Photo: Niall Ó Donnghaile Morgan voices support for Fishermen 
SINN FÉIN TD Arthur Morgan voiced his support for the protests by fishermen in Dublin this week to coincide with the visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The Louth TD attended protests at O'Connell Bridge and outside Government Buildings. Photo: Morgan joins protesting fishermen Wicklow victory in battle against poisonous waste 
RESIDENTS of West Wicklow this week breathed a huge sigh of relief and claimed a massive victory after South Dublin County Council reversed its decision to dispose of highly poisonous hydrogen cyanide at Kilbride Army camp in the Wicklow Mountains. Photo: VIGIL: Sinn Féin’s Gerry O’Neill at one of the recent protests Mapuche representatives meet Sinn Féin 
Jim Gibney Director of Sinn Féin's International Department along with Tom Holland and Teresa Brown met with representatives of the Mapuche people in the party's Falls Road Headquarters last Thursday 17 July. Major mobilisation urged for Derry and Antrim commemoration THE Annual Counties Derry and Antrim Republican Commemoration will take place in Gulladuff on Sunday, 3 August. The commemorative parade will include marching bands and will assemble at the carpark opposite St. Mary's Church, Mayogall at 5pm before making its way to the Garden of Remembrance at Ionad Poblachtach Lár Uladh. A senior republican will deliver the main address. Six Counties Coastguard to strike, Restaurant owners object to Sunday pay rates, HSE reach agreement on ambulances and Tribunal awards €12,000 in compensation for bullying 
THE DEATH occurred on 15 July of Frank Kelly. Well known within the republican family and within his own community of Millbrook Lawns in Tallaght, Dublin, Frank was an active Volunteer in Óglaigh na hÉireann during the 1970s and '80s. He continued to be a loyal supporter of the struggle for Irish freedom and the Sinn Féin peace strategy up until his death from cancer. Photo: Frank Kelly, as an IRA Volunteer, pictured in An Phoblacht/Republican News in 1979 Plaque to Alo Hand unveiled in Clones 
THIS year marks the 50th anniversary of the deaths of three Irish republicans who took up arms against British occupation in the North of Ireland in the 1950s: IRA Volunteer Patrick McManus died in a premature explosion near Swanlinbar, County Cavan; James Crossan, the Cavan Sinn Féin organiser who was assassinated by the RUC on the southern side of the border, also near Swanlinbar; and Aloysius 'Alo' Hand, of North Monaghan, who was killed by British forces at Clontivrim, County Fermanagh. Photo: HONOUR: The plaque which was unveiled last Sunday 
Dublin IRA Volunteer Patrick Cannon was remembered last Saturday as republicans from the city and beyond paraded to his graveside at Balgriffin Cemetery to remember his sacrifice, together with his comrade Peter McElchar of Donegal. Photo: Matt Carthy Strabane remembers Fian Tobias Molloy 
ÓGRA and Sinn Féin activists from Tyrone and Derry gathered in Strabane on Wednesday, 16 July to commemorate the 36th anniversary of the death of Fianna Eireann recruit Tobias Molloy. Photo: Tobias Molloy National Republican Youth Weekend set for Derry A National Republican Youth Weekend is set for Derry City on 15 - 17 August. The weekend will coincide with the National Hunger Strike Rally which, for the first time in 27 years, is being organised outside of Belfast. Scottish support for united Ireland 
AROUND 4,000 people took to the streets of Coatbridge in Scotland to show their support for a united Ireland on Saturday 19 July. |
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