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Sectarian attack on Dublin youth footballers 
A GROUP of young Dublin soccer players were subjected to a sectarian attack in Coleraine, County Derry this week. A sectarian mob fired stones and bottles and chanted 'Fenian bastards' at the players. The attack and its fallout have led to demands for the resignation of a public relations officer for the Milk Cup after he described the attack on the two Dublin youth teams as "drink fuelled". Photo: Paddy Butcher United Nations slams Britain's human rights record - again 
UNACCOUNTABLE soldiers, illegal detention, torture of detainees, shoot-to-kill cover-up, delayed inquiries and executive interference. For almost 20 years I have been writing about Britain's failure to adhere to recognised international human rights and legal standards - and it's the same old story. Serious concern at paramilitary displays at Antrim parades 
SINN FÉIN councillors in Moyle have met with the Parades Commission to highlight serious concerns about unionist parades in the Moyle area of County Antrim. The meeting took place following recent parades in Armoy and Ballycastle. Photo: MASSACRE: Sean Graham’s bookmakers in Belfast where UFF men, including Joe Bratty, murdered five Catholics in 1992 Terrifying mob attack on home of Safer Neighbourhood worker 
ON Friday 25 July the Sinn Féin Mayor of Belfast Tom Hartley opened the "Kids Space" in the St James area of West Belfast. Local communty activists reclaimed what was an area of overgrown, derelict land near the Bog Meadows Nature Reserve, and transformed it into the 'Kids Space'. The activists cleared the plot then got local children involved in planting flowers and bushes. Photo: ATTACK: Stephen Kelly, bloody and battered following the horrific attack at his home Pay talks fail to guarantee collective bargaining rights 
SOCIAL PARTNERS involved in pay talks in the 26 Counties have failed to reach agreement on the issue of collective bargaining, a worrying lack of development for the trade unions with the talks in their final week. If agreement on collective bargaining was reached, employers would have to recognise trade unions in workplaces where the workers want it. Although workers have a right to be represented on an individual basis by a trade union there is currently no statutory right to collective bargaining. Photo: FAILURE: Social partners have not reached agreement on the issue of collective bargaining British Army parade 'an affront to Irish nationalists' 
SINN FÉIN West Tyrone MLA Barry McElduff has dismissed suggestions that members of the British Army's notorious Royal Irish Regiment (formerly the Ulster Defence Regiment) should be given a so-called 'homecoming parade' on return from Afghanistan. Photo: BLOODY RECORD: The RIR/UDR is closely associated with loyalist death squads Short Strand wants 'homes not forts' 
'HOMES not forts' is the demand being spearheaded by Sinn Féin in East Belfast's Short Strand area. Party members have launched a drive to collect signatures from local people supporting the party's call for the dismantling of Mountpottinger barracks a symbol of division and conflict for many years in this nationalist area. Photo: MILITARISED BLIGHT: Short Strand residents are demanding the removal of the Mountpottinger barracks Ferris welcomes collapse of WTO talks 
THE collapse this week of the proposed WTO deal which would have seen the decline of Irish Agriculture has been welcomed by Sinn Féin Agriculture Spokesperson Martin Ferris TD. Photo: COLLAPSE: Deal would have seen decline of Irish agriculture Older people being punished by health cuts 
SINN FÉIN Health and Children Spokesperson Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD has described as "a total sham" the Irish Government's claimed commitment to improved care for older people after a survey has shown that Health Services Executive (HSE) cuts are adversely affecting home help and home care packages. Photo: Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin Internal HSE memo exposes effects 
A Health Executive Services (HSE) memo detailing cutbacks imposed on the Pathology department of the Mid-Western regional Hospital has come into the possession of Sinn Féin Limerick spokesperson Maurice Quinlivan. Photo: Sinn Féin Limerick spokesperson Maurice Quinlivan Adams extends solidarity to Belfast Pride 
SINN FÉIN President and west Belfast MP Gerry Adams has extended solidarity and best wishes to the members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and transgender community who are celebrating Belfast Pride 2008 this week. Campbell urged to support Irish language SINN FÉIN'S cultural spokesperson Francie Brolly MLA has said he believes that the North's culture Minister, Gregory Campbell must show the same degree of commitment to the Irish Language as he has pledged to show to Ulster Scots. Anti-Racism World Cup for West Belfast 
For the second year in a row West Belfast will be celebrating human solidarity with like minded people from around the world. The anti-Racism world cup will again be hosted by a community which has a long history of highlighting and combating domestic and international injustice. 146 jobs axed in Westmeath, Agreement reached in Port Tunnel dispute, Ageism in employment - rise in complaints, Language staff speak to Rights Commissioner and Belfast passport hold-ups to continue Remembering Kevin Lynch, a fighter on the sports field and the battlefield 
A LARGE CROWD turned out in Dungiven, County Derry, on Sunday, 27 July, for a commemoration marking the 27th anniversary of the death of republican Hunger Striker Kevin Lynch. Lynch was the seventh Hunger Striker to die in 1981. The main address at the commemoration was delivered by Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson. Photo: Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson Kelly to address commemoration at Gulladuff 
SINN FÉIN Junior Minister Gerry Kelly MLA will be the guest speaker at this weekend's annual Counties Derry and Antrim Republican Commemoration in Gulladuff. Speaking in advance of the major republican mobilisation, Magherafelt Sinn Féin Councillor Ian Milne called on all republicans to support the annual commemoration which will take place in Gulladuff this coming Sunday, 3 August, at 5pm. Photo: TUNING UP: Young members of South Derry Martyrs Flute Band, Colleen, Marica, Shauní, Sinead and Shanice getting in tune for Sunday’s commemoration 
Glasgow Celtic players meet Belfast Mayor Tom Hartley before their soccer friendly last week at Suffolk Road against 'The Wee Hoops', Donegal Celtic |
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