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7 August, 2008 |
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Haddock gang to be investigated by specialist HET unit 
Nationalists are treating with scepticism the news that NIO Security Minister Paul Goggins is to set aside £1million for the Historical Enquiries Team (HET) to investigate the activities of the UVF's Mount Vernon killer gang. The gang, responsible for up to 16 killings, was led by Special Branch informer Mark Haddock. Photo: Mark Haddock SF MLA and Councillor assaulted in Ballymena 
Sinn Féin Assembly Member for North Antrim, Daithí McKay, has described the people behind a plan to build a bonfire in Ballymena this coming Friday night, 8 August as "an anti-social and criminal element". Photo: Daithí McKay All roads lead to Derry on 17 August 
Preparations are well advanced for the National Hunger Strike Commemoration in Derry on 17 August. As well as the march which assembles at Creggan Shops at 2.30pm on Sunday 17 August, a number of other events have been organised in Derry. Anger at nature of South Armagh raids 
Newry and Armagh MP Conor Murphy has branded raids on a number of homes in South Armagh over the past week, including one on the home of two 80 year old pensioners, as 'heavy handed and unacceptable'. Celebration and remembrance at Féile 
THE 27th anniversary of the death on hunger strike of Kieran Doherty coincided this year with the 20th anniversary of West Belfast's Féile an Phobail. Photo: Gerry Adams and Tom Hartley with young Celts at the opening day of Féile Health Minister must act to tackle C-Difficile outbreak 
West Belfast MLA Sue Ramsey has challenged Health Minister Michael McGimpsey to act decisively in challenging the outbreak of the clostridium difficile (c-diff) virus within the Belfast Trust area. The spread of this hospital-based infection is causing concern throughout Ireland and attention this week focused on its prevalence in the North. Photo: Sue Ramsey Hunger Strike memorial vandalised 
Sinn Féin MLA and former Hunger Striker Raymond McCartney has said that the people who vandalised the Hunger Strike memorial acted against the whole community. McCartney said, 'Protect low-paid workers' - Morgan 
SINN FÉIN spokesperson on the Economy Arthur Morgan TD has demanded that the Government immediately reconvene the collapsed pay talks between unions and employers. The protection of low paid workers and alternative support and growth mechanisms for the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector must be the central focus of the Government's role in the negotiations. Photo: Arthur Morgan Pay talks collapse and industrial action looms 
AS THE social partnership pay talks in the 26 Counties collapsed at the weekend, SIPTU, the largest union in the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, has warned of possible strike action if the employers' representative body, IBEC, attempts to block pay claims for SIPTU members. Photo: Jack O’Connor UN criticises human rights failures 
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has identified a number of areas in which the 26-County state is failing to meet its obligations under the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Photo: Garda National Immigration Bureau Doherty demands investment in schools 
Sinn Féin Education Spokesperson Senator Pearse Doherty has said measures to ensure that approval for new housing developments will hinge on an assessment of educational requirements will mean little unless funds for the provision of schools are released. Eilish McCabe (McAnespie) - dedicated campaigner for truth 
On Tuesday 5 August Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams attended the wake of Eilish McCabe (née McAnespie), the sister of Aidan McAnespie who was shot dead on the border at Aughnacloy by the British Army in February 1988. Photo: Eilish McCabe Rail strike avoided at LRC, Job losses in Waterford city, Sharp rise in job losses and Union greets new Iralco ownership 
VOLUNTEER Danny Campbell suffered a stroke on 14 March 2005 and died on 9 July 2008. It was a sad day in County Mayo for his wife Phyllis, for the family, for Ballycroy County Mayo and for the Republican Movement. It was also a proud day as republicans and friends remembered Danny as a leader, as an organiser and as a patriot. He moulded Ballycroy into an area of which we all can be proud. Tribute to Armagh/Tyrone International Brigaders 
THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR featured in a film shown during the West Armagh Festival at the weekend about local volunteers who served with the International Brigades fighting Franco's fascists in the 1936-1939 prelude to the Second World War. Photo: Cathal Boylan, Hugh Owen and Francie Molloy at the Festival 
Fian John Dempsey who was shot dead by British forces on 8 July 1981, the day that Hunger Striker Joe McDonnell died, was commemorated in a march and Gaelic sports day last Sunday 3 August. Photo: Jimmy Dempsey (left) with members of his family before setting off on parade to remember his son Fian John Dempsey George and Pop Annual Football Tournament 
Derry Sinn Féin Councillor Kevin Campbell has said that the annual 'George and Pop Football Tournament' will take place on Saturday 16 August to coincide with the Annual Hunger Strike commemoration taking place that weekend in Derry. Photo: Launch of the Football Tournament Kieran Doherty commemoration 2008 
Photo: Margaret Doherty (centre) at wreath laying ceremony in Belfast for her son Hunger Striker Kieran on Saturday 2 August |
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