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2 October, 2008

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Bigoted Limavady vote mirrors unionist mindset at Executive

Reverend David Armstrong

A PROPOSAL to give the freedom of Limavady to former Presbyterian minister Reverend David Armstrong and Catholic priest Fr Kevin Mullan was rejected on Monday night when unionist councillors voted en masse against it.

Photo: Reverend David Armstrong

Ó Caoláin urges big support for Health Rally in Dublin

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin

SINN FÉIN Health & Children spokesperson Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD has urged Sinn Féin members and supporters to come out in force for the rally for a First Class Public Health Service in Dublin on Saturday 11 October.

Photo: Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin

No doubt about collusion between state and UDA killers

MEETING: Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams and Jennifer McCann with the parents and uncle of Damien Walsh

SINN FÉIN President Gerry Adams MP and Jennifer McCann MLA have met the parents and uncle of 17-year-Damien Walsh, who was shot dead by the UDA/UFF in west Belfast in March 1993.

Photo: MEETING: Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams and Jennifer McCann with the parents and uncle of Damien Walsh

British Labour Party conference hears concerns over DUP stance

DEBATE: Pictured at the Champ Breakfast debate on 22 September in the Midland Hotel, Manchester, a fringe event at the British Labour Conference, are Ministers Pat Doherty (Sinn Féin), Jeffrey Donaldson DUP and Gary Gibbon of Channel 4

DELEGATES to the British Labour Party annual conference in Manchester last week were briefed by a Sinn Féin delegation in a series of meetings on the current political situation in the North, including the ongoing failure by the DUP to set a date for transfer of policing and justice powers to the Assembly.

Photo: DEBATE: Pictured at the Champ Breakfast debate on 22 September in the Midland Hotel, Manchester, a fringe event at the British Labour Conference, are Ministers Pat Doherty (Sinn Féin), Jeffrey Donaldson DUP and Gary Gibbon of Channel 4

Royal Marines' secret school exercise

A SECRET invitation by the principal of a school in a nationalist area of Belfast to the British Royal Marine Commandos has left Lisburn Sinn Féin Councillor Sam Baker in "shock and disbelief" given the regiment's notorious service in the Six Counties during the conflict.

Unite to recommend rejection of pay deal

Jimmy Kelly

THE second-largest trade union across the island, Unite, has announced it will recommend rejection of the draft pay deal agreed between trade union and employer representatives and the Fianna Fáil/Green Party Government.

Photo: Jimmy Kelly

International : Bolivian Crisis Affirms South American Independence

MORALES: Latin America's first elected indigenous leader

SEPTEMBER has been a month for seismic shifts. The barren ideology that drove the so-called - free market - was ultimately revealed as nothing more than a cheap fraud, a high end con trick that was given licence to plunder and run amok for decades.

Photo: MORALES: Latin America's first elected indigenous leader

Mac Lochlainn delivers message to DUP at Strabane commemoration

REMEMBRANCE: People in the parade carried portraits of local republican dead

DONEGAL Sinn Féin Councillor Pádraig Mac Lochlainn said: "If the DUP wishes to be in government then it will be in partnership and on the basis of equality for all citizens." He delivered the message in an address to the Annual West Tyrone Volunteers Commemoration held in Strabane on Saturday evening.

Photo: REMEMBRANCE: People in the parade carried portraits of local republican dead

Youth Weekend 'phenomenal success'

THE third annual Republican Youth Weekend in Kilkenny City has been hailed as a "phenomenal success" by Ógra Shinn Féin.

CS gas sprayed at close range

Lynn Fleming

SINN FÉIN has condemned the use of CS gas by the PSNI during an incident in Derry last weekend. Sinn Féin Councillor Lynn Fleming questioned whether CS gas would have been used in a predominantly unionist area.

Photo: Lynn Fleming

Roundabout named in honour of Sinn Féin's Michael Ferguson

Michael Ferguson's partner Louise, sons Hugh and Daibhibd and daughter Niamh at the newly renamed roundabout in Poleglass

LOCAL republicans and community workers have renamed the Poleglass Roundabout on Belfast's Stewartstown Road in honour of Sinn Féin activist and MLA Michael Ferguson.

Photo: Michael Ferguson's partner Louise, sons Hugh and Daibhibd and daughter Niamh at the newly renamed roundabout in Poleglass

Nuacht na nOibrithe

Union campaign for exploited airport workers, Drogheda Independent newspaper staff to strike and Dunnes staff have hours cut

Fógraí bháis: Lawrence Mulholland

Lawrence Mulholland photographed in the Cages of Long Kesh in the 1970s.  Lawrence is the person pictured front row – Left

South Derry republican Lawrence Mulholland passed away on 27 August last after a short illness. That he was known in Bellaghy as 'The Rebel' tells much about Lawrence Mulholland and his standing within the republican community of south Derry.

Photo: Lawrence Mulholland photographed in the Cages of Long Kesh in the 1970s. Lawrence is the person pictured front row – Left

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