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20 November, 2008 |
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Assembly endorses Sinn Féin's call for new hospital 
A NEW children's and women's regional hospital is an urgent necessity, Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams told Stormont last week. The MLA's call for immediate action was endorsed by the Assembly who urged UUP Health Minister Michael McGimpsey to set a date for work to begin at the west Belfast site. Photo: Gerry Adams 
FOUR consecutive days of front page opinion poll articles in the Irish Times have focused 26-County news coverage in the last week. The level of coverage, intent and subject matter of the questions leave the Times open to questions about the paper's impartiality and political agenda. Ballymurphy internment massacre families meet Dermot Ahern 
FAMILIES from the Ballymurphy Massacre Committee, accompanied by representatives of Relatives for Justice and Sinn Féin West Belfast MP Gerry Adams MLA, met Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern in Belfast on Monday. Photo: Gerry Adams pictured after the press conference with the families of those killed in the Ballymurphy Massacre Basque activist to fight extradition 
BASQUE nationalist Iñaki de Juana Chaos voluntarily appeared in court in Belfast on Monday, 17 November, following the issuing of a European arrest warrant by the Spanish Government to the PSNI on Thursday, 13 November. The Spanish warrant states that, on 2 August, de Juana Chaos, a former ETA prisoner, gave a woman a letter to be read out in his name at a rally in San Sebastian in Euskal Herria (the Basque Country) which "praised terrorism". Photo: FLAWED CASE: Iñaki De Juana Chaos Concern at lack of progress on Dáil collusion motion 
SINN FÉIN Dáil leader Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin has expressed concern at the lack of progress on the part of the British and Irish governments on the motion on collusion passed unanimously by the Dáil on 10 July. He also raised concern over the uncertainty of future funding for the Justice for the Forgotten group. He was commenting after hearing replies from the Taoiseach in the Dáil on Tuesday. Photo: Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin 
THE Irish Congress of Trade Unions has held a special delegate conference for members of trade unions to vote on whether to accept or reject the social partnership pay deal that would give workers a 3.5 per cent pay increase in the 26 Counties. Photo: Jack O’Connor of SIPTU speaking at the ICTU special delegate conference Ireland : The energy-dependent island 
IRISH CUSTOMERS pay the highest prices for electricity in the EU. We are also one of the most dependent states on imported energy resources and therefore the most vulnerable to international energy crises and price swings. These were the findings of two key reports on Ireland's energy industry released in the same week as the latest applications by the ESB and Bord Gáis for another round of price increases were considered by Commission on Energy Regulation. Photo: Martin Ferris International : Roots of Congo crisis lies in Rwandan genocide 
ON SUNDAY, 9 November, German police arrested a senior Rwandan government official at Frankfurt airport, on foot of a French extradition warrant dating back to 2006. Photo: Rose Kabuye H-Block film in Paris festival spotlight 
THE weekend showing of the acclaimed film Hunger at the prestigious 4 Screens European Film Festival in Paris is an indication of the powerful effect the film is having on audiences across Europe, according to Bik McFarlane, who was at the festival. Photo: Jennifer McCann and Bik McFarlane at the prestigious 4 Screens European Film Festival New Sinn Féin university structure pays dividends 
SINN FÉIN has recently implemented a transformation of the party's structures in universities across Cúige Ulaidh. This follows a summer-long 'think tank' by young Sinn Féin members who had recently passed through the party's college structures. These meetings resulted in the formation of a new University Officer Board. Photo: COLLUSION PROTEST: Magee Campus, University of Ulster, Derry. Plean don Ghaeilge do 2028? Cuimhnigh ar 1958 
Tháinig an deis dheireanach don phobal a dtuairimí a nochtadh maidir le Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge ar Oíche Shamhna ag cruinniú poiblí i lár Oireachtas na Gaeilge i gCorcaigh. Seo straitéis a ghlac Rialtas an Deiscirt chun sprioc de 250,000 cainteoir laethúil Gaeilge a bheith sa tír faoi 2028. Photo: Tomás Ó Fiaich Aer Lingus and unions in talks, Job cuts at carpet manufacturer and Taxi unions warns of illegal cabs Larry O'Toole honoured by Dublin republicans 
Dublin republicans turned out in large numbers for Sinn Féin's Annual Dinner Dance on 15 November. The night was a great success with over 200 people attending the function at the Hilton Holtel on Charlemont Street. 
The 35th annual commemoration of the death of IRA Volunteer Michael McVerry took place on Sunday, 16 November 2008, in south Armagh. Photo: CULLYHANNA: Councillor Colman Burns and Tomás Sharkey during the events to honour IRA Volunteer Michael McVerry |
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