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Finance Bill penalises working families - Morgan 
THE Irish Government's Finance Bill 2009 abandons the hundreds of thousands of working families who drove the economy through the Celtic Tiger years. So says Sinn Féin Economics Spokesperson Arthur Morgan TD. Photo: Arthur Morgan Two economies in Ireland hampers 
SINN FÉIN MP for Newry and South Armagh, Conor Murphy has called for the harmonisation of taxation and pricing policies on the island of Ireland following the recent drop in VAT and the higher prices customers in the South are paying for goods. Photo: Conor Murphy Sinn Féin unveils results of Dublin Education Survey 
THE initial results of an extensive survey of almost 500 primary schools across Dublin City and County Dublin to establish the impact of the Government's education cuts were outlined by Sinn Féin Dublin MEP Mary Lou McDonald this week. McDonald described the results as "a stark reminder of just how short-sighted Fianna Fáil and the Greens' Budget choices are". Photo: Mary Lou McDonald 
A SECTARIAN killer who boasted that he had no problem killing Catholics, a loyalist drug dealer that brought death and despair to his own community, an extortionist who traded in fear for money - there will be few to mourn the death of former 'UDA Brigadier' Ihab Shoukri. Photo: Ihab Shoukri 
SINN FÉIN President Gerry Adams MP MLA and the Party's US representative and General Secretary Rita O'Hare, were in the USA last week for a hectic 72 hours of public engagements and fundraising. Photo: Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams plays hurling at the new GAA grounds on Treasure Island in San Francisco Support for International Day for the Eradication of Violence Against Women 
SINN FÉIN MLAs gathered on the steps of Stormont on Tuesday to mark International Day for the Eradication of Violence Against Women day. Photo: Annie Campbell of Women's Aid and Bernie Reilly of the Falls Women's Centre join Sinn Féin MLAs at Stormont calling for and end to violence against women Morgan slams decision to dissolve Combat Poverty Agency 
SINN FÉIN Social and Family Affiars Spokesperson Arthur Morgan TD has condemned the decision by 26 County Minister for Family and Social Affairs Mary Hanafin to dissolve the Combat Poverty Agency through an amendment of the Social Welfare Bill. Trade unions must unite on social progress clause demand 
SPEAKING at a TEEU annual conference in Cork on Saturday, 22 November, Sinn Féin MEP Mary Lou McDonald made a rallying call for trade unions across the state to unite on the demand for a social progress clause to be included in any future European treaty. Photo: Mary Lou McDonald Sinn Féin slams threats against community centre staff in North Belfast 
THREATS made by the so-called 'Continuity IRA' micro group against a number of community groups working with the PSNI in North Belfast has been slammed by Sinn Féin MLA for North Belfast Gerry Kelly. Irish language rights raised at Boundary Commission presentation 
RECENTLY Sinn Féin made several recommendations to public hearings of the North's electoral Boundary Commission. Among the issues raised by Sinn Féin was the inclusion of Irish place names within any new Council boundaries. Photo: Niall Ó Donnghaile A WOMAN passenger needed reconstructive surgery after she was hit by a brick as she travelled in a taxi in the Glenmachen Street area of Belfast. The woman, a 25-year-old student from Germany, was hit in the face when a brick was thrown through the windscreen. 
NORTH ANTRIM Sinn Féin MLA, Daithí McKay, has condemned last Sunday's arson attack on the home of a Clough mother of one. Photo: Daithí McKay Subway sacks pregnant worker, CIE may let 400 workers go, Pay block could provoke strike action and Nurses' work-to-rule ends Mallow local election candidates 
Toireasa Ferris pictured with Willy O'Regan and Stella O'Sullivan at the convention which selected the two Sinn Féin members as candidates to stand in Mallow for Sinn Féin in next June's local elections. Manchester Martyrs remembered in Cork 
THE annual Manchester Marytrs commemoration was held in Bandon on Sunday 23 Novemember. The march was lead through Bandon town by the South Derry Martyrs republican flute band and a Cork republican colour party. Photo: Pictured at the Manchester's Martyrs Commemoration councillors of West Cork Sinn Féin Noel Harrington, Cionnaith Ó Súilleabháin, Councillor John Desmond, Toireasa Ferris, Sinn Féin Candidate for Ireland South in the up- 
The West Tyrone Sinn Féin Dinner Dance was held on Saturday night 22 November in the Mellon Country Hotel, Omagh Photo: Kathleen McAleer (wife of Barney McAleer); Ann Quinn (wife of Cathal Quinn); Margaret McMahon (wife of Patsy McMahon) and Patricia McAnespie (wife of Mickey McAnespie) pictured with Martin McGuinness 
ON Sunday, 2 November, veteran republican Jimmy Duffy died in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. Born in August 1946, he died aged 62 from an illness he bore with great dignity. Photo: The funeral of Jimmy Duffy, veteran of Crumlin Road and the H-Blocks Fógraí bháis: DESSIE CARMICHAEL 
IT WAS with great sadness that I learned of the death of my friend, Volunteer Dessie Carmichael on 31 October. I first met Dessie in the early 1960s when the Republican Movement was emerging from a particularly difficult time with the ending of the 1956-1962 campaign. Sinn Féin oppose Dublin City Council estimates 
Dublin Sinn FÉin activists demonstrate outside city Hall on Monday 24 November over the ongoing cuts in public services and the decision by the decision by Labour and Fianna Fail councillors to vote for the City Councils Budget for 2009. |
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