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18 December, 2008 |
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Bill to remove medical cards 'regressive and unpatriotic' 
The Dáil has passed the legislation which ends automatic entitlement to the medical card for all citizens over 70. Cavan-Monaghan Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin described the passage of the Bill as a "day of shame" for all Government TDs who supported it. 
THE life of solicitor Rosemary Nelson had been repeatedly threatened and surveillance had revealed a known loyalist bomb-maker, with links to Johnny Adair's notorious 'C' Company, colluding with the LVF in Lurgan but no action was taken to protect the defence lawyer, the Rosemary Nelson Inquiry has heard. Photo: Rosemary Nelson 
ALL truth has an invaluable contribution to a society emerging from decades of conflict as we collectively seek to rebuild, restructure, heal and reconcile, Mark Thompson told the Annual General Meeting of Relatives for Justice in Belfast which was packed with families and survivors of state violence. Photo: Tom Hartley with Leslie Carroll and Robin Eames at the AGM of Relatives For Justice Sinn Féin's Friends in America 
"DONATIONS increased by an impressive £195,000 due almost entirely to the magnificent work of Friends of Sinn Féin USA". 90th anniversary of Markievicz election marked in Stormont 
SINN FÉIN held a ceremony at Stormont last Monday to mark the 90th anniversary of the historic election results of 1918 in which Sinn Féin won an overwhelming mandate for Irish independence, leading to the formation of the First Dáil Éireann and, in particular, to mark the election of the first female MP, Constance Markievicz. Photo: Pat Doherty, Carál Ní Chuilín, Gerry Adams, Caitríona Ruane, Gerry Kelly, Jennifer McCann, Martina Anderson with baby Aoise, Mickey Brady, Charlene O'Hara, Fra McCann, Michelle Gildernew, Francie Brolly, Paul Maskey The city that fought an empire 
FROM where the editorial staff of An Phoblacht in Dublin work, in 58 Parnell Square, we'll often hear the voice of Pádraig, the Sinn Féin tour guide, embarking on 'The Rebel Tour'. While down at the entrance of 58, having an (occasional) cigarette, I'll earwig on Pádraig as he launches his account of the capital's rebel past. Photo: Monument in front of Rotunda Hospital Coiste Political Tours: Reclaiming our history 
THE Falls Road in Belfast is a completely changed place from when I first travelled it. Photo: Brian Morgan, Eibhlin Glenholmes, Seamy Kelly, Ann Marie Adams and Louise Beck 
GERRY ADAMS will launch the poem Gib: A Modest Exposure, by Jack Mitchell, in Cultúrlann MacAdaim Ó Fíaich on Belfast's Falls Road this Saturday, 20 December, at 2pm. This year is the 20th anniversary of the killings on 'The Rock'. Exhibition and lecture commemorates John Joe McGirl 
THIS month marks the 20th anniversary of the death of former Sinn Féin Vice President John Joe McGirl. For over 50 years John Joe played a leading role in the republican struggle. His many years of republican activism saw John Joe become a household name throughout Ireland and he witnessed imprisonment in the Curragh internment camp, Mountjoy Jail and Long Kesh. Photo: John Joe McGirl speaking at the 1986 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis |
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