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Loyalists can't remember anything and deny everything 
LOYALIST witnesses appearing before the inquiry into the killing of Portadown Catholic Robert Hamill on 27 April 1997 continue to display the kind of casual contempt that characterised the sectarian murder at the time. Photo: WAITING: Families and friends want the truth Taoiseach must re-engage with social partners - Doherty 
REACTING to news that the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO) will take part in a one day work stoppage closing all 3,200 primary schools across the 26 Counties on 30 March as part of protests against the pension levy Sinn Féin Education Spokesperson Senator Pearse Doherty called on the Taoiseach to re-engage with the social partners and build a resolution based on ICTU's ten point plan. Photo: Pearse Doherty Shell to Sea campaigner jailed 
A BELLMULLET, County Mayo, court last week sentenced Shell to Sea spokesperson Maura Harrington to 28 days in prison for allegedly assaulting a garda at Pollathomais Pier on 11 June 2007. Gaza MP briefs Sinn Féin MP on ongoing crisis 
THE blockade of Gaza must be ended and its borders opened by Israel, Sinn Féin MP Pat Doherty said in London this week after a meeting with Gaza Independent MP Jamal Al Khodari at Westminster. Mr Al Khodari was in London to speak to MPs and groups about the situation in Palestine. Photo: Pat Doherty Court backs Basque activist's extradition 
BELFAST Recorder's Court ruled on 9 March that Basque nationalist Iñaki de Juana Chaos is eligible for extradition to Spain. He has been paroled until May when he will appeal the decision at a further hearing. Photo: JUDGMENT: Iñaki de Juana Chaos leaves court Adams urges housing and jobs plan for Longford and Westmeath 
SINN FÉIN President Gerry Adams was in Counties Westmeath and Longford last week with local election candidates Cllr Paul Hogan, Sorcha Clarke, Mick Kenny, Cllr Brendan Farrell, Conor Nolan, and Ciarán Grimes to see at first-hand how the recession is hurting Midlands counties. Photo: GIMME FIVE: Gerry gets down with the kids World scientists' summit undermines Wilson's climate change claims 
LAST WEEK'S climate change conference in Copenhagen where nearly 2,500 of the world's leading scientists declared that the most serious warnings on climate change are coming true and called for "immediate action" further discredits the position of DUP Environment Minister Sammy Wilson, Sinn Féin MLAs have said. Photo: IN THE AIR: Sammy Wilson’s views are under an even bigger cloud Loyalist PSNI worker's case referred to Attorney General THE case of two convicted loyalists who walked free from court despite admitting their role in the possible planning of murder has been referred to the Attorney General. Council of Europe award for British Irish Rights Watch AFTER almost 20 years, the work of the human rights watchdog British Irish Rights Watch (BIRW) has been recognised with a new European award organised by the Council of Europe, the Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) Human Rights Prize. 
THE head of Sinn Féin's European Department, Seán Oliver, last week travelled to northern Italy to carry out a series of speaking engagements at community and left-wing events. The invitation came from the Communist Refoundation Party (Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, PRC). Photo: Seán Oliver Hartley and Bairbre de Brún unveil mural 
On Saturday 14 March Sinn Féin Mayor of Belfast Tom Hartley along with the party's MEP for the Six Counties Bairbre de Brún unveiled a set of murals at Divis street in West Belfast aimed at welcoming visitors to the area. Third-level college cuts ahead?, Plasterers get compensation for unfair dismissal and Dublin Bus management amends lay-off plans Huge turnout commemorates Keith Rogers 
A HUGE CROWD attended the commemoration march in Sheelagh, County Louth, on Sunday in memory of IRA Volunteer Keith Rogers, who was murdered by criminals on 12 March 2003. Photo: Keith Rogers Tom Smith remembered in Dublin 
ST PATRICK"S DAY saw Dublin republicans mark the 34th anniversary of the death of IRA Volunteer Tom Smith who was killed during an escape attempt by republican prisoners at Portlaosie jail in 1975. Photo: Ruadhán Mac Aodháin Derry Republican Graves Association £20k prize draw launched 
A FUND-RAISING draw for the upkeep of the graves and memorials to fallen Volunteers of the Derry Brigade, Irish Republican Army, has been launched by Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney and families of IRA Volunteers from the greater Shantallow area. Photo: Local area committee of the Derry Republican Graves Association and the families of fallen IRA Volunteers from the greater Shantallow area at the Republican Monument on the Racecourse Road 
Photo: SEACHTAIN NA GAEILGE: Pupils from Coláiste Feirste and the Irish language college in Ballinderry, County Cork with Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams at Sevastopol Street in West Belfast Sinn Féin Intensive Irish Language Course 
Upwards of 40 party members recently attended different levels of Irish language courses at the Roddy McCorley Society in Belfast Photo: Upwards of 40 party members recently attended different levels of Irish language courses at the Roddy McCorley Society in Belfast |
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