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Sinn Féin slams SDLP support for DUP gerrymander attempt 
SINN FÉIN MLA Paul Butler has criticised the SDLP for providing support for what he said was an attempt by DUP Environment Minister Edwin Poots to gerrymander new council boundaries in the North which were determined by the office of the Local Government Boundary Commissioner. Edwin Poots is proposing changes to the planned boundaries for 11 new councils. Photo: Paul Butler Huge support for next week's strike 
AS EACH DAY passes, more and more workers in the public sector in the 26 Counties pledge their support for the one-day stoppage next Tuesday, 24 November, and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions' campaign to get the Fianna Fáil/Green Party Government to examine alternatives to single-mindedly looking at cutting pay, conditions and jobs during the recession. Brian Cowen and John Gormley want to impose compulsory redundancies to reduce the €20 billion public service pay bill by €1.3 billion in 2010. Photo: WORKERS UNITED: ICTU recent national day of action Stars and MPs turn out for first-ever Sinn Féin London Dinner 
THE first-ever annual Sinn Féin London Dinner took place at the weekend at the Crown Moran Hotel, where Gerry Adams hosted a packed event attended by individuals and organisations from across the Irish community and beyond. A sold-out event, organised by Friends of Sinn Féin London, included guests former London Mayor Ken Livingstone, Labour Party MPs Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn, actor Adrian Dunbar (who also took the role of Fear An Tí) and Michelin star chef Richard Corrigan, who inspired the amazing menu for the night. Photo: Gerry Adams making his address Anderson meets with Fujitsu Management over job losses 
FOYLE Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has described a meeting with senior management of Fujitsu in Belfast on Monday around job losses at the Derry plant as positive and encouraging. Anderson outlined concerns that had been brought to her attention by workers at the Derry site including that of job security and the possibility of redundancies before Christmas. Photo: Martina Anderson British 'air war games' anger families and farmers 
BRITISH military aircraft 'war games' carried out over Tyrone and Fermanagh between Thursday and Sunday last week have angered local people and provoked protests. West Tyrone MP Pat Doherty says his office was contacted by several people from the Eskra and Beragh areas who reported a relenting and deafening noise which terrified young children and older people. Photo: Pat Doherty 
While the western powers never cease to promote their supposed 'wars for democracy' around the globe, in Latin America a somewhat less celebrated process is underway: here the war against democracy is gathering pace. Take the case of Manuel Zelaya, the ousted and democratically-elected president of Honduras. Unlike Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan, Mr Zelaya won his own electoral battle in an open, honest and fully verified manner. Mr Karzai was found guilty of wholesale electoral fraud by an independent international investigation. Rather than being hounded from power, he was praised when he (very reluctantly) agreed to take part in a second election. Photo: Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya Seoladh Anamúil na Tuairisce ar Gaza 
Oíche thaitneamhach, eolasach a bhí ann nuair a bhailigh slua le chéile ag an Central Hotel, Baile Átha Cliath ag Seoladh na Tuairisce ar Gaza le Gearóid Mac Adhaimh an Chéadaoin seo caite. Cumann Uí Anluain/ Mhic Donncadha, An Cumann Gaelach, Baile Átha Cliath a d'eagraigh an ocáid seo. Ba mhór an onór do Lucilita Breathnach Gearóid Mac Adhaimh a chur i láthair don slua. Thosaigh Gearóid a óraid trí shuantas a dhéanamh d'ainm an chumainn agus beirt bhean cróga á chéilliúradh aige. Mhínigh sé gur cuireadh an tuairisc le chéile tar éis dó cuairt a thabhairt ar Gaza san Earrach. Lean sé leis ag déanamh cur síos ar an mórfháilte a chuir muintir Gaza air idir polaiteoirí, daoine óga , mna agus fir. 250 jobs to go in Sligo, Aer Lingus talks scheduled and ISME lashes public sector 
AROUND 70 people attended a graveside commemoration at Mountirwin cemetery near Gurteen Sligo on Sunday, 1 November to honour the life and death of Comdt. Michael Marren who died on 11 July 1921 - the date of the truce. Marren's feats are legendary in the South Sligo area where he grew up and commanded republican forces during the Tan War. Photo: The new Michael J. Marren Sinn Féin Cumann Drama to honour Fianna martyrs of 1972 
ON Friday, 27 November, a commemorative drama in the Crumlin Star by ex-POWS will honour four courageous young Fianna Éireann members who lost their lives in the conflict in 1972. The republican ex-POWs - from Ardoyne, Ligoniel and the Bone areas of Belfast - will be staging Young Guard of Erin to pay tribute to the heroism of David McAuley, Joseph Campbell, Josie McComiskey and Bernard Fox. The families of these Fians will be guests of honour on the night. West Cork weekend a huge success 
REPUBLICANS from all over Ireland and abroad converged on Bandon, West Cork on the weekend of 7 and 8 November for a series of events to commemorate the Manchester Martyrs, Allen, Larkin and O'Brien. The first event began early Saturday morning when a bus load of West Belfast and West Cork republicans were taken on a tour of West Cork which included stops at Cork City Cemetery to pay our respects to republican icons Terence MacSwiney, Tomás Mac Curtain and Tom Barry amongst others. Photo: Fra McCann with Cork Sinn Féin councillors and a colour party in Fianna uniforms Volunteer Liam McParland Commemoration 
THE 40th anniversary of the death on active service of Belfast Brigade IRA Volunteer Liam McParland was marked by 300 republicans in west Belfast on Sunday. Liam, a quiet, unassuming man and an ardent gaelgeoir, died in a car crash on 6 November 1969 while on IRA business. The commemoration, organised by the Remember Our Volunteers Committee, took place in New Barnsley Crescent where a plaque in Liam's memory was unveiled by Liam Shannon, Chairperson of the National Graves Association. Photo: Liam Stone New sculpture honours PJ Branley and Dessie McNulty 
ON Sunday 8 November 200 republicans from Donegal and Fermanagh gathered at the spot on the main Ballyshannon/ Donegal Town Road where Sinn Féin members PJ Branley and Dessie McNulty were killed in a car accident exactly a year previous. They were there to remember and to show support for the Branley and McNulty families who had gathered to unveil a sculptured stone erected by the local Sinn Féin Cumann in memory of PJ and Dessie who were two very hard working members of the local Sinn Féin Party and who were killed so tragically going about their republican work on the morning of 9 November 2008. Photo: Remembering two hard working Sinn Féin party members PJ Branley and Dessie McNulty |
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