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18 February, 2010 |
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Taxi driver's miraculous escape 
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue has said it's only a matter of time before there is a fatality or a serious injury due to continued sectarian attacks in and around the Bishop Gate area of Derry's city centre. Her comments follow an attack on Saturday night around 8.45pm when a large rock was dropped from Bishop's Gate onto a taxi as it travelled into the city centre and follows a number of similar incidents there in recent months Government failed thousands of Fruit of the Loom workers 
Donegal Sinn Féin Councillor Pádraig Mac Lochlainn has again demanded that An Tánaiste, Minister for Enterprise, Trade, and Employment, Mary Coughlan explain why the government she was a minister in, failed to deliver millions of European funding from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) to Fruit of the Loom workers in North Donegal who had lost their jobs in 2006 and the years prior. He described the government's failure at the time as a "scandal" and repeated his call for a special fund from government to compensate the affected Donegal workers for their loss. Photo: Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Report into suspicious death imminent 
A report into the mysterious death of loyalist Stephen McCullough is expected to be released by the Police Ombudsman later this week. The body of the 39-year-old UDA member was discovered just hours after he offered to give information regarding the sectarian killing of Catholic postal worker Daniel McColgan. Photo: Nuala O’Loan Colette Adams has treatment for cancer Republican activist Colette Adams, wife of Gerry Adams, was recently diagnosed with cancer. She made the following statement on Wednesday. "A month ago the results of tests I had undertaken revealed I had cancer. It was a great shock but I was told by my doctor and consultant that my cancer was treatable and that I would very quickly be taken into hospital for an operation and to determine what further treatment I might require. 
The 2010 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis will be broadcast live on TV on Saturday 6 March. 
Sinn Féin west Belfast MLA Paul Maskey has launched a scathing attack on the SDLP leader and Department for Social Development (DSD) Minister Margaret Ritchie after her criticism of a £20,000 advertisement campaign on the agreement made at Hillsborough. Photo: Paul Maskey Sinn Féin backs call for Children's Referendum 
Speaking following the publication of the final report of the Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children, on Tuesday, Sinn Féin Dáil spokesperson on children, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, said that the report presented an important opportunity to strengthen children's rights in the state. Photo: Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (second from right) at the launch of the final report 
After just three days of Operation Moshtarak there were already 20 civilians dead in Afghanistan - and those are just the deaths that we know about. They were killed in the name of a 'coalition' military offensive that is designed less to wrest territory from Taliban control, than to convince the Western public that this is a war that can be won and is being won. Photo: British soldiers make their way onto helicopters as they prepare for Operation Moshtarak United Ireland strategy outlined 
Last year, Sinn Féin appointed Conor Murphy and Pearse Doherty to jointly head up the party's United Ireland Task Force. They have a responsibility to roll a series of events throughout every Irish county and to mainstream their work into every elected forum on the island of Ireland. Photo: Mary Lou McDonald, Grace Lynch and Declan Kearney Belfast hosts Basque solidarity dinner 
More than 100 people packed into Belfast's Cultúrlann on Saturday 13 February for a fundraising dinner in solidarity with the Basque political prisoners. The dinner was organised by the Belfast Basque Solidarity Committee as part of the International Week of Solidarity with the Basque Country. It followed a white-line picket and a mural unveiling at the former Andersonstown barracks site earlier in the day. Photo: Caoimhín Mac Giolla Mhín RFJ Youth launch human rights mosaic 
John Finucane, son of assassinated human rights lawyer Pat Finucane, unveiled a mosaic at the Falls Road headquarters of Relatives for Justice (RFJ) on Friday 12 February 2010. The RFJ youth group chose the 21st anniversary of the killing to launch the mosaic, the design of which is based on their interpretations of human rights and their meaning. Photo: John Finucane with Sinn Féin’s Paul Maskey at the unveiling Dublin MTL dockers' strike back on from Monday, SIPTU launches campaign to protect low-paid workers, Unions press Government for talks about axed Community Development Projects and Gardaí vote for industrial action |
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