SINN FÉIN leader Gerry Adams TD has called for a vote on Irish unity in the wake of the announcement that Scotland will vote on independence in 2014. Free article

HOME HELP and Care workers will lead a protest march from the GPO to Leinster House in Dublin on Wednesday (17 October) in protest at proposals to reduce Home Help hours and Home Care Packages. Care workers say that the proposed cuts would seriously damage the quality of life of elderly and disabled recipients of care. Free article

Sinn Féin representative for Dublin Mid-West Eoin Ó Broin has challenged the Fine Gael TD for the area, Derek Keating, to a public debate on the jobs crisis following what he described as “a ridiculous and deliberately provocative” press statement from Deputy Keating. Free article

A vigil will be held outside the gates of Queen's University Belfast at 7.30pm on Tueday night (16 October) to mark the 20th anniversary of the murder of Sinn Féin activist Sheena Campbell. Free article

Scotland will vote on independence in the autumn of 2014, it was confirmed on Monday following an agreement between Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and British Prime Minister David Cameron in Edinburgh. Free article

A new bridge linking the North and South of Ireland has been granted planning permission by the Stormont government. When constructed it will be the first cross border bridge since the partition of Ireland in 1922. Free article

Sinn Féin MEP Martina Anderson met with republican ex-prisoners grouop Tar Anall and members of the newly launched Irish Centre on Wrongful Convictions (ICWC) in Belfast on Friday. The ICWC is a grassroots human rights organisation established by a number of former prisoners, human rights lawyers and human rights activists. Martina also toured Belfast's Irish Republican History Museum at Conway Mill. Free article

Sinn Féin Mayor's casting vote sees motion passed after 9-9 tie Free article

Up to 100,000 native people were murdered by the government-backed rubber company stealing their land's resources while countless others were enslaved, tortured and mutilated Free article

Royal Navy should pay for restoring relic, Sinn Féin MLA says Free article