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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD says the motion on Tuesday and Wednesday night will give TDs with an opportunity to reject and reverse the savage cuts Free article

Eleven members of the Young Conway Volunteers, the band accused of playing sectarian tunes outside a Catholic church in Belfast on the Twelfth, have been arrested Free article

Show your solidarity with the residents of Priory Hall, now one year out their homes as the Fine Gael/Labour Government stand idly by Free article

A PORTRAIT of the former and youngest Mayor of Belfast, Sinn Féin Councillor Niall Ó Donnghaile, was unveiled in Belfast City Hall on 5 October to mark Niall’s just-completed year in office. Free article