22 February 2007 Edition
Assembly election: campaign launched
22 February 2007
Sinn Féin launched its Assembly election campaign in Belfast Castle on Wednesday. Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams was joined by all of the party's candidates standing across the North. Free article
Collusion - the elephant in the room
22 February 2007
Action, not discussion, is what is needed now. That was the blunt message Geraldine Finucane presented to a "fringe" event organised to coincide with a major international policing conference in Belfast this week. Free article
Lifting the lid on 'conveyor belt' system
22 February 2007
The Court of Appeal decision to quash the 1979 convictions of Raymond McCartney and Eamonn MacDermott is likely to impact upon hundreds of other former POWs convicted solely on confessions extracted during brutal beatings while being held in interrogation centres like Castlereagh. Free article
Sinn Féin to overtake Labour in Dublin
22 February 2007
Dublin Sinn Féin MEP Mary Lou McDonald has predicted that Sinn Féin will overtake the Labour Party in Dublin in the next five to ten years. McDonald made her comments at Dublin Sinn Féin's Annual General Meeting in the Mansion House last Saturday. Free article
Collusion: Paradigm shift as unionists speak out
22 February 2007
Raymond McCord Snr, like most of the unionist community, used to dismiss allegations of collusion as republican propaganda. This is no longer the case. Last month Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan exposed state involvement in the murder of McCord's son and the role of state agencies in covering up the crime. It wasn't news to the dead man's father. Free article
2007 Assembly election appeal
22 February 2007
In the next few months we are fighting elections. First in the North and then in the South. We are the only party to contest and have elected representatives throughout Ireland. On 7 March we want to return the strongest possible Sinn Féin team to the Assembly so that we can take on the challenges that lie ahead in the Executive and All-Ireland Ministerial Council. Free article