The Sinn Féin Youth co-ordinator in Dublin, Matt Carthy, was wrongfully arrested last Thursday 19 March under an alleged abuse of the Litter Pollution Act, while fellow SFY member Frank O Laocha was verbally and physically assaulted. Free article

NIO minister Lord Dubs last week rejected calls for a ban on the use of plastic bullets by the RUC and British Army in the Six Counties. Free article

Caoimhghín O Caoláin TD voiced Sinn Féin opposition to the Amsterdam Treaty when the proposed amendment to the constitution to ratify the Treaty was debated at the committee stage. Speaking on Wednesday he said: Free article

Community groups in West Belfast have claimed that Labour's `New Deal' for the unemployed is ``dishonest and opportunistic'' and fear that despite it being linked to the much trumpeted arrival of new fair employment legislation it seriously fails to address the equality agenda. Free article

Sunday 1 March saw the founding of a new Sinn Féin cumann in South Armagh at the annual commemoration of the tragic deaths of IRA volunteers Brendan Burns and Brendan Moley. Free article