The inaugural Damien Walsh Memorial Lecture, organised as part of Féile an Phobail, was held in the Dairy Farm Centre in Poleglass where 17-year-old Damien was working on a Youth Training Scheme when he was shot dead by a loyalist death squad in 1993. Free article

On Friday 31 July Bruce Morrison updated over 200 government officals and Irish-American community activists on the Irish peace process at the Concordia-Argonaut Club in San Francisco. Free article

Dungiven saw one of the first victims of ``the Troubles'', SF Assembly representative, Francie Molloy told several hundred people who gathered to commemorate the 17th Anniversary of the death of H Block Hunger Striker Kevin Lynch. Free article

Dublin SF Councillor Christy Burke has expressed the anger of the residents of Rory O'Connor House flat complex in Hardwicke Street, who have been deprived of postal services for the last three years and have again been told that An Post are unwilling to resume the service in the near future. Free article

Lifelong North Louth Republican, Josie Donnelly, died aged 79 on 23 July after a long illness. Free article