Alliance Party Councillors in Belfast have denied they agreed to back the selection of a Sinn Féin mayor for the city this year. Last year, Councillor Marie Moore became the first republican to hold the office of deputy mayor after the Alliance Party backed her. Free article

Members of the Anti Racism Campaign and the Anti Fascist Association occupied Bertie Ahern's constituency office in Drumcondra, Dublin, on Tuesday evening, 28 March. They were protesting the cabinet's latest discriminatory measures to deal with refugees and asylum seekers. Eleven people were arrested and later released, with files sent to the DPP for possible charges. Free article

A three-member Herri Batasuna delegation from the Basque Country was in Ireland this week to highlight the continued detention of members of the party's international department by the Spanish authorities. Free article

On Saturday, 18 March, the Freedom of the City of Dublin was conferred on the 1991 Nobel Peace Laureate and Leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, a woman who symbolises the resistance of the Burmese population to the military regime that has oppressed them for the last 38 years. In a shared ceremony, U2 and their manager also received the award. Free article

Sean Donlan agus Elizabeth Gilhooly Free article