Sinn Féin Newry and South Armagh Assembly member Conor Murphy has called on the 26-County government to keep challenging the rearguard action being fought by the British Army to block commitments given by the British government in May this year and last November on demilitarisation. Free article

``A good deal for the union, and a good deal for Ireland'' was the analysis of Fianna Fáil leader Bertie Ahern this week after the late conclusion of the EU summit in Nice. Ahern was putting the first of what will no doubt be many government spins on a new EU treaty that will require the approval of the 26-County voters in a referendum sometime next year. Free article

Bhí slua mór i mBaile an Sceilig, Co. Chiarraí, ar an 10ú lá Mhí na Nollag chun aitheantas a thabhairt d'Óglach Pádraoig Ó Loinsigh. This new commemoration in the heart of the South Kerry Gaeltacht honoured the memory of Lieutenant Patrick Lynch of the South Kerry Brigade of the IRA who was killed by Free State forces in November 1922. Free article

Sinn Féin Dublin South Central representative Aengus Ó Snodaigh led a protest last Friday, 8 December, to move ESB overhead electricity pylons underground. Free article

Sinn Féin Asembly Health Committee member Sue Ramsey, representing West Belfast, Fermanagh and South Tyrone Assembly member Michelle Gildernew and Chairperson of the Sinn Féin Health Policy Group, Sinn Féin Balmoral representative Stephen Long, publicly launched on Monday the party's submission to the Hayes Acute Hospital Review Group. Free article

Sinn Féin's Vincent Wood has pointed to a recent EU report to emphasise the need for a strong regional voice for the West. Free article

Negative attitudes towards the small immigrant population that has arrived here in recent years have attracted much media attention, but the reality is that discriminatory attitudes were ingrained in Irish society long before a few black faces arrived. This week, ROISIN DE ROSA exposes the plight of one group of Travellers, which highlights the lack of any attempt by most local authorities in the 26 Counties to provide accommodation for Travellers Free article

Three Irish language schools in Belfast were officially opened by Education Minister Martin McGuinness and the Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams in the past week. Free article

Two years ago, a huge meeting of over 1,000 people gathered in Nenagh, Tipperary, voiced a community's opposition to a proposed `superdump' at Silvermines. The following year a protest march took place in the town, where thousands of people, and school children from local schools, voiced their opposition. Free article

Kevin O'Dowd, born and raised in Philadelphia but more recently of San Francisco, was an Irish American activist who worked for the cause of Irish republicanism. Over the last seven years, he especially dedicated himself to the cause of the anti-extradition cases of the H-Block escapees. Free article