In the wake of Sinn Féin's historic electoral breakthrough in the recent elections to the Dáil, a march commemorating two of Irish republicanism's most important figures, James Connolly and Bobby Sands, was held in London Saturday 25 May. Free article

Sinn Féin Assembly member for Upper Bann, Dara O'Hagan, has congratulated nationalists for the restraint they showed on Saturday during the junior Orange Order march in Portadown. Free article

The family of Peter McBride, the Belfast teenager shot dead by Scots Guardsmen Fisher and Wright in 1992, have given a cautious welcome to the promise made by Secretary of State John Reid to ask Tony Blair for a meeting. Free article

Attempts by the former RUC Chief Constable Ronnie Flanagan to discredit the Ombudsman's highly critical report of the Omagh bomb investigation floundered this week after two senior members of the RUC/PSNI investigation team contradicted Flanagan in sworn affidavits. Free article

A judicial review into Newtownabbey Council's provision of services for nationalist areas in Glengormley is underway. Free article

The Tom Williams Sinn Féin Cumann organised a very successful meeting in Warrenpoint Town Hall on Thursday 23 May in response to the spiralling levels of anti-social behaviour and criminal activity in the area. Free article

Fermanagh/South Tyrone MP Michelle Gildernew says she broadly welcomes an application to erect a possible 10 Vasta Wind Turbines in Garrane, Roslea, over the next number of months. Larne-based company B9 has applied for planning permission for the turbines. Free article

New Sinn Féin's TDs Aengus Ó Snodaigh and Sean Crowe joined Councillor Dessie Ellis in addressing the commemoration for Martin Doherty last Sunday, 26 May, in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin. Free article

Clonakilty Sinn Féin Town Councillor Cionnaith Ó Súilleabháin has welcomed the introduction of a newspaper and cardboard recycle bank in the town. Free article

"If the Nazis had won World War II, would the Jews and Gypsies have served as the mascots for the University of Munich as the American Indian tribes, for example the Seminoles, have done in US Colleges?" Noam Chomsky asks in his book Rogue States. Free article