The Minister for Health and Children Mícheál Martin has been urged to act to avert the closure of Accident and Emergency units throughout the State following the coming into effect of new training rules imposed by the College of Surgeons. Sinn Féin Health spokesperson Caoimhghin Ó Caoláin TD said this latest development "could see more hospitals go the way of Monaghan". Free article

Dublin City Council is in crisis this week as it faces dissolution for failing to ratify this year's budget but Sinn Féin Councillor Christy Burke is adamant that he and the other Sinn Féin councillors will not give way to the threats from the city manager. Free article

As farmers from across the 26 Counties continued their tractor protest this week, which is set to culminate with a massie demonstration in Dublin city centre on Friday, Sinn Féin spokesperson on Agriculture, Martin Ferris TD, has demanded that the government take urgent action to address the crisis in farming. Free article

Newry Sinn Féin councillor Brendan Curran is pictured with a group of teenagers from interface areas of North and East Belfast who were treated to a day out in the Newry area just before Christmas. Free article

Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh has accused the government of fundamentally undermining neutrality by allowing US warplanes to use Shannon airport as a base. He has called for an immediate end to the use of Irish airports, airspace, or seaports for war preparation by foreign powers. Free article

Seamus Ó Mongain, Liam McShane, Tom Keegan and Christy O'Callaghan Free article