Sinn Féin North Belfast councillor Eoin Ó Broin has called on the Parades Commission to reroute this Friday's contraversial Tour of the North parade away from interfaces on Broughm Street, Duncairn Gardens and the Limestone Road. Free article

The group campaigning for the truth about collusion between the British state and loyalist death squads, An Fhírinne, will travel today to the United States to raise the issue of controversal killings. Free article

Commenting on Wednesday's dismissal of a court case taken against the PSNI over their policing of the Holy Cross School blockade, Sinn Féin Assembly member for North Belfast Kathy Stanton said the result was "undoubtedly influenced by the disgraceful public commentary made by Human Rights Commission Chief Brice Dickson". Free article

On Tuesday 15 June Sinn Féin began proceedings in the High Court in Belfast seeking a judicial review of British minister Paul Murphy's decision to block financial assistance to the party on the back of the April report by the Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC) on paramilitary activity. Free article

Sinn Fein's Patsy Groogan has been elected Chairperson of Magherafelt District Council. The longserving councillor and GAA stalwart from Ballinascreen was nominated by party colleagues at the council's Annual General Meeting at The Bridewell. This is his second term in the office, having previously made history by being elected as Sinn Féin's first chair of the council. Free article

Life in its most beautiful form, the birth of a new baby, can also at times be at its most cruel. That is how I, and I am sure the Howell and Duffy families, feel after burying Eileen Howell last Tuesday morning, two weeks after the birth of her first grandson, a child she had looked forward to arriving so much. Free article