West Belfast Sinn Féin Assembly member Michael Ferguson has expressed his outrage after the local District Policing Partnership began attempts to keep the Andersonstown PSNI military base open. Free article

In August Diana Buttu, legal advisor and spokesperson for the PLO visited Belfast to speak at the West Belfast festival. Here we publish the second part of an interview she gave to An Phoblacht. Free article

9 September 2004 Free article

A man from the New Lodge Road area of North Belfast says he is too afraid to return to his Carisle Parade flat after a gang claiming to be from the Loyalist Volunteer Force smashed their way into his home on Monday 31 August. Free article

Sardinia is a name that evokes sun, the Mediterranean, holidays... But behind this postcard image there is a history of occupation, resistance and struggle for freedom. Free article

In the nationalist Rathenraw Estate in Antrim town the Red Hand Defenders said they left a hoax bomb outside a local community centre. Free article

Tens of thousands of Iranian exiles are expected to converge on the European capital Brussles on Monday 13 September in a mass protest against the ruling clerical regime in Iran. Free article

Racist attacks in Mid-Ulster in recent weeks as well as an attack on two Portuguese families in Portadown are being blamed on the UVF. Free article

In a scenario straight out of the Simpsons, BNFL's Sellafield site came under fire from two sources this week as the EU Commission and the British Environment Agency both highlighted serious health and safety flaws in the site's operations. Free article

The Fianna Fail odyssey took another turn this week, bringing the parliamentary party to Inchydoney County Cork for more reflection and it seems a bit of soul searching over the June local and EU election results. Free article