Sharon Pickering of An Fhírinne is pictured addressing a Civil Rights Forum Held in Exeter, England, last weekend, organised jointly by the Troops Out Movement and the National Civil Rights Movement. The meeting was on the theme, Unfinished Business - Murder, Racist Violence, Collusion, Public Inquiries and family struggles for truth and justice. Cahil McElhinny of the Bloody Sunday Relatives group and Sinn Féin Assembly member John O'Dowd were among those who spoke. Free article

Sinn Féin MP for West Tyrone, Pat Doherty, accompanied by MLA Barry McElduff visited the Dáil on Tuesday to bring the concerns of people living in the West Tyrone to Leinster House. They met with the Sinn Féin team, led by Caoimhghin Ó Caoláin, and discussed a range of issues in relation the provision of healthcare, transport infrastructure, agriculture and economic investment. Free article

In talks with Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern and Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern last week as part of a top level Sinn Féin negotiating team, Fermanagh/ South Tyrone MP Michelle Gildernew called for Knockaginney and Annaghoe Bridges, linking Tyrone and Monaghan, to be returned to working order and for spy posts to be taken down from Castle Hill and Quarry Lane. Free article

Sinn Féin has demanded the release of the North Belfast man who was arrested on Tuesday in the Spanish Canary Islands on foot of British extradition papers. The British allege Michael Rogan was involved in the 1996 IRA attack on Thiepval Barracks, the British Army's Six-County headquarters. Free article

The huge concrete barrier erected to block in Travellers in Dunsink Lane in Finglas, North Dublin, as part of a Council campaign to end illegal dumping, is to be dismantled. Free article

Hundreds of republicans from West Belfast attended the annual D Company commemoration along the Falls Road last Sunday 10 October. Free article

Sinn Féin Mid-Ulster MP Martin McGuinness, joined by party colleagues David Kennedy (North Belfast) and Angela Nelson (Lagan Valley), launched the party's electoral registration campaign on Wednesday. Free article

Comments from the incoming European Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security, Rocco Buttiglione, that homosexuality is a sin and marriage is so women can have children, caused uproar on Monday when the EU Parliament rejected him as a candidate for the job. Free article

• A seminar on Social Economy Projects was held in Letterkenny, County Donegal ,on Monday 11 October, organised by the republican ex-prisoners' group, Abhaile Arís. Donal Ó Cobhthaigh, a social economy expert for Coiste na nIarchimí, the umbrella organisation for republican ex-prisoner groups, gave an passionate talk on the place of the social economy sector in the Ireland of the future for the republican community. Free article

THE WEBSITE of the Irish Democrat (www.irishdemocrat.co.uk), the oldest campaigning newspaper of the Irish in Britain, has undergone a major revamp. Free article