12 May 2005 Edition
City Manager proposal on casual trading fees rejected
12 May 2005
Councillor Killian Forde, Sinn Féin Finance spokesperson on Dublin City Council has welcomed the support given by all political parties on Monday night rejecting a proposed exorbitant increase in casual trading fees. Free article
Honouring the Volunteers of Crossbarry
12 May 2005
Several hundred people attended the recent annual Crossbarry commemoration in Cork in memory of the historic victory by Tom Barry's flying column over a vastly superior force of British troops. Free article
Large turnout for Thomas Kent Commemoration
12 May 2005
Last Sunday the sun shone on one of the largest turnouts at the annual Thomas Kent commemoration in recent years. Proceeding through Castlelyons in County Cork to the Kent family plot, the commemoration was accompanied by two bands. Free article
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Massive turnout at Glasgow Hunger Strike Commemoration
12 May 2005
In one of the biggest ever republican turnouts in Scotland up to 3,000 people marched through Glasgow on Saturday 7 May in a parade commemorating the 24th Anniversary of the 1981 H-Block Hunger Strike. Free article
Ógra Shinn Féin remember Bobby Sands
12 May 2005
Members of Ógra Shinn Féin in Carrickmore, County Tyrone, held a protest at the local polling station on Thursday 5 May to highlight the death of Bobby Sands 24 years earlier. It was one of a number of events held nationwide to remember the death of Bobby Sands, who was an MP at the time of his death. Free article
Bray remembers the Hunger Strikers
12 May 2005
• Ógra ShinFéin in Bray, County Wicklow, organised a picket to mark the 24th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands Free article