Sinn Féin Dáil leader and spokesperson on Health and Children Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD has called on the 26 County Minister for Health and Children Mary Harney to intervene directly to help to resolve the nurses' dispute. He said the Minister had failed to ensure that the long-standing need for a 35-hour week for nurses was met by the health service employers. Free article

As An Phoblacht went to press this week, the publication of the McEntee Commission`s report on the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings, which killed 33 people and injured over 300, was imminent. The report investigated issues such as why the Garda investigation ended prematurely, why certain leads were ignored and why documentation went missing. Free article

The following IRA statement was supplied to An Phoblacht this week. Free article

Just a week after the historic agreement between Sinn Féin and the DUP, the first joint initiative undertaken by the First and Deputy First Minister designate saw Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness sign a joint letter telling British Secretary of State Peter Hain and his officials to move out of Stormont Castle. The two ministers intend to move their own staff into the building. Free article

Dismissing claims by the Secretary of the Won't Pay Campaign in the Six Counties, Gary Mulcahy that Sinn Féin has announced the introduction of water charges through the Northern Assembly, Mitchel McLaughlin MLA has said: Free article

Sinn Féin Communications spokesperson Seán Crowe has urged the Minister for Communications Noel Dempsey to "urgently act to prevent the total collapse of this state's post office network". Free article

ATGWU say no to nuclear power and Latvian crew refuse to unload ship in Louth Free article

Sinn  Féin  Workers Rights’ spokesperson Arthur Morgan TD this week published the party’s Corporate  Manslaughter  Bill. Sinn Féin is calling on the government  to  allow  time  for debate on this important piece of proposed legislation and for its full implementation. To   coincide   with   the   publishing  of  the   Bill  Sinn  Féin activists (above) highlighted the lack of... Free article

An ambitious project to build a memorial garden to honour the women of Ireland who have dedicated their lives to the struggle for freedom is well under way. Free article

On 7 April 1972, just after two o'clock in the afternoon, the small nationalist estate of Bawnmore, on the fringes of North Belfast, was rocked by an explosion in a row of garages in Bawnmore Grove. The premature explosion claimed the lives of three young IRA Volunteers - John (Jackie) McErlean, Samuel Hughes and Charles McCrystal - members of 'E' Company, 3rd Battalion, Belfast Brigade Óglaigh na hÉireann. Free article