THE family of murdered Ballymena teenager Michael McIlveen welcomed the 25 February guilty verdict in the case against four men accused of killing the Catholic schoolboy in a sectarian attack in May 2006. Free article

THE Sinn Féin National Councillors' Forum (NCF) was formed after last year's Ard Fheis as a mechanism for Sinn Féin councillors across the 32 Counties to engage with each other and to discuss and assist in developing policy. Dublin City Councillor DAITHÍ DOOLAN has just been re-elected as chairperson at the AGM. He talks to ELLA O'DWYER. Free article

A SINN FÉIN event in Belfast to celebrate International Women's Day will feature respected historian and author Margaret Ward. Bairbre de Brún MEP will introduce the conference which begins at 1pm on Saturday 7 March at the Balmoral Hotel in Belfast. Free article

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen has been urged by Sinn Féin in the Dáil to hold a special summit meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on collusion. Free article

ÓGRA Shinn Féin recently attended an international youth festival in Corsica, the Scontri Internaziunali, organised by youth movement Ghjuventú Indipendentista, and held in Corte, the historic capital of the Corsican nation. Free article

ASSEMBLY members from Sinn Féin met their counterparts from all the parties in the National Assembly for Wales (Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru) last week during a visit to Cardiff. Free article

Veteran republican Eddie Keenan died on 27 February at his home in Twinbrook in Belfast at the age of 88. This is a tribute to Eddie from Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams. Free article