Sinn Fein received over 142,000 first preferences votes
throughout the North in last Thursday's Assembly election, making
it the third largest party in Ireland, behind only Fianna Fáil
and Fine Gael. more
Garvaghy residents fear march will go ahead
Nationalist
residents remain fearful that an Orange parade will be forced
through the Garvaghy Road.
Time for change
What was significant about the first meeting of the new assembly
was that an engagement of sorts took place, writes Brian Campbell
Attacks on Lurgan residents
A dossier of complaints has been gathered following a series of assaults on
nationalist residents during Crwon force raids in Lurgan's
Kilwilkie estate.
Clegg legal bid dismissed
Moves by Paratrooper Lee Clegg's lawyers to restrict the
prosecution case at his re-trial for murder were dismissed by Lord Justice
MacDermott at a pre-trial hearing.
Danger - men at work
While Ulster Unionist Party deputy
leader John Taylor chose not to see Sinn Féin sitting
across from him in the new assembly, he simply did not see the women,
argues Meadhbh Gallagher.
Loyalist attack on family
Dara O'Hagan, Sinn Fein's Assembly member for Upper Bann, has
slammed the attack on a Lurgan family by a loyalist mob.
£6m spent to slur Stalker inquiry
The Greater Manchester police force spent £6 million
defending a charge of malicious prosecution by businessman Kevin
Taylor, it has been revealed.
Savage sentence on election day
Another
Irish republican has been sentenced to a 25 year jail sentence amidst howls for
blood from Conservative MPs and the right-wing British press.
Jarrai speaks of close ties with SFY
The leader of a Basque youth delegation to Ireland spoke this week of
the growing ties between Jarrai (their youth movement) and Sinn
Féin Youth.
SF at UDP Conference - in Portugal
Sinn Fein was represented at the
12th Congress of the UDP, a socialist political party in
Portugal.
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