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Demanding real talksSinn Féin met British government officials in Stormont Castle on Wednesday and all the signs indicate that there is renewed momentum for a rebuilt peace process. more Dunloy march blockedResidents in Dunloy, County Antrim successfully prevented a sectarian march from parading through their village on Sunday.Election report -- LeinsterMICHEAL MacDONNCHA profiles the Sinn Féin candidates and constituencies in Dublin, Meath and LouthAdams response to BlairIn an important statement of Sinn Féin policy Gerry Adams replies to Tony Blair's pro-unionist speech last Friday and outlines what is needed to create meaningful and inclusive negotiationsOur honourable friends Eoin O'Broin was with the new Sinn Féin MPs as they attempted to represent their constituents at the British parliament in Westminster. UVF threats to GAA A call to the Ballyshannon office of the Donegal Democrat last Wednesday afternoon by someone claiming to represent the UVF has been taken seriously by Irish police in Donegal despite the absence of a recognised codeword. Loyalist attacks continue A series of loyalist attacks over the weekend left one man dead, a Lisburn family homeless and two Catholic families in Larne vowing to leave the East Antrim town. Prisoners transferred British Labour Party Home Secretary Jack Straw has announced the transfer of two Irish political prisoners to jails in the six counties. RUC video filmed victim's car An Phoblacht can confirm that the loyalists who kidnapped and killed Bellaghy GAA stalwart Sean Brown on Monday night were filmed as they drove through Toomebridge past the town's RUC barracks. Mowlam meets residents groups British Direct Ruler Mo Mowlam sent a clear message on Wednesday to all concerned with contentious parades when she said, ``agreement must be sought at local level between residents and parade officials and the only way this can been done is through dialogue''. British Army invites children to base Worried nationalist parents have contacted Sinn Fein after they found out that the British army are attempting to include their children, some at primary school, in a `sports' day scheduled for Friday at Belfast's largest military base. Deportees' cases raised in US Congress During a Congressional debate last Wednesday in Washington DC the plight of seven Irish men battling the US government's efforts to deport them was raised by ten members of the House of Representatives. A crowd of 150 people assembled for the third annual Volunteer Martin `Doco' Doherty commemoration in Finglas on Dublin's Northside last Saturday. The commemoration made its way from Finglas villlage to the graveside in Glasnevin Cemetery, led by the Volunteers Smith/Harford/Doherty RFB, Dublin and the Volunteer Martin Doherty RFB, Glasgow and Sinn Féin banners . Hugh Hehir remembered Over 200 republicans from all parts of Ireland attended the Hugh Hehir commemoration on Sunday in Clarecastle, County Clare on the 9th anniversary of the 37 year old IRA Volunteer's death. Civil rights activists to be honoured The evening of Friday 30 May will mark the fourth annual commemoration evening organised by the Antrim and Derry Sinn Féin Comhairle Ceanntair. A large attendance is expected at what has now become a popular date in the local republican calendar. Looking at the small pictures For those engaged in the republican struggle it no doubt is the bigger picture we must always focus on yet we must do so without losing sight of the small pictures all around us, writes Laurence McKeown Support for Swampy As the bailiffs move in Robert Allen speaks out in support of the those campaigning to prevent a second runway at Manchester airport. Hunger strikers remembered in Scotland On Sunday the people of Blantyre in Scotland came out in their hundreds to commemorate the hunger strikers and to show their solidarity with Roisín McAliskey.
DAILY REPUBLICAN NEWS SERVICE
REPUBLICAN BULLETIN BOARD
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. | nual Assemble Sunday 22 June, Sallins, County Kildare Oration by Martin McGuinness MP Structural sectarianism
Protastúnachas - bíodh; Oráisteachas - ná bíodh! Keep Sunday special
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