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Plastic bullets still killLast week's report by the Police Ombudsman, Nuala O'Loan, 'justified' the RUC/PSNI use of plastic bullets during the past year, but it did not change any fundamental truths about this weapon. moreEuropean Court censures BritainThe Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) has welcomed this week's finding of the European Court of Human Rights that Britain violated the right to life in the case of Dermot McShane.Loyalists besiege Antrim schoolParents of St Malachy's High School in Antrim Town held a public meeting to seek an end to the loyalist intimidation and threats from the UDA's youth wing.Infliction will not testifyThe Bloody Sunday Tribunal ruled on Monday that the agent code-named 'Infliction' will not have to give evidence in person to the inquiry.Fair employment distortionsA review of Chill Factor or Kill Factor - The effects of sectarian intimidation on employment in West Belfast, by Robbie McVeigh and Charlie Fisher.Ballymurphy murals unveiledSinn Féin President Gerry Adams and Vice President Joe Cahill were the main speakers at a commemoration parade in, Ballymurphy, West Belfast, on Sunday last, 26 June.Death drivers claim another young lifeKieran Conlon, a 21-year-old from Lenadoon in West Belfast, has become the latest person to be killed by death drivers.London honours Connolly and SandsA march commemorated two of Irish republicanism's most important figures, James Connolly and Bobby Sands, was held in London.Minor trouble on Garvaghy RoadSinn Féin Assembly member for Upper Bann, Dara O'Hagan, has congratulated nationalists for the restraint they showed on Saturday during the junior Orange Order march in Portadown.McBrides meet with ReidThe family of Peter McBride have given a cautious welcome to the promise made by Secretary of State John Reid to ask Tony Blair for a meeting.Flanagan floundersAttempts by the former RUC Chief Constable Ronnie Flanagan to discredit the Ombudsman's highly critical report of the Omagh bomb investigation floundered this week.Unionist council accused of discriminationA judicial review into Newtownabbey Council's provision of services for nationalist areas in Glengormley is underway.Warrenpoint addresses anti-social behaviourA meeting was held in in Warrenpoint Town Hall in response to the spiralling levels of anti-social behaviour and criminal activity in the areaWind turbines the way forwardFermanagh/South Tyrone MP Michelle Gildernew has welcomed an application to erect wind turbines near Roslea.TDs remember Dublin VolunteerNew Sinn Féin's TDs Aengus Ó Snodaigh and Sean Crowe joined Councillor Dessie Ellis in addressing the commemoration for Martin Doherty in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.New paper bank in ClonakiltyClonakilty Sinn Féin Town Councillor Cionnaith Ó Súilleabháin has welcomed the introduction of a newspaper and cardboard recycle bank in the town.They said it couldn't be doneJIM GIBNEY tells ther story of the election count in Dublin as news filtered in of successes for Sinn Féin across the country.The American Indian MovementLawrence Sampson, a spokesperson for the American Indian Movement (AIM) has visited Ireland for a few weeks, drawn here by parallels.It's not the end of the world - we hopeMICK DERRIG is defintitely a soccer fanatic, but he argues that people have lost their sense of persepective over the World Cup.Louth TD jobs pleaSinn Féin Louth TD Arthur Morgan has called on the Department of Trade and Enterprise to intervene to assist in saving more than 100 jobs in Drogheda.Mary Robinson pinpoints human rights issueThe United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, ex-President Mary Robinson, gave the address at the second Annual Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL).Decision on Nice must be respectedAengus Ó Snodaigh TD has described reports that the EU Commission is looking to bypass the Treaty of Nice as "clear evidence of the democratic deficit within the European Union".Sinn Féin five set agenda for new DáilCaoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD was selected at a special post-election meeting of the Ard Chomhairle in Dublin on Saturday last as the Party's Parliamentary Group Leader in Leinster House.More action needed from AhernThe dust had barely settled on last week's Leinster House election when the reality of unfinished business and new crises crashed through the Ahern honeymoon, writes ROBBIE MacGABHANN.Scoil nua anois!Sinn Féin Councillor Dessie Ellis has called on the Department of Education to give the go-ahead for the purchase of a site in Santry for Gaelscoil Cholmcille.Civil rights struggles cross pathsGerry Adams met the last living link to the American civil rights movement, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, on his visit to Kentucky earlier this year.
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