Sinn Fein News

The Ulster Unionist Party leader Mike Nesbitt complained at Stormont that the teaching guide for Bog Child was evidence of bias and the worst kind of "politicisation of the classroom" under Sinn Fein's direction.

After a trip to Belfast a few years ago, movie star Vince Vaughn was captivated by the city's murals.

A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of four soldiers in the 1982 IRA bombing in Hyde Park, London.

British prosecutors have charged a 61-year-old Irishman with the 1982 IRA attack on the queen's cavalry in Hyde Park, a nail-bombing at a top London tourist attraction that left four soldiers and seven horses dead.

Sinn Fein finance spokesperson, Pearse Doherty TD, announced today that the Oireachtas Finance Committee will hold hearings to discuss the issue of the low rates of effective corporation tax paid by multinational companies based in Ireland.

Exactly 15 years ago - May 22 1998 - voters went to the polls to vote yes or no for the Good Friday Agreement.

Ann Travers was speaking after the SDLP said it would try to block a bill that would prevent former prisoners guilty of serious offences holding posts as Stormont special advisers .

The secretary of state for education has said its time for England, Wales and Northern Ireland to go their separate ways on GCSEs and A-levels. Michael Gove has written to both the NI and Welsh education ministers saying he believes the differences are becoming so great, there must be a split.

John Hume and Mark Durkan from the SDLP, Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and the Sinn Fein Mayor of Derry Kevin Campbell attended.

Oglaigh na hEireann yesterday claimed responsibility through the media for a gun and bomb attack on British Police operating in the Twinbrook area of West Belfast.

More than 180 events aimed at improving relations between different communities are to take place across Northern Ireland over the course of this week.

A 'peace centre' will be built on the site of the prison where 10 IRA prisoners died during a hunger strike.

A SLIM majority finds abortion acceptable in cases of a threat of suicide - down five points in three months, according to the latest Sunday Independent/ Millward Brown opinion poll.

"At a public meeting discussing disruption as a result of the G8, an official from the British Foreign & Commonwealth claimed that the summit would bring in up to A 700 million into the local economy.

That was a brazen exhibition of political charlatanry Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness presented to the public last Thursday.

Sinn Fein councillor Barney O'Hagan has called for a strategy to be put in place to maximise the benefits of the A5 project.

MEPs from the European Parliament's GUE/NGL group pictured at a conference in the City Hotel organised by Sinn F in MEP Martina Anderson.

Deputy Michael Colreavy, Sinn Fein spokesperson on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, has this week launched a bill that will include a ban on the practice of fracking.

Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein have joined forces in attempts to grill the Justice Minister over allegations of Garda collusion with a convicted drug trafficker.

Speaking in the Dail tonight during a private members bill on the fifteenth anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Sinn Fein TD for Cork East, Sandra McLellan said: "On this the 15th anniversary of the Agreement there can be little doubt but that Equality legislation, the Equality Commission and Section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act have in the ... (more)