Sinn Fein News

A TOTAL of nine 'illegal paramilitary or terrorist' roadside monuments have been erected in Fermanagh and South Tyrone, accounting for almost half of all those in the North .

Speaking in the Dail tonight on the issue of workers' rights Sandra McLellan, Sinn Fein TD for Cork East said: "Ireland is out of step with other countries in that there is no requirement in law that obliges an employer to recognise a Trade Union in a specific workplace or to engage with them.

Peter Robinson hands over letter to Libya's premier Ali Zeidan on behalf of victim of Remembrance Sunday bomb attack Stephen Gault was badly injured in the Remembrance Sunday massacre that devastated Enniskillen and killed 11 people.

Sinn FA©in Deputy Leader Mary Lou McDonald TD has welcomed the publication of the Irish Human Rights Commission Follow-up Report on State Involvement in the Magdalene Laundries.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland - Maria Lourenco traveled from London to Belfast for Saturday's demonstration against the G8 summit in Northern Ireland.

This amazing image taken minutes before Barack Obama's arrival at the Waterfront Hall brilliantly captures just how relaxed the atmosphere was.

HE'S relatively new to politics, just two years in the job, but already Mark Baxter has been catapulted into Craigavon Council's top civic position.

Belfast-born David McKittrick has been reporting on Northern Ireland since 1971, He has written for the East Antrim Times, the Irish Times and was The Independent's Irish correspondent for many years.

In his first-ever interview with News Letter columnist Alex Kane - who for more than 30 years has been writing about Mr Robinson - the DUP leader said that "no one quite knows" if the DUP and Sinn Fein could maintain their relationship should Mr McGuinness be removed as Deputy First Minister.

Alex Kane: I'd like to talk to you about Martin McGuinness and the nature of the relationship between you.

Meath West TD Peadar Tibn has said he will vote against new abortion legislation when it comes before parliament next week, making it likely he will be expelled from Sinn Fein's parliamentary party.

There has been widespread condemnation of the intimidatory and deeply provocative behaviour of 26-County police at the funeral of former Sinn Fein President Ruairi O Bradaigh last Saturday.

The presence of the G8 in Ireland must be actively opposed by republicans, socialists and other progressives.

Business and community leaders have broadly welcomed the British Government's economic pact which aims to rebalance the North's beleaguered economy and tackle sectarian division.

Over the twenty minute interview she answered questions about why she joined the party, her thoughts about standing as a candidate, perceptions of the party, and her attitude towards Alliance.

The Punt was amused by an interesting question from a reporter at yesterday's unveiling of the Government's plans to spend the a 6bn odd still left in Charlie McCreevy's National Pensions Reserve Fund.

By Mary Regan, Irish Examiner Political Correspondent Sinn Fein leader, Gerry Adams has warned that TDs who vote against his party's position supporting abortion legislation will be "subject to party discipline" for a "serious breach" of party rules.

From civil rights to flags protests, there is a tradition of street demonstration in Northern Ireland, mainly involving our own local grievances.

"There must be ghosts all over the country. They lie thick as grains of sand. And we're all so horribly afraid of the light."

Sinn Fein MPs Conor Murphy and Francie Molloy have called for the Irish language to be clearly referenced in the new EU funding programmes which are currently being developed for the north of Ireland, and the border counties, for 2014-2020.