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29 July, 2010
Sinn Féin west Belfast MP Gerry Adams has welcomed a decision by the Catholic Church to release archive documents surrounding the killing in August 1971 of 11 people from the Ballymurphy area. Read full article
28 July, 2010
Sinn Féin Falls MLA Fra McCann has welcomed the decision by Social Development Minister Alex Atwood to announce the demolition of the Ross Street flats stating that the decision has come about through a strong and concerted campaign by local residents following the murder of Frank McGreevy. Read full article
17 July, 2010
Sinn Féin MLA Fra McCann has called on the Minister for Social Development to stop playing games and tell residents once and for all if he will reverse the decision of his party leader and former DSD minister and declare Ross Street Flats and Cottages surplus to future housing need. Read full article
15 July, 2010
Sinn Féin MLA for West Belfast Jennifer McCann has slammed the hijacking of a car in the Twinbrook area which was at the centre of a securtity alert in the area today stating that the local community has had enough of dissident activity. Read full article
12 July, 2010
Last Friday Andersonstown library user Leo Wilson (87) sought a High Court injunction to prevent the closure of the library. However, Libraries NI, aware of this, moved to close the Library 5 and a half hours early to prevent the judge taking a decision that afternoon Read full article
8 July, 2010
Sinn Féin west Belfast MP Gerry Adams has strongly condemned a decision today by Libraries NI to go ahead with the closure of Andersonstown Library and said legal action against the closure by members of the community is likely Read full article
8 July, 2010
Belfast Sinn Féin Chairperson Bobby Storey has recounted the British Army and RUC attack on the funeral of hunger striker Joe MCDonnell, on the 29th anniversary of Joe's death Read full article
8 July, 2010
Sinn Féin west Belfast MP Gerry Adams and Paul Maskey MLA will lead a delegation today to meet the Board of Libraries NI to press it to reverse its earlier decision to close the Andersonstown Library. Read full article
7 July, 2010
Thursday July 8 marks the 29th anniversary of the death on hunger strike of Óglach Joe McDonnell. A series of events will be held from July 8-10 to commemorate Joe's death Read full article
30 June, 2010
A series of events will take place across Belfast from July 8-10 to mark the 29th anniversary of the death on hunger strike of IRA Volunteer Joe McDonnell in the H-blocks of Long Kesh. Joe passed away after 61 days and was the fifth man to die in the 1981 Hunger Strike. Read full article
28 June, 2010
Sinn Féin President and West Belfast MP Gerry Adams MP has expressed his support for Scoil na Fuiseoige in Twinbrook. Mr Adams joined party colleagues Jennifer McCann MLA and Twinbrook councillor Charlene O'Hara at the event held outside Stormont on Monday June 28 which was calling for funding for a new school. Read full article
27 June, 2010
July 3-5 marks the 40th anniversary of the Falls Curfew - when the British army, under orders from the unionist regime in Stormont, imposed a military curfew on the Lower Falls area of Belfast. The Falls Commemoration Committee have organised a programme of events to mark the anniversary Read full article
26 June, 2010
Sinn Féin representatives joined a White-Line Picket on the Falls Road on Saturday June 26 in opposition to British 'Armed Forces Day' events and in support of the families of victims of the British military who are seeking the truth. Read full article
22 June, 2010
The Andersonstown library was scheduled to be closed on June 30. Libraries NI have agreed to postpone the closure until July 9 so that Sinn Féin representatives Gerry Adams and Paul Maskey can address a board meeting on July 8, calling for the library to remain open until alternative provision is in place Read full article
17 June, 2010
Danny Morrison's funeral oration for leading west Belfast republican activist Seando Moore who died earlier this month. Read full article
17 June, 2010
West Belfast Sinn Féin is encouraging people to the annual Wolfe Tone commemoration in Bodestown, Kildare, this Sunday June 20 Read full article
17 June, 2010
Sinn Féin west Belfast MP Gerry Adams this morning hosted a press conference to highlight the demand for truth and justice by the families of those killed in Ballymurphy and Springhill almost 40 years ago Read full article
16 June, 2010
Gerry Adams recounts the atmosphere on a momentous day in Derry when the Bloody Sunday families, who have campaigned for truth and justice for 38 years, finally saw their loved ones vindicated and the British paratroopers condemned for the killlings Read full article
15 June, 2010
In Ballymurphy six months before Bloody Sunday we have another striking example of the brutality with which the Paras acted against the civilian population and how the British system then colluded in denying the families the truth. Read full article
15 June, 2010
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams said that the Saville report put the "lies of the Widgery Report in the Dustbin of history." Read full article
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