News Archives for June, 2010
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
15 June, 2010
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams MP MLA has expressed his deep personal sadness at the loss of his friend and comrade Seando Moore whose funeral was held today, after he died on Saturday following a long battle with cancer. Read full article
12 June, 2010
Demand justice for those murdered on Bloody Sunday - Join the white-line pickets across Belfast on the eve of the publication of the Saville report. Read full article
11 June, 2010
Sinn Féin MLA Paul Maskey urged the local community to back the community picket to be held tomorrow in opposition to the closure of Andersonstown Library (Saturday 12 June, 12 noon, Andersonstown Leisure Centre). Read full article
8 June, 2010
Sinn Féin west Belfast MLA Paul Maskey today met with Irene Knox, Chief Executive of Libraries NI, to discuss their decision to close the Andersonstown Library in Slievegallion Drive. Read full article
6 June, 2010
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