[Theme: Thematic ] Adding a new hook removes featured post

The problem i have having is i wish to and a new hook which will display four icons (facebook,twitter,rss feed, instagram)all with outbond link when a user clicks on them just below the Google Translator which is in the header (example.
My code is as follow:

<?php
}
add_action('thematic_header', 'social_media_icons',14);
function social_media_icons(){
?>
<div id='socialMediaIcons'>
  <div id='icons'>
  	<a href="https://www.facebook.com/SligoTourism?fref=ts"><img src="/wordpress/wp-content/themes/sligo/images/Facebook_Icon.png" alt"Like Us On Facebook" width="20px" height="20px"/></a>
    <a href="https://twitter.com/sligotourism"><img src="/wordpress/wp-content/themes/sligo/images/Twitter_Icon.png" alt"Follow Us On Twitter" width="20px" height="20px"/></a>
    <a href="http://instagram.com/sligotourism"><img src="/wordpress/wp-content/themes/sligo/images/Instagram_Icon.png" alt"Follow Us On Instagram" width="20px" height="20px"/></a>
    <a href="http://www.sligotourism.ie/feed/"><img src="/wordpress/wp-content/themes/sligo/images/rss_Icon.png" alt"RSS Feed" width="20px" height="20px"/></a>
  </div>
</div>

however when i upload my new functions.php file with this code the featured post ie “Sligo Stories ………” wont appear 🙁 … Any one have an idea why this my happen? and how i would go about fixing it?