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£53,493
Éire Nua Building Fund
Belfast / Derry
Republican Sinn Féin has secured a premises at 229 Falls Road, Belfast as the organisation's public office in the city. This excellent location near the city centre will give a much-needed focus and morale boost to our growing membership in Belfast and throughout Ulster.
The initial cost of the office was £60,000 (punts) and since it was acquired major refurbishment has been carried out on the building. Added to that is the cost of security to protect it and those using it from the British Crown Forces, loyalist death squads and others who would threaten true Republicans. This,and currency fluctuations. have added another £15,000 (punts) to the cost.
Over £20,000 has been contributed to the fund to date and the committee is very grateful for the valuable support of members and supporters. The debt is now reduced to £53,493.
Contributions, which will be gratefully acknowledged, can be made:
- To the following: Mary Ward, Co Donegal; Frank McCarry, Co Antrim; Jimmy McElhinney, Co Tyrone; Geraldine Taylor, Belfast; Michael McGonigle, Co Derry; Joe O'Neill, Co Donegal; Mick McManus, Co Fermanagh; Larry McMahon, Co Monaghan
- By sending a donation to: Ard Oifig, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1 or to 229 Falls Road, Belfast.
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or send a donation to:
Éire Nua Building Fund, Bank of Ireland, Main Street, Limavady, Co Derry, a/c number 49431733, quoting the Branch code 90-50-96
or donate by Standing Order.
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Corruption charges -- call for statement
Republican Sinn Féin Vice-President Des Long, called on the Justice Minister to make a statement on recent media reports that a Garda, who is at the centre of alleged corruption and misconduct charges in the Donegal area, was a central figure in the investigation of a very serious crime in Limerick city, that is now the subject of a court action.
Des Long asked if this Garda or any other Garda now being probed were involved in any other investigations either now or in the past in the Limerick city or county that has led to people being jailed -- that now could be classed as unsafe convictions.
Republican Sinn Féin view potential miscarriages of justice as very serious and with the introduction of some of the most draconian legal measures by the Minister, the fear of abuse is a very real danger.
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Stormont ‘just a county council’
SAOIRSE has informants in the most unlikely places. On a recent flight from London to Belfast, John Taylor, Ulster Unionist Party deputy leader was overheard in conversation with a fellow passenger.
Taylor was looking forward to the British parliamentary recess in July. He was asked if he would be staying at Westminster or basing himself at Stormont.
“No”, he replied, “Stormont is just a County Council, I shall be staying at Westminster”.
John Taylor obviously knows where the power and decision-making in relation to the Six Counties remains -- with the British government in London, and not with any ‘county council’ in Stormont! The final decision on how the Six Counties is governed rests not with the Irish people but with the British.
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SAOIRSE - Irish Freedom
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Issue number 160
August, 2000
RELEASED BUT NOT SHACKLED
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Republican
Sinn Féin,
223 Parnell St, Dublin 1
Tel Dublin 872 9747
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DEMONSTRATION
AGAINST 10 YEARS OF SANCTIONS
ON IRAQ
UNITED STATES
EMBASSY
BALLSBRIDGE
DUBLIN
MONDAY, JULY 31
6pm
300 children under 5 die every day
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TOURS OF
HISTORIC GRAVES
GLASNEVIN
CEMETERY, DUBLIN
Sundays in August
Meet at Main Gate 11.30am
Organised by National Graves Association
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NATIONAL GRAVES ASSOCIATION
KERRY TOUR OF
REPUBLICAN PLOTS/MEMORIALS
AUGUST 2000
Inquiries about Kerry
NGA tours:
Phone
01-862 1928
066-976 4584
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GOSS & GAUGHRAN
WREATH-LAYING
CEREMONY
SUNDAY, AUGUST
Assemble 2.30pm
Gates, St Patrick’s
Cemetery, Dundalk
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BELFAST LAUNCH ÉIRE NUA 2000
TUESDAY, AUGUST 8
BELFAST OFFICE
229 FALLS ROAD, 11.30am
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WELCOME HOME MARTIN McGRATH
FOUR PROVINCES BAR
BUNDORAN
FRIDAY, AUGUST 11
9.30pm
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WELCOME HOME PARTY FOR
JOSEPHINE HAYDEN
O’LUNNEY’S PUB
46TH AND BROADWAY
MANHATTAN
USA
SUNDAY, AUGUST 13
3-7pm
Organised by:
The Save Josephine Hayden Committee, New York
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WELCOME HOME JOSEPHINE HAYDEN
VALHALLA PUB
(FORMERLY
BOSS CROKERS)
ARRAN QUAY, DUBLIN
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 16
Music by Celtic Mist
Donation: £5
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NA FIANNA
ÉIREANN
91st
ANNIVERSARY
COMMEMORATION
SUNDAY, AUGUST 20
3pm
Assemble at the Wolfe Tone Statue
St Stephen’s Green
(on the corner with Merrion Row)
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Pipe bomb injures Down man
A 21-year-old nationalist man escaped with minor injuries following a pipe-bomb attack outside his home in Castlewellan, Co Down on July 15.
Civil servant Colin Lavery was getting into a car outside his home on the Newcastle Road when the device went off shortly before 10am. He was later treated in hospital for minor leg injuries and shock. Although loyalists were believed to be responsible, no group claimed responsibility.
Meanwhile, on the same day, a pipe-bomb was found by children playing in Ballinahone Avenue in Armagh city. The children found the device in a wall. It is believed they played with it for a while before handing it over to an adult.
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» Released but not shackled Republicans welcomed the unconditional release on completion of their sentences on July 19 of Josephine Hayden, Dublin, Martin McGrath, Bundoran and Seán Óg Moore, Monaghan. As we went to press Robert McGilloway, Derry was also due for release. These Republican prisoners are not being released under licence as part of the Stormont Agreement. They struggled throughout their imprisonment for political status. In the men’s case they undertook a successful campaign to be moved from Limerick jail to Portlaoise where they achieved a measure of political status . . .
» Diplock courts retained
» Brits put gun in man’s mouth Children looked on in horror as gunmen burst into their home on July 10 and pushed a gun into their elder brother’s mouth. The frightening ordeal began around 10.30pm when three armed but unmasked men forced their way into the home of Joe Gauley in the Beechmount Grove area of west Belfast . . .
» Welcome for ‘brave Galway Corporation decision’ Galway for a Safe Environment welcomed the unanimous decision on July 24 by Galway Corporation to exclude thermal treatment from the waste managment plan, and to confine the plan to dealing with the waste of Galway City and County . . .
» Loyalist killers have release licences revoked British supremo in the Six Occupied Counties, Peter Mandelson, had applied to revoke the release licences of two LVF killers, a court heard on July 21 . . .
» Debate in Birmingham A successful debate entitled “A United Ireland: which way forward” took place on July 15, 2000 in Birmingham, England. The meeting heard speakers from Workers’ Power and Republican Sinn Féin, discuss the crucial issue of a United Ireland and the strategies towards achieving this . . .
» Ó Ghleann go Fánaid Seoladh leabhair Ó Ghleann go Fánaid le Pádraig Ó Baoighill i dTeach Jack, An Ghlaiseach, Doirí Beaga ar an 26ú Meitheamh . . .
DRUMCREE 6
Orchestrated attacks on churches, schools and homes
» A whole community terrorised A chronology of events . . .
» ‘Stones loose and dogs tied’ -- no call to put loyalist arms ‘beyond use’ Republican Sinn Féin asked on July 12 when are those in high places and other leaders of opinions in Ireland, England and the United States going to raise the question of the large amount of lethal weapons in the possession of British-backed loyalist death squads in the Six Occupied Counties? . . .
PRISONERS
» Extensive use of male ‘ kickers’ on women’s wing of jail SAOIRSE interviewed Josephine Hayden at her home in Tallaght, Co Dublin . . .
» Dire conditions unchanged since 1998 Josephine Hayden wrote an open letter to SAOIRSE in September 1998 on the appalling conditions in ‘C’ Wing of Limerick jail. It was used by campaigners for political status for the Republican prisoner and to call for the complete closure of the women’s wing. SAOIRSE asked Josephine to update her open letter after her release on July 19 last. The list of dire conditions remains almost unchanged nearly two years later and the CPT recommendations have also been ignored . . .
» Degrading treatment in Maghaberry prison In a statement on July 8 Republican Sinn Féin POW Department, Belfast condemned totally the treatment of Tommy Crossan, a sentenced Republican prisoner in Maghaberry jail . . .
» Fight for political status must continue The Republican Sinn Féin POW Department, Belfast, in a statement on July 12 said that on Thursday, June 29 “a number of men from West Belfast were sentenced on a political charge to ten years imprisonment . . .
Gearrscéalta
» More Stormont health cuts
Refuse charges opposed
Two hundred residents opposed refuse charges at a meeting in the Community Centre in the Westmore area of Limerick city.
Limerick Corporation was slated for the introduction of privatisation of refuse collection costing householders £120.00 per year.
Attending the meeting was Seán O’Neill and Rose Lynch of Republican Sinn Féin. Seán O’Neill condemned Des Geraghty of SIPTU for allowing the privatisation to go to a vote putting people out of work.
Rose Lynch said it was another form of taxing the already depressed old age pensioners and unemployed. Ger Kennedy, shop steward, Limerick Corporation, was condemned for telling the workers to accept privatisation just for a few pounds.
» Planning probe needed in Limerick area Republican Sinn Féin Vice-President Des Long called recently for the establishment of an inquiry, to be headed by an independent chairman with immunity for potential witnesses into planning and rezoning in the Limerick area . . .
» British Royal visit hypocrisy Who does Mayor of Derry Cathal Crumley think he is kidding by saying he would not attend a visit to the city by Britain’s Princess Anne on July 18? . . .
McGuinness’s Merc V. SAOIRSE sellers
Monaghan members of Republican Sinn Féin were doing a brisk trade in selling copies of SAOIRSE at the Ulster Gaelic football final in Clones on July 16.
They were on the approaches to the St Tiernach’s Park at 2.30pm just before the final between Armagh and Derry began when they were pushed off the road by burly 26-County policemen on motorcycles with sirens blaring. They were clearing the road of the masses to make way for the Mercedes (armoured, no doubt!) ministerial car of the Stormont (‘County Council’ in John Taylor’s words) minister Martin McGuinness.
Undeterred the SAOIRSE sellers made sure the British minister got a good luck at the July headline ‘Ultimate Treachery -- Provo betrayal of Arms Dumps’. If the cap fits, wear it, Martin!
WORLD NEWS
» ARB deny Quévert explosion A correspondent from the Breton left independence group Emgann writes about the aftermath of the suspected French Secret Service involvement in a fatal explosion there . . .
» Dublin line on Algeria contradicted Barrister Siobhán Ní Chúlacháin, vice-chairperson of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties gave a public talk on July 13 in the Irish Writers Centre, Parnell Square, Dublin. The theme of the talk was her participation in the recent international human rights delegation of the FIDH (Fédération internationale des ligues des Droits de l’homme) . . .
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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» Dublin Republican Band
RÚNAÍ
Republican Band Committee
» Political Status For Political Prisoners
DEASÚN Ó DALTÚIN
Rúnaí
POW Department
Republican Sinn Féin
» Na Fianna Éireann
PÁDRAIG Ó DONNCHÚ
Dublin
» Faith In our Youth
P KING
Raheny
Dublin
» Historic Betrayal
CHARLIE WALSH
Pimlico, London
» Bogus Fundraising
JOHN SOMERS
Killaloe, Co Clare
» No Peace In Six Counties
BARBARA FINK
Wisconsin, USA
» Provisional Really Does Mean Provisional
JOHNATHAN BERMINGHAM
Baile Átha Cliath
» British Imperial Policy
PÁRAIC Ó CUALÁIN
Co Galway
» Mac Cool: Stone mad
» Fenian Notes
» 50 Years Ago: Prisoner releases and cross-border bodies
Brón ar an mBás
» Michael Kennedy Michael Kennedy, Knocklongford, Mohill, Co Leitrim, who died on July 6 was Chairperson of Leitrim Comhairle Ceantair, Republican Sinn Féin and a delegate to Comhairle Chúige Chonnacht . . .
» John ‘The Rock’ Foley The death took place at the age of 85 at Tralee General Hospital on July 9 of John Foley, better known as “John The Rock”, of Lyranes, Glencar, Co Kerry . . .
Patrick Cannon commemoration
The annual Patrick Cannon commemoration took place on July 16 last at Balgriffin Cemetery in Dublin.
Led by a colour party of Na Fianna Éireann members and supporters of Republican Sinn Féin marched to the grave where the proceedings were chaired by Frank Graham of the Patrick Cannon Cumann, Dublin.
A wreath was laid on behalf of Republican Sinn Féin and Frank Graham said a decade of the Rosary as Gaeilge. In a short oration Frank said that the ideals for which Patrick and his comrades died for are not for sale to anyone, as some people seem to think.
He went on: “Ireland belongs to the Irish and no one has the right to even think of selling any part of it.”
He called for all true Irish people to join Republican Sinn Féin and secure a 32-County Free and Gaelic Ireland.
The ceremony ended with the playing of Amhrán na bhFiann on the tin whistle by Johnathan Bermingham.
» Comdt-Gen Tom Maguire remembered Several dozen people gathered at Cross Cemetery, Co Mayo on July 5 for a simple wreath-laying ceremony on the occasion of the seventh anniversary of the death of Comdt-Gen Tom Maguire . . .
» Comhbhrón
» I gCuimhne
» Beannachtaí
» What They Said
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