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Des Cox, Armagh
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SAOIRSE - Irish Freedom
The Voice of the Republican Movement
SAOIRSE - Irish Freedom
Issue number 154
February, 2000

STORMONT TO FALL FOR 5TH TIME

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» Stormont to fall for 5th time
» The surrender of arms: from 'ludicrous' to 'necessary'
» Imminent opening of Belfast office
» Blind woman's terror at hands of RUC
» Bloody Sunday rifles destroyed
» New York support for true Republicans The fifth annual Michael Flannery Testimonial took place at Rory Dolan's in Yonkers, New York on Saturday, January 29. Once again it was a full house as co-chairpersons Gina Sigilitto and Tom McGrath welcomed the honorees and guests . . .
» Two more Republicans denied US visas Republican Sinn Féin criticised the denial of a US visa to former hunger striker Marian Price, Belfast, calling it an attempt to prevent the full truth of post-Stormont Agreement Ireland from being disclosed in the United States . . .
» British troops support Drumcree Orangemen A photograph published in the Belfast Andersonstown News on January 13 showed 70 British soldiers of the Royal Irish Regiment posing with rifles beside a banner in support of the Orange protest at Drumcree . . .
» West coast natural gas should remain where it is "The multi-nationals have the best deal in the whole world here in Ireland," said Pádraic Campbell (mac le Caoimhín Mac Cathmhaoil), SIPTU spokesperson on oil and gas on RTÉ Radio One on January 13. In the course of his interview, Pádraic Campbell -- himself a former offshore oil and gas worker -- said that in 1992 during Ray Burke's (Fianna Fáil) term as minister the tax on multi-national companies exploiting our oil and gas had been reduced from 36% to 25% . . .
» Republican Sinn Féin slams services charges
» Roches Stores £4-an-hour pay scandal The scandal of low pay in Ireland has been highlighted recently by the continuing strike action being taken by the workers at the Head Office of Roches Stores in Dublin, who are the worst paid in the industry. Thirty-three clerical and payroll staff at the Strand Street head office of the chain-store have been out on strike since January 28 in a dispute about pay-scales starting as low as £8,000 per year. They handle accounts payable to suppliers and the payroll work for all Roches Stores branches in the 32 Counties . . .
» 'Brits Out' replaced by 'Brits move over' The Stormont Agreement has been described as "a betrayal of the living and the dead" and a "complete British and loyalist agenda" by a renowned Derry republican in a recent letter to the Derry Journal . . .
» Tom Williams -- Belfast's Kevin Barry In a statement on January 19 Republican Sinn Féin welcomed the belated decision to deliver to his family the earthly remains of Tom Williams who died on the scaffold in Belfast jail on September 2, 1942 for Ireland. Since then, he had lain in an unmarked grave in Crumlin Road jail, Belfast . . .
» CIRA warns against RUC meetings The Continuity IRA has warned that any hotels or businesses who facilitate meetings with the British colonial police (RUC) "or by whatever name they may be called in the future" would be targeted, following the bomb attack which badly damaged Mahon's Hotel in Irvinestown, Co Fermanagh on February 6 . . .
» Re-thinking Irish language strategy for the new millennium Even those as fundamentally opposed to the Irish Free State as Sceilg, who was President of Conradh na Gaeilge and Ceann Comhairle of the First Dáil Éireann, conceded that the one and only argument of the IRB men who pushed the Treaty through by secret lobbying in January 1922 was that which said the state of the language and the Gaeltacht, where Irish was still the living language of the community, was so urgent that it was vital to get control of local matters, education in particular, in order to save “the soul of the nation”! Sobering thoughts 80 years later, given the record of all parties – including the Republican Movement itself! But at least in those days there was no objection to the suggestion that Irish and the use of Irish as a living community and family reality was “the soul of the nation” – not an optional “extra” to be tolerated under legal civil rights provisions, as seems to be the current thinking of so many people who should know better . . .

Prisoners


» Visit to ill father blocked Republican Sinn Féin Vice-President Des Long called on February 8 for the Limerick Prison authorities to reverse their decision not to allow Josephine Hayden, the only woman Republican prisoner in the 26 Counties, to visit her gravely-ill father (87) who has been hospitalised in Waterford . . .
» Prisoner denied basic medical care The chairman of the Leinster Executive of Republican Sinn Féin, Des Dalton, condemned the treatment of Seán Moore, Monaghan, currently a political prisoner in Portlaoise prison, who was denied basic medical care during the Christmas period . . .
» Female prisoners 'forgotten' Josephine Hayden has described as "disappointing" that an RTÉ documentary on Limerick jail totally ignored the women prisoners incarcerated there . . .

Gearrscéalta

Armagh men on loyalist list
A NUMBER of men in Armagh city have been told that their names and personal details have been found in the hands of loyalists. The list was found in the Lurgan area. The information had been in the possession of the RUC for almost five weeks but no explanation was forthcoming on the reason for the delay in forwarding the information to the three people involved.


» Man arrested, explosives seized
» Dublin drops charges against two Provos
» Charges dropped against loyalists in US
» Andrews accepts British line on bugging
» RTÉ's subtle propaganda During the first week of January 2000 coverage on RTÉ television news bulletins of the assassination of Rosemary Nelson and the attempts to extradite Angelo Fusco showed the pro-British bias of the so-called Irish public broadcasting system . . .
» Don't join any British police force in Ireland Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, President, Republican Sinn Féin said on January 19 that in plain language the Patten Report as adopted was a barely concealed attempt to inveigle young nationalists into the British Crown Forces, thereby broadening the base of support for British rule in Ireland in the hope of making that rule more permanent . . .
» Arson attacks on shops Loyalist incendiaries have mounted a spate of attacks on nationalist-owned businesses in mid-Antrim in the past month . . .
» Teenagers' families mocked by Clegg verdict The final acquittal on January 31, 2000 in Belfast of British paratrooper Lee Clegg will be greeted with anger by the nationalist community in the Six Counties . . .
» Stormont pay-offs and allowances The first primary piece of legislation to be put through its stages in the British assembly at Stormont was one that amounted to a redundancy package for its members . . .
» No prosecutions for RUC threats to Nelson

Loyalists send bullet to woman
A BELFAST woman received a bullet in the post from loyalists on January 18. She had been notified several years ago that her personal details were in the hands of loyalists. Speaking to the Irish News on January 20 she said: "I don't know why this is happening to me. I am not involved in anyhting and just live my life for my kids."

WORLD NEWS


» Twenty Basque prisoners on hunger strike At the beginning of February twenty Basque political prisoners remained on hunger strike in Spanish jails while 43 others have abandoned their protest after periods of up to 56 days without food. During the week December 27 to January 3 some 750 citizens throughout Euzkadi went on hunger strike in support of the prisoners . . .
» Six Bretons in custody in French jails The Breton independence movement, EMGANN, has passed on to SAOIRSE the names and addresses of six Breton political prisoners arrested and charged with aiding Basque militants. They were arrested at the end of September 1999, and may be held for another two years before being brought to trial . . .

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» The Facts Of the Bilateral Truce of 1975
RUAIRÍ Ó BRÁDAIGH
President
Republican Sinn Féin
» The Media Big Lie
AL MADDEN
Boston
» All the Queen's Servants
TADHG MAC AN RÍ
Luimneach
» Americans Denied Different Point of View
OWEN M SULLIVAN
Liam Lynch Chapter
Irish Freedom Committee
Pittsburgh, USA
» Prisoners Swim Thanks
CLONDALKIN
Dublin 22
» Stand Against Money, Power-Hungry Leaders
SEOSAMH Ó FAOLÁIN
Baile Átha Cliath


» Mac Cool: Treachery obscured by British spin-doctors
» Fenian Notes
» 50 Years Ago: Sinn Féin fights Northern election

RIP: Tess Kearney, Kevin McKearney

As SAOIRSE went to press we learned of the deaths of veteran Republicans, Tess Kearney, Dublin and Kevin McKearney of the Moy, Co Tyrone.

A life-long Republican Tess Kearney was a leading figure in the National Graves Association up to the time of her death on February 5.

Kevin McKearney was the father of IRA Volunteers Seán and Pádraig who died in action in 1974 and 1987. His son, Tommy, spent 16 years in Long Kesh as a Republican POW. Another son, Kevin, and his brother Jack, were shot dead in the family shop in the Moy by a loyalist death squad in January 1992.

Kevin McKearney and his wife Maura were the 1994 Ulster Honorees at the annual CABHAIR testimonial dinner in aid of Republican prisoners. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a nanamacha.
• Obituaries in March edition.
» Deasún Mac Coiligh (Des Cox)
» Ellen Farley
» Michael O'Sullivan
» Joe Tuohy
» Frank Hanily


» Comhbhrón
» I gCuimhne
» Beannachtaí
» What They Said

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