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Limerick women prisoners punished

Republican Sinn Féin accused the prison authorities in Limerick and Maghaberry jails of ill-will towards prisoners following the use of increased lock-ups and loss of visits over the two-week Christmas and New Year periods.

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» Extradition back again
» The rewards for treason Amidst the breathtaking scenery of the Gaeltacht village of Gort an Choirce, Co Donegal building work is in progress on a £150,000 holiday home for Provisional leader, Gerry Adams. Leading Provos Kevin McKenna, Martin McGuinness and Gerry Kelly have been spotted spending weekends in the area while Pat Doherty lives in the vicinity . . .
» Dublin's secret talks on Commonwealth
» Kempton Park hoax call British authorities were forced to evacuate 20,000 people from one of England's leading racecourses following a bomb alert on December 27. A caller claiming to be from the Continuity IRA issued the warning to the BBC in Belfast at 1.30pm, 50 minutes before the start of the main race, the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park, Surrey . . .
» Cross-Border bodies will not deliver Speaking to the Annual General Meeting of Comhairle Uladh (Ulster Executive) on Sunday, December 12, 1999 Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, President, Republican Sinn Féin, said: "The Government of Ireland Act 1920 of the British parliament which set up two partition states in Ireland may have been repealed but it has been re-enacted in a consolidation measure named the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1998. The latter set up the new Stormont and makes it plain that 'executive authority remains vested in Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II'. SDLP and Provo members of the Stormont Executive are in fact Ministers of the Crown -- their reward for a complete political surrender . . .
» Anti-torture group slates 26-County police An influential Council of Europe committee has once again slated 26-County authorities for the ill-treatment of those held in custody . . .
» Brits suppress torture report
» RTÉ's British bias attacked RTÉ news and current affairs programmes have been denounced for slavishly adopting the British analysis in its coverage of events in the Six Counties since 1975. According to an article in the latest edition of the Irish Witness, a newsletter produced by human rights activists within the Catholic Church, the station had taken the stance "that the British government was neutral in the conflict, and the British army, the UDR and the RUC were basically trying to keep the two sides apart" . . .
» Prison protests in Limerick and Maghaberry
» British 'justice' victims cleared
» British refused protection to Rosemary Nelson
» Perfidious Albion
» Údarás: Ag súil leis an gcéad uair eile I dTOGHLACH níos lú – gan Muigheó agus an Mhí – agus laghdú (45% go 32%) sa mhéid a chaith vótaí, choinnigh Tomás Ó Curraoin, iarrthóir Shinn Féin Poblachtach a vóta ó 1994 i nGaillimh agus chuir leis . . .
» NATO aims to be 'the white race in arms' The Annual General Meeting of the Peace and Neutrality Alliance was held in the Mansion House in Dublin recently. The meeting which was attended by 70-80 people from around the country was the largest AGM of the Alliance ever . . .
» Begrudger's Guide to the Millennium Ireland has changed greatly in the past ten years. In 1989 Charlie Haughey was forming his second Leinster House coalition government and telling people about having to keep wearing their hair shirts. In 1999 he appeared in the Central Criminal Court and newspapers went into great detail about Charlie Haughey's shirts. In 1989 emigration was a curse that Paddy Reilly and Christy Moore sung songs about and most families suffered from. Everyone felt sorry for people who felt so desperate that they would leave their home and travel (many times illegally) to another country. In 1999 the concern was about immigration and we suddenly discovered that Irish people could be racist in their own country . . .
» Decolonising Latvia (Abridged version of a lecture given by Pól Ó Croidheáin at the International Conference on Post-Colonial Problems, June 1999.) The three small East Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania became independent in 1918 following the collapse of the Russian Empire, and were forcibly incorporated into the USSR in the summer of 1940. The period from then until the German invasion of 1941 was to be remembered as the 'terrible year' . . .
» CABHAIR Christmas Swim -- a splashing success! On a biting cold Christmas morning, ten brave men assembled on the banks of the Grand Canal in Inchicore, Dublin opposite the Blackhorse Inn' pub and, watched by a crowd of approximately one hundred people, prepared themselves for a quick lesson in how to sober up and lose the hangover in a matter of minutes . . .
» A life's work for the All-Ireland Republic, not Leinster House/Stormont In 1916 Michael Flannery joined the Irish Volunteers in his native Tipperary. He did so by pretending he was 16 years when in reality he was only 14, having been born in 1902. Mike served with the North Tipperary Brigade of the Irish Republican Army from 1916 until the end of 1925 when he emigrated with thousands of other Republicans to the USA . . .
» Comhairle Ceantair for England, Scotland, Wales Two members of the Ard Chomhairle of Republican Sinn Féin were present in central Birmingham on Saturday, December 11. They were there to preside over the establishment of a Comhairle Ceantair to manage the growing strength of the organisation in England, Scotland and Wales . . .
» Anti-poor, anti-women, anti-family Budget The 26-County Budget 2000 was unfair, lacked vision and squandered the substantial resources which were available to the Dublin Administration . . .

Gearrscéalta

» UDA men shot Derry brothers

Raids and arrests by British police
The Corrigan/McKearney Cumann, Republican Sinn Féin, Armagh city condemned the arrest and detention of two local men under the Prevention of Terrorism (sic) Act.

The statement said: "The only terrorists in this island are those who inflamed repressive legislation on behalf of an alien power, namely the RUC.

"Unfortunately they are now aided and abetted in this exercise by their new-found friends in the Stoop Down Low Party with the help of the grouping centred around Gerry Adams. Britain has never extinguished the flame of resistance and this latest coalition of collaborators in Stormont acting on behalf of Britain will be equally unsuccessful," the statement concluded.

A spokesperson for the Corrigan/McKearney Cumann said that the statement referred to recent dawn swoops on the homes of known opponents of the surrender process in Armagh city. Local Provisional silence about these raids and arrests is deafening.

» Brits upgrading spy-posts in South Armagh
» New PTA Bill slammed

No meeting with IRSP
CONTRARY to a claim made in the Irish News on December 15 last Republican Sinn Féin has denied attending any meeting with the IRSP. "Our policy is well known and was endorsed at our Ard-Fheis of November 13 and 14 last: Republican Sinn Féin is not party to any umbrella grouping. We regret that no effort was made to check this report with our organisation before publication," the statement said.

» McGurk's Bar inquiry call
» Fenian monument in Liverpool defaced

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» 'A salute to Carson'
PEADAR Mac SAMHRÁIN
Swanlinbar, Co Cavan

» Release The Forgotten Ten
MATT DOYLE
Secretary
National Graves Association
» British Withdrawal For peace
TADHG Mac an RÍ
LUIMNEACH
» McGuinness A British Crown Minister
MARTIN CALLIGAN
Kilmurry McMahon
Co Clare
» Republicans Against Racism
A GALWAY READER

» Provos SDLP Securing Partition
LIAM Ó COMAIN
Derry City

» Mac Cool: It was the best of times and the worst of times Angelo Fusco's arrest in Kerry marked the start of a new millenn-ium. True to form British interests in Ireland have been firmly stamped on this new century. Of course, in many ways it might be argued that the arrest is merely an exercise in bureaucratic wrangling between government departments. A cock-up in plain language . . .
» Fenian Notes
» 50 Years Ago: Three prisoner-candidates selected

» Aifreann d'Alan HeussaffBhí Gaeilgeoirí agus lucht an Chonradh Ceiltigh go láidir ag Aifreann ar son anama Alan Heussaff, a fuair bás ar Shamhain 3, in eaglais Mount Argus i gCrois an Araltaigh, Baile Átha Cliath ar Nollaig 9.

Jim McGinn remembered
ON Sunday, December 19 Republicans in Donegal placed a wreath on Clady Bridge on the Tyrone-Donegal Border, at the spot where Staff Captain Jim McGinn of Strabane, Co Tyrone was killed on active service on December 15, 1973. The wreath was later placed on his grave in Strabane.

» Stormont is based on naked sectarian politics At the 43rd annual Seán Sabhat Commemoration in Limerick, the Republican Sinn Féin speaker called for the people of Ireland to elect a constitutional assembly and effectively ignore the British administration in the Occupied Six Counties . . .
» Dáithí Ó Conaill remembered in Dublin Republican comrades, friends and relatives of the late Dáithí Ó Conaill, Vice-President of Republican Sinn Féin at the time of his death nine years ago, gathered at the Republican Plot in Glasnevin Cemetery on New Year's Day . . .

» New Year's Greetings
» Comhbhrón
» I gCuimhne
» Beannachtaí
» What They Said

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