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£54,193
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 £54,193.
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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Pittsburgh radio show
On July 8 a new weekly Irish Freedom Radio Show will go on the air in Pittsburgh, USA. The show will be presented by Irish Freedom Committee member Fionán Ó Sé on 540AM every Saturday from 2-3pm and will have a very large target audience throughout west Pennsylvania, Ohio and west Virginia.
Republican Sinn Féin President, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, will be interviewed live on the first programme on July 8.
Radio Free Éireann, the long-standing Irish Republican radio programme fronted by John McDonagh and Brian Mír Ó Baoighill already broadcasts on WBAI every Saturday in the Tri-State area of New York, Connecticut and New Jersey.
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Fadhbanna tithíochta sa nGaeltacht
Labhair Tomás Ó Curraoin, Bearna, Co na Gaillimhe ar an gclár "Athmhaidin" do Raidió na Gaeltachta ar an 22ú Meitheamh.
Bhí sé ag cur in aghaidh scéim tithíochta atá á bpleanáil ag Comhairle Chontae na Gaillimhe don Cheathrú Rua i gConamara fhaid is atá cead pleanála diúltaithe ag an údarás céanna do dhaoine óga sa gceantar a bhfuil suíomhanna do thithe acu cheana féin.
Roimh deireadh an agallaimh thogair Tomás do fhadhbanna tithíochta gar dá áit chónaí féin i mBearna agus ins Na Forbacha.
Ar Nuacht a Sé le Raidió na Gaeltachta an tráthnóna céanna rinneadh achomair ar chaint Thomáis agus craoladh cuid den agallamh beo arís.
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SAOIRSE - Irish Freedom
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Issue number 159
July, 2000
ULTIMATE TREACHERY
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http://saoirse.rr.nu
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Republican
Sinn Féin,
223 Parnell St, Dublin 1
Tel Dublin 872 9747
Fax: 872 9757
e-mail: saoirse@iol.ie
229 Falls Road, Belfast
Tel Belfast 319 004
Fax: 319 863
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TOURS OF HISTORIC GRAVES GLASNEVIN CEMETERY, DUBLIN
Sundays in July and August
Meet at Main Gate 11.30am
Organised by National Graves Association
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ALDI STRIKE SUPPORT GROUP PROTEST
SATURDAY, JUNE 30
ALDI SUPERMARKET
PARNELL STREET
DUBLIN 12 noon
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COMDT-GEN TOM MAGUIRE 7TH ANNIVERSARY WREATH-LAYING CEREMONY
CROSS CEMETERY, CO MAYO
WEDNESDAY, JULY 5
9PM
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CEREMONY IN MEMORY OF THE O'RAHILLY
THURSDAY, JULY 6
Assemble: GPO, Dublin, 7pm and proceed to O'Rahilly Pub, Moore Street
Organised by the NGA
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TRANSFORMING THE UNITED NATIONS
SATURDAY, JULY 8
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS
123 ST STEPHEN'S GREEN, DUBLIN
9.45am - 5.30pm
Speakers include Denis Halliday, former Asst-Sec General UN
Details:
Tel Dublin 280 6878
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STOP THE INCINERATOR
Demonstration of support & concern
Galway Corporation
Monday, July 10
6.30 - 8.00 pm
Organised by Galway for a Safe Environment
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PAT CANNON COMMEMORATION
BALGRIFFIN CEMETERY
SUNDAY, JULY 16
Assemble gates of cemetery 2pm
Bus 42 from City Centre
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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
SUNDAY, AUGUST 6
WREATH-LAYING CEREMONY
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 JOSEPHINE HAYDEN
VIKING PUB (FORMERLY
BOSS CROKERS)
ARRAN QUAY, DUBLIN
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 16
Music by Celtic Mist
Donation: £5
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Orangemen's cul-de-sac
The real purpose of Orange marches was illustrated by an application by a loyalist band parade to march in Annalong, Co Down on Saturday, July 1. The route includes marching into Shanagh Drive, a cul-de-sac populated almost entirely by nationalists. The application was granted by the British-appointed by the British-appointed Parades Commission, which is content to allow this blatant coat-trailing exercise to go ahead.
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» Ultimate treachery
» Loyalists set schools ablaze
» Waste plan rejected by 120 to 1 People in Galway City are opposed to the Connacht Draft Waste Management Plan by a margin of over 120 to 1, according to a spokesman for Galway for a Safe Environment, Dr Conchúr Ó Brádaigh. The plan includes a proposal to build a 200,000 tonne per annum incinerator in the city . . .
» Protest faced UVF bands, RUC and Provo police On Saturday June 24, a number of Republican Sinn Féin members were present on the Springfield Road, Belfast, to stand alongside local people who had gathered to oppose a sectarian Orange Parade being forced on them . . .
» 'The Provos are going out of business' Tommy McKearney, former IRA prisoner and hunger striker, writing in the Sunday Tribune, May 14, 2000.
» Sell-out sealed Statement from the Irish Freedom Committee, New York, June 26, 2000.
» Judge's remarks outrage Quinn family The family of the Quinn children who were murdered by a British-instigated death squad are outraged by the verdict and remarks of the top British judge in the Six Counties when clearing a man of the murders . . .
» Britain breaks Euro human rights convention again The European court of human rights ruled on June 6 that the British government breached the rights of a man by holding him under arrest for 48 hours without access to a lawyer . . .
» Don't shop at Aldi! Six workers at the Aldi supermarket have been on strike since June 3rd. When the workers joined MANDATE (the union for shop and bar staff) management responded by refusing to talk to the union. They then sacked two union workers for "poor performance" (despite having offered one of them a management job only days previously because his work was so good!) and suspended three others for refusing to carry out heavy duty cleaning, such as toilet cleaning, as well as being cashiers . . .
» New opposition to Sellafield pollution In a statement on June 18 the Secretary-General of the Celtic League, Bernard Moffat, said that the Manx parliament (The Tynwald Court) were to hear a resolution the following week calling for support and co-operation for calls by Ireland and Denmark to suspend or cease the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel . . .
» RSF picket British Army band in Dublin The visit to Dublin on June 23 of the British Army band of the so-called "Irish" Guards Regiment was condemned by Republican Sinn Féin President Ruairí Ó Brádaigh in a statement on June 20 "as a further stepping up of the current recruitment drive to entice Irish youth to join the British forces" . . .
» No welcome for British RAF in Galway A call was made by Republican Sinn Féin for a boycott of the Salthill Airshow outside Galway on July 1-2, due to the participation of military aircraft from the British RAF and other countries. Tomás Ó Curraoin, Chairman of Galway Republican Sinn Féin, said that "there was no welcome for British Armed Forces in Galway, whether they are in the sky, on the seas, or on the ground" . . .
» Nationalist papers recruiting for British army in Ireland Republican Sinn Féin in Belfast on June 7 last condemned totally advertisements that appeared in local newspapers, these adverts calling on Ireland's youth to join the British army . . .
» Student targeted by British Special Branch A student member of Republican Sinn Féin from Glasgow who is in college in Manchester was approached by the British Special Branch on the morning of Thursday, June 1 . . .
» South Tyrone hospital to be axed He who pays the piper calls the tune, and Crown Minister for Health Bairbre de Brún is finding herself in something of a quandary wondering how to dole out money for her superiors in the British exchequer. Enter the spectre of Margaret Thatcher to provide de Brún with the necessary inspiration. From July 31, South Tyrone hospital in Dungannon will cease to provide acute in-patient care . . .
» IFC testifies in New York The Chairperson of the New York City Chapter of Cumann na Saoirse, The Irish Freedom Committee, Rand March, testified recently before the Council of the City of New York. The Council was meeting in order to decide whether or not it would support the McAllister family's plea for political asylum in the United States. After a loyalist attack upon their home in Belfast, in which the family's children were nearly killed, the McAllisters fled, first to Canada and then to the United States . . .
» NATO planes in Dublin"Air Spectacular 2000", screamed the advertisement for the NATO exercise in Baldonnell Co Dublin in June. "Shows like this are the shop window of the repression trade", said a spokesperson for Amnesty International of a similar event in England. On the weekend of June 17-18, NATO airforces from Britain, the US, Canada, Belgium and France showed their military might at Baldonnel aerodrome . . .
Wolfe Tone Commemoration 2000 at Bodenstown
» 'Former Republicans have been bought off with palliatives' Cathleen Knowles McGuirk, Vice President Republican Sinn Féin delivered the oration at the grave of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the founder of Irish Republicanism, on Sunday, June 11 in Bodenstown cemetery, outside Sallins, Co Kildare. The large crowd, led by a colour party carrying the National Flag and contingents of Cumann na mBan and Na Fianna Éireann, as well as the General Tom Maguire Flute Band from Belfast marched the three miles from Sallins Village to the grave of Wolfe Tone at Bodenstown. Contingents from all over Ireland as well as visitors from Britain and the United States took part in the march, which was marshalled by Seán Ó Sé, Dublin . . .
Gearrscéalta
End sectarian parades
On June 5 Republican Sinn Féin, Belfast demanded that the nationalist people be free from sectarian Orange parades indefinitely.
The statement went on: "Once again the nationalist people in many areas of the occupied counties will be forced into a state of curfew by the British Occupation Forces to facilitate the Orange Order backed up by the loyalist paramilitary groups during these bigoted marches.
"Republican Sinn Féin also reject the so-called parades commission which is a discredited group of people who have shown an indifference towards the nationalist people.
"Republican Sinn Féin calls on the nationalist people to stand firm and stand together to oppose all triumphalist sectarian Orange parades.
"Don't ask to be free from sectarian parades 'DEMAND' to be free from them."
» Band cancels Apprentice Boys date Republican Sinn Féin Vice-President Des Long called on Limerick's Southside Marching Band to "seriously rethink" their decision to take part in an event in Derry organised by the sectarian Apprentice Boys . . .
» Public inquiry into death in police cell called for Republican Sinn Féin in Limerick called for a public inquiry into the death of David Cooper (24), O'Malley Park, Limerick . . .
» Pipe bomb attack in Annalong
» No inquest into Hamill killing The Belfast coroner John Leckey revealed on June 7 that an inquest into the death of Robert Hamill would not be held, citing fears for the safety of witnesses . . .
» UFF threats condemned In a statement on June 20 Republican Sinn Féin in Belfast condemned the threats made against the nationalist community by the UDA/UFF . . .
» Attack on GAA bus A bus carrying GAA supporters came under attack from a loyalist gang as it travelled through Portadown on June 4 . . .
Brit spy post remains
The British Army began to partially dismantle its installation at Cloghogue near Newry on June 2. Despite earlier indications, the base was not being completely demolished. The initial announcement that the checkpoint was being removed made no mention of the surveillance equipment around the area, and indeed this equipment will remain.
WORLD NEWS
» US Senate passes Columbia aid On June 22, the US Senate voted 95-4 in favor of a $934 million package of mostly military aid for Colombia, to be included in a $13.4 billion foreign aid bill which is expected to be voted on in both the House of Representatives and the Senate during the week of June 26. In addition to the money for Colombia, the total package includes $10.7 billion to pay for US peacekeepers in Kosovo and to provide relief for US victims of Hurricane Floyd in September . . .
» Columbia aid package is 'madness' In an editorial, the London newspaper the Independent condemned the US military aid package approved by the Senate: "This package is, above all, about military spending -- the last thing that Colombia now needs. In the Cold War era, Washington cheerfully stoked murderous violence in Latin America on behalf of 'democracy' . . .
» Cuba: will US Congress lift its embargo? As of June 19 the Republican leadership of the US House of Representatives had postponed consideration of a proposed amendment to the agricultural spending bill that would slightly ease the US government's 38-year old economic embargo against Cuba . . .
» Bolivia: oil company invades indigenous lands Bolivian indigenous organisations charge that the Spanish company Repsol has entered indigenous territory without authorization and is carrying out topographical activities in preparation for the drilling of the Eva-Eva well in Beni department . . .
» Puerto Rico: US plans new exercise for Vieques On the morning of June 25 the US Navy reported that 37 protesters had invaded its bombing range at Camp Garcia on the small Puerto Rican island of Vieques, but that all had been arrested by dawn. Later in the day the Navy formally announced that it would begin training exercises on the island the next day, on June 26 . . .
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters to the Editor should be as short as possible and written or typed in double-spacing on one side of the page. Name and address must be included, but on request will not be published.
Postal address: 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1. Letters may also be faxed to Dublin 872 9757 or by
e-mail to
saoirse@iol.ie.
» Prisoner Affiliation Clarification
JOSEPHINE HAYDEN
Political Prisoner
Limerick Women's prison
» Breton Political Prisoners
GAEL ROBLIN
Breton political prisoner
» Prisoners Denied Workshop
NORA LYNCH
Limerick city
» Tralee H-Block Memorial
JOHN HOULIHAN
NGA Kerry Representative
» Look To The Future!
SÉAMUS WALSH
London
» The Struggle Was For British Withdrawal
JOHN HORAN, PRO
Comhairle Ceantair
Átha Cliath
Republican Sinn Féin
» Fooling Nobody
ARDOYNE REPUBLICAN
Belfast
» Mac Cool: 'Policeman' injured in vicious attack by RUC thugs
» Fenian Notes
» 50 Years Ago: Ó Cadhain seeks to reopen inquest
Brón ar an mBás
» James Boyle
» James 'Olo' Collins
Francis Hughes
A wreath was laid by Michael McGonigle, Dungiven on behalf of Republican Sinn Féin on the grave of hunger striker Francis Hughes in Bellaghy, Co Derry on the anniversary of his death on May 12.
Tom Concannon remembered
The Liam Mellows Cumann, Republican Sinn Féin, Dublin central held a wreath laying ceremony at the grave of Tom Concannon in Bohernabreena cemetery, Co Dublin on Sunday June 18. The wreath was laid by Nuala Nolan, the daughter of the late Tony Ruane. A minutes silence was observed. John Gilraine recited a decade of the Rosary in Irish. Among those present was Anne Concannon, daughter of the late Tom and her husband and family.
» Comhbhrón
Beannachtaí
Welcome home to Josephine Hayden, POW Limerick jail. With love and very best wishes from Margaret and Saoirse Walsh.
» What They Said
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