ARMS SURRENDER IMMINENT?

HISTORY IS REPEATING ITSELF

Republican prisoners are being criminalised.

Their political status is being denied.

Republican prisoners are being isolated from fellow Republican prisoners.

Republican prisoners are being forced to share cells with sex offender, loyalists & drug dealers in Maghaberry jail.

Support Republican Sinn Féin's demand for political status for political prisoners.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

• Write letters to:
  • the NIO
  • the media
  • the 26-County administration
  • the Catholic Church
• Attend meetings in support of the prisoners
• Take part in pickets, protests against the conditions in which they are being held.

Republican Sinn Féin is extremely concerned at the existing conditions for Republican political prisoners and their families:

The safety of Republicaan prisoners' families on visits to Maghaberry where they have to travel with loyalists and sit among them.

Four Republican prisoners in Maghaberry are being strip-searched repeatedly, as often as eight times per day.

The prisoners have been sentenced to 28-day periods of solitary confinement on 23-hour lock-up on trumped-up charges.

They are being forced to share cells with loyalists.

Their cells have been wrecked by repeated searches.

DEMANDS

• Segregation
• Recognition as a group
• The right to have their own spokesman
• A wing of their own

Republican Sinn Féin, 223 Parnell St, Dublin 1
Tel Dublin 872 9747 Fax: 872 9757 e-mail: saoirse@iol.ie

Dublin/London ‘knighthood’ plan

The latest hidden article of the Stormont Agreement emerged on March 7 with Dublin administration and British plans to re-introduce the 18th century Order of St Patrick.

According to the source within the British government, it was deemed necessary to implement a Knighthood-style awards system to honour those who promote good relations between Britain and Ireland.

In what is called a joint initiative between London and Dublin - the source said the honour would be conferred on politicians and other public figures. It would have two ranks: members and knights. Stormont First Minister David Trimble and airline tycoon Tony Ryan have been mooted as first recipients.

The honour is expected to be announced by the British Queen on her first state visit to Dublin early next year and would be conferred on behalf of the British Queen and the 26-County President, the report said.

Where did we vote on that in the Stormont Agreement poll last May? Or, come to think of it did we vote on re-joining the Commonwealth or the NATO-front PFP?