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A committee has been selected and anyone wishing to donate to the above fund can contact the following people:

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
Des Cox, Armagh
Larry McMahon, Co Monaghan

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All donations, large or small, will be gratefully acknowledged.

Getting the message across . . . .

Four US skinheads approached the Irish Freedom Committee booth at a Valparaiso, Indiana, Gaelic fest during July and looked over the Irish Republican t-shirts, position papers, copies of SAOIRSE and a framed copy of the Easter 1916 Proclamation that was being raffled off.

One wore a union jack t-shirt and the rest wore shirts advertising various racist bands. After a few minutes one of the fellows asked an IFC member, "Who is this for? The IRA or something?" "We're raising money for Irish Republican political prisoners," the IFC member said.

The skinhead thought about that for a minute. Then he asked, "That's not the same as the Ulster Freedom Fighters is it, because that's who we support?"

"uh, no, that would be a totally different group. This might not be the booth you want."

"Oh, OK. Thanks anyway," the lead skinhead said as he and his compatriots trooped off to the retired greyhounds exhibit next door.

IMEACHTAI/EVENTS

TOURS OF 
HISTORIC 
GRAVES
Glasnevin
Cemetery
Dublin
Sundays in 
August, September
Meet at Main Gate
11.30am
Organised by 
National Graves 
Association

* * * * 

SPONSORED 
WALK FOR 
CABHAIR
SATURDAY, 
AUGUST 7
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD
COMMUNITY PARK
(Off Leighton Road)
ENGLAND
Assemble at pavilion
10.30am
Organised by
 Republican 
Sinn Fein

* * * *

SIGN THE 
PETITION
FOR 
JOSEPHINE
HAYDEN
LIMERICK POW

SATURDAY, 
AUGUST 7
WEST BELFAST, 
DERRY, NEWRY

SATURDAY, 
AUGUST 14
OLD TOWN HALL
BRAY, 
CO WICKLOW
Information: 
01-872 9747

* * * * 

WREATH-LAYING
CEREMONY
GOSS & GAUGHRAN
SUNDAY, AUGUST 8
Assemble 2.30pm, 
Gates of St Patrick's 
Cemetery, Dundalk, 
Co Louth

* * * * 

DESMOND GREAVES 
SUMMER SCHOOL
AUGUST 27-29
IRISH LABOUR 
HISTORY MUSEUM
BEGGARS BUSH
BARRACKS
HADDINGTON ROAD
BALLSBRIDGE
DUBLIN
Information: 01-298 5315
Topics include:
The Act of Union in 
History; North-South 
Development or 
partitionism and 
sectarian conflict.

* * * *

JOSEPHINE 
HAYDEN
POW CAMPAIGN
PICKET AND 
HANDING 
IN OF PETITIONS
26-COUNTY 
DEPT OF JUSTICE
ST STEPHEN'S GREEN
(south)
DUBLIN
WED. SEPTEMBER 15
12 noon

* * * * 

EVE-OF-ALL
IRELAND RALLY
FOR A BRITISH 
WITHDRAWAL
PUBLIC MEETING
GPO, 
O'CONNELL ST
DUBLIN
SATURDAY
SEPTEMBER 25
PROMINENT 
SPEAKERS

* * * *

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SAOIRSE - Irish Freedom
The Voice of the Republican Movement

Issue number 148 | August, 1999

'NEW' RUC STILL BRITISH

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 Republican 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

These Republican prisoners demand:

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
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Assault in Belfast

A MAN was found badly injured and in a dazed state on waste ground in south Belfast on July 24. The 35-year-old was wounded in his head and upper body and is believed to have been the victim of pro-British elements who followed him along the Maldon Street, Donegall Road area the previous evening.

Attack on GAA club

AN EXPLOSIVE device was placed outside a GAA club in Dungannon, Co Tyrone on the night of July 22. The alarm was raised the following morning when a member of the public sighted what appeared to be a gas cylinder with wires attached at the building's front entrance on the Lisnahall Road. Bomb experts from the occupation forces were called but waited several hours before taking the device away for examination.

No ban on plastic bullets

THE announcement by Britain's imperial government on July 27 that it was retaining the use of the lethal plastic bullet rounds as a method of control in its Irish colony has angered nationalists. In an attempt to gloss over the use of this dangerous heavy-duty missile, Britain has announced a change in guidelines that would ostensibly bring their use in the Six Counties into line with those of England and Wales. From now on plastic bullets may not be used to protect property but only to protect people including the "emergency services".

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The spirit of freedom

Republican Sinn Féin members and supporters in Dublin paraded to Old Balgriffin Cemetery on July 18 last to honour Volunteer Patrick Cannon from Raheny who gave his life on active service in the Six Counties in July 1976.

Patrick Cannon was the only Dublin IRA Volunteer to die on active service in the Six Counties during the current phase of the struggle. Wreaths were laid and the Last Post was played at the ceremony, chaired by Frank Graham.

In a graveside oration Ruairí Óg Ó Brádaigh, Publicity Officer, said that Patrick Cannon fought and died for an end to British interference in Ireland, not for the spectacle of so-called Republicans getting British pay-cheques in a new Stormont.

"These former Republicans will soon be sent out by their British masters to hunt down the Patrick Cannons of today," he added, "but they will never succeed in quenching the spirit of freedom in Irish hearts."

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