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£46,520
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 £46,520.

Contributions, which will be gratefully acknowledged, can be made:

  1. 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
  2. By sending a donation to: Ard Oifig, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1 or to 229 Falls Road, Belfast.
  3. 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.

Homes pipe-bombed

ELEVEN people escaped annihilation in Ballymena, Co Antrim when a British-instigated death squad attack their homes on January 7.

In the first of two attacks which occurred within an hour of each other, a pipe-bomb was hurled through the living-room window of a house on the Cushendall Road, Ballymena at 8.30pm.

The device landed on a chair while two adults were watching television. Three children in the house escaped injury when the bomb failed to explode. A man was seen running towards a car parked at the gates of a cemetery just yards from the house. The car, a blue Ford Escort drove out of the town with two other occupants.

In the second attack a pipe-bomb was thrown at a house on Clonavon Road near Ballymena town centre at around 9.20pm. Three adults and three children escaped injury.


Brits dumping uranium in Irish Sea

A REPORT in the Dublin newspaper, the Evening Herald on January 13 claimed that more than 1,400 depleted Uranium (DU) shells had been fired into the Irish Sea over the past five years from one British firing range alone.

Depleted Uranium is added to the tips of shells and bullets by NATO to increase their armour-piercing ability. However, upon impact the shells throw off a cloud of uranium dust which is then carried by the prevailing winds.

It must be a cause of concern that such weapons are being used around the Irish Sea, increasing the levels of radiation for the adjacent population.

SAOIRSE - Irish Freedom
The Voice of the Republican Movement
SAOIRSE - Irish Freedom
Issue number 166
February, 2001

STOP-GAP DEAL WILL FAIL


The Starry Plough

Republican
Sinn Féin,
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Hunger Strike
Commemorative
Events 2001

McNEELA/GAUGHAN/STAGG
COMMEMORATION

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2001
2.30pm
LEIGUE CEMETERY
BALLINA
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the death on hunger strike in Wakefield prison, England of Republican POW Frank Stagg Parade forms up at Humbert 1798 Monument to march to the Republican Plot.

* * * *

Michael Gaughan
MICHAEL GAUGHAN/FRANK STAGG
COMMEMORATION

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2001
WAKEFIELD PRISON
YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND
1pm

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BOBBY SANDS COMMEMORATION
SATURDAY, MAY 5, 2001
GPO, Dublin
Assemble: Garden of Remembrance, 2pm

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BOBBY SANDS COMMEMORATION
SATURDAY, MAY 5, 2001
EYRE SQUARE, GALWAY
March from Liam Mellows Statue, 3pm

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H-BLOCK MARTYRS
SATURDAY, MAY 5
VIGIL AND POSTER EXHIBITION
O'CONNELL STREET, LIMERICK CITY, 10am-5pm
Organised by Republican Sinn Féin, Limerick

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H-BLOCK MARTYRS
SATURDAY, MAY 5
WREATH-LAYING CEREMONY
REPUBLICAN MONUMENT
NEWCASTLEWEST, WEST LIMERICK, 2pm

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H-BLOCK MARTYRS
SATURDAY, MAY 5
WREATH-LAYING CEREMONY
FR CASEY MONUMENT
ABBEYFEALE, CO LIMERICK
3.30pm

* * * *

H-BLOCK MARTYRS
SUNDAY, MAY 6
WREATH-LAYING CEREMONY
REPUBLICAN PLOT, LISTOWEL, CO KERRY
1.30pm

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H-BLOCK MARTYRS
SUNDAY, MAY 6
WREATH-LAYING CEREMONY
REPUBLICAN PLOT, CASTLEISLAND, CO KERRY
12 noon

* * * *

RAYMOND McCREESH COMMEMORATION
SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2001
CARRICKCRUPPIN CEMETERY
CAMLOCH, SOUTH ARMAGH
2pm
Oration: Ruairí Ó Brádaigh

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MARTIN HURSON COMMEMORATION
PLAQUE TO BE UNVEILED AT EDGEWORTHTOWN, CO LONGFORD
DETAILS LATER

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CIRA denies bomb link

FOLLOWING the discovery of an under-car explosive device in the Killalee area of Limerick on January 26 last the booby-trap bomb attack was linked to an ongoing feud between criminal gangs in the city. In an apparently related incident on November last a Killalee man, Eddie Ryan was shot dead while drinking in a local pub.

In a statement accompanied by a code-word to the local radio station Limerick Live 95FM on January 30 the Limerick Brigade Continuity IRA, denied any involvement in the bomb.

It called on people using the organisations name “to enhance crime in the city to desist or face military action”.

The statement said that their war was in the Six Counties “and it is not a sordid drugs war being played out on the streets of Limerick”. In the immediate aftermath the 26-County police Chief Superintendent in Limerick Liam Quinn had refused to rule out a connection with Republican activists, saying that the mercury tilt switch device on the bomb is “commonly used in car booby traps in the North”.


» Stop-gap deal will fail AS WE went to press it appeared that Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern were edging towards the conclusion of a deal to keep the Stormont Agreement afloat throughout the forthcoming election period in the 26 Counties and Britain. Such a stop-gap deal is designed to ‘fireproof’ the UUP, SDLP and Provisionals in the Westminster election, which has been flagged for May of this year . . .
» Community ‘hammered’ A COLERAINE nationalist resident who spoke to SAOIRSE at the end of January said that the community was "being hammered" by nightly pipe-bomb attacks. Coleraine, Ballymoney, Ballymena and Larne have suffered numerous attacks since the New Year. "I have no doubt that these attacks are being organised by the UDA/UFF who have taken control of the area and are being allowed to attack at will," the man, who did not wish to be identified, told SAOIRSE . . .
» Dublin ignoring will of the people GALWAY for a Safe Environment have accused the Dublin Minister for the Environment, Noel Dempsey of “ignoring the will of the people” in attempting to impose waste incinerators on local authorities. GSE were responding to various newspaper reports at the end of January which stated that Minister Dempsey was preparing emergency proposals for Cabinet which would allow City and County Managers to overrule local councils that had rejected incineration . . .
» Gun and bomb attacks force families out A COLERAINE, Co Derry family were forced to flee their home following a pipe-bomb and shooting attack on their house in the Newmills area on January 4. Uel Norton (36), his partner Patricia McLaughlin (37) and their two sons aged 16 and 15 had been out visiting relatives at the time of the attack . . .
» Larne attack blamed on UDA A SINGLE mother and her two young children escaped death on January 3 when a loyalist death squad opened fire on her home in Larne, Co Antrim . . .
» Michael Flannery Testimonial Dinner The Sixth Annual Michael Flannery Testimonial Awards Dinner organised by Cumann na Saoirse Náisiúnta, the National Irish Freedom Committee’s was held at the Astoria World Manor in New York on Friday January 26th. An overflow crowd of over 150 people attended the dance . . .
» Remember 1981 -- political status now! THIS year marks the 20th Anniversary of the 1981 H-Block hunger strikes that saw ten Republican prisoners die. Just like 1981 Republican prisoners are once again fighting England’s criminalisation policy in Maghaberry prison . . .
» Mana MANA (nó moladh?) a bhíodh ag an Mafia i Ticeago: “Once bought you stay bought”. Is cosúil, ó chuid de na litreacha a d’fhoilsigh The Irish Times ar na mallaibh, go mba chóir go mbeadh a leithéid ina ordú (agus a mhalairt ina pheaca marfa ag an Eaglais Chaitliceach) ag an Impireacht (nó impireacht eile ar bith) . . .
» Celtic Tiger vulnerable to multinationals IN the Irish context the term Celtic Tiger is a contradiction in terms but is probably an apposite description of what has happened in the 26-County economy in the last six to seven years. Firstly, it should be stated that the success of the 26-County economy in recent years owes very little to the ability, planning or intelligence of the Free State administrations during that time . . .
» Stateless nations gather in Barcelona
SPEAKING on TV De Catalunya’s TV3, Sinn Féin Poblachtach Ard Chomhairle member, Des Dalton, Kildare, said that the conflict in Ireland was a conflict between the Irish people’s right to self-determination and Britain’s denial of that right. During a 20 minute interview on Bon Dia Catlunya (Good Morning Catalonia) a current affairs programme on January 19, Des Dalton pointed out that the Stormont Agreement could not deliver a just and lasting peace as it failed to address the root cause of conflict in Ireland which is the British presence. “The Stormont Agreement is simply about updating British rule in Ireland, making it more acceptable to the Nationalist community in the Six Counties. Republican Sinn Féin believe it is only by ending British rule, not updating it or making it more acceptable that the conditions for a just and lasting peace in Ireland can be created” Des Dalton said . . .
» No clemency for Peltier BILL Clinton on his last day in office as US President failed to grant clemency to the American Indian political prisoner, Leonard Peltier, despite earlier indications that he would. Peltier has spent 24 years in jail on a charge of killing two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Peltier has been refused a new trial or parole despite evidence that the FBI intimidated witnesses, used false evidence and concealed ballistics tests. He has in fact been denied parole because he will not confess to a crime he did not commit. Peltier suffers from diabetes, a heart condition, near blindness in one eye and hypertension . . .
» Ireland’s Forgotten Ten SINCE the announcement by the 26-County department of Justice on November 1 last that they are to release from Mountjoy prison the bodies of the “Forgotten Ten”, as they have become known, for reburial in Glasnevin Cemetery’s Republican Plot, there has been renewed interest in who these men were and the circumstances which led them to the gallows. Of course, the real reason for the release of the remains of these IRA Volunteers is that the 26-County authorities wish to build over their graves . . .
» Book Review Alias Seán Forde, by Tom Malone, published by Danesfort Publications/Elo Publications, Hardback £10, Paperback, £7.50. TOMÁS Ó Maoileoin or Seán Forde, the name used by him during the Tan War, was one of the legendary figures of the 1916/21 period in Ireland. “The most dangerous man in Munster” was how Richard Mulcahy described him during the Civil War. Ó Maoileoin was an active Republican from 1912 to 1938 and was to remain an unrepentant Republican until his death in 1981. His story, dealing in particular with the Tan War period is told by his son Tom in the recently-published Alias Seán Forde . . .
» Six Counties, not ‘Northern Ireland’ MUCH media and political fun is often made out of the refusal of Republicans in Ireland to refer to ‘Northern Ireland’ as anything other than the Six Counties or ‘the north’. The morons in the Irish Times and elsewhere who say these things may have different beliefs, principles or agendas; nothing wrong in that. But they fail to respect us when they trivialise the use of terminology such as Six Counties. There is an enormous difference in thinking behind saying the ‘Six Counties’ instead of ‘Northern Ireland’. To say the latter is to use the English language in such a way as to accept verbal or complete occupation of our country -- the political logic of such verbal filth led to the doing down of Articles 2 & 3 . . .

Gearrscéalta


» New RUC’s task to put down resistance to British rule In a statement on January 31, Republican Sinn Féin, Belfast called on nationalists not to become involved in any new look Partitionist, paramilitary police force. They said that there were organisations/groups of people within the nationalist community who would see the RUC with a new name and uniform as acceptable . . .

Flannery book
THE autobiography of Michael Flannery, entitled Accepting the Challenge — the Memoirs of Michael Flannery will be published in the near future by Irish Freedom Press. Michael Flannery had the assistance of a young Irishman, Dermot O’Reilly, when he penned his memoirs during the last few years of his life. He died in New York in 1994 at the age of 92. This new book is profusely illustrated and the publishers expect to have both hardback and paperback editions on sale shortly. Further details in the March issue of SAOIRSE.

Leabhar Nua
Foilseoidh Cló Saoirse LAOCHRA LUIMNIGH go luath. Séard atá sa leabhar beag seo ná cur síos ar pháirt mhuintir Dhálaigh as Luimneach in Éirí Amach 1916. Is í Nóra de hÓir as Gaillimh údar an leabhair seo, agus is iníon í le deirfiúr an Cheannfoirt Éamonn Ó Dálaigh, duine de no ceannairí a bhásaigh na Sasanaigh tar éis na troda. Beidh mórchuid grianghraf sa leabhar. Foilsíodh cuid den ábhar cheana i SAOIRSE.


» Planning scandals must be probed THE latest planning scandals to hit local authorities around the country are yet another indication of the “behind the scenes” culture of Irish political and business life, Republican Sinn Féin said during January. Party spokesperson in Limerick Joe Lynch said that following the suspension and resignation of local authority officials, the whole question of controversial planning permissions should now be publicly debated. He was speaking on Limerick radio on January 13 . . .

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» NGA Clarifies Position on Forgotten Ten
GEARARDÍN NIC CHÁBA
PRO
National Graves Association
74 Dame Street
Dublin 2
» Brits Out!
TOM RYAN
Ballymun, Dublin
» Prison Struggles 1981-2001
SEOSAMH Ó FAOLÁIN
Seanchill, Co BhÁC
» Prison Struggle Continues
NORA LYNCH
Limerick
» Wexford Ceremony
PJ KELLY
Rúnaí
Pádraig Ó Pearaill Cumann
Wexford.
» Belfast Flute Band Recruiting
DECLAN MOORE
Comdt-General Tom Maguire RFB
229 Falls Road
Belfast
» No Peace Without Freedom
SÉAMUS WALSH
London
» Partition Will Stay
UNA STORAN
Cork
» Asylum Seekers
BILL FLYNN
Manchester
» Who Controls Whose Destiny?
SEÁN Ó LÚBHAIGH
Ohio, USA
» Friendly Persuasion
JOHN KELLY
Mullingar
Co Westmeath



» Mac Cool: All quiet on the Northern Front
» Fenian Notes
» 50 Years Ago: 1951 -- 'The Key Year'
» For The Record
Sean Sabhat
» Sabhat honoured by largest crowd in 30 years THE annual Seán Sabhat Commemoration was held in Limerick on Sunday, January 7. This years commemoration was the largest gathering in Seán’s memory for 30 years. The parade which fell in at Bedford Row was headed by a nine-person Colour Party with a contingent of Cumann na mBan, Na Fianna Éireann and a lone piper. The parade marched to the Republican Plot where Seán was buried 44 years ago . . .

Kevin Coen remembered

THE annual Kevin Coen commemoration took place at his grave in Riverstown Cemetery, Co Sligo on Sunday, January 21, following 11.30am Mass in Sooey Church.

IRA Volunteer Kevin Coen was killed in action by British forces at Cassidy’s Cross, Co. Fermanagh on January 20, 1975.

A colour-party bearing the Irish Tricolour led the parade into the cemetery. Seán McGoldrick, Riverstown recited a decade of the Rosary in Irish. Wreaths were laid and Con Darcy, Sligo delivered an address to the 40 people in attendance.

Packie Sheehy

REPUBLICAN Sinn Féin, North Kerry, laid a wreath at the grave of Packie Sheehy on January 7 in Ballysteen. The wreath was laid by John O’Shea of Ballylongford. Those present observed a minutes silence for a young Co Limerick man who brought the war to the heart of the British establishment in England



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