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£43,443 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 £43,443. 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. or send a donation to: Éire Nua Building Fund, Bank of Ireland, (Six Counties) Draperstown, Co Derry, a/c number 14164268, quoting the Branch code 90-48-43 or donate by Standing Order.

RSF support for Freedom Committee Trustees REPUBLICAN Sinn Féin has called on the 'handful' of expelled members of Cumann na Saoirse-Irish Freedom Committee in the US to cease raising funds in the name of the organisation and to stop using its name. In April 2000 a handful of individuals were removed from office and expelled from Cumann na Saoirse/Irish Freedom Committee (CnS-IFP) in the US for actions designed to undermine the lawful Constitution of the organisation and ultimately subvert the organisation. While CnS-IFP was founded as and remains an autonomous American body, Republican Sinn Féin has supported the decision the Trustees of CnS-IFC came to in this manner. “Republican Sinn Féin stands by the Trustees in their decisions and demands that David Ruppert and other expelled members of Cumann na Saoirse-Irish Freedom Committee immediately stop using the name of the organisation they have been removed from; we demand that they cease raising funds in the name of that organisation,” the statement concluded. In a recent letter to the US, CABHAIR (Irish Republican Prisoners Dependants Fund), stated that donations from individuals in the US for Republican prisoners in Ireland who CABHAIR support can be sent to the National Irish Freedom Committee, PO Box 771084, Woodside Station, Woodside, New York 11377.

EU Commission will be de facto government THE Nice Treaty will make the EU Commission a de facto “European government,” a Danish MEP has claimed. Jens-Peter Bonde said that as the Commission would be appointed by a majority vote from 2005, rather than the current system whereby member states choose their representatives to function as an “administrative board”, the new system would mean that the seven smallest states would have their proposed commissioners voted down by the eight larger states. “This is a profound change which will mean we have a real European government in Brussels, but it is not for discussion apparently,” he said. Jens-Peter Bonde who was in Dublin for the publication of his book Nice Treaty Explained, also claimed Nice was about “deepening rather than widening” the EU. “There is no enlargement in this treaty and the new system of voting will happen whether the EU is enlarged or not”. He said the revised system had been “completely hidden” during all press briefings on the Nice summit.

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Issue number 170 June, 2001 DRUMCREE LOOMS AGAIN

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IMEACHTAI Events TOM MAGUIRE COMMEMORATION The annual Comdt-General Tom Maguire wreath-laying ceremony will be held at his grave in Cross Cemetery, Co Mayo on THURSDAY, JULY 5, 2pm * * * * REMEMBER BOBBY SANDS AND HIS COMRADES IN MUSIC AND SONG MOTHER REDCAPS (near Christchurch) FRIDAY, JULY 6 Doors open 9pm Tickets limited: £5 * * * * Hunger Strike Commemorative Events 2001 H-BLOCK MARTYRS COMMEMORATIVE EVENT SATURDAY, JUNE 30 SLIGO TOWN * * * * H-BLOCK MARTYRS COMMEMORATIVE EVENT SUNDAY, JULY 8 P[ICKET AT REDMOND'S SQUARE WEXFORD TOWN, 2-5pm * * * * H-BLOCK MARTYRS COMMEMORATIVE EVENT SATURDAY, JULY 7 CARRICK-ON-SHANNON, CO LEITRIM * * * * MARTIN HURSON COMMEMORATION PLAQUE TO BE UNVEILED AT EDGEWORTHTOWN, CO LONGFORD SUNDAY, JULY 15 * * * * Please forward details of hunger-strike commemorative events to SAOIRSE as soon as they are finalised in your area

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FF/Provisionals alliance ONE of the first public realignments of Fianna Fáil and the Provisionals has taken place in county Limerick where members of both parties joined together in commemoration of an IRA leader shot dead by the British Crown Forces. Eighty years ago Brigadier Seán Wall, Sinn Féin Chairman of Limerick County Council and OC of the East Limerick Brigade of the IRA was shot dead by British Forces at Annacarthy, on the Limerick/Tipperary border. On Sunday May 8, 2001 a large crowd gathered at his hometown of Bruff to pay tribute to Seán Wall. His son, Canon Gerard Wall who was born shortly after his father's death, was present as the chairman of Limerick County Council Fianna Fáil's Cllr Kevin Sheehan laid a wreath at the monument of the IRA leader. Also present were former Fianna Fáil Defence Minister Michael J. Noonan, Fianna Fáil Councillor John Gallaghue and Sinn Féin members Cyril MacCurtain, Pat Hayes and Donncha Ó Nualláin of Broadford, Co. Limerick. The joining of forces between Fianna Fáil and the Provisionals is yet another step in the coming together of both parties in advance of the coming general election. Of course Fianna Fáil consider themselves to be the Republican Party so where does that leave the Provisionals. The true Republicans of course are to be found within Republican Sinn Féin.

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REPUBLICANS hasten to sympathise with Councillor Seán Lynch, Longford on the death of his brother Brian in Cavan town on April 19. He is survived by his wife and two daughters and was aged 68.

A keen GAA and Republican supporter Brian was Vice-chair of Roger Casement Cumann in Cavan during the late 1950s and early 1960s, when Councillor Mary Brady held the Cumann chair. Up to recent years he was a publican at Bridge Street, Cavan.

Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, Uachtarán, attended the obsequies and Benny Little and Liam Mimnagh represented Republican Sinn Féin in Cavan.


» Outstanding IRA leader and giant of a man in the Republican Movement REPUBLICANS everywhere were shocked at the sudden death on May 18 of Seán Mac Stíofáin, former Chief of Staff, Irish Republican Army. He was 73 . . .
» Seán Mac Stíofáin -- a tribute SEÁN Mac Stíofáin was a giant of a man in the Republican Movement. He was one of those who got a grip on the revolutionary situation which opened up in the Six Counties in August 1969 and brought the IRA to a culminating point in June-July 1972. At that time he led a delegation to London demanding British government withdrawal from Ireland for the first time since 1921 . . .
» Pat Mullen REPUBLICANS were shocked to hear of the death of Pat Mullen, Sixmilecross, Co. Tyrone, a former H-Block prisoner, at the early age of 48. He died on May 1 . . .
» Josie McDermott SAOIRSE regrets to record the death of Josie McDermott, one of the illustrious Mac Diarmada family of Kiltyclogher, Co Leitrim, during the second week of May . . .

THE annual Easter Commemoration ceremonies in Co. Longford were not held as planned at the grave of Vol. Pat Farrell IRA in Foxhall cemetery because of the foot and mouth crisis. Access to the graveyard required passing through a field with cattle. On the roadside at the entrance to the cemetery, the 1916 Proclamation, the Co. Longford Roll of Honour and the Easter Statement from the Leadership of the Republican Movement were read. A wreath was laid and prayers recited. Cllr. Seán Lynch presided. Another wreath was laid at Ardbhill Crossroads where Vol. Farrell was killed in a mine explosion in May 1921.

THE annual Commemoration was held at the Seán Mac Diarmada Memorial in Kiltyclogher, Co Leitrim on Seán Mac Diarmada Memorial in Kiltyclogher, Co Leitrim on Sunday, May 6. Thomas Kelly, Manorhamilton, Mícheál McDonagh, Drumshambo and Jim Mannion, Manorhamilton laid wreaths and Séamus McGowan, Tullaghan recited a decade of the Rosary in Irish. Joe O'Neill, Bundoran, gave the oration.

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