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£46,020
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 £46,020.
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.
McGuinness: school day off for British Queen
EVEN the most bitter critic of the Provisionals couldn’t have made this one up: Martin McGuinness, Stormont minister for education, giving children a day off school to celebrate the British Queen’s golden jubilee next year!
To be fair of course, it’s doubtful whether McGuinness could have done much to block it since the decision had already been made in England before it got to him. But, again, to be fair to McGuinness he went on record to say he had no interest in attempting to block it anyway.
So everybody’s happy: the children are happy because they’ll have an extra day off school in June next year. The English are happy because their Queen will have been sitting on her throne for 50 years, and Martin McGuinness is happy -- because he doesn’t know the difference.
More uranium shells
BRITAIN resumed test-firing of depleted uranium shells into the Irish Sea on February 20 despite concerns expressed over its links to cancer. Arrogantly Britain’s ministry of defence(MoD) which previously admitted firing around 1,500 of these poisonous missiles into the Irish Sea off the coast of Scotland said: “This is a routine testing programme which was planned before any of the recent scares. We are testing the accuracy of the shells by firing them against soft targets.”
Paras cross Border
RESIDENTS of Cloghroe in Co Donegal have said that a British army patrol based at Beleek, Co Fermanagh crossed into their neighbourhood on February 2. The eight-man patrol arrived in Cloghroe shortly after 8pm.
Two days later residents of Co Louth, close to the south Armagh Border at Meigh, were alarmed by low-flying were alarmed by low-flying British army helicopters on a Sunday afternoon. In the latest of a long line of British incursions in the area, one of the two helicopters landed a foot patrol of Paras near Meigh and withdrew them again a short while later.
Breton hunger strike in French jail
THREE Breton socialist republican activists started a hunger strike in jail in France, it was reported. They are among 10 being held in connection with a renewed bombing campaign by ARB, the Breton Republican Army. They are demanding political status and the right to use the Breton language in any legal proceedings. Messages of support can be sent to them at the addresses below: Pascal Laize 273 195 D 119, 42 rue de la Sante 75674 Paris cedex 14, France; Arnaud Vannier 272336 T2, 136, 42 rue de la Sante 75674 Paris cedex 14, France; Gerard Bernard 289 03V G3-46 D4 MAH 91705 Fleury-Merogis, France. The address of Secours Breton/Skoazell Vreizh, the Breton prisoners support organisation, is: Jakez Derouet, 14 Heut Kemper, 29700 Pluguen/Pluguffan, Brittany, via France.
Faeroe Islands vote on May 26
People of the 18 Faeroe Islands (540 square miles and population 46,000) will vote in a referendum on May 26 next on a plan for independence from Denmark. Relations between Copenhagen and Torshawn, capitol of the archipelago deteriorated during the 1990s, when the economy and the main Faeroese banks went into decline.
