Faoi Ghlas ag Gaelaibh A REPEAT showing of the Irish language documentary (with English subtitles) about the Republicans interned in the Curragh Concentration Camp in Co Kildare from 1957-59 will be broadcast on TG4 on Wednesday, December 8 next at 10pm.

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. We need £60,000 by contribution or loan to Ard-Oifig, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1 or 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 Des Cox, Armagh Larry McMahon, Co Monaghan 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. All donations, large or small, will be gratefully acknowledged.

Ministers of the Crown STORMONT ministers, committee chairpersons and vice-chairpersons appointed from the constitutional nationalist parties -- along with their annual salaries and expenses -- are as follows: Provisionals Ministers: Martin McGuinness, Education; Bairbre de Brún, Health. Salary: £69,451 plus armoured car and civilian driver provided by British government. In addition to this ministers can claim staff costs of up to £27,000 a year and office costs of up to £7,000 per annum. Chairs/Deputy Chairs: Pat Doherty, Enterprise; Michelle Gildernew, Social Development; Francie Molloy, Finance; Mary Nelis, Culture. Salary: £37,000. SDLP Séamus Mallon, Deputy First Minister. Salary: £84,504 plus car, driver and staff costs same as Provisionals. Ministers: Bríd Rogers, Agriculture; Seán Farren, Higher Education; Mark Durkan, Finance. Salary: £69,451 plus car, driver and staff costs. Chairs/Deputy Chairs: Denis Haughey, Regions; Joe Hendron, Health; Tommy Gallagher, Health; Carmel Hanna, Employment; Éamonn O'Neill, Culture. Salary: £37,000.

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Leinster House approves PfP
THE vote on the 26 Counties entry into the NATO-led Partnership for Peace was passed through the Leinster House assembly on November 9 with a minimum of publicity. The State joined on December 1 when David Andrews, 26-County foreign minister signed on at NATO headquarters in Brussels. The move will give the 26-Counties a permanent presence at NATO headquarters.

For the record, amongst the Independents who have deals to support the Administration, Tom Gildea backed PfP while Mildred Fox and Harry Blaney voted against membership. Jackie Healy Rae abstained.


» Decommission Trident call by Irish Activist Appearing in Helensburgh District Court on November 22 Irish citizen and trained nurse Mary Kelly criticised the British Government for failing to set a timetable for the decommissioning of its illegal nuclear weapons . . .
» Dúshlán Tugtha ag Ruairí Ó Brádaigh d'Iarrthóirí Eile ar Alt 2 & PFP “Cá seasann na h-iarrthóirí neamh-spleacha sa toghchán don Údarás maidir leis an mbeart atá an t-Uasal Ahern ar tí a dhéanamh, sé sin Alt 2 agus Alt 3 de Bhunreacht 1937 a chaitheamh amach?” arsa Uachtarán Shinn Féin Poblachtach, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, ag seoladh fheachtas toghchánaíochta Thomáis Uí Churraoin dó i nGaillimh inniu (22ú Samhain) . . .
» New evidence in 1974 bombings The only serious bombs to go off in the 26 Counties in the 30 years of the northern struggle, apart from the loyalist attempted bombing of a pub in Dublin a few years ago, occurred when the British Government wished to put pressure on the Free State Government for a specific end . . .
» Opposition mounts to incinerator plans The 26-County administration has prepared a £260m plan to deal with municipal waste in the region covering Meath, Louth, Monaghan and Cavan. The people of Kill, Co Kildare are fighting plans to incinerate hazardous waste in their area . . .
» No planning guidelines The proposal to build a hazardous waste incinerator in Co Kildare has exposed a shortcoming in planning legislation whereby there are no guidelines in the 26 Counties on locating such facilities, it was claimed at a meeting in Maynooth, Co Kildare on November 24 attended by more than 500 people opposed to the incinerator planned for less than a mile from Kilcock . . .

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Plastic bullets fired by Crown Forces
AN UNDISCLOSED number of plastic bullets were fired by the RUC during rioting in Lurgan, Co Armagh on November 6. Five RUC members were injured in the rioting which followed a bomb warning. When the RUC arrived to deal with what turned out to be a hoax device they were attacked with petrol bombs, bricks and stones.

Meanwhile in Derry two RUC members were injured on the same day when they were attacked by a crowd of up to 60 people.




» Another journalist's documents seized

Ormeau pipe-bomb
IN ANOTHER loyalist sectarian attack in Belfast a pipe-bomb and a jar of nails were placed on the windowsill of a nationalist home in Dromara Street on November 11 in the lower Ormeau area. The device was discovered before it exploded. Surrounding houses were evacuated for three hours while the device was being dealt with.

• A nationalist home on Westland Road in north Belfast was targeted in a pipe-bomb attack on November 14. No-one was injured.

Arson attack
A DERRYMAN was hospitalised following an arson attack on his house in the Clooney Mews area of the Waterside on November 21. The man in his twenties was found lying in his home by fire-fighters at about 8.30am. He was rushed to hospital where he was treated for smoke inhalation.

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Kilmichael remembered
On Saturday, November 27 Republicans from Cork city held a commemoration at the site of the Kilmichael ambush in Co Cork, where Tom Barry's Flying Column defeated the Black-and-Tans in a decisive battle of the War of Independence in 1920.

The proceedings were chaired by Alfie Lane, Chairperson of the Mac Curtáin/Mac Suibhne Cumann, Republican Sinn Féin, Cork. The Last Post and Reveille were played by bugler Pat Varian and a decade of the Rosary recited by Kitty O'Brien, Cumann na mBan. A wreath was laid on behalf of Republican Sinn Féin by Christy Murphy.

The ceremony ended when the piper played a lament and Amhrán na bhFiann.




» One nation and one people

The Edentubber commemoration took place on November 7 in memory of the five men killed in an accidental explosion on the Border on November 11, 1957.

More than 80 people marched from the Olde Border Inn car park, led by the national flag bearer and the lone piper. Uniformed members of Na Fianna Éireann marched ahead of the bearers of the four provincial flags and the Glens of Antrim Accordion Band . . .

Kevin Barry honoured
ON Sunday, November 21 Sinn Féin Poblachtach held its annual Kevin Barry commemoration in Rathvilly, Co Carlow.

Proceedings were chaired by Ard Chomhairle member Des Dalton, Athy, who called on Kitty Hawkins, Ballymore Eustace, to lay a wreath on behalf of Sinn Féin Poblachtach. A decade of the Rosary was recited as Gaeilge.

Ard-Rúnaí Seán McGoldrick in his oration said: “We do not describe ourselves as Republicans because we care what the British colonial police in our country call themselves” but rather he said: “We call ourselves Republicans because we love our country and we want to establish its freedom and its unity, We call ourselves Republicans because we will accept nothing short of a British withdrawal from our country.

“We call ourselves the Republican Movement because we have set ourselves the hard task of bringing those things about.”




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