The Starry Plough

Éire Nua
Building Fund
Appeal

Comhairle Uladh (Ulster Executive of Republican Sinn Féin) has launched the Éire Nua Building Fund in order to raise funds to open public offices in Belfast and Derry for the organisation.

If you wish to support this important development in Republicanism please send what you can to: Éire Nua Building Fund, Bank of Ireland, Main Street, Limavady, Co Derry, a/c number 49431733, quoting the Branch code 90-50-96.

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

Bí Linn agus Beidh Linn!

IMEACHTAI/EVENTS

POLITICAL STATUS
PICKET ON
DOWNING STREET
LONDON
THURSDAY, MAY 6
Assemble 10am
Westminster Tube Station

* * * * 

PROTEST VIGIL
AGAINST NATO
BOMBING
FOR A REFERENDUM 
ON PFP
Every FRIDAY 
while NATO bombing lasts
DEPT OF 
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Iveagh House
Stephen’s Green
Dublin 5.30pm-6.30pm

* * * * 

NIALL PLUNKETT
O'BOYLE 
COMMEMORATION
SUNDAY, MAY 16
Assemble 2.30pm
Hollywood Village
Co Wicklow

* * * * 

Birthday social for 
Josephine Hayden
Sunday, May 23
6pm
Rory Dolan’s 
Restaurant
890 Maclean Avenue
Yonkers, NY
$10 suggested donation
Raffle, Prizes, Live Music
Call: (718) 672 5657

* * * *
Due to pressure of space, a full report on the CABHAIR Testimonial Dinner held in Dublin on April 30 is being held over until the June edition of SAOIRSE.

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» Who fears to speak of heroic Gaels?

Leitrim supporters of our national games are enraged at plans to delete the name of Captain Jim Vaugh, Irish Republican Army, from the GAA grounds in Drumshanbo.

The Jim Vaugh Memorial Park was renamed the Shane McGettigan Park in a ceremony on May 3. Shane McGettigan, a young man who lost his life on a building site on Boston last year, played for Allen Gaels, Drumshanbo and for the Leitrim Senior Football team.

Many local GAA supporters and Republicans have contacted Republican Sinn Féin to say that while they have no objection to this young man being honoured, they see no reason why this should be done at the expense of another Gael. They have suggested that the GAA pitch could easily have been renamed the ‘Vaugh/McGettigan Memorial Park’.

Captain Jim Vaugh died on Christmas Day 1931, shortly after his release from Ballinamore Barracks, from injuries received during beatings by 26-County political police (Special Branch) there.

His name is on the County Leitrim Roll of Honour.

£3,869

Remaining debt on
Teach Dáithí Ó Conaill.

Contributions to the fund at
223 Parnell Street,
Dublin 1

Dáithí Ó Conaill Memorial Building Fund

SAOIRSE - Irish Freedom
The Voice of the Republican Movement
SAOIRSE - Irish Freedom
Issue number 145 | May, 1999

'AGREEMENT ON LIFE SUPPORT'


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
Fax: 872 9757
e-mail: saoirse@iol.ie


» 'Agreement on life support'
» British bribe bid on hero’s son
» NATO 'bombing its way to peace'
» Hamill accused due for release
» come.to/RepublicanSF on the World-Wide Web
» Gravy train at Stormont
» New Cumann in Birmingham
» RUC had ‘prior knowledge’ of Finucane attack
» RUC taken off lawyers inquiry in July 1998
» Remembering Bobby Sands
» Cur i gcéill agus Fianaise Bhréige

NATIONALIST NIGHTMARE CONTINUES


» Massacre bid on rural pub
» Ballymurphy men survive assassination attempt
» Loyalist terror attacks continue
» Pipe bomb under man’s car

» Grenade attack in Ligoniel

A mother and her 14-year-old son escaped injury when a loyalist death-squad fired a grenade at their home in Mill Avenue, in the Ligoniel area of north Belfast on April 25. The device exploded on impact at the rear of the nationalist home at around 11.40pm. Slates were blown off the roof.

Across in south Belfast a woman and her friend escaped unhurt when her home and an adjacent unoccupied house came under loyalist petrol bomb attack in Millfort Avenue, Dunmurry. Both properties suffered scorch damage.

26-COUNTY LOCAL ELECTIONS


» 26-County Local Election Manifesto, 1999
» Republican Sinn Féin candidates
» One law for Irish fishermen – another for foreigners?

DRACONIAN


» Young men savagely beaten in Dublin
» Man beaten in Limerick barracks
» The railroading of Colm Murphy

PRISONERS


» New York support for political status

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letters to the Editor should be as short as possible and written or typed in double-spacing on one side of the page.

Postal address: 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1. Letters may also be faxed to Dublin 872 9757 or by e-mail to saoirse@iol.ie.


» Do not Join PFP
» Stormont Agreement Denies Political Status
» Political Status For all Political Prisoners
» Commonwealth Means War-base
» Collusion With British Death Squads
» No Permission For Restoration
» Sense of Self Respect
» NATO Attacks Killed 1,000 Civilians



» MacCool: 120 Bombs, One Church Picket and a 10-month siege
» Fenian Notes
» 50 Years Ago: Climax of Anti-Partition

» Paddy Kennedy
» Mollie Bean Mhic Coiligh
» Bert O’Flynn

1916 Easter Commemorations 1999

» Comhbhrón
» I gCuimhne
» Buíochas
» Beannachtaí
» What They Said

SAOIRSE June edition published June 5


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