Belfast / Derry Éire Nua Building Fund STOP PRESS: Republican Sinn Féin has acquired an office in Belfast. Further details next month. We need £60,000 by contribution or loan to Ard-Oifig, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1 or to any of 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. All donations, large or small, will be gratefully acknowledged.

Cull-Tymon Memorial Raffle results First Prize: Slieve Russell weekend Jim Maher, Bray, Co Wicklow Ticket No: 3510 Second Prize: Portable colour TV David Butler, Winegap, Co Kilkenny Ticket No: 897 Third Prize: Shannon Erne Cruise Damian, c/o Conaty’s Pub, Dublin Ticket No: 302 Fourth Prize: Bodhrán by Republican prisoners Kevin Barry Cannon, Castlebar, Co Mayo Ticket No 3141

Rule 21 The full text of Rule 21 in the GAA’s Treoir Oifigiúil (Official Guide) is as follows: Ineligibility Members of the British Armed Forces and police shall not be eligible for membership of the Association. A member of the Association participating in dances, or similar entertainment, promoted by or under the patronage of such bodies, shall incur suspension of at least three months. * * * Eighty years ago the First (All-Ireland) Dáil decreed on April 10, 1919 that “the members of the police forces acting in this country as part of the British occupation . . . be ostracised socially by the people of Ireland”.

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SAOIRSE - Irish Freedom The Voice of the Republican Movement
Issue number 150 October, 1999 NEUTRALITY SLICED AWAY	To link to SAOIRSE add link to Saoirse Newsroom http://saoirse.rr.nu Republican Sinn Féin RSFhome

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

Prisoners

Birmingham support for POWs
REPUBLICAN Sinn Féin held a very successful social function in Birmingham, England on behalf of prisoners loyal to the All-Ireland Republic on September 18.

The event, the first for the Midlands Cumann, was a roaring success.

Rose Lynch of CABHAIR (Republican Prisoners Dependants Fund) gave an outline on the plight of the POWs.

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, Rúnaí, Midlands, thanked all for supporting the function.

The evening was rounded off with the playing of Amhrán na bhFiann.


» Petition for prisoner's release goes to Dept of Justice
» Republican Sinn Féin slams prison restrictions

Gearrscéalta

MacBride Bill passes California
CALIFORNIA became the 18th US state to sign the McBride Principles Bill into law, it was announced on September 15. Under the new law the US state is bound to the nine fair employment guidelines named after former IRA Chief of Staff and Nobel laureate, Seán McBride California’s state pensions fund currently totals $248 billion and questions will be raised at shareholders meetings regarding companies adherence to the McBride Principles. Eighteen US states plus Washington DC and 30 other US cities have now signed the McBride Principles into law.

Arson attack on Dunmurry school
LOYALIST arsonists launched a well planned arson attack on a Catholic Grammar school in Co Antrim on September 1. A basement housing science labs, an Information Technology (IT) suite and a sixth form common room suffered smoke and water damage in the attack on Rathmore Grammar School in Dunmurry. It was the fifth attack on the school in six years. It is believed that the arsonists drilled a hole through a fire exit before pouring flammable liquid inside. The blaze was spotted at 9.15pm shortly after it had started and was extinguished.


» Freedom Committee slams Patten Report
» Two charged in collusion case

Nationalists under siege in Carrickfergus
PRO-BRITISH gangs in Carrickfergus went on an orgy of destruction damaging houses and cars in the early hours of September 18. The attacks took place in Westmount Avenue and were carried out by youths armed with sticks and bats. The windows of four houses and three cars were smashed and nationalist residents of the County Antrim town have claimed they have been enduring such torment from loyalists gangs for the past two years.


» Catholics earn 15% less
» Crown Forces send begging letters to grieving mother

London meeting
A MEETING of the Regional Executive of Republican Sinn Féin (England, Scotland and Wales) was held in London on Sunday, September 26. The Executive sends fraternal greetings to Republican prisoners and wishes the prisoners to know that their plight is our concern and that our efforts will be directed at stepping up our communication and our contribution in the coming period.


» Special Branch effort to recruit informer in Dublin
» Moonlighters’ leader to be honoured

PTA harassment
THE Corrigan/McKearney Cumann of Republican Sinn Féin in Armagh city has condemned the recent arrest and detention of one of its members at Liverpool Airport. This blatant use of anti-Irish legislation (PTA) to disrupt freedom of movement appears to be directed at those individuals opposed to the current sell-out. “No doubt Provisional Assembly members no longer receive the same hostile reception ‘crossing the water’,” the statement added. The harassment would not intimidate the cumann members and supporters and they would continue their work in Armagh city.

WORLD NEWS

Attack claimed in Brittany
THE Breton Revolutionary Army (ARB) claimed on September 3 an attack made the previous day on the Gendarmerie at Guémené-Penfao. The build had been the target of several shots. It is the thirteenth attack attributed in the last year to the ARB, an organisation which has existed since 1971 within the sphere of influence of the Front for the Liberation of Brittany (FLB).


» French State wages war on nationalities
» East Timor: UN must act
» Eleven Puerto Rican freedom fighters freed

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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MATT LEEN
Co Kerry
» Vol Tom Williams
M NÍ CEÁRNAIG, PRO
National Graves Association (Teo)
74 Dame Street, Dublin 2
» Promoter Of Imperialism In Ireland
T McCAILLE
New York
» Release Josephine Hayden
DES DALTON
Josephine Hayden Support Committee

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