ERNIE O’MALLEY : SOLDIER OF OGLAIGH na hEIREANN .
Following the recent publication of O’Malley’s third book ‘Raids And Rallies’, on the Tan War years 1920-1921 , Frances-Mary Blake , who edited the book and his earlier works , writes an appreciation of the man who wrote ‘On Another Man’s Wound’ and ‘The Singing Flame’.
From ‘IRIS’ magazine , July 1983.

When the truce of July 1921 took effect between the Irish Republican Army and British Crown Forces , a young IRA leader wrote to a fellow Republican Officer - ” What do you think of the Peace Move ? There seems to be something in it whatever it is . Perhaps Dev would accept a Republic with the exclusion of Ulster . We are very much worried as we don’t know what way the game is going . The number of real Republicans , even in the IRA is small - that is , of men who will see the Republic through to the bitter end. “ That young IRA leader’s name was Ernie O’Malley and he had been so active in the war that , in recognition of his energy , organising ability and outstanding personal courage , he was appointed Officer Commanding of the 2nd Southern , the second-largest IRA Division in the country .

Early in 1921 , RIC reports from Dublin Castle had named O’ Malley as ” …a notorious rebel..”. Late in 1922 , the Free State’s military command would claim that ” The capture of Ernie O’ Malley should mean the complete breakdown of their (’Irregular’ ie Irish Republican Army) organisation in the North Eastern area .” Ernie O’ Malley was acknowledged by all to be an Irish Republican par excellence.

If it is now again fashionable in some circles to denigrate 1916 and all the Easter Rising ever sought , then by contrast the Civil War that followed the 1916-1921 fighting has been tacitly ignored . And yet the year 1922 was a watershed for Ireland . During that crucial year Ernie O’ Malley had a prominent part in what he called , in a letter he sent to a Dublin newspaper while hunted and on the run in August 1922 , “…a just and holy Cause : namely , the defence of the Republic to which we have sworn to be faithful..” Ernest Bernard O’Malley, Soldier of Oglaigh na hEireann , was much more than ‘just’ a soldier…….
(MORE LATER).

BALLYMUN INTERVIEW : “Ballymun is just like any other working-class area in Dublin , or even in Belfast , I suppose . It’s just that Ballymun isn’t houses , it’s flats…”
From ‘IRIS’ magazine , July/August 1982.

Aged in their twenties , with four young children , ‘Pat’ and ‘Mary’ have been living in their three-bedroom flat for about four years , and hope to move although they expect to have to wait at least two years . Even then they will have no choice where - Tallaght or Blanchardstown : ” You need too many points for the other areas.” They have asked that we not use their real names .

On the heating system in the block of flats that they live in , they said - ” The hot water goes off when the heating breaks down . And it’s always breaking down . The shortcoming of the system was that they didn’t give each flat a controller to regulate the heat . It just comes up through the floor , if it’s on everyone gets it . It’s even too warm here in the winter .”

The lifts that are supposed to serve each floor are another source of grief- ” They’ve hired a private maintenance company to fix the lifts , instead of replacing them . It probably wouldn’t be in their interests that the lifts keep working , you know ? It’d put them out of a job . “ Speaking about jobs and work , ‘Pat’ says - ” If you go for a job and give a Ballymun address it’s hard - this area has a bad name . You can’t even get car insurance , it’s a ‘high risk’ area . If you go for a hire purchase scheme to pay for something and give a Ballymun address you won’t get the deal . And then there’s shopping - there’s only one supermarket and they charge what they like. “ The kids from the area have their own problems , too…….
(MORE LATER).

REPUBLICAN MOURNERS DEFEAT RUC…….
Between December 1983 and May 1987 , over 25 republican or nationalist funerals were systematically attacked by the RUC as a matter of deliberate British policy . The objective was to drive mourners off the streets so that later Britain could claim dwindling support for republicanism as ‘evidenced’ by the small numbers attending IRA funerals . As Jane Plunkett reports , the opposite happened . More and more people came out to defend the remains of republican dead , the RUC were exposed as being as brutal and sectarian as ever , and these two factors , combined with damaging international news coverage , eventually forced the British government to reverse its policy of attacking republican funerals .
From ‘IRIS’ magazine , October 1987.

The RUC didn’t like the fact that republicans had let it be known that they , too , were capable of disrupting funerals , if need be . So when at the end of April 1987 , the (P)IRA shot dead the UVF second-in-command William ‘Frenchie’ Marchant, whom the (P)IRA named as “directly involved” in the killing of Larry Marley , the RUC could not afford an embarrassing repeat of the Bingham funeral , when they were seen to stand back and just observe as UVF leader John Bingham was buried with full paramilitary trappings . The RUC pressurised the UVF into giving up the customary military funeral and William Marchant was buried privately . Even so , there was no RUC ’show of strength’ , no riot gear , no attempt to stop mourners forming-up behind the Ulster-flag draped coffin .

On May 6th , 1987 , as (P)IRA Volunteer Finbarr McKenna was being buried , British ‘Direct Ruler’ Tom King made a well-publicised call for the “whole community” to support the RUC whose aim was , he claimed , to offer “…a just and impartial service to the community..” . That same day , acting under orders from Tom King and others , the RUC were batoning and firing lethal plastic bullets at unarmed civilian mourners at Finbarr McKenna’s funeral . Tom King’s remarks stand as a text-book example of Britain’s real contempt for the opinions of ordinary nationalists .

The 1985 Hillsborough Treaty (the ‘London-Dublin Agreement’) and its promises of ‘better times for Northern nationalist’ was propaganda aimed essentially at a narrow sector of the Nationalist middle-class , and at public opinion outside the Occupied Six Counties . Tom King was not the only cynic - as the ‘Irish establishment’ broke its long silence over RUC attacks on funerals , the SDLP’s Joe Hendron predicted out of the blue that the Free State government would “…intercede..” on behalf of Northern nationalists - using the Hillsborough Treaty , of course ! And of course a general election was almost upon us and Joe Hendron was one of the SDLP’s candidates…….
(MORE LATER).

The Republican Sinn Fein-organised protest against the presence on Irish soil of British ‘royal’ Anne Windsor was held today at Croke Park in Dublin . A brief report (and four photographs) can be viewed here, whilst four more photographs can be viewed on this thread.
We publish three photographs of the event with this short post , and advise that a proper report , and more photographs , will be published in the 5th March 2008 issue of the ‘Saoirse’ republican newspaper.

” NO to Normalisation…!”

Getting the message OUT…!

Facing down Anne Windsor!

Thanks!
Sharon.

NO WELCOME HERE FOR BRITISH ‘ROYALTY’!

Anne Windsor was the Colonel-in-Chief of the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment of the British Crown Forces (29th/45th Foot) until it became the 2nd Battalion of the Mercian Regiment (Worcesters and Foresters) last August. In 1916, the 178 (Forester) Brigade was sent to Dublin in an attempt to suppress the Easter Rising. The same women is presently associated with British political and military imperialism by virtue of the following positions which she holds :
* Colonel-in-Chief, The King’s Royal Hussars
* Colonel-in-Chief, The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29/45 Foot)
* Colonel-in-Chief, The Royal Corps of Signals
* Colonel-in-Chief, The Royal Logistic Corps
* Colonel-in-Chief, The Royal Army Veterinary Corps
* Commandant-in-Chief, The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal’s Volunteer Corps)
* Colonel, The Blues and Royals
* Royal Colonel, The Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland
* Royal Colonel, The 52nd Lowland Regiment, 6th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland
* Rear Admiral and Chief Commandant for women, Royal Navy
* Honorary Air Commodore, RAF Lyneham
* Honorary Air Commodore, University of London Air Squadron
* Royal Honorary Colonel, University of London OTC
* Commodore-in-Chief, Portsmouth.
Join Republicans in opposing the presence of Anne Windsor.

(For details on the Anne Windsor protest to be held in Dublin on Saturday February 23rd next , click here.)

THE CATHOLIC HIERARCHY - PROPPING-UP THE ORANGE STATE……..
At a press briefing on May 3rd, 1983, Bishop Cathal Daly declared that a vote for Sinn Fein was ‘a wasted vote’ , and that people should think seriously before risking being seen as ’supporting violence’ . As polling day approached , the rising crescendo of calls from Bishop Daly and other members of the Catholic hierarchy became increasingly explicit in their support for the SDLP. Against the background of this intervention into the arena of nationalist party politics , Patricia Collins sketches the role played by the leadership of the Catholic Church over the past fourteen years against nationalist resistance .
From ‘IRIS’ magazine , July 1983.

Political double standards are wearing thin in the harsh lights of West Belfast , and the Catholic hierarchy’s refusal to back the hunger-strikers in 1981 is not easy to forget . These outbursts do more to reveal the hierarchy’s real fear of the Republican Movement’s political progress , than to sway nationalist voters away from supporting Sinn Fein .

Years of intense political struggle have caused a considerable degree of disaffection with the Catholic hierarchy : it will take more than moral sermons to change that .

[END of ‘THE CATHOLIC HIERARCHY - PROPPING-UP THE ORANGE STATE’]
(NEXT - ‘ERNIE O’MALLEY - SOLDIER OF OGLAIGH na hEIREANN’ : from 1983)

BALLYMURPHY INTERVIEW…….
From ‘IRIS’ magazine , July/August 1982.

On conditions in the Ballymurphy area since 1954 , Anne Stone said : ” It was a slum until they started doing these repairs recently . It was just used as a transit camp . Right enough , there was mass unemployment and the people sort of lost hope . In some ways Ballymurphy has improved since then . We’re proud of Ballymurphy . Since the early days we’ve had every chance to leave it but there’s no way we would leave . What I like about Ballymurphy is that it’s still part , in some ways , of ‘old Belfast’ - the people all cling together .

For instance , say someone dies in a middle-class place no-one worries about them , but if someone dies here there would be someone round collecting for their family , and letters of sympathy . “ However , in other ways, say the Stones , community spirit has suffered , in particular because of ‘the feuds’ between republicans and the ‘Sticks’.

” I’d like more amenities for the young people , “ says Anne Stone , ” especially those born since this outbreak of ‘the troubles’ began . Now , our youngest girl’s fourteen , and from 1971 she’s been dragged out of her bed thousands of times wrapped only in a blanket , even when she was dying of ‘flu on one occasion . These children have seen nothing else , only Brits and RUC coming and dragging them out of their beds during early morning raids .”

[END of ‘BALLYMURPHY INTERVIEW’]
(NEXT - ‘BALLYMUN INTERVIEW’ : from 1982)

REPUBLICAN MOURNERS DEFEAT RUC…….
Between December 1983 and May 1987 , over 25 republican or nationalist funerals were systematically attacked by the RUC as a matter of deliberate British policy . The objective was to drive mourners off the streets so that later Britain could claim dwindling support for republicanism as ‘evidenced’ by the small numbers attending IRA funerals . As Jane Plunkett reports , the opposite happened . More and more people came out to defend the remains of republican dead , the RUC were exposed as being as brutal and sectarian as ever , and these two factors , combined with damaging international news coverage , eventually forced the British government to reverse its policy of attacking republican funerals .
From ‘IRIS’ magazine , October 1987.

The RUC and the British Army had doubled their numbers to prevent Larry Marley (video link here) being buried . It took seven hours of determined resistance , including sporadic fierce fighting , before Larry Marley was at last laid to rest . Several times in North Belfast , the RUC attempted to close in around the hearse , but they were held back by rows of resolute men and women with arms linked . At the bottom of the Falls Road , almost two thousand people waited for several hours for the cortege , while others congregated elsewhere .

The London ‘Guardian’ newspaper reported that it was - “…the biggest display of republican support since the hunger-strikes . In scenes reminiscent of the mid-1970’s , old women shook their fists at British soldiers leading a column of 35 Land Rovers at the front of the funeral procession up the Falls Road . Patients at the Royal Victoria Hospital came out into the streets in their dressing gowns and slippers to give support…” The world’s press watched events in Belfast , incredulously . Television pictures of armed RUC men attacking mourners , Soweto-style, flashed round the world .

At last , the Irish ‘establishment’ spoke : the attacks on the funeral and on the mourners were “…counter-productive..” , said Dungannon priest Fr. Denis Faul, and he was echoed by the SDLP’s John Hume and Seamus Mallon. ‘Counter-productive’ , that is , to their efforts to persuade nationalists to accept this Irish-based British ‘police force’ . (’1169…’ Comment : …and weak-kneeded nationalists are still calling for that!) They all failed to straightforwardly denounce the RUC . Ignoring the Marley family who, at a press conference, laid the blame on the RUC , Bishop Cahal Daly - balancing on a self-imposed ‘fence’ - accused both the (P)IRA and the RUC of “…intrusion into a family’s grief..” Then a top UVF loyalist was shot dead by the (P)IRA…….
(MORE LATER).

(UPDATE : At present,the available information regarding the visit of Anne Windsor has prompted the organisers of the protest to ask those attending the picket to assemble opposite Quinns Pub , at the entrance to Clonliffe Road , at 3.30PM , on Saturday February 23 next. Any change to these arrangements will be posted here.)

AN ENGLISH QUEEN.

Press Release/Preas Ráiteas
For release
16ú Feabhra/February 2008

British Royals not welcome in Ireland
Statement by the Vice President of Republican Sinn Féin Des Dalton

“Republican Sinn Féin will be actively protesting at the presence of a
representative of the British Crown in Croke Park on February 23. Such a
visit must be seen for what it is, part of the normalisation of British rule
in Ireland.
Anne Windsor will visit Croke Park not as a private individual but as the
representative of the British Crown. This is an institution which claims
sovereignty over six of the nine counties of Ulster, enforcing that claim
with an army of occupation.
For this reason no representative of the British Crown is welcome in any part
of Ireland.”
(Details of this protest will be announced shortly….*SEE ABOVE*)
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EASTER REPUBLICAN COMMEMORATIONS IN DUBLIN , 2008 -
For details of the three up-coming Dublin Easter 2008 Republican Commemorations , click here, here and here.

Sharon.

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(NOTE : for details of the three up-coming Dublin Easter 2008 Republican Commemorations , click here, here and here.)
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FROM THIS….

HENRY JOY McCRACKEN :

” It was on the Belfast mountains I heard a maid complain.
And she vexed the sweet June evening with her heart broken strain
Saying “Woe is me, life’s anguish is more than I can dree.
Since Henry Joy McCracken died on the gallows tree.”

Now on the Belfast mountains, this fair maid’s voice is still
For in a grave they laid her on high Carnmoney Hill
And the sad waves beneath her chant a requiem for the dead
And the rebel wind shrieks freedom above her weary head.”

…TO THIS.

As Liam Mellows predicted in the Treaty debate,on 4th January 1922 - “Men will get into positions , men will hold power , and men who get into positions and hold power will desire to remain undisturbed and will not want to be removed.”
Poor Mellows - even he could not predict just how low - to discuss the drinking habits of fictional characters in a soap opera - that those ‘positioned men’ will go in order to integrate themselves with their new-found ‘friends’. McGuinness and his like are truly an embarrassment to all things Irish , not to mention the shame they continue to visit on Irish Republicanism . He should stick to ‘Drama Critic’ comments in future and leave the issue of British interference on this isle to those of us that are still prepared to try and solve that problem . Of which he is a part.

THE CATHOLIC HIERARCHY - PROPPING-UP THE ORANGE STATE……..
At a press briefing on May 3rd, 1983, Bishop Cathal Daly declared that a vote for Sinn Fein was ‘a wasted vote’ , and that people should think seriously before risking being seen as ’supporting violence’ . As polling day approached , the rising crescendo of calls from Bishop Daly and other members of the Catholic hierarchy became increasingly explicit in their support for the SDLP. Against the background of this intervention into the arena of nationalist party politics , Patricia Collins sketches the role played by the leadership of the Catholic Church over the past fourteen years against nationalist resistance .
From ‘IRIS’ magazine , July 1983.

In his infamous 1983 ‘St Anne’s Speech’ , Bishop Cahal Daly stated - ” Just as unionists are fully justified in maintaining their political convictions , they are also justified in believing in the right and the duty under law to defend these political institutions against the threat of overthrow by armed uprising . There are some who choose to do so by service in security forces or in the police force . There are also people , and not all of them are unionists , who believe that in any civilised society there must be normal policing ; and who therefore choose policing as a career of service to the whole Northern Ireland community .

The republican paramilitary campaign of assassination of members of the UDR and of the RUC is equivalent to a campaign of shooting fellow Irishmen simply because they have different political convictions from nationalists . “ (’1169…’ Comment : the UDR and the RUC [and , indeed , the PSNI] were/are British-sponsored , salaried and armed wings of Westminster , whose function was/is to see to it that the British writ in Occupied Ireland runs smoothly . They were/are prepared to use force to enforce that writ) .

What real effects can all of this rhetoric have on the nationalist community ? Militarily oppressed , at the bottom of the economic and political heap , half a million nationalists cannot take kindly to Bishop Daly’s remarks on the ‘achievements’ of the Stormont regime and the right of unionists under law to ‘defend their political institutions……. ‘
(MORE LATER).

BALLYMURPHY INTERVIEW…….
From ‘IRIS’ magazine , July/August 1982.

On the early days of getting things organised in the then new Ballymurphy estate , Anne Stone said - ” We settled in , grateful to get a house . We had our ups and downs . When we came to the ‘Murph I never thought you could have bought a full stone of coal , and many’s the stone of coal we have bought since . We enjoyed life , our social life then was working , work and more work , to bring up the family . Our annual holiday was the weekend bus run to the All-Ireland final .”

Asked about the situation in Ballymurphy during August 1969 (British-provoked rioting broke out) , Anne Stone replied : ” We arrived back in Ballymurphy on the morning of August 15th . We’d been across in England for our eldest daughter’s wedding . The whole place here was ablaze . The people didn’t know what was happening then . When we moved into this terrace , of the five houses in it three were non-Catholic . No-one at first knew where they stood or what they believed in , only those who knew what Irish history was all about . “

On their imprisoned son , Liam , she said : ” Liam was imprisoned in 1976 on a 15-year sentence , the only man from Ballymurphy still in the Cages, and the longest-serving prisoner from Ballymurphy itself . What’s he going to come out to ? All his mates now are in the hell-holes of the H-Blocks. In 1972 he was working three nights a week in Kelly’s Bar for pocket money . He was unlucky enough to be there on May 13th , 1972 , when the bar was bombed in a sectarian attack , and he himself was shot . He was in the hospital for three months and came out on crutches . He had been going to St. Mary’s grammar school , but when he came out of hospital he just started going to St. Thomas’ secondary school . From when he went into Long Kesh our life has been cut in two……. “
(MORE LATER).

REPUBLICAN MOURNERS DEFEAT RUC…….
Between December 1983 and May 1987 , over 25 republican or nationalist funerals were systematically attacked by the RUC as a matter of deliberate British policy . The objective was to drive mourners off the streets so that later Britain could claim dwindling support for republicanism as ‘evidenced’ by the small numbers attending IRA funerals . As Jane Plunkett reports , the opposite happened . More and more people came out to defend the remains of republican dead , the RUC were exposed as being as brutal and sectarian as ever , and these two factors , combined with damaging international news coverage , eventually forced the British government to reverse its policy of attacking republican funerals .
From ‘IRIS’ magazine , October 1987.

On Sunday , April 5th , 1987 , members of the (P)IRA’s Belfast Brigade fired a volley of shots in final salute to their comrade Larry Marley, who had been shot dead in his home by the UVF on April 2nd . On Monday , the planned day of the funeral , the RUC saturated the Ardoyne area and repeatedly refused to move back from the family home to allow a 20-foot space on either side of the hearse .

On two consecutive days , the family decided to postpone Larry Marley’s funeral , because they feared that someone would be killed by the RUC and in order to ensure , in the words of Lawrence Marley Jr , ” that my father is buried with honour and dignity .” The RUC pretext for their aggression , once again , was the possibility of a (P)IRA firing party - in fact , photographs of Sunday’s firing party were already in circulation . The RUC’s real aim still was to humiliate mourners .

Local priests and the Marley family made frantic attempts to contact the Catholic Hierarchy , but got no help . On the second day of the siege , the RUC force was doubled and , by the third day , a sense of crisis permeated nationalist Belfast . Large crowds had attended evening protest meetings in West and North Belfast . On the Wednesday , thousands of people suspended their usual activities , came out of work and journeyed from distant towns , to ensure a dead republican his right to a dignified burial . The British crown forces increased their own numbers in anticipation . Scenes of hand-to-hand fighting were to follow…….
(MORE LATER).

“…young babies and adults , some ninety years of age..”

“Plunket carried out his biggest evictions in November 1860. During the preceding days large numbers of police were drafted into the area. Troops came from the surrounding towns and a company of the 24th Infantry from the Curragh. The local police did not take part. The people were terrified and the scenes of the helplessness and defeat and sadness were indescribable. Such troop movement had never been seen in the area. The eviction process lasted for three days.
On the first day a large eviction force under the command of Col. Knox, the Mayo High Sheriff, proceeded from Cappaduff bridge to begin the grizzly task. The houses were razed to the ground by the crowbar brigade and then handed over to Plunkett’s men. Fr Lavelle and the tenants looked on helplessly and made no resistance — they just accepted the finality of it all. Tenants on adjoining estates were warned not to interfere in any way such as providing shelter or solace to the evicted, so the unfortunates, some as old as ninety years and young babies, had to fend for themselves on the mountainside on a cold, wet November’s night…. “
(From here)

“The work of undermining the population is going on stealthily, but steadily. Each succeeding day witnesses its devastation - more terrible than the simoon and more deadly than the plague. We do not say that there exists a conspiracy to uproot the ‘mere Irish’; but we do aver, that the fearful system of wholesale ejectment, of which we daily hear, and which we daily behold, is a mockery of the eternal laws of God - a flagrant outrage of the principles of nature. Whole districts are cleared. Not a roof-tree is to be seen where the happy cottage of the labourer or the snug homestead of the farmer at no distant day cheered the landscape. The ditch side, the dripping rain, the cold sleet are the covering of the wretched outcast the moment the cabin is tumbled over him; for who dare give shelter of protection from ‘the pelting or the pitiless storm?’ Who has the temerity to afford him the ordinary rites of hospitality, when the warrant has been signed for his extinction… ? “
(From ‘The Tipperary Vindicator’ newspaper , 1844-1849, as quoted here)

“During the famous, or rather infamous, Partry evictions, an old man of eighty and a woman of seventy-four were amongst the number of those who suffered for their ancient faith. They were driven from the home which their parents and grandfathers had occupied, in a pitiless storm of sleet and snow. The aged woman utters some slight complaint; but her noble-hearted aged husband consoles her with this answer: “The sufferings and death of Jesus Christ were bitterer still.” Sixty-nine souls were cast out of doors that day. Well might the Times newspaper say: “These evictions are a hideous scandal; and the bishop should rather die than be guilty of such a crime.” Yet, who can count up all the evictions, massacres, tortures, and punishments which this people has endured…?”
(From here)
The root cause of the above barbarity is still militarily and politically represented on this isle . Some of the surviving generations of the above victims are determined that the evils which were inflicted on us will not be visited - or , indeed , even have the potential to be visited - on future generations . You can help…

BOOT-BOYS FOR THE ‘UNION’ …..

Former British soldier gets 3 years’ jail for urinating on dying woman.

‘A man who urinated on a disabled woman and sprayed her with shaving foam as she lay dying in the street was jailed for three years yesterday.
Anthony Anderson, 27, Hartlepool, was sentenced for outraging public decency when he degraded 50-year-old Christine Lakinski, who had collapsed in July this year.
Teesside Crown Court heard how Anderson, a former soldier, was celebrating his 27th birthday on the day he degraded his victim. She had been visiting friends and was walking home with some laminate flooring when she collapsed, striking her head as she fell.
She was spotted by a girlfriend of one of Anderson’s friends and a group gathered around her body. Anderson kicked her on the foot, then poured a bowl of water over her prone body, but she did not respond. Anderson then told his friends he was going to urinate on the woman as one of them filmed it on his mobile phone. In an ordeal lasting around 30 minutes Anderson also used shaving foam from a can to further degrade his victim.
Outside court, Ms Lakinski’s family read a statement, which said: “We would like to thank the judge for his decision to jail Anthony Anderson.
We hope that prison will give him time to reflect on his disgusting actions as well as the opportunity to look at his conscience.
We remain totally shocked that anyone could behave in such an appalling way.”

Anderson was with his friends Scott Clement and Simon Whitehead when the humiliation took place, the court heard. The group left her motionless on the pavement and no-one thought to ring an ambulance until they had got ready to go nightclubbing, some 20 minutes later. Paramedics arrived about an hour after she collapsed, and found no sign of life. A postmortem revealed she died from pancreatic failure. Police traced the 999 call to Mr Clement and Anderson was arrested that night in a nightclub.’
(From here.)

A not unusual example of the calibre and mentality of British ‘peace-keepers’ that have ’served their country’ , and not only on these shores . Not only are they unfit for any other job , but they are unfit to belong to the human race. May that poor woman Rest In Peace .

NOT WELCOME!

“Republicans throughout Ireland are strongly opposed to the impending visit by British Queen Elizabeth, who is also the British head of State, and will protest at this extravagant display of pomp and wealth.

We reject the fraudulent claims of the English Queen to be ‘Queen of Northern Ireland’ “.
-statement from Cathleen Knowles McGuirk, Vice-President Republican Sinn Féin , June 26 last year , and still relevant now.
The Dublin Executive of Republican Sinn Fein intends to protest the visit of this English queen by holding a peaceful picket at the GPO in O’Connell Street in Dublin on the day of her visit . All welcome!
“There is always more brass than brains in an aristocracy.”
- Oscar Wilde.