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[true ulster gael]

CIRA?? 

Nearly as funny as

We acknowledge and thank those near 1,250 voters who chose to oppose the RUC by voting for RSF or Gerry McGeough

nearly as many in the 26 counties that voted provisional sinn fein in elections for leinster house 15 years ago

our day will come

[heganboy]

1,250

just to put that in perspective rainbow george stood in only 4 constituencies and received 221votes (proportionally a higher vote)

[true ulster gael]

1,250

just to put that in perspective rainbow george stood in only 4 constituencies and received 221votes (proportionally a higher vote)

1250 votes were for mc geough and mc manus in fermanagh and south tyrone and not across the six counties

[heganboy]

1250 votes were for mc geough and mc manus in fermanagh and south tyrone and not across the six counties

Maybe- but don't you think its great that your boys are in the same ball park as a guys whose manifesto's main points are:

# New currency called the wonder

# Debts to become null and void

# Found music based REEL religion - under which everything is being filmed by cosmic agencies and when people go to 'rainbowland' they get a movie of their lives

# Invite bids from Hollywood to make a movie of how Belfast became a wonder city

[true ulster gael]

1250 votes were for mc geough and mc manus in fermanagh and south tyrone and not across the six counties

Maybe- but don't you think its great that your boys are in the same ball park as a guys whose manifesto's main points are:

# New currency called the wonder

# Debts to become null and void

# Found music based REEL religion - under which everything is being filmed by cosmic agencies and when people go to 'rainbowland' they get a movie of their lives

# Invite bids from Hollywood to make a movie of how Belfast became a wonder city

221/4=55.25 votes
please dont disgrace yourself comparing that to 1250 republican votes, or more than 22 times the joke vote

[Bensars]

1250 votes were for mc geough and mc manus in fermanagh and south tyrone and not across the six counties

Maybe- but don't you think its great that your boys are in the same ball park as a guys whose manifesto's main points are:

# New currency called the wonder

# Debts to become null and void

# Found music based REEL religion - under which everything is being filmed by cosmic agencies and when people go to 'rainbowland' they get a movie of their lives

# Invite bids from Hollywood to make a movie of how Belfast became a wonder city

221/4=55.25 votes
please dont disgrace yourself comparing that to 1250 republican votes, or more than 22 times the joke vote
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even the tree huggers beat them.

in regards of contributions, whose jobseekers allowance will be topped up ?

[true ulster gael]

1250 votes were for mc geough and mc manus in fermanagh and south tyrone and not across the six counties

Maybe- but don't you think its great that your boys are in the same ball park as a guys whose manifesto's main points are:

# New currency called the wonder

# Debts to become null and void

# Found music based REEL religion - under which everything is being filmed by cosmic agencies and when people go to 'rainbowland' they get a movie of their lives

# Invite bids from Hollywood to make a movie of how Belfast became a wonder city

221/4=55.25 votes
please dont disgrace yourself comparing that to 1250 republican votes, or more than 22 times the joke vote
[/quote

even the tree huggers beat them.

in regards of contributions, whose jobseekers allowance will be topped up ?

yours for mi5 work?

[heganboy]

please dont disgrace yourself comparing that to 1250 republican votes, or more than 22 times the joke vote

Sinn Fein 180,573 I think you'll find that is 144 times the joke vote(RSF)- it is a bit of a disgrace all right

[true ulster gael]

please dont disgrace yourself comparing that to 1250 republican votes, or more than 22 times the joke vote

Sinn Fein 180,573 I think you'll find that is 144 times the joke vote(RSF)- it is a bit of a disgrace all right

the provos got over 180000 votes in fermanagh and south tyrone?

[GweylTah]

please dont disgrace yourself comparing that to 1250 republican votes, or more than 22 times the joke vote

Sinn Fein 180,573 I think you'll find that is 144 times the joke vote(RSF)- it is a bit of a disgrace all right

the provos got over 180000 votes in fermanagh and south tyrone?

Why can't you just surrender in the way that the Provos did in the end, only the sooner the better so we don't have to go through the boredom of it all?

[true ulster gael]

please dont disgrace yourself comparing that to 1250 republican votes, or more than 22 times the joke vote

Sinn Fein 180,573 I think you'll find that is 144 times the joke vote(RSF)- it is a bit of a disgrace all right

the provos got over 180000 votes in fermanagh and south tyrone?

Why can't you just surrender in the way that the Provos did in the end, only the sooner the better so we don't have to go through the boredom of it all?

why dont the brits just leave ireland?
true republicans will never surrender

[heganboy]

Balls, wanted to get in first, but why don't the unionists do as they were told in 1921 by their king and prime minister and unite the country.
George V and Lloyd George, the voices of Irish nationalism
Or did they surrender too?

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From 'IN DUBLIN' magazine, August 1985 .

MICHAEL KELLY : " What did you think of your party's results in the local elections in Dublin ? They were much less than half the ten percent in the North ."

GERRY ADAMS : " I think the results were most striking for a party of our size . We got a sizeable vote in the areas where we stood . It took the Workers' Party a long time to build up anywhere near the same vote and in quite a few areas we beat the Labour Party. I think that what an awful lot of people forget is that we did that while censored by Section 31.

No spokesperson for our party was interviewed by any of the main daily newspapers or by RTE radio or television . I'm quite sure that if the Labour Party or the Workers' Party were to be censored like that , they wouldn't exist today . So our vote was quite respectable . "

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THE Stormont Agreement of 1998, signed by the British Government and the Provisionals, removed political status from Republican prisoners in the jails in the British-Occupied Six Counties. Since then the British have pursued a policy of criminalisation and conditions have deteriorated so much so that on June 19, 2006 the POWs escalated their campaign to win back POW status. They are refusing to eat their meals in their cells and are only taking food, purchased in the tuck shop, during unlock. As a result their health is suffering.

Presently the men in Maghaberry jail are:


locked into their cells for between 21 and 23 hours per day;
strip-searched constantly, one prisoner received 1,135 rubdown searches and 31 strip searches in a six month period;
made to chose between daily exercise and education. The right of the prisoners to organise their own education, ie handcraft, Irish language and history classes, etc is denied them. Hankies made by the POWs were either destroyed or confiscated by prison staff;
restricted in their movement within the landings. Controlled movement ensures that no more than three prisoners are permitted out of their cells at any one time on any one landing and each prisoner is accompanied by two members of prison staff;
subjected to either a closed visit or no visit if the drugs dog sits beside a visitor as he/she is being searched on entering the prison. No Republican POW has ever been found in possession of drugs.
denied proper medical care. Access to a doctor is only once a week.
subjected to loss of remission though this practice was banned by the European Court of Human Rights in 2002.
often denied compassionate parole. POWs have been offered restricted parole of six hours for family funerals. On returning from parole they are placed in solitary confinement for 48 hours.
Visitors have been at the receiving end of loyalist threats when visiting the Republican POWs.
Republican Sinn Féin Poblachtach POW Department
223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1
Phone: Dublin 872 9747; FAX: 872 9757; email: saoirse@iol.ie
229 Falls Road Belfast
Phone: Belfast 90 319004, email: rsfbelfast2006@yahoo.co.uk

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ON this the 91st anniversary of the 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic, the Leadership of the Republican Movement sends greetings to members, supporters and friends throughout the world. We send a special greeting to our imprisoned comrades in Portlaoise and Maghaberry, Co Antrim and applaud the continual prison protest in Maghaberry which has been ongoing since last June. On this note we would like to extend our appreciation to the Republican Prisoners Action Group who have organised and promoted the outside activity in support of the protesting prisoners. We would like to thank all groups and all people who supported these protests.

Over the course of this Easter weekend comrades and supporters of the Republican Movement will assemble at gravesides, memorials and monuments to fallen comrades from many generations who have given their lives for the cause of Irish National Liberation. This year many of us will assemble with a heavy heart following the further betrayal of the All-Ireland Republic by former comrades who have taken yet a another step in treachery with their recognition of the RUC/PSNI, and their further acceptance and administering of British Rule in the occupied six northern counties. True Republicans will have watched with horror the antics and political posturing of the Provisional Leadership over the last twelve months in their attempts to placate militant Paisleyism and their eagerness to hold a special Ard-Fheis to rush through a motion to support the armed wing of the British Oppressor. The true Republican Leadership will never compromise and will never accept British Rule in any part of our Country.

In recent weeks we have seen yet another election to a British controlled assembly in the occupied part of our country. We note the involvement of Republican Sinn Féin who fielded abstentionist candidates and we applaud all of those candidates, their agents and supporters who fought a superb political campaign against very difficult odds. We also congratulate all candidates who contested these elections on an abstentionist basis. Supporters should remember that the struggle for Irish National Liberation has never been measured by the number of votes which our movement have been afforded but by the commitment of the small numbers who have remained steadfast and loyal to the Irish Republic.

Our history has shown that the men and women of 1916 who proclaimed the Irish Republic were besmirched and indeed spat upon following the historic Proclamation. We should remember that political change can often take place very quickly and dramatically as was seen by the Election results just two years later in 1918.

Over the past twelve months our members and supporters were subjected to continued harassment, arrests and false imprisonment on both sides of border. This is something that we have come to accept, and is a clear indication to everyone that nothing has changed, regardless of what many might think. True Republicans have always experienced such treatment but let our message be clear: we will not be intimidated or derailed from our continued resistance to British Occupation. We urge our members to be ever vigilant.

THERE have been further overtures to our Leadership from a number of British agents in various guises, including the Provisionals, to advance what they think will put into place the final piece of their sordid jigsaw for British Rule in Ireland. We say to all such on-comers that the Republican movement will not yield to any such agents. We are not for sale and we cannot be bought. This message should be understood by all our members, supporters and friends. There have also been continual attempts to besmirch the Republican Movement by associating them with drugs, criminality and to recent murders in Belfast. The Leadership of the Continuity Irish Republican Army has already categorically denied involvement in any of this activity and reiterates it once more in this statement.

Due to the treachery of others our struggle faces greater obstacles than before, but this leadership is aware that there has always been a significant body of opinion in Ireland opposed to British Rule. The task of the Republican movement in the immediate future is to organise, harness and lead that support in opposition to foreign rule and British Imperialism. For this purpose we re-dedicate ourselves this Easter day. An Phoblacht Abú!
— Issued by the Leadership of the Republican Movement, Easter 2007.