Monday, February 11, 2002

Charlie Kerins remembered in Tralee On December 7 Republicans gathered in Tralee to pay their respects to Charlie Kerins who was hanged in 1942 by the English hangman, Pierpoint, imported by the Fianna Fáil administration to do the dirty deed, to commit murder on a brave honourable Irish soldier.The parade assembled at the Pikeman in the town centre and was led by a piper to the Charlie Kerins Monument in Strand Street where Charlie was reared and his two sisters still live. Comments: 8:58:44 AM

Solidarity Extended After Execution of Post Worker from The Starry Plough Feb 2002 The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) General President James Hoffa, issued a message of solidarity to workers in the six counties following the killing of Daniel McColgan in early January. Comments: 8:53:11 AM

Republicans Acknowledging A Democratic Basis To Partition Anthony McIntyre 10/02/2002 The notion of republicans accepting the necessity of winning unionist consent for a united Ireland, despite stirring considerable media interest throughout the week, is not a new element devoid of all previous trace and suddenly inserted into Sinn Fein discourse. Although one historian of the IRA, J Bowyer Bell, claimed some time ago that all republicans would regard as heresy any endorsement of the unionist claim to a right to veto the unity of Ireland, Sinn Fein on their journey to becoming what some critics term [OE]Provisional Fianna Fail[base '] were as eager to slaughter that sacred cow as they have been to do likewise with many others. Comments: 8:42:06 AM

Black week remembered The first week in February ten years ago was an awful one, with ten civilians and an IRA Volunteer shot dead and more wounded. In two separate gun attacks in Belfast, one by the UDA, the other by an RUC man, eight people lost their lives. Five Catholics died and many others were injured when a loyalist gang attacked a crowded Sean Graham bookies on the Ormeau Road and three people, two of them Sinn Féin members, died when an RUC man attacked Sinn Féin's offices in Sevastopol Street. North Belfast black taxi driver Pádraig Ó Cléirigh was shot dead in his home on 2 February and the family of Lisburn Catholic Paul Moran, shot dead on 30 January, laid the 32-year-old victim of loyalists to rest. On 6 February, IRA Volunteer Joe MacManus was shot dead on active service in Fermanagh. Comments: 8:40:00 AM

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