Monday, April 28, 2003

Kerry -- Call on Ferris to stay away April 20, 2003 The sight of Kerry's Provo TD Martin Ferris attending at Easter Rising ceremonies was a sickening exercise in political hypocrisy, the local branch of Republican Sinn Féin said today. Not only have the Provos abandoned any Republican ideal, they have done so in a manner calculated to give the greatest insult to those who hold our traditions dear, said RSF North Kerry spokesman John O'Shea from Ballylongford. The Provisionals must now give up not only their Republican ideals, but their guns and bombs, their principles, and they must give up their comrades," said Mr. O'Shea. They must purge themselves of the past, all at the behest of the British because the simple truth is that they are in the pay of the British Crown! They have abandoned and betrayed Republicans; they have obtained their positions of political power by crawling over the backs of dead volunteers of the Irish Republican Army. It gives me no pleasure to say it but we must face the reality that the threat to the Republic is grave. Former comrades have recognised Leinster House - they have entered Stormont - they have become Crown Ministers - they have decommissioned and called off the war - they have lied and cheated - they have twisted and betrayed - they have no right to regard themselves as Republicans! Therefore let Deputy Ferris and his crowd stay away from the graves of the Republican dead in future -their presence is an insult to all those who have died in the cause of Irish freedom. 7:56:36 AM     Dublin -- The Irish nation still exists April 20, 2003 Video footage of Dublin Easter Commemoration The British presence in Ireland will continue to be opposed by Republicans, the vice-president of Republican Sinn Féin told an Easter Sunday ceremony at the GPO in Dublin. Limerick-based Des Long, vice president of RSF said that Republicans will never abandon the right of the Irish nation to a new and united Ireland. Our present message based on the foundation of the 1916 Rising is that the Irish nation still exists - that there is a continuity of struggle to the generations that have gone before us, he said. The Irish nation is still struggling for national liberation and there are people here who have never surrendered to British imperialism and colonialism - and who never will! The trial of Robert Emmet at the Green Street courthouse 200 years has also given Irish history one of its greatest aspirations - Today his epitaph has not been written and cannot be written because the island of Ireland has yet to take its place among the nations of the earth. The ideal of a united and free Ireland is under grave threat....and those who adhere to the political philosophy of national self-determination are under constant harassment and intimidation from the political police of the 26 and 6 County statelets. All repression and suspension of human rights is now justified in the name of tackling terror - but as Republicans we see a clear distinction between what Bush and Blair consider terror and a genuine war of national liberation! We have to stand up and be counted when it comes to the desire for national self- determination - the national desire for freedom from foreign rule can never be regarded as terror - and the imposition of the initial injustice - be it invasion or conquest or the sheer brutalisation of a people - will always lead to resistance on the part of those oppressed. Even the Police Commissioner of the 26 County Administration is on record (Irish News,15th March 20000) as saying that as long as there is a British military presence in Ireland, there will be an Irish Republican Army to oppose it. 7:48:23 AM

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