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>     Tuesday/Wednesday, 13/14 June, 2000
> 
> 
> 1.  SCHOOLS SET ABLAZE AS MARCHING TENSIONS GROW
> 2.  Trimble urged to explain threatening remark
> 3.  Bomb aimed at silencing nationalists
> 4.  Sinn Fein backs Springfield residents
> 5.  US call for monitoring of Orange marches
> 6.  Death of 'Cleeky' Clarke
> 7.  Huge Edinburgh march to commemorate Connolly
> 8.  Analysis: The lights are on but nobody is home
> 
> 9.  Protest againt British Army band in Dublin
> 10. Events in Ireland and Britain
> 
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> 
> >>>>>> SCHOOLS SET ABLAZE AS MARCHING TENSIONS GROW
>  
>  
>  Loyalists in County Antrim set two Catholic primary schools
>  on fire last night in a growing campaign of sectarian violence and
>  intimidation as the height of the Protestant "marching season"
>  looms.
>  
>  No-one was hurt in the fires at St. Joseph's in Ahoghill and St
>  Mary's primary schools in Ballymena, which suffered fire and
>  smoke damage. Following arson attacks on churches in Portadown,
>  South Belfast and nearby Cushendall, the school burnings make
>  clear that loyalists have embarked on a wave of terror in order
>  to to force their marches through Catholic areas this summer.
>  
>  Orangemen in Portadown and their loyalist supporters have alrady
>  formulated a plan to create ten days of disruption and mayhem
>  around the Drumcree parade through the nationalist Garvaghy Road,
>  the march which has led to major conflagrations in recent years.
>  And there was little surprise when Orangemen announced on
>  Wednesday that they would continue to refuse to meet the Parades
>  Commission, the body which is empowered to re-route sectarian
>  parades away from nationalist areas.
>  
>  The Orange Order has lodged an application with the Parades
>  Commission for the main Drumcree march to take place on Sunday 2
>  July instead of 9 July, a week earlier than originally planned.
>  Senior Orange men were quoted saying that in effect there would
>  be two episodes of Drumcree this year. The Order has since upped
>  the ante further by lodging applications to parade every day
>  until 9 July.
>  
>  The malign influence of loyalist paramilitaries is again being
>  seen a factor in the Orangemen's plans.  Notorious leading
>  loyalist, Johnny Adair,  has reportedly thrown his support behind
>  the Portadown Orangemen.  The news has rung alarm bells amongst
>  Portadown nationalists and comes against the backdrop of a
>  strengthening of links between the dissident Loyalist Volunteer
>  Force and the larger UDA/UFF, led by Adair.
>  
>  A series of sectarian attacks have also sharpened fears of more
>  violence during the summer. It has emerged that a fire in the
>  porch of St. John's chapel on the Garvaghy Road was sectarian. A
>  similar fire broke out at St. Malaghy's church in the Ormeau Road
>  area of Belfast. The idea that both attacks were "coincidences"
>  was ruled out, as both Ormeau and Garvaghy Road residents are
>  demanding the rerouting of Loyal Order parades.
>  
>  A fire at St Mary's church in Cushendall, County Antrim on Monday
>  is being linked to the school burnings in the same area last
>  night. Loyalist efforts to march through the nationalist village
>  of Dunloy are a traditional focus of sectarian summer violence in
>  County Antrim.  Marching season tensions were the motivation
>  behind the murder of three young Catholic brothers in an arson
>  attack at Ballymoney two years ago and a marathon campaign of
>  intimidation at the Catholic church in Harryville outside
>  Ballymena.
>  
>  But is in Portadown where the worst violence usually occurs.
>  After a so-called mini-Twelfth parade in Portadown town centre on
>  Saturday, a Catholic taxi driver was attacked by upwards of 20
>  loyalists as he drove along the Corcrain Road in Portadown.
>  
>  The night after, cars and buses carrying gaelic sports fans home
>  from the Ulster Football Championship match were also attacked.
>  The roadway was blocked by number of obstructions, forcing the
>  cars and buses to slow down. Loyalists then attacked the vehicles
>  with missiles.
>  
>  Windows in a numbers of vehicles were smashed and passengers
>  showered with broken glass. One minibus carried 16 passengers,
>  many of them young children had its windscreen smashed and its
>  driver struck by a missile. Luckily, he managed to maintain
>  control of the vehicle, averting a serious accident.
>  
>  Meanwhile, Upper Bann Assembly member Dr Dara O Hagan has
>  slammed the Parades Commission decision to allow an Orange march
>  in nearby Lurgan on June 17.
>  
>  "This decision is completely incomprehensible," says Dr O'Hagan.
>  "This is a march which goes nowhere. The Orange Order march along
>  William Street and then turn and come back down it again. The
>  only possible reason for this can be to annoy nationalists."
>  
>  The decision followed a refusal by the Commission to meet local
>  Sinn Fein representatives.
>  
>  Amid fears that it is caving into threats of loyalist violence,
>  Dr O'Hagan said the Commission had questions to answer.
>  
>  "Why have they done a turn-aroound on their previous decisions?"
>  she asked. "Why did they refuse to meet Sinn Fein?  Why did they
>  not notify the interested parties of their decision?"
>  
>  
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> 
> >>>>>> Trimble urged to explain threatening remark
>  
>  
>  Sinn Fein today criticised an apparent threat by Ulster Unionist
>  leader David Trimble, who today warned of "a serious problem" if
>  there is not an IRA move on arms within weeks.
>  
>  Trimble said he expected a "confidence building" measure by the
>  IRA very soon. He warned: "If it does not within weeks, then of
>  course there will be a serious problem with regard to confidence
>  being sustained in the operation."
>  
>  Assembly member Gerry Kelly asked if Trimble was insinuating that
>  he could be arguing for the collapse of the North's institutions
>  once again.
>  
>  Kelly pointed out that the IRA had made commitments after the
>  Hillsborough talks which were "based on the implementation of the
>  Good Friday Agreement".
>  
>  He added: "If we don't get a proper policing service, the process
>  is in serious trouble.
>  
>  "If we do not implement the Good Friday Agreement, then the
>  process is in trouble.
>  
>  "My difficulty when I hear David talking like that is that what
>  is he doing? Is he insinuating, if not a date, that he has some
>  idea and at some stage he is going to argue with the institutions
>  to be brought down again?
>  
>  "He needs to explain what that means. I certainly hope that is
>  not what it means because people who voted for the Good Friday
>  Agreement and want it to work cannot afford more threats of
>  bringing down the institutions."
>  
>  Mr Kelly also said that British Secretary of State Peter
>  Mandelson is facing "a mammoth task" if he is going to bring the
>  Police Bill into line with the recommendations of the Patten
>  Commission on Policing.
>  
>  Earlier today Pater Mandelson, said he was "absolutely determined
>  to implement the Patten recommendations and to achieve the
>  effective and representative policing service - accepted in every
>  part of Northern Ireland - that his report aimed to secure."
>  
>  But the legislation to implement the proposals has been strongly
>  condemned by nationalists as incapable of introducing a new
>  cross-community policing service to replace the pro-unionist RUC.
>  
>  The Northern Secretary insisted that the overwhelming majority of
>  the Patten report's recommendations had remained unchanged in the
>  bill, which is currently going through the committee stage in the
>  British parliament.
>  
>  "I have made it clear that I will move the government's position
>  to meet the concerns of my critics, wherever they are justified,"
>  Mandelson added.
>  
>  Kelly said he was confident the Police Bill could be changed but
>  the question remained, was there the will to do it.
>  
>  "The Policing Bill as it sits has reversed and diluted Patten,"
>  he said. "You know that the republican position was that Patten
>  was not enough. You know that it was a compromise to use Patten
>  as a means to move forward but we are trying to take what has
>  been presented in the report and turn it into something which
>  nationalists and republicans will accept.
>  
>  "At this moment in time, the bill, as we see it, certainly does
>  not do that."
>  
>  Mr Kelly stressed that there must be fundamental reform of
>  policing in the North and that nationalists and republicans could
>  never accept a force similar to the discredited RUC.
>  
>  
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> 
> 
> >>>>>> Bomb aimed at silencing nationalists
>  
>  
>  The bomb which exploded at the rear of a house in Annalong last
>  week was "an attempt to silence the nationalist community" in
>  South Down in advance of an Orange band parade through the area
>  in three weeks time, according to Martin Connolly of the Mourne
>  Nationalists for Equality group.
>  
>  He said that "loyalist dissidents", were behind the bombing on
>  Wednesday last week, which could have killed or seriously injured
>  the two women living in the house.
>  
>  Connolly said that residents are opposed to the proposed band
>  parade, for which the predominantly Catholic estate is put under
>  virtual siege, and that the attack is a preemptive attempt to
>  "silence objections".
>  
>  The back of the Sherbey Drive house, where Anne Marie Cowen lives
>  with her 20-year-old daughter, Marie, was wrecked in the no
>  warning pipe bomb blast. According to Anne Marie Cowen, the bomb
>  exploded at 11pm, and although she and her daughter, who was
>  asleep upstairs, were uninjured, both women suffered shock.
>  
>  Martin Connolly also criticised the RUC, who played down the
>  attack, saying they had not established a motive for the bombing.
>  But it has been disclosed that the bomb used to attack the Cowen
>  home was similar to those found outside Castlewellan before
>  Easter.
>  
>  Those bombs, found near the loyalist village of Clough, which has
>  been labeled, "a centre of loyalist activity", were a new and
>  more sophisticated loyalist device.
>  
>  The bombs were primed and ready for use and it was thought at the
>  time they were to be used to attack the Easter Commemoration in
>  Castlewellan.
>  
>  Connolly said the Mourne Residents would now be seeking an
>  "urgent" meeting with the Parades Commission to stress that they
>  need "to take action regarding this route and that the parade
>  shouldn't be allowed into a nationalist residential area".
>  
> 
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> 
> 
> >>>>>> Sinn Fein backs Springfield residents
>  
>  
>  Lower Falls Sinn Fein Councillor Tom Hartley has voiced his
>  support for the residents of the Springfield Road who last week
>  began a series of protests which are set to continue this week
>  against the Orange march proposed for the area on 24 June.
>  
>  "The situation on the Springfield Road is one of the most
>  ridiculous of all the contentious parades," said Hartley. "The
>  Orange Order goes out of its way to march through a nationalist
>  area. The gates at the peace line, which remain closed all year,
>  are opened on this one day to facilitate this parade.
>  
>  "Residents are subjected to nightly sectarian attacks.
>  
>  "It is time for the Orange Order to recognise the depth of
>  feeling which exists within the Springfield Road community in
>  relation to this parade. This can only be done through meaningful
>  dialogue. In the absence of this, the parade must be rerouted
>  away from nationalist homes."
>  
>  
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> 
> 
> >>>>>> US call for monitoring of Orange marches
>  
>  
>  Benjamin Gilman, Chairperson of the US House International
>  Relations Committee, has joined with the Irish-American Unity
>  Conference in calling for international observers to monitor this
>  year's sectarian marches in the Six Counties.
>  
>  Gilman declared that such marches are corrosive to peace and
>  reconciliation in Ireland:
>  
>  "These marches should be eliminated in their entirety since they
>  undermine the intentions of the Good Friday Agreement by
>  insulting Catholics and inciting civil unrest. If this goal
>  cannot be met at the present moment, then the marches should be
>  closely monitored by the international community in order to
>  deter the possibility of any violence.
>  
>  "On the heels of the re-establishment of the power-sharing
>  government in the north of Ireland, there is an expectation that
>  the terms of the Good Friday Agreement will be completed quickly,
>  including the realisation of a comprehensive programme of human
>  rights legislation," Gilman noted.
>  
>  He said that the marching season had come to the fore once again
>  because of the April through October sectarian marches that are
>  predominantly initiated by the Loyal Orders, a secret society
>  which Catholics are prohibited from joining.
>  
>  Gilman has joined with an array of Irish-American groups and
>  international human rights organisations, among them Amnesty
>  International and Human Rights Watch, in denouncing these marches
>  as sectarian in nature and an impediment to the reconciliation
>  envisaged in the Good Friday Agreement.
>  
>  Gilman said the House International Relations Comittee supports
>  the work of international observers and urges other qualified
>  people to contribute in a similar way to help bring about
>  reconciliation in Ireland.
>  
>  
>  
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> 
> 
> >>>>>> Death of 'Cleeky' Clarke
>  
>  The death has occurred, on Tuesday 13 June, after a lengthy
>  illness, of prominent Belfast republican Terence 'Cleeky' Clarke.
>  "I came to know and love him as a brother," said Sinn Fein
>  President Gerry Adams in tribute to a man who, in recent years,
>  was security coordinator for the Sinn Fein leadership. "In the
>  good times and the bad times he was always there. He never
>  hesitated, never shirked any challenge and always did his best." 
>  A full obituary will be published later this week.
>  
>  
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> 
> 
> >>>>>> Huge Edinburgh march to commemorate Connolly
>  
>  Despite threats from loyalists to disrupt this year's James
>  Connolly commemoration march in Edinburgh the event passed off
>  peacefully.
>  
>  Jim Slaven of the James Connolly Society said that this year's
>  march, held on June 10, was the biggest in years, with over 2,000
>  people attending. Many of the marchers carried Disband the RUC
>  posters.
>  
>  In the run up to the march, loyalists had threatened to disrupt
>  the event and, using an LVF web site, called on loyalists to
>  travel into Edinburgh, "to assist in the destruction of the IRA".
>  
>  South Belfast Sinn Fein councillor Sean Hayes was one of the main
>  speakers at the rally and he told the crowd to redouble their
>  efforts "to ensure that the only true legacy of James Connolly,
>  the establishment of an Irish socialist republican, is finally
>  realised".
>  
>  
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> 
> 
> >>>>>> Analysis: The lights are on but nobody is home
>  
>  
>  BY ROBBIE MacGABHANN
>  
>  
>  
>  If you were Irish Prime Minister, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, what
>  would be top of your 'to do' list this week?
>  
>  Granted, it's a packed list, with a housing crisis, runaway
>  inflation, ongoing political corruption from the foot soldiers of
>  destiny to the generals, a peace process under pressure, a
>  refugee policy in tatters, the O'Flaherty appointment. In fact,
>  the list goes on and on.
>  
>  Yes, Bertie is busy, but you get the distinct feeling that this
>  government is a rudderless ship lurching from problem to problem
>  without any real plan of where they want to be. The three years
>  of the Fianna Fail/Progressive Democrat coalition has seen them
>  trading on two central pillars.
>  
>  The first is the peace process and yes, Fianna Fail did manage to
>  fill a gap that Fine Gael and others clearly weren't prepared to
>  fill. But that doesn't necessarily mean that trophies were given
>  out and every cabinet member gets a badge sewn onto their sleeve.
>  
>  The second plank holding up the coalition is the growing economy,
>  over which it is becoming increasingly clear that Fianna Fail and
>  the PDs actually have little or no control. Other than that,
>  everywhere you look there is failure. Hospital waiting lists are
>  growing. The Eircom privatisation was a sham. The U-turn of
>  Partnership for Peace is still not supported, even by many of
>  their own party members. The housing crisis has clearly not been
>  tackled effectively. The refugee and immigration policies adopted
>  by the government are also clearly not working and are basically
>  unjust.
>  
>  What we have is a band aid government only implementing cheap PR
>  fixes that might or might not hold up until the next election.
>  
>  This week it is housing and inflation that gets the quick fix.
>  Inflation hit 5.2% this week as figures released by the Central
>  Statistics Office showed increasing oil and mortgage prices
>  causing knock costs for households. The 5.2% inflation rate means
>  that the 5% wage increase promised under the Programme for
>  Prosperity and Fairness has been wiped out. In reality, the
>  partnership agreement has been dealt a knock out blow. Time will
>  tell whether the establishment parties realise that.
>  
>  If we had a more effective trade union leadership, the Dublin
>  Government would be on the rack and the unfinished issues of
>  childcare, a real minimum wage, adequate social welfare payments,
>  housing, education and health services could all be dealt with.
>  Don't hold your breath waiting for the dynamic duo of Cassells
>  and Geraghty coming to save us, though.
>  
>  What about [opposition leader] John Bruton? What was his line of
>  attack in such a target-rich environment? Well, John was outraged
>  this week. He even managed to get Leinster House suspended twice
>  as he expressed this outrage. John wasn't worried about
>  inflation, housing, health etc. He had suddenly realised that
>  cabinet procedures had been breached in the appointment of
>  [discredited High Court judge] Hugh O'Flaherty to the European
>  Investment Bank. They should have got two weeks notice of the
>  proposed appointment.
>  
>  It must be fairly obvious that not following procedures is just
>  one of the many faults this coalition government have. Why has
>  John Bruton never expressed such outrage about health, housing,
>  poverty childcare funding?
>  
>  There are massive travesties in social justice being perpetrated
>  by this government yet Bruton still managed to miss the open
>  goal.
>  
>  Bertie must be laughing at the ineptitude of his opposition, not
>  only in Leinster House but also among the social partners. It
>  seems that throughout the political establishment the lights are
>  on but absolutely nobody is home.
>  
>  
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> 
> >>>>>>> Protest againt British Army band in Dublin
>  
>  
>  A protest against the visit to Dublin of a British Army Band is
>  to be held outside the National Concert Hall on Friday 23 June.
>  The Band of the Irish Guards Regiment of the British Army is to
>  perform there in a joint concert with the Dublin government's
>  Defence Forces No. 1 Band. The South Armagh Farmers and
>  
>  Residents Committee has called on people to protest at the visit
>  which they say is part of the British Army's public relations
>  effort to hide their ongoing occupation of areas like South
>  Armagh.The protest at the visit is at 7pm sharp outside the
>  National Concert Hall on 23 June. In a reply to a Dail Question
>  from Sinn Fein TD Caoimhghin O Caolain on 7 June Defence Minister
>  Michael Smith said he was "agreeable to the proposed
>  participation by the Defence Forces in the concert as visits of
>  this kind are normal between friendly countries".
>  
> 
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> 
> 
> >>>>>> Events in Ireland and Britain
>  
>  
>  SF PUB QUIZ: 8.30pm Thursday 15 June, Ruby Finegan's pub,
>  BALLYFERMOT, County Dublin. Organised by Ballyfermot SF
>  
>  PICKET: Disband the RUC: Justice for Robert Hamill and Rosemary
>  Nelson. 2-3pm Saturday 17 June, St Catherine's Church, Thomas
>  Street, DUBLIN. Organised by the Joe Clarke SF Cumann
>  
>  ANTI-DRUGS PICKET: 12.30-1.30pm Saturday 17 June, Crumlin
>  Shopping Centre, DUBLIN.
>  
>  IRISH NIGHT: Featuring the Irish Brigade. Saturday 17 June, the
>  Mountview Hotel, DERRYLIN. Taille #5
>  
>  DISBAND RUC PICKET: 11am Saturday 17 June, RUC Barracks,
>  CRAIGAVON, County Armagh. The picket is to raise awareness of the
>  increased harassment of nationalists in Craigavon and will call
>  for the RUC to be Disbanded. All welcome
>  
>  COISTE NA N-LARCHIMI. What's the Journey Political Education
>  Programme, seminar. 11am Saturday 17 June. St Mary's University
>  College, 191 Falls Road, BELFAST, County Antrim. Republicanism
>  and the Good Friday Agreement.   Speaker: Brian Feeney
>  
>  BODENSTOWN BUSES: 18 June.  CORK CITY, contact Mick Nugent on 311
>  389. Taille #10; DUBLIN: South Inner City. Leaves Ringsend
>  Village at 12.30pm, Widow Scallan's 12.45pm, St Cathrine's
>  Church, Thomas Street at 1pm. Northeast. Leaves Kilbarrack Fire
>  Station at 10.15am, Darndale Roundabout at 10.3oam, Norhside
>  Shopping Centre at 10.45am, Ballymun at 11am. Taille #4.
>  Rathfarnham. Hillview, 11am, Fire Station Nutgrove, 11.15am,
>  Yellow House 11.20am, Furrytbog 11.30am, Jobstown Inn 11.45am.
>  Taille #5. DUN LAOGHAIRE: Departs Corbawn Tavern, Shankill at
>  10.15am, Crazy Prizes at 10.30am, Easons Dun Laoghaire at
>  10.45am. Taille #5. Contact 087-6887296 for details. LIMERICK:
>  Leaves Pennys at 10am. Taille #10. Contact Maurice on 086-8258125
>  
>  BODENSTOWN FUNCTION: Featuring Spirit of Freedom. 8pm Sunday 18
>  June, Widow Scallan's, Pearse Street, DUBLIN. Taille #4.
>  Organised by Dublin Sinn Fein
>  
>  PUBLIC MEETING: Dr Niel Cherry from Auckland New Zealand on
>  health issues and mobile phone masts. 7pm Monday 19 June, Wynn's
>  Hotel, DUBLIN. Organised by Communities against Microwave
>  Radiation. Contact Collette O'Connell for details on 353 5841910
>  
>  VIDEO SHOW: The Latest Film on Nationalist, Re - Route Sectarian
>  Marches. 7.30pm Monday 19 June, The Union Club, 723 Pershore
>  Road, Selly Park BIRMINGHAM, England
>  
>  OGRA SF RELAUNCH: Relaunch of Ogra Shinn Fein Dublin. 7.30pm,
>  Wednesday 21 June 44 Parnell Square, DUBLIN. Anybody wishing
>  further details should contact Brian at (01) 8726100
>  
>  FUNCTION: Featuring Shebeen. 8pm Saturday 24 June, Christ Church,
>  DUBLIN. Adm #7. Organised by Hugh Hehir RFB
>  
>  BUS TRIP:  To Kilmainham Jail, organised by the St James
>  Ex-Prisoners Group. Sunday 25 June. Bus leaves Park Centre Gates
>  on the Donegal Road, BELFAST, County Antrim at 9am sharp. Taille
>  #6 Adults, #3 Children
>  
>  REPUBLICAN COMMEMORATION: Dan Darragh commemoration. Assemble
>  4.30pm  Sunday 25 June, Hill Head, BALLYCASTLE, County Antrim.
>  All bands welcome. Tel: 028/207 68647
>  
>  VOLUNTEER COMMEMORATION: 27th annual Volunteer Dermot Crowley
>  commemoration. Assemble 3pm Sunday 25 June, Rathcooney Strawberry
>  Farm, BALLYVOLANE, County Cork and march to Rathcooney Cemetery.
>  Speaker: Cllr Jonathon O'Brien. Youghal RFB in attendance;
>  Followed by function 4.30-8pm afterwards in the Fob and Gill,
>  Mayfield. Ballads by Shananagins and youghal RFB. Organised by
>  the Ahern/Crowley SF Cumann, info from Mick Nugent on 311 389 or
>  087-6755783
>  
>  SF FUNDRAISER: Featuring the Irish Brigade. 8pm Friday 30 June,
>  Willies Andies Bar, MITCHELSTOWN, County Cork. Taille #5
>  
>  IRISH REBEL NIGHT: Featuring the Bard of Armagh. Friday 30 June,
>  Molly Nahuire's pub, BALLYCONNELL, County Cavan
>  
>  IRISH NIGHT: Featuring Sean Nos. Friday 30 June, Hugh Byrne's,
>  Louth Village, DUNDALK, County Louth.
>  
>  REPUBLICAN FUNCTION: Featurng the Irish Brigade. 8pm Saturday 1
>  July, CIE Club, Arcadia, CORK. Tickets #5, available from SF
>  office, Barrack St. Organised by the Cork Republican
>  Commemoration Committee
>  
>  ANTI-ORANGE PARADE PROTEST: The Springfield Road Residents Group
>  will hold protests against the Whiterock Orange parade, due to
>  march along the Springfield Road, at the end of June. Assemble
>  4.30pm Lanark Way on Thursday and 1pm on Friday
>  
>  WELCOME-HOME FUNCTION: For Frankie Rafferty. 8pm Friday 7 July,
>  Mother Red Cap's, Christchurch, DUBLIN. Taille #5. Tickets usual
>  outlets or from Ken Fitzgerald on 086-8412880
>  
>  SF FUNCTION: Featuring the Irish Brigade. 8.30pm Friday 7 July,
>  Blake's Tavern, BLANCHARDSTOWN, County Dublin. Raffle and spot
>  prizes on night. Taille #5
>  
>  VOLUNTEER COMMEMORATION: Annual Volunteer Jackie Griffith
>  commemoration. Assemble 2.30pm Saturday 8 July, Ringsend Village,
>  DUBLIN, and march to Holles Street. Prominent speaker. Organised
>  by the Jackie Griffith/Mairead Farrell Sinn Fein Cumann
>  
>  FUNCTION: Featuring the Irish Brigade. 8pm Saturday 8 July, the
>  Noggin Inn, SALLYNOGGIN, County Dublin. Organised by michael
>  Dwyer CSC. Taille #5
>  
>  REPUBLICAN FUNCTION: Featuring the Wolfe Tones. 8pm Saturday 8
>  July, CIE Club, Arcadia, CORK. Taille #12 from SF office, Barrack
>  St. Organised by the Cork Republican Commemoration Committee
>  
>  PROTEST AGAINST ORANGE MARCHES: Remember Robert Hamill ~ Justice
>  Now! 4-6pm Wednesday 5 July, Chamberlain Square; 4-6pm Wed 12
>  July, The Clock High Street, BIRMINGHAM, England. Organised by
>  TOM
>  
>  VOLUNTEER COMMEMORATION: 24th Annual Volunteer Patrick Cannon
>  commemoration. Assemble 2pm Saturday 15 July, Darndale
>  Roundabout, DUBLIN and march to Balgriffin Cemetery. Prominent
>  speaker. Any bands wishing to participate should contact Mark at
>  8722609
>  
>  SINN FEIN LAUNCHES NEW RUC WATCH: Incidents of harassment should
>  be logged, by fax, at the Sinn Fein press office  028 90 223001
>  or E- mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  
>  THE Wolfe Tone Society is currently running educationals every
>  month on aspects of the freedom struggle in Ireland. To attend
>  please contact us at the Wolfe Tone Society, BM Box 6191, London,
>  WC1N 3XX, tel 020-8442 8778, fax 020-8442 8778, email:
>  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  
>  TOM DELEGATION TO BELFAST: Thursday 10 - Monday 14 August.
>  Delegation Costs: #45 unwaged; #55 Waged; #80 High waged. The
>  price includes food & accommodation. It does NOT include travel
>  costs to Belfast. Troops Out Movement PO Box 1032 Birmingham B12
>  8BZ Tel: 0121 643 7542. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  
>  OGRA SHINN FEIN announces that their Special Six-County
>  conference is to be postponed until further notice. The Orange
>  Order last week announced that they intend to intensify their
>  campaign to force their way down the Garvaghy Rd this Summer.
>  They have already applied to march through the isolated
>  nationalist area of Portadown on both the 2 and 9 July. Following
>  this the organisers of the OSF conference have decided to keep
>  these two dates free in case the Garvaghy Road Residents
>  Association request support from the wider nationalist community
>  on these days. A meeting of OSF activists in the Six Counties
>  will take place in Belfast on Saturday 1 July and all those
>  interested in the republican youth wing are invited and urged to
>  attend. More details shortly
>  
>  THE CABRA Sinn Fein Cumann in Dublin is currently reorganising
>  and is actively seeking new members. Anybody in the Cabra,
>  Glasnevin or Drumcondra areas wishing to join or help out, please
>  contact 086-889 5195
>  
>  CUNAMH/TAR ABHAILE: Are currently documenting information on the
>  experiences of former women POW from the DERRY CITY area. Anyone
>  wishing to take part in this project should contact Cathy or
>  Rose. 028-71288868/ 028-71284270
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