Irish Rebel Night

Irish Rebel Night


An Irish Rebel night, followed by a disco, will take place upstairs in Molly Maguires Bar in Derry City on Saturday the 7th of November at 9pm, all funds will be donated to the IRPWA.

Tickets £5

Ask your local member, or email derry32csm@hotmail.com for more details.

Fermanagh Republican Asked to work for MI5

On Saturday 24th of October at approximately 11.30pm a Fermanagh 32csm member and EX POW and his girlfriend who is also a member of the 32csm in the 26 counties were travelling from the town of Enniskillen, after celebrating his birthday. After travelling no more than 6 to 7 miles outside the town they noticed a blue light flashing behind them so the female driver of the car then pulled the car into the laybye and was followed by the car with the blue flashing light.

The occupants of the car with the blue flashing light were the PSNI traffic branch who stated to the female driver of the car that she had been speeding and that is why she had been pulled in.

The passenger of the car was asked his name and at this the traffic branch left the car and returned to there own car and were heard on radios talking about the passenger who was in the car that was stopped.

About 5 to 8 minutes past when then flashing lights and cars were seen converging upon the veichile that the traffic branch had stopped.

It was then that the female driver of the car that was stopped was asked to step outside the car and accompany the traffic branch to the barracks to be questioned about road traffic matters. At this the girls boyfriend a well known Republican from Fermanagh got out of the veichle also and demanded to know what the reason was why his girlfriend was to be taken to the police station for questioning about road traffic matters, before he could say much more his girlfriend was escorted to the back of the patrol car.

The girls boyfriend no doubt became angry and aggressive towards the PSNI who had now called the TSG who were there very heavily armed to carry out a search on the females car under the terrorism act.

The female was then driven away at speed while the Fermanagh Republican was left on his own with a heavily armed TSG and PSNI present as they began to search the Republicans girlfriends car without her being present.

At this the Fermanagh Republican became concerned thinking of another John Brady scenario with no witnesses he tried to escape the clutches of the TSG and PSNI and was man handled to the ground after a lenghty struggle on the side of the road, luckily passing cars were seen stopping to see what was going on as the Republican was shouting for cars to stop. The TSG were then seen wildly waving cars and shouting at motorists to drive on.


Just then a voice was herd saying bring him over here and all the TSG became very friendly towards the Republican and escorted him to a waiting car while his hands were tied up.

As he got closer to this car he saw 5 men sitting in the car 2 in the front and 3 in the back, one of the men called the Republican by his first name and Identified themselves as British Military intelligence ( MI5 ) and talked to him about saving lives and asked him to work for them. Even saying that there was over 100,000 in a bag that they opened in front of him.

After the Fermanagh Republican refused to even talk to them they told him that "you either work for us or your going back to jail" its as simple as that. After no comment from the Republican those that identified themselves as MI5 sped off at high speed.

After an hour the Fermanagh Republican was reunited with his girlfriend as she was being held in a Fermanagh police barracks.

Fermanagh 32csm understands that the girlfriend of the well known Fermanagh Republican was also asked how long has she been going out with him and various other questions she was asked regarding what she did and her association to the Republican.

Fermanagh 32 County Sovereignty Movement (32csm) also understands that both the man and woman have lodged complaints with there solicitors about this situation of harrassment by the PSNI and British Military spooks they also want to condemn the Colonial Police force and there masters in MI5, in there recent unsuccessful endevours to ask Republicans to become agents of the state.

32csm ask anyone who feels intimidated or under pressure to become an infomer/ British agent to feel free and come forward to the 32csm as we will help you.

REAL IRA "GROWING IN STRENGTH".

Republicans pose 'severe' risk - PSNI
CONOR LALLY Crime Correspondent

SEVERAL HUNDRED people are actively involved in republican groups and pose a “severe” and increasing threat, one of the PSNI’s (British Police) most senior police officers has said.

PSNI deputy chief constable Judith Gillespie also said many people formerly involved in terrorism were now using their old gun-running routes and methods for “other contraband” associated with organised crime.

She said republicans were continuing to engage in for-profit crime to raise money to fund resistence. Joint Garda-PSNI operations were trying to combat this activity and to ensure the Border could not be exploited by the organisations.

Republican groups were also continuing to recruit and the threat they posed north of the Border had been raised to “severe”.

“That’s not a word we use wantonly; we use it very carefully. We are obviously very concerned at the level of threat and it behoves us all to work together.”

Ms Gillespie was speaking to the media ahead of the opening of a Garda-PSNI cross-Border seminar on organised crime being held in Dundalk, Co Louth. The conference proper was not open to the media.

When asked how many people were involved in dissident groups, Ms Gillespie said. “We’re talking in the low hundreds, but it depends what you mean by ‘involved’.

“There are people who tacitly support these people; those people who turn a blind eye to what they do or don’t report what they do . . . or by lending a vehicle. But in terms of active involvement, you’re talking about low hundreds.”

However, she said the PSNI did not want to see British soldiers back on the streets and believed the force had the capacity to fight terrorism without on-street military support.

Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy said while there was evidence dissidents were recruiting in the Republic, most of this activity was in the North.

Similarly, he added, the threat posed by the groups was concentrated in the British occupied north of Ireland.

The cross-Border conference would involve intelligence-sharing and the planning of further investigations against dissident groupings engaging in crime to raise the money needed to fund their activities. Acts of terrorism would be foiled by the same cross-Border co-operation.

“When these people plant under-car devices in Belfast or in Derry or when they leave 500lb in places like Forkhill, it’s not about crime in terms of making money, it’s about the threat to society.”

Innocent civilians were not only physically threatened. People also suffered fear and intimidation and policing was threatened.

Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern said the only way the Irish Free State could combat resistence was by joining forces with police forces in Britain and the occupied North.

He said the two-day policing conference provided opportunities for Garda and PSNI officers to share intelligence, plan operations and build personal relationships.

Every resource was being made available to the Garda and PSNI to combat terrorism. “The foot is not being taken of the pedal,” Mr Ahern said.

The British security minister in the occupied zone Paul Goggins MP said levels of co-operation between all the law enforcement agencies on both sides of the Border had never been better.

“They are working as one to arrest, disrupt and seize goods from organised criminals,” he added.

“This united approach at both political and operational level is producing results and sends a very clear message to organised criminal gangs that there is no hiding place on either side of the Border for their illegal activity.”

Mr Goggins said the use of a car bomb in an attack in Belfast last Friday, which targeted the family of a police officer, underlined the “grim” threat from so-called terrorists for police officers on the front line.

This article appears in the print edition of the Irish Times.

Fermanagh/Cavan 32csm Condemn Gardai for threatening to arrest school boy.

The 32csm in Fermanagh and Cavan condemn the actions of the Gardai last week when they went to a secondary school outside Cavan town and threatened to arrest a school boy for handing out Republican literature.

On friday of last week the Gardai visited a school in Co Cavan and requested to see the head principle regarding one of his pupils.

The head principle was told that a number of youths in his school were delivering fliers about the 32csm and IRA propaganda literature, and that one youth was the ring leader in having other youths deliver this material.

The head principal then summoned the young school boy who the Gardai had identified from his class room to his office for questioning without his parents knowledge of what was going on, and bearing in mind the youth is only 15 years old.

As the youth was being brought to the Principles office he seen the Gardai and wanted to know what the problem was and why he was being brought to the office, noone answered the young kids concerns.

As the young lad entered the Principles office he was asked to sit down and in front of him was the Principle and two Gardai who began to ask the youth questions about the 32csm and why he was handing out IRA propaganda in the school.

The youth refused to comply with the Principle and the Gardai and requested his Parents, at this the Gardai became aggressive shouting at the young boy threatening to arrest him. The youths father was contacted by the school principle and asked to attend the school as the Gardai had come to the school with concerns about his childs activities in the school.

The young lads father came to the school furious and confronted the principle in a heated exchange to why his son was subjected to an interrogation by the Gardai in the Principles office.
The Gardai then tried to intervene and a struggle developed in the corridor of the main building between the Gardai and the young lads father.

After calm was restored the father was let take his son home after what must have been a frightening experience for the young boy.

The father of the young boy has lodged a complaint with the Education minister and the Irish Government into what was a blatant attempt to interrogate and question a minor "his son" in Cavan secondary school.

The 32 County Sovereignty Movement in Cavan condemn this action by the Gardai on this young boy and his father, we see this as a form of child abuse and victimization towards this young lad.

Fermanagh/Cavan 32csm.

The Source Of Our Conflict Predates Partition

The Source Of Our Conflict Predates Partition

Francie Mackey, chairman 32CSM Omagh, Co Tyrone

Letter Irish News.




13/10/09

Bernard Mulholland (September 30) provides a welcome entry into the debate over the existence of the six counties and Irish national sovereignty.

That ‘existence’ is at the heart of the conflict.

The right or not of the six counties to exist cannot be excluded from determining its future.

Political arrangements which presume its right to exist are merely attempts to retrospectively right a committed wrong.

The 32 County Sovereignty Movement (32CSM) made this point in our United Nations submission where we sought, and still seek, a UN ruling that the continued British presence in Ireland is in breach of international law.

The grave flaw in the peace process was British insistence that its claim to sovereignty over Irish territory was not up for negotiation – acceptance of partition was an entry fee into the talks process.

The British did not reciprocate for Dublin’s removal of articles 2&3. The process was to have a predetermined outcome, namely, partition would remain.

Saying now that that outcome can only be changed by an electoral process geared toward protecting the status quo in no way democratises it.

Like our submission to unionism, we also sought engagement with the British government to address their so-called claim of neutrality over the future of the partitioned entity.

All these documents are available on our website and should be viewed collectively.

The 32CSM’s approach to the conflict has been a pragmatic one. Having identified sovereignty as the central issue we sought international arbitration to bring its violation to an end.

Bernard makes the point that ‘Northern Ireland has been in existence for longer than the Irish Republic’ but fails to mention that for the entirety of that existence it has been a theatre of conflict.

The source of conflict predates partition as partition is but another facet of it.

Let’s not forget the pre-partition suppression of the Irish Republic democratically ratified in the 1918 general election.

I would agree wholeheartedly on his ideas concerning international bodies and academic conferences addressing the problems we face but they must address those problems as a means to resolving them and not, like the Good Friday Agreement as a means to justify the constitutional arrangement which gave rise to them.

Certainly it is preferable to resolve conflicts via the ballot box but Bernard must remember that the British government are not democratically accountable to any Irish constituency yet claim the right to deploy its army on Irish streets to defend its illegal sovereign claim.

Irish republicans have not been remiss in recognising, and addressing, unionist concerns.

For our part the 32CSM has sought engagement to address the issue

of Irish national sovereignty and the constitutional future of the Irish people.

Our comrades in Republican Sinn Fein have long championed the Eire Nua policy which represents a radical approach to governance and democracy on the island.

Our door remains open.

PSNI Using Private Helicopters in Fermanagh

Private helicopter used by police


The police in Fermanagh have been chartering a private helicopter to back up security operations.

In a letter to Policing Board member Basil McCrea, Asst Chief Constable Dave Jones said a commercial helicopter has been deployed four times since April.

It has cost a total of just over £52,000.

Earlier this year the then Chief Constable Hugh Orde said the PSNI had received additional funding which would be used for extra helicopter cover.

The Asst Chief Constable said the decision to charter the helicopter is taken by local commanders in the light of their security assessments.

Dissident republicans have been active in Fermanagh and in July police took more than 12 hours to attend a robbery because of the threat level in the area.

The PSNI are understood to planning to buy a second helicopter in light of the continuing dissident threat.

Military

Fermanagh and South Tyrone MLA Tom Elliott said there was now "a strong case" for a military helicopter to service Fermanagh and wider area.

"Undoubtedly we are living in dangerous times. Police personnel are facing a severe threat from dissident republicans, and I would never under any circumstances want to do anything to put their lives at risk," he said.

"However, I feel I have to question the continuing use of private helicopter firms as I believe that the use of military helicopters would be better equipped and more cost effective for the operations carried out by the PSNI which require air support.

"I will be asking my party colleagues on the Policing Board to put this suggestion forward to the security officials and I hope that they will evaluate the proposal accordingly."

Military helicopters were a common sight in border areas of Northern Ireland during the Troubles.

Fermanagh woman asked to become agent for MI5

Fermanagh woman asked to become agent for MI5

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Woman questioned by MI5 in Spain


A young Fermanagh woman has spoken off her fear after being stopped and questioned by MI5 agents upon landing at a spanish airport when she went on holiday earlier this month.

She has spoken out about her experience in a bid to encourage the detectives not to persue her again.

The 22 year old woman was part of a large family group travelling to Spain.
When they landed at the airport, the woman was told that her passport needed to be scanned, and she was asked to follow a Spanish border guard.
He brought her into a room were two men were present.

She went on: "The border guard then left, closing the door behind him and left me in the room with two men.
At this stage, one of the men addressed me by name, and made references to my journey to Aldergrove Airport in Co.Antrim that morning.
He knew alot of detail about me, were i worked, who i had been going out with, all sorts of personnel details."

Then one of the men informed her he worked for British Intelligence whilst the other man placed a large sum of money on the table.

The woman continued: "They claimed that there only interest was in saving lives in Ireland and asked me to assist them in this regard.
I told them i could be of no assistance and would not meet them again."

She claims that they then told her she would probably change her mind about giving information when she returned home and had thought about it.
If this was to happen she was to contact Enniskillen Police station.

In all, the woman was detained at the Spanish Airport for around 20 minutes by the detectives, during which time her mother, younger brother, and sister, all waited anxiously for her to return.

The young woman explains that nothing like this has ever happened to her before and described her ordeal as a very unnerving experience and an unwelcome start to her holiday.
She was also angry that she was left in a room with two males, and felt there should have been a female present at the incident.
The womans solicitor has been informed of the approach.

Her father has also written a letter to the Spanish authorities demanding an explanation as to why foreign agents were permitted to questrion Irish tourists on Spanish soil.

Responding to the claims, a spokesperson for the PSNI explained:
"We do not comment on Intelligence matters and no inference should be drawn from this.
However, in line with all other Police services across the United Kingdom, the PSNI's policy in relation to the use of Covert Human Intelligence Sources is strictly goverened by the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and is fully compliant with Human Rights Legislation."

With regards to this matter Fermanagh 32csm would like to commend this brave young woman for coming forward with this information and highlighting that Britains dirty war against Ireland continues with the underhand cowardly tactics of terrorising an Irish Citizen while out on holiday in a foreign country.
Furthermore we condemn the Spanish authorities for allowing its soil to be used by British Intelligence to harrass and question Irish tourists whilst going on holiday there!