Irish Republican News

Martin Corey supporter jailed

A Lurgan man who took part in a protest in January 2011 demanding the release of interned Republican Martin Corey from Maghaberry Jail, was arrested at his home and taken to Maghaberry jail on Saturday October 13, 2012. Martin Duffy attended the rally in Lurgan, which was supported by up to 300 people at times, was subsequently arrested and charged with ‘participating and organising’ what the PSNI/RUC claimed was an illegal march. The march was a peaceful one throughout and the only illegal act pertaining to this is the illegal way in which Martin Corey is being held in jail on with no recourse to justice. 

Martin was one of many who were fined for taking part in the march and because he refused to pay the fine he spent a week in jail He was also fined for taking part in an Easter Commemoration in Lurgan last year, a fine he also refused to pay. The fines in total came to £1,200.  Martin was locked-down in what in commonly called the committal wing, well away from Roe House where Martin Corey is incarcerated, for 23-hours a day, with just one hour exercise in the yard. It took three days to organise phone call facilities and he was unable to shower for the whole week.  Martin Corey is still interned in Maghaberry jail despite a court ordering his release in July.

Full details on: http://www.releasemartincorey.com/

Source: Republican Sinn Fein 20-10-2012

UVF bomb bid on RSF Belfast office foiled

REPUBLICAN Sinn Féin was warned on Thursday, October 18 that the UVF was planning to attack its office on the Falls Road, Belfast. While this is not the first time the Republican Sinn Féin has been warned of impending attacks by loyalist death squads, it makes it none the less worrying.

It was reported on October 20 that the RUC/PSNI had discovered a viable pipe bomb during a house search at Kitchener Street in the Donegal Road area of South Belfast and that the that the “Sandy Row UVF were planning an attack on dissident (sic) republicans in west Belfast” namely the office of Republican Sinn Féin and one other target. 

The Sunday World said that the Republican Sinn Fein Offices on the Falls Road were one of two targets discussed. The other was a bar in the west of the city where it was alleged members of a so-called dissident group were working as doormen.

Source: Republican Sinn Fein 24-10-2012