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Date Posted: Wed, Jan 17 2007, 12:42:02 PST
Author: Republican Sinn Fein
Subject: Martyrs would not have joined RUC/PSNI
In reply to: Irish News 's message, "HUNGER-STRIKER'S MUM WILL STAND" on Wed, Jan 17 2007, 12:36:51 PST

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Subject : Martyrs would not have joined RUC/PSNI

Press Release/Preas R�iteas

Republican Sinn F�in
223 Parnell Street
Dublin 1

Republican Sinn F�in
Teach D�ith� � Conaill,
223 Parnell Street
Dublin 1, Ireland

Sinn F�in Poblachtach
Teach D�ith� � Conaill,
223 Sr�id Pharnell, B�C 1, �ire

Phone: +353-1-872 9747
Fax: +353-1-872 9757
e-mail: saoirse@iol.ie

rsf.ie

For further information contact:
Des Dalton:
Vice-President: 086-329 1809
Ruair� �g � Br�daigh
Publicity Officer: Dublin 872 9747,
087-648 2061

For release: 14 Ean�ir / January 2007

Martyrs would not have joined RUC/PSNI

Oration by Ruair� � Br�daigh on 50th anniversary of Fearghal � hAnluain�s death in Monaghan, Sunday, January 14

Speaking in Latlurcan cemetery, Monaghan on January 14 Ruair� � Br�daigh, Uachtar�n, Sinn F�in Poblachtach, said that Fearghal � hAnluain and his comrade Se�n Sabhat were exceptional persons. Both were fluent Irish speakers. Fearghal was a Gaelic footballer who played for Co Monaghan at minor, junior and senior levels. He was also a handballer and a tracksman of note. Se�n spent all his spare money on books and by 1956 had amassed a library of more than 3,000 volumes.

Fate brought them together in the Brookeborough attack by the Pearse column and their names are forever linked by the manner of their deaths for Irish freedom.

It is impossible today to imagine Se�n who was so assiduous in his care for weapons, actually destroying them at the behest of the enemy. Such he would have regarded as treachery with all the penalties that go with it.

Similarly, one simply cannot visualise Fearghal crossing over and joining the ranks of the enemy � donning a peeler�s coat � and siding with them in the inevitable confrontation with his former comrades.

As thoughtful, well read, deeply convinced and dedicated Irish Republicans, one clearly cannot see either of them following a path of deceit, duplicity and treachery over 20 years. This road led away from the All-Ireland Republic of 1916 and the First D�il and into Leinster House, Stormont and heavily-financed offices in Westminster.

It meant accepting the Unionist Veto on Irish national independence, the treacherous destruction of arms given for the freedom of Ireland and ultimately enrolling in the forces of the British Crown to impose English rule in Ireland.

On the other hand, the task of Republican Sinn F�in and of all true Republicans remains to oppose English rule at every opportunity and to mobilise the people of Ireland for the ultimate showdown with the British government here. With the support of the people all things are possible; without it success will continue to elude us.
For this mission, tried, trusted and steady leadership is required. The people must know where they stand with such a direction in order to follow it. They will not accept the uncertainties of will-o�-the-wisps who would lead them astray and result in further disillusionment.

An immediate task is the support of the Republican prisoners in Maghaberry, Co Antrim and in Portlaoise and their families. The Maghaberry prisoners have been on protest since June 19 last. They seek political status which was signed away under the Stormont Agreement of 1998.

The people responded to the noble sacrifice of Sabhat and � hAnluain. Two months later Fearghal�s brother �ineach�n was elected TD to an All-Ireland parliament. Song and ballads were composed about them. Football teams were named in their honour.

Veteran of 1916 and TD of the First (32-County) D�il, Brian O�Higgins in the 1957 edition of his Wolfe Tone Annual wrote �The Living Embers Blaze Again, Sabhat and � hAnluain�s memory will confound the native slaves and yet bring about the defeat and expulsion of the invader.�

ENDS

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