The National Irish Freedom Committee condemns the arrest and detention of Gerry McGeough, Stormont candidate for Fermanagh, South Tyrone. On the day of the election count , McGeough was arrested while leaving the count of the ballots, held for several days, and subsequently charged with attempted murder for an incident that occurred 1981.

This arrest cannot be seen as anything but politically motivated, in light of it’s timing, which coincided with the day of election count, as well as the fact that new forensic tests have linked several high profile members of Provisional Sinn Fein with more serious allegations, yet they have not been arrested. McGeough had based his campaign platform on opposing Provisional Sinn Fein’s decision to encourage republicans to join the British police force, ironically arguing that the police force, functioning solely to further the British political agenda, was so corrupt that it could not be fixed, even from within. Unfortunately for McGeough and his family, his arrest has demonstrated that his concern was well-founded. Although the Provisional  Sinn Fein party has condemned the arrest, their words are hollow, as they continue to urge republicans to join this "impartial" police force.

This St. Patrick’s Day, the ironies continue.

While Gerry McGeough will be sitting in jail, the people in charge of the armed struggle in 1981, and the Provisional Sinn Fein party today, will be feted at the White House, and sitting in Madison Square Garden, watching a boxing match in New York.

Their job will be to provide a green wash for the ugly face of the unchanged British occupied six county sectarian politics  .

NIFC statement on the England versus Ireland rugby game in Croke Park. 02/24/07

Ireland plays England in a rugby game in Croke Park, Dublin today, Saturday, February 24, 2007.

The last time  the British came to Croke Park was on November 24, 1921 where they opened fire on Gaelic football fans attending a game between Dublin and Tipperary.  They murdered 14 innocent civilians that day in what became known in Irish history as the first  "Bloody Sunday".

There has never been any attempt on the part of the British government to apologize for this and other atrocities committed by their military and intelligence forces in Ireland.  Instead, with the help of their Irish collaborators they managed to convince the world that their Irish victims were and are to blame. 

Notwithstanding the fact that there are excellent rugby grounds in Ireland where the game could be played, the British, in there cunning ways, choose to return to the hollowed grounds of Croke Park as if nothing had happened there. At the very moment the English anthem is played there will be glasses raised in London in celebration of another job well done. The results matter little, but the attendant fanfare contributes to the appearance of normalcy throughout Ireland. 

Faithful Irish republicans will protest this display of British triumphalism to the extent that the 26-county authorities will allow. In spite of the normal state harassment, true republicans will continue to protest such indignities as long as the British occupy six of Ireland’s 32 counties. 

To put the matter in perspective, can anyone imagine an Irish hurling game being played at 'sacred' Lords cricket grounds?

Statement by Cumann Na Saoirse Náısıúnta

 28Ú  Eanair  2007

 The  National Irish Freedom Committee (NIFC) condemns the decision of the Provisional Sinn Féin party to encourage republicans to join the British police force in Ireland. The British police force has and will continue to use violence, terror, intimidation and assassination to control republicans and maintain a British state in Ireland.

For the price of a few minimum wage jobs, Provisional Sinn Féin has agreed to become part of that same police force in its mission to uphold British rule in Ireland.
Former Irish Republicans Adams and McGuinness are now no more than Members of the British Parliament and recruiting sergeants for the British police force in Ireland.

While it is tempting to wax nostalgically about the character of republicans such as Michael Flannery, who refused to accept Free State medals and pensions, Mr. Adams could have clearly articulated that the price for giving up the struggle for a united Ireland was a home in Co. Donegal, a book deal and a British pension.

NIFC Statement -- April 2005

In stark contrast to the British authored, on again off again, Good Friday Agreement (GFA), Eire Nua, the Irish authored peace formula is the only real hope of achieving a just and lasting peace in Ireland. Initially proposed by Sinn Fein in 1972, Eire Nua sets forth specific proposals to start the process of Irish reunification and reconciliation in the context of a British withdrawal. It includes proposals for a new all-Ireland constitution. The principle on which Eire Nua is based envisions a system of government in which all creeds and traditions would be represented and all citizens could exercise real power, without any one group infringing on the right of others.

On the other hand the GFA does not offer any real hope for peace in Ireland as has being demonstrated since its inception in 1998. It does not revoke the partition of Ireland,  the basis tenet of the Government of Ireland Act 1920 and the subsequent Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921. The centerpiece of the GFA, the power-sharing executive is merely a compilation of earlier failed agreements repackaged to  impress the gullible and provide a cash cow for the latest batch of moles, touts and traitors.