CONTROVERSY The implication ofithe Irish Government seeking Largely winning - diplomatic victories over the British is a correct one, and they follow a series of events in which for the First time since Bloody Sunday in 1972 an Irish Governnent has taken to criticising, not just British policy in Ireland but its very presence.
The controversy began on 8 January wIn Lynch saId In an Irish radio interview that Britain should indicate 'they'd like to see the Irish people coming wish to continue subsidising a small corner of Ireland to the extent they have been doing over the past ren years."
THEME The British media reacted hysterically to the statement, claiming it was a blunt call for Britain to get out.
It was nothing of the sort, but since then Lynch and Fianna Fat (Soldiers of Des tiny) party have returned time the same, the breaking of the link?
Lynch: The breaking of the and link, yes, there's no denying that?
CONSTITUTION Coupled with the expression of such sentiments. Lynch has set up a goveremental study group to review North-South relations, and his Minister of Finance George Colley has promised that in any united Ireland the constitution might provide for dilferent laws in the North with special protection the culture and tradition Nor is the Lynch Government alone in talkine such language. The major opposition party, Fine Gael, has called for CHETHER HISALESMILINISI affairs', and the smaller Irish Labour Party is also reviewing its previous pro-partition posiHUB.
The change all this represents in the views of the major Trish political parties should not be his underestunated. Under the previous Fine Gael/Labour coaliLoseranch:
SPEAKERS at a Dublin meeting on 15 March lo delend the IRSP/ bealen and lortured, but that policy and British presence in backed to the hilt built-in Loyalist campaign late year, the chief idealogue of the outgoing coalition, Cruise O'Brien, made Fianna Fail's supposed 'an irish unity a major election issue MYTH Fianna Fail denied the charge and attempied to Republican but the result of the coction. Fianna Fail returned with losing his seat THE TRIAT.
Dublin's Special Court of four members of the Trish Republican Party, charged with robbing a muil truin in April 1976 of os (250,000. RORY sports from Dubli The iral is the largest an perhaps the most extraordinar Ibrake place in Dublin. It is th only case outstanding from the "law and order previnus ment.
A public meeting in Dublin recently heard speaker allege that were those on trial brutally IRISH PREMIER Jack Lynch seen on board a police motor-cycle Rumours UTE STE was Dubin suggested that private Irish General opinion poll Republican Conor won them the election.
support for pole plas their traditions down, - he notion O'Brien such a declaration. made many Fionals the view Socialist Party The only continues in of them. infamous MENELL Times reign of the Coalition Govern- Tar the speaker after not only Dublin administrations circulating in South for post-election public conducted hy Fianna Fail it was their very which items So the myth that the people of the South of Ireland wouldn't touch Irish unity with a barge home rule.
shattered Other tyths have since gone the same was. By calling on Britain to declare it sintention to pull our.
Lynch has rejected the favourof Cono ETUISI D Brien and many in Britair massive that a blood hath would follo operating i Lynch shares with the Provithat the the trial was the culmination of | dozen doctors, and hoth prose a massive State conspiracy to smash the Irish Republican evidence against 1hree of the foer defendents 1 Their signed confessions, benter -CAL Garda "Heavy Gang', an elite squad of deree.
methods scere exposed in the Irish allegation Constabulary The trial began in the middle January and will continu entil carly Mas, Its result will have far-reaching implications Government in the South. The real defendents in the Special Criminal Court are like those the Ciardai and the repressive be policies emploved by successive The court has heard half a loscratch more Loyaliss would look to the SonIC form unity arrangement if Britain said it was going. Other Fianna Fail spokespeople have stolen other of ine Provisionals" clarhing in suggesting a pos sible Irish federation with the Noth having a measure of There is no doubl that the Provisionals and the Northern Catholic minority in general bear much of the credit tod again these changed attitudes. Thei unwillingness to give in to the repression discrodited Mason's claims to have beaten the IKA. Politically, too, the British GovernMELET BUCHCE AIRESES give detailed accounts of the SALLLISITA HUTILS sullered b the defendents at the hands of the Heavy Gang The prosecution claims that this the prisoners beat cach other in =15 mrnish the anne of the police fore - an shich the Britis Ammy and the Royal Lister CUTE making against their victims, The Special Criminal Court is presided over hy three judges who are usually chosen for their right-wing prejudices and, unin ordinary courts, dismissed by the Government M their rate of convictions does not come up mittee. hut securing throughout the country a socialist republic Posibly Lynch realines that bener than Britain does. His picas for Britain to see sense and participate in the setting up of a bourgcois al-Ireland is a pica for realite; a pica to pire this much now before Britain is forced to surrender much RESPECTABLE Lich ane knows Bast simple conninnent by Britain nor to stand in the way of Irish would nican After all, little practical Britain promised the entire Irish nation the right to have some measure in ruling ther selves as far Back as 1913 Nevertheless for socialists in Britain the statements of Lynch and the other political parties in the Norch has one major ad ariage Suddenly Irish unity has Avome respectable Demands he milians in this counry that Britain get our of Ireland could have an audience more receptive than al any time in the past five years. The 'mod bombers are proving not so mad after all The rules of evidence of thi Special are differcet from other counts, and it person can be sent to jail for IRA meatbership on the evidence of a high ranking policeman, who merely has say that he kaices the reson to be a member of International solidarity can play an important Tole exposing the Tole of the Southern Government and in strengthening the hand of Republicans and socialists in Irelind f The campaign defend the 'IRSP Four', which i being supported actively by Republicans and revolutionat socialies, i in dire need o financial support.
Costributions should be rushed to: IRSP Defence Com 34 Upper Gardiner Strel, Dublin 1, Ireland.
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