Sottorial 0-38 80 9 Den Upon Adverting 01-990 8371. Upper LAST WEEK the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, Tomas O Fiaich, Issued a statement condemning conditions in the H Block of Long Kesh prison.
pompous fashion. The Archbishop was referred to throughout as "Archbishop O'Fee. GEOFF BELL reports.
A better example of the administration in the North of The Northern Ireland Office spelt O Fiaich's name in its English form, as if to say the damn rebel had no right to use this foreign Irish language. explained by both the tone and The The Northern Ireland Office replied in its usual content of O Fiaich's remarks Hesaid: "Having spent the whole of Sunday in the prison 1 was shocked by the inhuman conditions prevailing in H Blocks 3, 4 and 5, where over 300 prisoners are incarcerated Wome narusy mow a animal to remain in such conditions, let alone a human *The nearest to it I have seen A FURORE broke out last week with the publication David was the spectacle of hundreds of homeless people living in sever pipes in the slums Calcutta.
The stench and filth in some of the cells, with the remains of rotten food and human excreta scattered around the walls, was almost unbearable. In two of them I was unable to speak for fear of vomiting"
O Fiaich went on to explain that 4'83 -Just conditions in the cells which WAITE TENCLONECE Several prisoners complained to me of beatings, of verbal abuse, of additional punishand degrading searches carried out on the most intimate part of their naked bodies."
The only point of any their 'no wash" tactics who are TE OASIC HE SOME DETE disgusting conditions in Long But that is a rather facile arrument. The misDies an protesting against the removal of political status, which H'aS originally in mally eratic in 1972 Labour Government's removal of that status which has caused the protests.
Or, to carry the argument to its logical conclusion, il Britai had never been in Ireland in tic LUS PACE LEICE WUHANES DOE Long Kesh, an H Block. politica prisoners who haw been jailed for their activities fighting against that British