Publishing Guide

Upcoming Events

National | Miscellaneous

no events match your query!

New Events

no events posted in last week

Other Press

Cops welcomed with smoke bombs and flares Dublin Pride 19:57 Jul 14 0 comments

Gemma O'Doherty: The speech you never heard. I wonder why? 05:28 Jan 15 0 comments

A Decade of Evidence Demonstrates The Dramatic Failure Of Globalisation 15:39 Aug 23 1 comments

Thatcher's " blind eye" to paedophilia 15:27 Mar 12 0 comments

Total Revolution. A new philosophy for the 21st century. 15:55 Nov 17 0 comments

more >>

User Preferences

Feeds

Blog Feeds

Anti-Empire

North Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

Trump Assembles a War Cabinet Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

Slavgrinder Ramps Up Into Overdrive Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

?Existential? Culling to Continue on Com... Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:28 | Marko Marjanovi?

US to Deploy Military Contractors to Ukr... Sun Nov 10, 2024 02:37 | Field Empty

The Saker

A bird's eye view of the vineyard

Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
Alternative site: https://thesaker.si/saker-a... Site was created using the downloads provided Regards Herb

The Saker blog is now frozen Tue Feb 28, 2023 23:55 | The Saker
Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

Moveable Feast Cafe 2023/02/27 ? Open Thread Mon Feb 27, 2023 19:00 | cafe-uploader
2023/02/27 19:00:02Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of

The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
Pepe Escobar for the Saker blog A powerful feeling rhythms your skin and drums up your soul as you?re immersed in a long walk under persistent snow flurries, pinpointed by

Public Inquiry

Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

Waiting for SIPO Anthony

Public Inquiry >>

Human Rights in Ireland

Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Judgement shows British rule has not changed

national | miscellaneous | press release

Friday December 21, 2007 16:13

by Des Dalton - Republican Sinn Fein

saoirse at iol dot ie

223 Parnell St Dublin 1

01 8729747

Report this post to the editors

Statement by the Vice President of Republican Sinn Féin Des Dalton

Republican Sinn Fein Vice President Des Dalton said in a statement that the acquittal of Sean Hoey showed that the nature and purpose of the British colonial police in Ireland has not changed.

The acquittal of Sean Hoey on December 20 only serves to underline the fact that British rule in Ireland has not changed. It also highlights the reality that changing the name of the British colonial police in Ireland will not change the nature or purpose of the PSNI, anymore than it did when the RIC became the RUC.

The journalist and broadcaster Eamonn Maillie speaking on the RTÉ radio programme The Pat Kenny Show on December 21 described the RUC/PSNI’s practice of holding people on remand for a number of years without trial, this was the case with Sean Hoey, as “selective internment”.

The very fact that such practices are still used by the forces of the British state in Ireland show that despite the political spin surrounding the Stormont and St Andrews agreements British rule in Ireland can only be maintained by coercion and the denial of the most basic civil and human rights.

Add Your Comments >>

printable version

with comments

atom feed of comments

rss feed of comments

RSS and atom feeds allow you to keep track of new comments on particular stories. You can input the URL's from these links into a rss reader and you will be informed whenever somebody posts a new comment.

Digg this

Furl

Reddit

Gab

Twitter

save preference

Comments (13 of 13)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	ok....	smeejit	Fri Dec 21, 2007 16:49
2	Discredited LCN DNA must be thrown out	Richard Walsh	Fri Dec 21, 2007 19:28
3	Re: Richard Walsh	sickened	Sat Dec 22, 2007 20:14
4	Also sickened	Jim	Sat Dec 22, 2007 21:17
5	Imperialists	Percy ffrenche	Sun Dec 23, 2007 14:23
6	free mickmc	tomeile	Mon Dec 24, 2007 14:55
7	cross border independent public enquiry	Barry	Mon Dec 24, 2007 19:28
8	More Barry BS	JD	Mon Dec 24, 2007 23:08
9	naieve	Barry	Tue Dec 25, 2007 22:30
10	Back to argument rather than abuse then Barry	Sickened	Sat Dec 29, 2007 14:54
11	Sean Hoey interviewd in Irish News today.	tom eile	Thu Jan 03, 2008 15:27
12	rte today	Barry	Thu Jan 03, 2008 16:03
13	yes barry	rooster	Fri Jan 04, 2008 18:30

Number of comments per page

Add Your Comments >>

© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy