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In this issue Page 2 - HILLSBOROUGH Page 3 - IRISH STEREOTYPES Page 4 - DONAL McGRATH DECEMBER 1988 "SOp- Page 5 - TABLE TALK Page 6 - IRISH SONGS Page 7 - BOOK REVIEWS Page 8 - DONAL MacAMHLAIGH Release Irish political prisoners say Russians DAVID Mellor Minister of Health of the Tory Goverment has recently been to Czechoslovkia where be was. reprimanding the Czechs for their "Human Rights' record. Before that Mr Mellor was lecturing the Israelis for doing on the West Bank what British has been doing in Northern Ireland for HELP END twenty years. Mrs Thatcher the most reactionary head of state in Europe has been BANKS BLAMED FOR EMIGRATION THE MISERY opposing the Soviet proposal to hold the next Human Rights Conference in WHILE Mr Hume MEP has been ranting and railing about the advantages of 1992 and Mr THE money spent in Northern Ireland Moscow, in 1991. She says that the by the British Government is wasted. Russians must conform to the Helsinki Taylor Unionist and MEP has been making hysterical attacks on the 26, Counties Bishop The way it is spent is causing more principles on Human Rights which she misery, deaths and destruction every claims they have not yet done. The Murphy of Cork and Ross has been taking a sober look at realities behind the Common Market Russians have replied by drawing ballyhoo. year. It causes young people to do attention to the lack of "Human desperate deeds in seeking remedies. Rights" in Northern Ireland. "Is our country to become merely the retiremept home for burnt-out capitalists from Europe?" the Bishop Money spent in promoting Connolly Gennady Gerasimov the Foreign aSked. "What I want in 1992 is work for Cork, for the people of Cork. I ask the MEPs now to tell us what jobs 1992 Association policy will save lives and Ministry spokesman has demanded the will hring to Cork. What consideration will be given to moral values in this new Europe? How will the dignity of end the misery. We want to create a situation in the whole of Ireland where We person be protected?" the young can lead normal happy lives the six counties. - He says urgent The Bishop of Cork and Ross, been operative in the European unemployment rate there is as high as without violence and without having to measures are required in Northern emigrate. frefaud to ro-establjsh legality and Dr Michael Muiphy attacked the Community to date." 79 per cent. constitutional law there, in keeping financial institutions for investing Witt the 1975 Helsinki Final Act abroad when anyone with the "What has been happening" he So the Christmas season has little The policy resolution published on Expressions of Soviet concern, it most "minimal patriotic went on, "is that those with economic cheer for the thousands of page four is the fruit of fifty years maintained, were not an interference in sentiment" would spend the power (eg Margaret Thatcher) get unemployed as poverty is taking its experience. You can tell by reading it, the UK internal affairs: they were money at home where it would their own way while handouts are toll. This year was the worst on record that we have the political expertise. We prompted merely "by the hope that give young people a chance to stay given to the weak to pacify them." as voluntary help organisations are Britain's policy in Ulster will have the knowledge, you have the The bishop is deeply concerned as he unable to cope with the plight of the correspond to the high-sounding in Ireland. The banks, he said, money. Our policy will help to end the underpriviledged, especially the aged statements being voiced in London in failed to react to the spiralling is perfectly entitled to be, about the yea is of misery. Help us by sending in favour of basic hnman rights and emigration crisis. fact that we are being robbed of our who are bearing the brunt of the donations. freedoms in other countries." main resource, our young people. "If deprivation. Against this sort of background with real biting chilling Unfortunately claimed Mr Gerasimov, He also fixed the blame on our young people are being A Dublin man, Bob Geldof raised there had been little sign of that so far. poverty which is the most damning successive governments for "bad encouraged and forced to go to two billion pounds in a short time to indictment of this society for many The statement accused the British management" and described Europe where does that leave us?" he help starving Africans. They needed authorities of holding more than 400 emigration as a horror story for asked indignantly. years. political prisoners in Ulster — a figure and deserved help. So do our own kith Irish people. "Governments come and kin in Ireland. We don't want two roughly twice standard western It is a fact that local authorities are and go and the people responsible billion right away. We do want £25,000 estimates of the number of prisoners of being so starved of cash by the hi prisons and psychiatric are forgotten and never asked I to help to end the misery being inflicted - Government that they are unable to I in the Soviet Union. questions/' he added. "Banks are FROM on oMr own people in England and provide even the ordinary basic : British troops went to Ulster loaded and are buying into other Ireland. We want it quickly. Part of our services essential to the day-to-day nearly 20 years ago, Mr Gerasimov countries. Banks are a power in JIM SAVAGE policy is to get all the innocent Irish said, 3,000 people have been killed running of their areas of this land. Money is power and if prisoners released from British gaols there, a further 30,000 Vounded or responsibility. Cork Corporation has you haven't money you haven't and get an amnesty for those who crippled" and about 7,000 detained had to cut back very seriously on its power." Bishop Michael Murphy, Bishop Murphy, and he was rightly claim to be political prisoners. under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1974. traditional Christmas relief work The Soviet public had "serious doubts" never one to shirk when it comes speaking for many, said that even with We Want £25,000 because that will pay scheme because it can no longer about the fairness of sentences in the to speaking out for the poor and the build-up of food mountains for an organiser for a year. province and the way prisoners were the oppressed, articulated the Europe is unable to do anything about afford to fund a little annual project treated. kind of fears, m$ny people have the needs of the Third World. which was of enormous benefit to the unemployed and their families in the This Appeal was launched at the Mr Gerasimov insisted the tatement about the Single European Act. "It is a fact of life that thousands of weeks running up to Christmas when London Desmond Greaves Memorial was not a lecture. Instead he linked it to Cork families go hungry each day in Meeting on 18th October where £350 Mr Gorbachev's current doctrine of Benefits for better-off pockets of dire poverty in the deprivation is most felt. i European home." was collected. Over a hundred people northside and southside of the city. heard tributes to Desmond Greaves, The arguments put forward in By national standards this is a very Worst hit are households headed by who gave his life in the cause of Irish favour of the Single European small scheme, yet one which is very an unemployed person and families freedom. We don't expect you to make Market relate to such things as important locally, but above all, it is with children. ,' the same sacrifice. All we expect is that BEAUTIFUL cheaper cars, lower tax, abolition an unwelcome indicator of the sort of you gjive something financially towards of custom control etc. Bishop thing that is happening because achieving the things he died for. Our IRELAND Murphy commented. "These so- insufficient funding is being ploughed Blackest of black spots cause is a worthy one. We need your called advantages seem to me to back into this area. The Cork area is help NOW. CALENDARS be of benefit only to the better-off Now we have the new poor who not looking for anything in the way of among us. None of these are likely worked in factories such as Ford and special treatment. What it is looking 1989 to bring benefits to the weaker Dunlop for most of their lives now hit for and what it is entitled to get, is MW AVAILABLE AT £1 JO sector." He went on to say that his by unemployment and unable to some level of assistance in emergency SPECIAL FUND fear of the Single European maintain even a reasonable standard situations such as that which pertains (Post £2.25) Market was that it would lead to of living, unable to pay mortgages, at the moment and which cannot be OUR thanks to: B. Riordan £19, J. From: cutbacks and greater hardships unable to provide the basic necessities coped with by an area so deprived of Mayiard £3, P. Greene £1.20, K. for the weaker sector of the for their families. Even Euro-MP, T. ordinary funding that even its smallest It £>.20, R. M. Walker £10, P. FOUR PROVINCES BOOKSHOP community. "In a healthy family J. Maher had to describe the northside schemes must be chopped. We are on ) £10, J.