Sean Mackin Story by Brian Mor O'baoighill Pg

r*» PEOPLE 7/ c oj irish Republicanism in America JUNE 2, 1990 VOL. 17 NO. 19 50 CENTS 2 MEITHEAMH 1990 IMLEABHAR 17 UIMHIR 19 Show Trial Continues in Boston By Daithi O h-Oisin

A secret agreement for international prosecution is the latest tactic of the Bush administration in the trial of Richard Johnson and three co-defendents, now in its fourth week at Boston's Federal Court. After importing a British Army colonel last week, Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Stearns called on a Special Branch Inspector from Dublin and an RUC constable as prosecution witnesses. Gardai Inspector Dermot Jennings testified on Wednesday that he had not yet been promoted from detective sergeant when he found the Clondalkin letters in Peter Maguire's garage during Operation Mallard in October 1987. The operation was a nationwide search of 50,000 homes throughout the 26 counties. Stearns led Jennings through rambling testimony connecting indictee Pe­ The Stevens Report into incidents of ter Maguire to Dessie Ellis as an "associate". When asked if he personally British crown forces colluding with loyalist knew Ellis, Jennings pompously replied: "I can claim that privilege," and paramilitaries has received scant attention admitted to being a witness at Ellis' extradition trial in Dublin. But when since its publication last week. Like so Stearns next asked him his view of Sinn Fein as the political wing of the IRA, many previous inquiries carried out by vociferous defense objections to personal opinion being stated as knowledge senior British judges and police officers, it caused Judge Mazzone to excuse the jury while a bench conference was held. has been used to whitewash the facts and Predictably, Mazzone again overruled the defense and allowed the question. provide a breathing-space for the British Jennings was obviously ill at ease as he claimed that 12 years investigating government until the latest scandal over its Sinn Fein and the IRA gave him an informed opinion, but he could cite no dirty war in the Six Counties has blown hard evidence in support. over. Continued on page 6 Continued on page 5 Inside: Mike Sheehan Tribute The Sean Mackin Story by Brian Mor O'Baoighill Pg. 10-11 pg. 6 JUNE 2, 1990 IRELAND UNITED GAELIC AND FREE PAGE 2

Editorial VMtTkWASH \JOHT|jSTbP t£AKS NIGS "HMfcT [ to RMS auT Stevens Cover-Up T^AT MACKWS Eight months ago John Stevens was given the task of investigating assertions that loyalist paramilitary groups had links with members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, the army and the Ulster Defense Regiment. There had never been any doubt about the fact that these groups had secret files in their possession. The Stevens inquiry, it was hoped, would expose the extent of such links. ..LOY-AUSJ.jr';: LEASES The findings of the Stevens team was published in Belfast on May 17. "I have been able to draw the firm conclusion," Stevens is quoted as saying, "that members of the security forces have passed informa­ tion to paramilitaries. However, I must make it clear it is restricted to a small number of individuals who have gravely abused their positions MMM - Mfl M <:•"-:•-— 'v*»>::-*~* of trust. This abuse is not widespread or institutionalized." This summary of the report will do little to reassure nationalists in the north of Ireland. It simply follows the pattern, as have many others, TO: All Units of Irish Northern Aid set by the Cameron inquiry into the disturbances of 1968 and early 1969. That report condemned the minority grievances which had The Irish People newspaper has recently updated its equipment already been well publicized in the world press. The damage done was contained as much as possible by applying the "Few bad apples" and procedures. Many new features have been incorporated into the principle. Stevens, a la Cameron, has condemned the indefensible and paper, including a Community Events column. contained the damage by limiting blame to "a small number of The Irish People is circulated throughout the United States. People individuals." with a genuine interest in what is really going on look to us to provide Now that the report, disappointing as it is, has been published, what can we expect as a sequel? 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May 21st, when he discovered a the IRA's Derry Brigade said: RUC personnel had a booby-trap bomb attached to the under­ "At 11.10pm two ASUs under our narrow escape in the side of his vehicle command combined to yet again attack Clogher area of County The bomb was discovered at 7am the RUC in their heavily fortified Strand Tyrone when the armoured under the man's car in Stewart Avenue, Road headquarters. vehicle in which they were Cookstown, and for several hours British "One ASU armed with high powered travelling was struck by a bomb technicians worked to defuse the rifles secured an area around the RUC rocket warhead which HQ, to allow a second ASU to enter into embedded itself in the the barrier zone. This ASU fired over 70 armour plating but failed to BOMBS DEFUSED rounds at several RUC hitting and criti­ explode. cally wounding one of them. As this ASU The attack came on In statements issued to the media, the withdrew, covering fire was directed at Wednesday evening. May IRA in counties Tyrone and Armagh the base and fortified barriers by the first 16th. An ASU of the Ty­ claimed lh.it they had been forced to ASU. All Volunteers returned safely to rone Brigade armed with a abandon bombs at the Middletown Road base." rocket and high powered in Armagh, and at Moy Bridge and in Turf Lodge, West Belfast, on Monday rifles, engaged the RUC as Rennaderry Road in County Tyrone. BELFAST ATTACK evening, May 21st. they approached the junction of the I < u, it ions had been given for the bombs The mobile patrol was travelling along Crossowen and Old Monaghan Roads t\\n\ London and pitch of anti-nationalist frenzy; drop year. wealthier member-states and by multina­ Dublin governments should reaffirm what Articles Two and Three, make extradi­ A major debate has opened in Ire­ tional capital. The whole question of he sees as the substance of the Hillsbor­ tion even easier, get the unionists off the land, on the meaning and implications of democratic rights and accountability is, ough Treaty, namely that it is their inten­ Maryfield hook by closing Maryfield. nationalism, of cultural and national iden­ as usual, ignored. tion to set up institutions in Ireland that Maintaining some institutionalised tity, of self-determination and of the The new European context, Hume will respect the diversity and identity of all Irish dimension, Hume argues, is the best nation-state. The debate was triggered argues, is one of the reasons why Britain the people in Ireland. Hume appears argument against the IRA. These words off by a number of events, mainly the is now 'neutral' in the conflict in the Six worried that this may not be the firm are clearly directed at the London and Sinn Fein/SDLP talks, the Articles Two Counties, and this is illustrated, accord­ intention of either government. So while Dublin establishment; the SDLP's non- and Three controversy, the extradition ing to him, in Article One of the Hillsbor­ Brooke haggles with unionist leaders negotiable bottom line. rulings in the Supreme Court, and further ough Treaty. Paisley and Molyneaux over closure of As for this Irish unity and self-determi­ afield, recent upheavals in Eastern Eu­ the Maryfield Secretariat, Hume seems nation lark, they are quickly disposed of rope, as well as the approach of the 1992 CONVENIENTLY IGNORED to sound the alarm. down the rubbish chute of the unionist Single Market. Candid statements made by British He is quite right too. The British are veto. Hume's road to Irish self-determi­ Next year's 75th anniversary of the ministers after the treaty was signed, set on pushing some devolution scheme nation is a referendum in each part of Easter Rising should add to this momen­ saying that the treaty was a "bulwark forward in order to stabilise the Six- Ireland requiring a majority in favour in tum. It is up to republicans and all anti- against Irish unity" (Tom King) and that County state or at least distance them­ the Six Counties, and an 'overwhelming' imperialists to make sure their views are the British government was not neutral selves from the mess they have created majority in favour in the 26 Counties. heard, even though the media scales are but unionist, are once again conveniently while retaining a controlling interest. This is a spurious redefinition of the heavily tipped by censorship and bias. ignored. This new British 'neutrality' Haughey meanwhile, has found his place democratic rights of national majorities Hume continues, removes any justifica­ in the footnotes of history as President of firmly within the partition set-up. tion for the IRA's armed struggle. the EC Council of Ministers. Another Furthermore it would not convince In order to present the IRA with the section of the South's political establish­ unionists to accept Irish unity. Unionists JUNE 2, 1990 IRELAND UNITED GAELIC AND FREE PAGE 4 Further Confirmation of Prison Brutality Compensation for H-Block Escapee A WEST BELFAST MAN who tured. grew, had been among numerous prison­ rangements between the 26 Counties is currently completing a 20-year Simpson's claim for damages set out ers brutalised as riot-clad warders, backed and the British judicial system. The Dublin sentence imposed in 1980, has how he was beaten unconscious and up by RUC men and dog-handlers, in­ Supreme Court rejected extradition in been awarded £7,500 compensa­ sustained various bruises and lacerations vaded H-Block 8 on the evening of the the cases of Dermot Finucane and Jim tion in a claim against the NIO after being returned to Long Kesh follow­ escape. They were intent on exacting Clarke partly because it judged that they arising out of the systematic bru­ ing his recapture. Settlement of the claim revenge for the humiliation they suffered were likely to face similar treatment if was made in an out-of-court agreement when 38 republicans made a nonsense of they were returned to Long Kesh. tality inflicted on prisoners in the between solicitors for the prisoner and the hype and boasts about an escape- What made up the court's mind was aftermath of the 1983 escape from the NIO. proof prison. the fact that the Northern Ireland Office the H-Blocks of Long Kesh. The claim was seen as a test case and The Prison Officers' Association in connived with the prison warders to hide Joe Simpson, 38, from Anderson- has set a precedent which will be followed Long Kesh simply told the governor that evidence of the attacks. One by one the stown, was one of several prisoners up in further cases by other recaptured the prisoners would not be allowed medical warders got up and perjured themselves captured in a river near Long Kesh, prisoners. Claims have already been attention after the assaults and this was in court, denying that any violence took within hours of the mass breakout after granted in over a dozen cases to ex- accepted by the authorities. place. None of the warders responsible which 19 prisoners made good their prisoners who had not been participants The award in the Pettigrew case had for the attack have been punished in any escapes and a further 19 were recap­ in the escape and who, like Brian Petti- serious implications for extradition ar­ way in the years that followed. HARNEY PROMISES HARD WINTER "LET THEM eat cake" is a famous by the Department of Social Welfare as the increasing pollution of the city's air. use the fuel more economically. This saying from the days of the French Revo­ ' 'a support arrangement for low income There has been ample opportunity to would be a small price to pay for the lution, describing the monarchy's arro­ groups". This sum is an insult to social phase out bituminous coal in an orderly protection of Dublin people's environ­ gant attitude towards the masses. It is just welfare recipients, which will amount to and sensible fashion. ment and health. as accurate a description, however, of the little more than a pittance when distrib­ The indications are that the £3 mil­ Commenting on these new restric­ attitude of 26-County Minister for the uted. No indication has yet been given of lion allocated is likely to be distributed in tions on the sale of coal in the Dublin Environment Padraig Flynn and his jun­ any plan to ensure that non-bituminous the form of a £3 per week increase to the area, Ursula Quinn, Sinn Fein spokes­ ior minister, Mary Harney, towards people coal is priced on a par with ordinary coal. existing weekly £5 fuel allowance for person on social welfare, said: living on or below the poverty line come Any Dublin government pretence at social welfare claimants. This would leave "The banning of bituminous coal next winter. providing a carefully phased scheme is many people on low incomes (low-paid without conversion grants is asking It is surely no coincidence that they now gone. The smoke-free zones in workers for example) with no financial Dublin's poor to foot the bill for clean air. picked the beginning of the hottest pe­ Ballyfermot have been little more than a support at all. Low income families are now wondering riod of the year to announce the banning farce anyway. Adequate funding for The proper provision of across-the- will they be able to afford to heat their of all bituminous coal in the Dublin area people on low incomes to make conver­ board conversion grants would not only homes this winter. Mary Harney has not from September 1st. The new regula­ sions to their fireplaces to use non-bitu­ eradicate the need for a continuing scheme yet made it clear who will benefit from the tions provide for a blanket ban on ordi­ minous coal properly, or in reducing of financial support to those having to £3 million or if extra money will be there nary coal and for fines of up to £10,000 prices to a par with ordinary coal, was buy the more expensive non-bituminous in years to come. for coal merchants who attempt to sell never provided. coal but would also benefit ordinary ' The government should make once- bituminous coal inside the designated Although we are being presented with people. Non-bituminous coal burns hot­ off grants available to allow people to area but there is no provision for conver­ this highly unsatisfactory overnight 'solu­ ter than ordinary coal and can ruin nor­ change from wasteful open fires to a sion grants. tion' to Dublin's smog problems, the mal fireplaces and back boilers. A swift cleaner, cheaper form of heating. The The only scrap being thrown to those issue is by no means a recent one. Envi­ once-of f programme of conversions would grants should be means-tested but cover on the breadline who are adversely af­ ronmentalists and the people of the Dublin prevent the development of such prob­ the full cost of conversion for all those on fected by the ban is the provision of a area have for years been lobbying succes­ lems and result in people being able to social welfare payments and low pay." payment of C3 million, to be distributed sive governments to do something about Ray McCreesh Honored SOUTH ARMAGH republicans have honoured hunger- only about those who had given their lives striker Raymond McCreesh with the annual wreath-laying on hunger-strike, nine of whom would ceremony and the first annual McCreesh memorial lecture have now been out of prison, but of all held in Carrickcrupin and Ravensdale on Friday, May 18th those involved in both hunger-strikes, and Sunday, May 20th. and asked that the sacrifices of the living The simple wreath-laying ceremony, an annual event not be neglected or overlooked. attended by relatives, close friends and local republicans was McAlliskey, the former MP for Mid- held in the village of Carrickcrupin, South Armagh. The Ulster, was given a tremendous ovation McCreesh memorial lecture was delivered to a crowd of not merely for her speech in which she several hundred by civil rights campaigner and former echoed the pride and sorrow felt by those leading H-Block activist, Bernadette McAlliskey. who had gathered to remember Ray­ In a moving and inspirational address McAlliskey related mond McCreesh. how after ten years she was still barely able to talk about the QUOTED two hunger-strikes. She told how after reading the first Summing up, McAlliskey quoted from pages of a book about the hunger-strike called The Politics her review of David Beresford's book of Despair, which she had been given for review, she Ten Men Dead: understood that the author, like the British, had been unable "I only know that until we succeed in to comprehend the Irish people's desire for freedom, and creating an Ireland which embodies within what had made national heroes of ten ordinary young men. the spirit and consciousness of its people COME OUT OF CORNERS the incorruptible bravery, honesty, dig­ Bernadette then stressed the necessity for republicans nity and love of freedom and justice to assert themselves, not to apologise for their opinions and which each of the hunger-strikers died beliefs, and to come out of the corners into which they had defending, or until I die, I will hear Joe been driven not only by legislation but by the hypocrisy of McDonnell's child crying in the very depth state and church establishments. She went on to speak not of my soul."

• VOL RA Y McCRFFSH JUNE 2, 1990 IRELAND UNITED GAELIC AND FREE PAGE 5 Tainted British imports IIIIIIIIIIIIIM: wimiwiHi INCREASINGLY REPRES­ and some academic and prosecuting ford Four case to see the abuse of ex­ SIVE "law and order" policies lawyers as desirable for Australia. The tended powers of police detention. miifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiimiiiiiiiir^miimii suggestion is that this could be a "trade­ Specialist police squads, such as the developed by the British state over off" for the introduction of mandatory Special Weapons and Operations Squad commonwealth law; but there is no such the past two decades have flowed tape-recordings of police interrogations. (SWOS) which killed innocent Aboriginal guarantee under state law, and most on to Australia. This is despite the This latter proposed and long-delayed man David Gundy in April 1989, take crimes come under state law. Of course severing of all formal legal ties — policy was put up more than a decade their model from the specialist squads the precedents for this under British law are the draconian Diplock courts. In the constitutional monarchy apart ago as a safeguard against the notorious developed to combat Irish "terrorism". police "verbals" — fabricated, unsigned But as academic Jenny Hocking has Australia, however, it is simple cost-cut­ — between Britain and Australia. confessions. pointed out, "anti-terrorist" police in ting and 'more power to the prosecution' The recent initiatives in British law The use of paid (or otherwise com­ Australia have killed more people than that pushes an economically stretched have mostly arisen from the crisis of pensated) informants as "supergrasses" terrorists. Commissioner Hal Wootten of system to attempt to save money by democracy in the North, but also from giving evidence against multiple defen­ the Royal Commission into Aboriginal abolishing previously accepted democratic economic crisis at home. dants in various cases. This system, now Deaths in Custody is currently investigat­ rights. Attempts to "criminalise" the Irish discredited in the North of Ireland, is ing the SWOS killing of David Gundy. For most of the 1970s and 1980s in crisis have made British justice a very currently in force in New South Wales Australia, jail numbers remained static. In blunt instrument indeed. Its failures have (NSW), with desperate prisoners virtually PROVOCATION NSW they were less than 4,000 in early become internationally notorious. Many falling over themselves to give evidence The history of the NSW Tactical 1988; they are now 5,200, and the NSW gross miscarriages of justice — such as in cases such as the Tom Domican con­ Response Squad (TRG), sent in to put Corrective Services Department expects those of the Guildford Four, the Birming­ spiracy trials. Police have shifted the down Aboriginal unrest in country areas, the number to reach 8,000 within a few ham Six and more recently the Winches­ burden of fabrication in difficult cases and to provoke crowds at the Mt Pano­ years. Victoria is following suit, expect­ ter Three — have not only occurred but from themselves to a third party. This had rama bike races in Bathurst, has been ing a 50% increase in prisoners over the have been covered up. The Thatcher the added advantage of police involved little better. The result of the many seri­ next few years. Services are being cut for government has ignored its 1988 con­ being able to sit on the sidelines and bear ous charges laid against 92 people ar­ prisoners as more money is poured into demnation under the European Conven­ no responsibility for the many failures of rested at Mt Panorama in 1985 was one building new jails. Most of the prisoners tion on Human Rights, over provisions of the system. sustainable jury conviction and jail sen­ are young, uneducated, institutionalised, the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Even The New South Wales Summary tence. and Black. They are bearing the brunt of a remarkably expensive "law and order" worse, a state "shoot to kill" policy over Offences Act (1988) borrows from Mar­ In 1988 Chris Cuneen and Tom Robb push in tough times. IRA suspects is officially denied, without garet Thatcher's Public Order Act in of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics credibility. instituting the offences of "unauthorised and Research exposed the National Party The above examples should serve to In the 1980s, with economic crisis in public assemblies" and "violent disor­ beat-up of a supposed "law and order illustrate that "law and order" initiatives Australia, a number of these "law and der": the latter being more to do with breakdown" in the north west of NSW. generated in Britain, particularly through order" initiatives have been adopted by apprehensions of group unrest, than Cuneen and Robb found that crime had the political crisis of Britain in Ireland, the Australian states, with increasingly actual violence. not increased significantly in the period in have created strong precedents for the devastating effect on the targets of most Detention without charge has been question, yet in many towns over 90% of abolition of fundamental rights in Austra­ policing in Australia: working class and around from some time in Britain and the youth arrests were those of Aboriginal lia. And they are precedents that have disadvantaged communities, particularly North of Ireland, through the Prevention boys. been acted on. Britain's continued the Aboriginal community. Aboriginal of Terrorism Act and the earlier Special Finally, abolition of pre-trial safeguards colonisation of Ireland has contributed to people in Australia are now jailed at a 20 Powers Act. It is now proposed here, in and proposals to do away with the right the erosion of civil and democratic rights, times higher rate than non-Aboriginal the 1989 Gibbs report, and the British to trial by jury are now being hotly de­ and to the oppression of working class, people. precedent can be used to back it. Former bated. The Australian constitution guar­ Aboriginal and other disadvantaged Several clear areas can be identified High Court Chief Justice Harry Gibbs' antees trial by jury for offences against peoples in Australia. where the passage of the recent British proposal is for six hours detention for initiatives has occurred: "questioning", extendable to 24 hours. Abolition of the right to silence: more This is a major departure from the Aus­ accurately, giving courts the right to draw tralian tradition of no detention without inferences of guilt from a suspect's re­ arrest, and is to be an option in the police fusal to answer questions. This recent investigation of any criminal offence British initiative, overturning centuries of punishable by more than 12 months jail. common law, has been raised by police On has to look no further than the Guild- Boston Trial Continued from front Sinn Fein, "good in the 20's but bad in Cross-examination exposed some of the 90's." the civil liberty abuses involved in the A day later, Stearns introduced yet search. The warrant issued by a police another foreign prosecution witness - superintendent instead "of a judge or RUC constable William Crompton of Trial Background magistrate; the warrant for explosives Armagh. After relating details of his du­ Without FISA, Richard Johnson and law differs from the previous one in three covering the finding of documents only; ties, Cromptoridescribed finding an elec­ three acquaintances would not be on trial important aspects: a) the wiretap subjects the failure to even question Maguire tronic device in 1985 which Lel3erTttfied in Federal Court today. The Foreign In­ need never be notified that they have regarding the letters before hurrying them as part of a bomb detonation system. telligence Surveillance Act enabled the been under surveillance; b) the standards to the British. When cross-examined by Attorney Kevin FBI to wiretap Johnson's home, car and of proof needed to obtain wiretaps are When attorney William Homans O'Dea, however, Crompton reluctantly telephone without affording him the legal considerably less stringent: and c) the ressed the witness insistently on Sinn admitted to quoting technical terminol­ safeguards required by domestic wiretap wiretaps can run for longer periods be­ Fein's alleged connection to the IRA, ogy in which he has neither training nor statutes. fore having to be renewed. Jennings inadvertently provided the trial's expertise. Little known to the general public, Under FISA, seven US District Judges only comic relief as he refused to answer, Prosecutor Stearns plans to conclude FISA was passed by Congress in 1978, from different judicial circuits are secretly saying "I claim the privilege of the Court>" his case next week, with testimony from specifically targeting foreign governments appointed for a period of seven years. a British "terrorism" expert and an RUC In open astonishment Homans ques­ or alleged spies and terrorists for intelli­ Only government lawyers with specific tioned, "do you refuse to tell the judge forensic specialist. They will be in Amer­ gence and counter-intelligence purposes. approval from the Attorney General may and jury?", and Jennings again replied "it ica as guests of the federal government, It establishes the Foreign Intelligence appear before the court. Appeals against was common knowledge." Homans their expenses paid by the American Surveillance Court which sits continu­ concluded with a scathing reference to taxpayer. ously and secretly in Washington to re­ wiretaps granted by the court are re- Jenning's attempt to portray two kinds of view applications for the wiretaps. This Continued on page 6 JUNE 2, 1990 IRELAND UNITED GAELIC AND FREE PAGE 6 Tribute to Mike Sheehan introduced, commented upon, applauded, be supported, no compromises. From In his sixty one years in the Clan he first danced, and finally seated at the the hard times of the thirties and the had seen it all and had learned the conse­ nuptial table, the serious business of pogroms of DeValera down through the quences of dealing with demagogues, cocktails and conversation took over. rebuilding of the movement in the fifties some of whom seemed to reappear like Sheehan was in great form, joking and ihen again after the cessation of that the pestilent locust every seven years or with old and new acquaintances alike, his campaign in the early sixties, the army so. Mike's memory was long and sharp recent medical problems shelved for the was his only concern. That was constant. and he realized that nothing lasts forever day. He spoke to me of how proud he And it was with great enthusiasm that and that today's monumental dilemma was of the groom, John, who had suf­ Mike and his fellow members met with will be no more than a shrugged off fered so much in the struggle with the annoyance tomorrow. ancient fiend. "Who would have thought, His passing has created a void that By Brian Mor O'Baoighill just a few short years ago, that we would will not soon, if ever be filled, coming so be sitting here in America at the wedding soon after the brutal demise of his fellow The Spanner and his bride moved of this Irish hero." His eyes went moist camp member Liam Ryan. Their memo­ slowly through the several groups of and he smiled, "it's a great day for all of ries must endure and their work must friends and relations that filled the side­ us." continue with renewed dedication and walk outside the boat shaped church, perseverance. laughing, hand shaking and kissing their This was the Mike Sheehan I knew While standing at Mike's graveside a way to the waiting limousine. and admired, the compassionate friend, few short days ago, my mind raced The ceremony that had started late, complete gentleman and staunch Irish through the twenty five years I knew him, for the usual fifty two or three reasons, Republican. Over the years I worked with and especially the last dramatic ten when was now history, thanks in no small way him in Clan na Gael I got to see the other we had worked together to build an or­ to the priest and his squad of altar boys. facets of the man, the loving father and grandfather, gaelic football devotee and ganization that could by some miracle As car rides to the reception hall were unrepentant Yankee fan. Here was a endure and maintain the goals for which being finalizes, someone asked where man, sure of himself, if not his favorite it had been chartered. Memories both was Danny Mac? The latest intelligence teams, his surroundings, his duties and real and acquired passed before me, other report had placed him in or near the G.O. obligations, and his place in history. gravesides and other times, the Loughgall "Don't worry, he knows where the place martyrs, the Hunger Strikers, Charlie is in Queens," volunteered a bystander Working with him was more of a Kearns. The plaintive wail of the bag­ with a knowing nod of his head. That privilege than a job. He became a friend pipe, the soft rain, the young and the old settled, it was time to head for the bridge. and mentor. We looked forward to our camp meetings and the legendary get mourners, the family and friends, and I As we checked the seating arrange­ togethers that followed. Afternoons where Mike Sheehan zeroed in a time-worn picture of Glasnevin ments for our name cards, I spotted Mike legendary figures from "the troubles" re- Cemetery the year before the Easter Sheehan engaged in serious conversa­ representatives of the movement in the emerged as human as the men who so Rising, where a young teacher of gaelic, tion with Joe Stynes. I made my way over late 1970's and again after the tragic fondly remembered: Liam Mellows, Sean clad in the uniform of a yet to be realized to where they stood and after the usual hunger strike of 1981. Once again links Tracy, Liam Lynch, Cathal Brugha, Mary republic, stood over the remains of an warm handshakes, I asked if there was were forged, and it was Mike and his McSwiney, Peadar O'Donnel, Luke Dil­ unrepentant Fenian whose body had been anything amiss. fellow Clan member, the late Liam Ryan, lon, Joe McGarrity, Richard Goss, Frank returned from America, the land of his Old Joe smiled and shook his head, who returned the Clan to its rightful Ryan, Sean Russell, and "The Boy from exile. The words Pearse spoke that day then turned his eyes to Mike. "What position of providing moral and material Tralee," Charlie Kearns joined us there in are now part of the language of Republi­ could be wrong, hen?" support to those struggling to end British Keenans. rule in Ireland. canism - "The fools, the fools, they have Mike, resplendent in dark blue suit left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland and sparkling white shirt set off by a Mike, like many of our long time Mike was ever in the forefront in members often spoke of that crippling welcoming new members to the organi­ holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall Windsor knotted silk tie, agreed with his never be at peace." old comrade. "This is a very proud day for disease that seems to plague our move­ zation and guiding them through the long To his loving family, we extend our all of us, very proud," he continued, as we ment, "the split." In his 61 years in the history of the Clan, its successes and deep sorrow at their great loss. His like found our table and greeted the familiar organization, he had been through most failures alike. While dwelling lightly on will not soon be seen again. He shall be faces that would share that afternoon of them, major and minor, at home and the great days, he took time to detail the missed by his brothers and sisters of the with us. abroad. His position never varied. No reasons for the bad times and to explain matter what happened, the Army had to how they could and would happen again. camp. After the bride and groom had been Trial Background Cont. viewed by another secret, special court. None of the defendants are accused Stevens Report The Justice Department claims FISA of espionage or terrorism or pose a threat Continued from front is essential to both intelligence and to the United States. None have ever counter-intelligence investigations, and before been charged with a crime. All are That strategy succeeded In the pasl The SDLP kicked up a row and the boasts that although it has often been professionals in the computers/electron­ week with the report being treated as old Dublin government called for and was challenged in court, it has always been ics field, with no security question in their news despite tin- fed that the collusion given a series of meetings with British upheld. history or backrounds. Johnson, in par­ Kevin O'Dea, Johnson's lawyer, is ticular, enjoys the highest security clear­ scandal had made bannei headlines and ministers. Dublin and the SDLP were disturbed by the use of FISA wiretaps in ance granted by the government. topped the 'IV news a few short months siK need by the announcement of the his case, especially the extent and length Why were FISA wiretaps authorized rhe scandal blew up after the loyalist Inquiry and while Stevens conducted his of time involved. All four defense counsel in this case? killers oi Rathfriland man, Laughlin >nged Investigation, the whole con­ have challenged the use of HSA wiretaps The FBI's evidence to obtain wiretap Maginn, revealed th.it they had KIT ed out of public attention. repeatedly during the trial, and have approval is unknown, conveniently cov­ documents which they used to I Meanwhile, as republicans have al- invariably been overruled by the judge. ered by HSA secrecy. Yet it is obvious thou victim There followed a Boo - pointed out, the RUC and UDR Other lawyers are similarly concerned, that the investigation did not result in an similar leaks and revelations of leaks, with continue to act hand in-glove with loyal­ particularly over the question of whether FISA related treason or espionage trial - R{)C and UDR barracks and one whole ist paramilitaries who play their part in a secret court will ever safeguard the the outcome was criminal charges. It is division implicated in the collusion crisis. •ail British strategy by terrorising the individual and his right to privacy when important to remember the comments of In his report Stevens revealed that he nationalist population. The most blatantly balanced against an alleged threat to a former ACLU lawyer on the danger of "national security They fear also that HSA's use as a subterfuge for gathering was aware of 2,600 documents pin point collusive killing of all. that of Sam Marshall information for criminal proceedings, ing Individual nationalists that had come FISA can be misused by Federal authori­ outside an RUC station where he had just ties utilizing it as a cover to gather infor­ especially in IRA related cases. The Bush to light during his inquiry alone Yet in the ul. was not even investigated by mation for a criminal prosecution with­ administration has firmly allied itself with wake of the initial storm, all attention was ens. out being hampered by the far stricter Britain in the north of Ireland war, and turned from the RUC members who The Stevens Inquiry — Another domestic wiretap laws. has political reasons for actively prose­ were responsible for supplying so much bucket of whitewash. Pages 8/9. The Johnson case is a perfect ex­ cuting such cases. information to loyalists. ample of such misuse of FISA. JUNE 2, 1990 IRELAND UNITED GAELIC AND FREE PAGE 7 Letter from the Cell Block American rite of passage." Yusef Hawk­ arrest. The citizens of Bensonhurst are a ation, a possible racial incident in Bainbr- ins was killed on August 23, 1989. for thoughtful and community-concerned idge, an Irish-American neighborhood in nothing more than being a New York people. The media have been unfair to the borough of the Bronx, New York, it African-American, walking unthreaten- the people of Bensonhurst in irrespon­ could happen. I trust that the Irish-Ameri­ ingly and innocently into a white neigh­ sible and exploitative highlighting of the can leadership would take a decisive role borhood. racist slurs and "watermelon" pictures of in confronting any form of racism. The recent NY Daily News/ABC a small group of immature and over­ Having been raised in Belfast, I un­ Eyewitness News city-wide poll indicated excited youths. derstand the alienation, fears, and ten­ a concern among most New Yorkers that What I have been deeply concerned sions that are apparently pervasive in race relations have deteriorated over the about these past months is the lack of New York City. My early memories of re­ past several months. community and municipal leadership in ligious slurs, stereotyping, and beatings The poll was taken after the ending of New York. The Rev. Al Sharpton, the because I was an Irish Catholic give me a the Hawkins murder trial, in which Jo­ media-created leader of the black com­ sympathetic understanding of Yusef seph Fama, a young white man from the munity, has had a negative effect on the Hawkins and his three friends as they Bensonhurst neighborhood, was con­ situation. Al Sharpton is not a protago­ walked that night on August 23, 1989. victed of the 2nd-degree murder of Yusef nist dedicated to civil rights and racial Racism and bigotry in any form, in Joe Doherty Hawkins, and another Bensonhurst youth, tolerance, but rather an antagonist, who any place, and at any time are unaccept­ Irish Hostage in America Keith Mondello, was acquitted of the has been instrumental In further polariz­ able in a civilized society. If we cherish Day 2539 murder charge. ing the community. democracy, boast of freedom, flaunt out Is the Yusef Hawkins murder an iso­ But the blame does not lay with Al principles of judicial process, then we "An injustice anywhere is a threat to lated incident, over-reported and media- Sharpton. I must criticize the lack of must all condemn racist attacks and any justice everywhere." - Dr. Martin Luther exploited? Or, are there genuine prob­ leadership in the Bensonhurst neighbor­ other racially-motivated infringements of King, Jr. lems of racial disharmony and mistrust in hood and in the city in general. The individual rights. We must search out a New York's multi-racial melting pot? What Bensonhurst neighborhood, like Howard common ground in reconciliation and There has been much talk lately, are the underlying reasons for these Beach, another neighborhood where a unify in our commitment to building mostly from the media, about the "long problems, if any? racial murder attack shook the city, is bridges joining all communities. The racial hot summer" ahead of us with racial I guess there are many factors to predominantly Italian-American. It would melting pot should not boil over in heated tensions stemming from the Bensonhurst consider: racial indifference, economic have been more helpful if the Italian- confrontation and mistrust. murder incident and the general racial inequality, black alienation, stereotyping American community organizations and Mayor David Dinkins has the difficult disharmony in New York City. of young blacks, ethnic community tribal­ prominent political leaders had taken to job of representing the whole city. The Bensonhurst, a white neighborhood ism, fear of losing economic status. And, the streets in a unified march of reconcili­ Mayor needs every one of us to support in the Borough of Brooklyn, New York, who are to blame? ation. I am concerned that New York his leadership over the next several has been at the center of attention be­ Joseph Fama is merely the symptom, State Governor Mario Cuomo, US Sena­ months. We Irish and Irish-Americans cause of the killing of Yusef Hawkins, a As Fama embarks on his journey to tor Alfonse D'Amato and many other owe Mayor Dinkins for his commitment 16-year-old black New Yorker. imprisonment, the underlying problems, political leaders were not at the forefront to human and civil rights in occupied Yusef Hawkins and his three friends the cancer of racial intolerance and mis­ in confronting this issue of racial unrest. Ireland. Our struggles for equality are in went to Bensonhurst on a business trip, trust, will linger on. Where was the city leadership at that time unison. Wear the blue ribbon that shows as the NY Times reported, "doing noth­ I know the Bensonhurst neighbor­ of needed protection and guidance? your commitment to racial harmony. ing more than embarking on a classically hood, because I had lived there before my I cast my thoughts to a similar situ­ Coming June 16th - a Special Irish People 44 Joe Doherty Solidarity Issue 99

Anyone wishing to send greetings to Joe as he enters his eighth year in an American prison should send a one- greeting and $5.00 to the Irish People newspaper. This "Solidarity Issue" will coincide with the June 16th rally in Thomas Paine Park. JUNE 2, 1990 IRELAND UNITED GAELIC AND FREE PAGE 8

another bucket of whitewash AT THE RUC training base in Garnerville on Thursday, tion by loyalists in 1989, was quickly documents containing 29 names were May 17th, John Stevens, deputy chief constable of Cambr­ followed by two events which made the missing from Dunmurry barracks. In all calling of an inquiry almost inevitable. On 2,600 leaked RUC documents were to idgeshire, accompanied by the RUC Chief Constable Hugh Wednesday, September 13th, Sinn Fein surface before the inquiry ended. Annesley, released his report into incidents related to collu­ in Belfast hosted a press conference and On September 21st Northern Ireland revealed that they had information on a Office security minister, John Cope, said sion between the crown forces and loyalist paramilitaries. missing RUC document containing the there was going to be no conspiracy of The main conclusions in the report ments" which contained the names, names and details of nationalists. silence and explained British policy as state that "the passing of information to addresses and personal details of nation­ The allegation had first been made aimed at "stamping out any collusion and paramilitaries by security forces mem­ alists in the South Down area, including three days earlier by Alex Maskey of Sinn that is why we are investigating all the bers has been restricted to a small num­ the murdered Maginn, and which stated Fein and was flatly rejected by the RUC. allegations very thoroughly". The next ber of individuals" and is "neither wide­ that those named were IRA suspects. However, on September 14th, the RUC day Annesley weighed in with a back-up spread nor institutionalised", that "in the The Maginn murder and subsequent admitted that a file containing the names statement saying he was "deeply con­ present climate, leakages of information revelations brought strong statements of 12 nationalists had been "stolen from cerned" and would' facilitate every branch from the security forces may never be from the Haughey administration and a locked cabinet" in Dunmurry RUC of the security services in dealing with completely eliminated" and that "docu­ the SDLP "aghast" at these "startling Barracks. This RUC admission, coming criminality without fear or favour". ments in the hands of loyalists were of the disclosures". It was all so much hot air and within days of an admitted leak from They were lofty statements and pro­ lowest security rating". political posturing. Ballykinlar UDR camp, proved to be the vided the key to the conspiracy of silence Collusion between the crown forces straw that broke the camel's back. mentioned by Cope. As Sinn Fein pointed Those conclusions come after eight and their colleagues in loyalist paramili­ On September 15th Annesley an­ out, having the RUC investigated by an months in which the public has been tary groups was nothing new. Open nounced the Stevens Inquiry. It was given English policeman who would be depen­ bombarded with stories of leaks, and yet examples of it even in 1989 were not the task of "investigating the disappear­ dant for his inquiries on the very force more stories of leaks. Stories about leaks confined to the period after the Maginn ance of documents from a locked cabinet under investigation was a patent non­ over planned arrests of those suspected murder. In fact only four months before in Dunmurry RUC Barracks, alleged sense, and a nonsense which even the of leaks were followed by stories of ar­ most naive person could see from the rests of people suspected of receiving experience of the Stalker debacle. leaks. There were assurances from An­ Sinn Fein from the outset called for nesley that leakers would face the "full an independent and full public inquiry as rigour of the law", and warnings from the the only means of reaching the truth and 26-County government and the SDLP stated clearly that any internal investiga­ that the full nc clli-< tiveness of the Hillsbor­ tion was aimed only at maintaining the ough process would be in question if conspiracy of silence surrounding the there were no results on the points put whole collusion scandal. But neither the dining the three emergency meetings of concerned' SDLP nor the Dublin au­ the London/Dublin ministerial confer­ thorities concurred. ence convened after the storm broke in Back with Stevens, crisis was follow­ September/Octol > ing crisis. The RUC consistently failed to Interested observers could be forgiven make leaks publL until forced to do so for having become somewhat confused when the information was already in the as leak followed leak and story followed public domain. Only then did they reluc­ story. So what was the Stevens Inquiry all tantly and begrudeingly inform those at about? And what if anything is the real risk, often in the most sneering and even outcome ? jubilant manner. Leaks also began to take The Stevens Inquiry began when At die height of the 'leaks' controversy, loyalist paramilitaries showed how easily on an element of farce as British newspa­ coi icern in Dublit I g< >ven iment and SDLP these documemts can be obtained from their 'security forces' freinds pers and scores of others received 'new' utiles about 'alleged collusion' got so the Maginn killing two serving members leaking of sensitive material from Bal­ documents. It seemed as if someone intense that something had to give. Dublin of the crown forces were convicted for lykinlar UDR base, the alleged leak of somewhere was trying to paint the pic­ needed to be seen to be doing something, passing information to loyalist paramili- information associated with the murder ture that these files were so easily avail­ Britain wanted to do nothing, pressure taties. Joanne Garvin, a UDR private, of John Anthony Loughlin Maginn, and able that there was nothing to be con­ awd genuine public concern was mount and Cameron Hastie, a corporal in the any related matters which might arise in cerned about. But that one wasn't fooling ing, so in time honoured British fashion R< >val Scots Guards had passed on names, the course of the inquiry". anybody. an inquiry was announced and Dublin addresses and photographs of national­ A collective sigh of relief was breathed and SDLP demands, whatever they were, ists to loyalist paramilitaries. One of the in all establishment circles. The first ob­ GAME OF ILLUSIONS were shelved "pending the outcome of names was North Belfast nationalist jective of the inquiry was achieved — Politically the Hillsborough process, the Stevens Inquiry". Terence McDaid. killed by the UFF on time had been bought and the crisis was or the game of illusions as nationalists May 10th. 1987. Both Garvin and Hastie to be averted. know it, was in full swing. The series of RUC DOCUMENTS were given 18-month suspended sen­ emergency meetings and a plethora of The immediate series of events which tences and just as the Stevens Inquiry MORE NAMES pious statements said much and said led to the concern' of the Fianna Fail/PD began and Hugh Annesley promised to For three months following these nothing. Dublin concern' was matched government and the SDLP, and to the apply the "full rigour of the law" Archie events, incidents came in flurries. On by British resolve', and in the midst of it inquiry, began when the UDA/UFF. in Hamilton, British Minister for the Armed September 17th a County Down solici­ all the intended messages began to filter their attempts to justify the murder of Forces, announced that Hastie had been tor, Rory McShane, revealed that he was through to the public and to nationalists Rathfriland man Loughlin Maginn (shot re instated in his regiment and was work­ in possession of leaked RUC files con­ in particular. dead in lus home on Thursday, August ing as a training Instructor in a British taining the names of 18 South Down The line now pushed by the Dublin 24th 1989). insisted that Maginn had army base in Scotland. nationalists which had been in the hands government was that it was the UDR that been killed because of IRA links To of loyalists and had come into his posses­ was at fault and the SDLP dutifully fol­ establish their claim they sent for a BBC DUNMURRY CABINET sion in August 1988. On the same day lowed that line. Britain revamped the old journalist and showed him "RUC docu- Maginn s killing, the 15th assassina- the RUC revealed that a further two few bad apples' story, stressing that they JUNE 2, 1990 IRELAND UNITED GAELIC AND FREE PAGE 9

By early February it 2,600 DOCUMENTS was evident that the RECOVERED inquiry was winding These comments were made without down. Stevens declined even a blush and only minutes after Ste­ to investigate a new dis­ vens himself had revealed that 2,600 closure of leaks un­ documents originating from the RUC earthed in a raid on an had been recovered in the course of the East Belfast home where inquiry. The obvious implications for the documents and bomb total number leaked but not recovered equipment had been were not explored. found. Evidence of col­ The few bad apples had been found lusion offered by people and would be dealt with and files on two as far apart as Sinn Fein RUC men were with the DPP, and just in and loyalist killer Ginger case of further hiccups, the report con­ Albert Baker, was to be cluded on a note of warning that the ignored. Brian Nelson, British had tried their best but "in the an arrested UDA intelli­ present climate leakages of information gence officer, now in from the security forces may never be protective custody and eliminated". believed to be acting as All went very smoothly from the Brit­ an informer, was not to ish point of view. The media, besides be questioned. This was covering the report's publication, largely in spite of the fact that ignored its background and implications. he was said to be in The report had bought sufficient time to charge of documents re­ make the issue 'old news' for newspapers John Stevens and RUC Cheif Constable Hugh Annesley relaese the report - a predictable whitewash ceived from within the and TV which had given extensive cover­ were now concerned as to how these bad members were to be arrested. A further crown forces. age to the original leaks scandal. apples had slipped through the 'vetting irony was that the 26 released UDR men Then on March 7th one of the most For Sinn Fein, party president Gerry net'. In case anyone was in any doubt were to receive substantial compensation blatant murders to date occurred when Adams summed it up: about the future of the UDR, Peter Brooke and have their homes purchased at full Sam Marshall was gunned down mo­ "It became clear from the outset of took the opportunity to issue no less than market value, as well as being relocated in ments after walking out of Lurgan RUC this investigation that it would not, and seven statements on the regiment and its areas of their choice, while nationalists Barracks having signed bail. There was was not intended to, breach the pro- continued central role in British strategy. whose names had been leaked were to no question but that there had been RUC loyalist conspiracy which runs to the very Dublin as always had no solution receive paltry sums of £100 to £300 to collusion in this killing. Stevens again heart of the British forces operating in except to "impress our views on the secure their homes in the event of attack. declined to include this in his inquiry and the Six Counties." ministerial conference", in other words More was to follow. UDA men, wor­ it was obvious that the inquiry was over. The SDLP's Seamus Mallon com­ to wait and see what the British were ried at the inroads Stevens appeared to mented: prepared to offer and make the best of it. be making in their organisation, began SINN FEIN REPORT "The report is inadequate in that it The British solution was just as simple; employing the tactic of publicly display­ fails to properly address the core of the individual members of the UDR were to ing large numbers of documents. This In an attempt to set collusion in con­ problem — how confidential police infor­ be scapegoated and as many people as was apparently done to embarrass the text Sinn Fein produced, in March, a mation found its way into the hands of possible outside the crown forces who people within the RUC who were leaking detailed study of over 100 killings by loyalist paramilitaries." had been in receipt of leaks were to be to the UDA but not protecting them from loyalists since 1980. The report showed He didn't, however, say what action, arrested to make it look like something Stevens, and to signal Stevens that he that in 62% of the killings there was if any, he or his party intended to take. was happening. was facing a deluge he couldn't hope to strong evidence to suggest direct or indi­ Taking action of course is the prerogative Most importantly of all, the RUC was stop. rect crown forces collusion in the mur­ of the party's senior partner, the Dublin to be exonerated and the fact that it was ders. An appeal was made for Stevens to government. Foreign Affairs Minister RUC documents which were being leaked 4WE DBDN'T START THE FRtE' investigate the killings or, failing that, for Gerry Collins provided their reaction: by RUC members was to be ignored. In January more of the drama un­ a public inquiry to examine the circum­ ' The government will be studying the The special ministerial conferences folded. On the 5th Stevens' headquar­ stances of the murders. Neither option Stevens report and recommendations in were barely ended when a new bogey ters, a single office in an RUC base was to be taken on board. their detail and will be seeking to learn raised its head. On October 2nd an Irish outside Carrickfergus, storing all the A few weeks later, on April 5th, it was from the British authorities the steps they News journalist was met by a man claim­ team's computers and files, was totally announced that the inquiry was finished. intend taking to implement his recom­ ing to be a serving member of the RUC destroyed in a mysterious fire which was Annesley made the public announce­ mendations." He added: who showed him 233 highly sensitive not extinguished until the office was to­ ment, Stevens being on holiday. It was "The report also confirms the in­ RUC documents and revealed the exis­ tally gutted. Only the fact that Stevens stated that a full scrutiny of the report volvement of the UDR in collusion. The tence of an RUC Inner Circle. The man had been making back-up files on a Home would be made before any comment. specific recommendations that Mr Ste­ claimed that the Inner Circle comprised Office master computer in England saved That 'scrutiny' needed to be seen to be vens makes in this area must be promptly of RUC men committed to two aims — the day for his inquiry and halted a major thorough for the charade to work and so implemented." And of course "these the bringing down of the Hillsborough embarrassment for the British. The fire, it wasn't until May 17th that Annesley matters will form part of our deliberations Agreement and the eradication of 're­ despite Stevens' initial comments throw­ and Stevens appeared at Gamerville to at the next ministerial conference". publican subversives'. ing suspicion on the RUC, was easily make their startling non-revelations. But So, in a nutshell, the British have To this latter end, it was claimed, the brushed off as a freak accident. poor old Peter Brooke had ruined the done nothing. Dublin intends to do noth­ Inner Circle had men in every division Three days later further embarrass­ surprise. On April 6th he had told the ing. Nobody can stop leaks, but we'll all and sub-division of the RUC bar one; ment came when a planned swoop on media when questioned about the possi­ do our best and, last but not least, let's get they also had "updated and high grade UDA members failed to net the suspects. bility of the report being published: the whole sorry episode finished so that intelligence" and Stevens was never going UDA leaders revealed to British journal­ "It will be up to the chief constable we can return to business as usual. to be able to halt their access to it. So here ists that they had been forewarned by the what he tells me and then a number of us Nationalists will take a very different was a new diversion to add to all the other RUC. will decide what we tell everyone else." view, but then again for nationalists the diversions — the leaks were all about The Belfast swoop debacle followed What they decided to tell everyone Stevens Inquiry was a non-starter any­ harming the Hillsborough process and only weeks after N Division of the RUC in else was neither surprising nor very en­ way. It had nothing to do with protecting discrediting the British security services. Derry City had been removed by the lightening. Despite Stevens' claim of them. No-one with even the slightest Action was to be swift but as always Stevens team from any further investiga­ having made 83 recommendations about experience of realities in the Six Counties meaningless. On October 8th Stevens' tions into the discovery of a UDA 'intel­ tightening-up procedures for recruiting needed an obscure English policeman to team, in a very public operation, arrested ligence factory' containing documents into the UDR and the future handling of tell them about collusion between the 28 UDR men, only two of whom were to on 600 nationalists. Sinn Fein alleged 'sensitive material', the RUC were totally armed defenders of the Orange state in face charges relating to the leaking of that N Division's removal came because exonerated and collusion was neither and out of British uniform. The murder of information. collusion was so widespread in it that "widespread nor institutionalised". over 800 nationalists by loyalists in 20 The other 26 were released without Stevens had no option but to remove it years is sufficient testimony. charge and no further crown forces from the investigation. JUNE 2, 1990 IRELAND UNITED GAELIC AND FREE PAGE 10 Sean Mackin In November 1987, Belfast attorney times three or four times a day. Under His life was threatened on a number to flee the north of Ireland was a letter he Patrick Finucane traveled to New York to Northern Ireland's emergency powers of occasions by the RUC and the British received at the end of 1981. Inside the testify before an immigration court on legislation, he could be arrested without army. Many of his friends and political envelope was a Christmas card with a behalf of his client, Sean Mackin, in warrant, and be held for up to seven days associates have been murdered by both photograph of Sean taken during inter­ support of Mackin's political asylum without access to an attorney. the security forces and Loyalist paramili- rogation. A hole was drawn in the middle application. Finucane told the court that of his forehead. A written message threat­ if Mackin returned to Belfast, his life ened his life. would be in danger. The envelope was postmarked in a In March 1989, Finucane himself town that was the regional headquarters was gunned down at his home in front of of the Royal Marines in Scotland. This his wife and children. A Loyalist paramili­ regiment had threatened Mackin in the tary group claimed responsibility for his past. One of his friends had been para­ murder. Afterwards, Loyalists told re­ lyzed and brain damaged by a plastic porters that Royal Ulster Constabulary bullet fired by a Royal Marine, and an­ detectives had told them that Finucane other had been shot dead by one of the was responsible for keeping Republican regiment's snipers. Mackin had made activists out of prison. They were told official complaints against members of that he was a thorn in their side, and the regiment, but they were ignored. The "should be dealt with." That advice was sender of the card identified himself as a acted upon. In September 1989, it was member of the Royal Marines. revealed that a police intelligence file with In January 1982, Sean Mackin moved Sean Mackin's photograph had been to the town of Dundalk in the Irish Repub­ passed on to the Loyalist paramilitaries. (jhrisimas Greetiuijs lic near the border of the north of Ireland. The photograph shows Mackin with a The arrests and harassment, however, black eye. It was taken during one of the ami did not stop. The Garda (police) in the innumerable occasions he was held in Irish Republic have a very close working one of Northern Ireland's infamous inter­ Best Wishes relationship with the security forces in the rogation centers. The men in that pho- north of Ireland. Republican activists, tofile were political associates of Mackin's particularly those bom in the north of - Irish Republican activists in Belfast - I or the Neir Ycat^^° CHANCC* Ireland, are targeted by the Garda for many of them are now dead. Just before intense surveillance and harassment. Mackin fled the north of Ireland, the same RJ.P. c r The same pattern of arrest and deten­ photograph was mailed to him from a tion was waiting for Mackin in the Irish British army regimental headquarters in Tri£ COMMANDO vifr)/ANTEE" Republic. Shortly after his arrival in Scotland. The sender had added a ma­ SQ0A& IS COhiNSeamus Grew and Roddy Carroll, in the center of Mackin's forehead. UAV£ - SuT ii< CiVlLldM CUoTWtS were killed in a hail of bullets by an RUC Since his teens, he has been subject d undercover unit, as they drove from the to the most extraordinary level of harass­ THIS riMe-OKjf 3r eve ComWG Irish Republic into the north of Ireland. X ment and physical violence at the hands Up. £NJoY youR ifljT *^S" They were unarmed. The RUC thought of the security forces in the north of that another of Mackin's associates, Ireland. His own experiences in deten­ Dominic McGlinchey, who was wanted tion under Northern Ireland's draconian *00d FAl/OUftllE M/tf/NF in the north of Ireland, was in the car. emergency laws have been cited both by The police officers who killed them Amnesty International and an official had traveled into the Irish Republic and British government inquiry. Yet Mackin >x** - followed them back across the border. has never been convicted of any crime in They were later exonerated by a North­ the north of Ireland. Christinas Card sent to Sean Mackin by British Marine ern Ireland court. At the age of six, Sean Mackin had his The incident was investigated by John arm broken in a riot in Belfast. Later, like During the long periods that he was taries. Stalker, a senior British police officer. large numbers of his peers, he became held in the notorious Castlereagh interro­ During the long periods of interroga­ Stalker found that there was an unofficial involved in the struggle to unite his coun­ gation center, Mackin was deprived of tion and beatings, Mackin was asked to RUC policy to kill Republican activists. try and free it from British Interference. sleep and beaten and tortured sometimes sign confessions to a catalogue of differ­ In the company of McGlinchey, For that, he paid a very heavy price. for days on end. ent offenses. Despite intense physical Mackin found that he was being continu­ Sean Mackin's family, living In the 1 lis experience at the hands of the and psychological pressure, he always ously followed and held by the Garda heavily nationalist Lower Falls area of Special Branch. Simultaneously, the Belfast, has been involved in Irish Repub­ emergence of "Supergrass" witnesses led lican politics for generations like his to extreme paranoia among Republican brothers and sisters, Sean joined the To say that Mackin has a reasonable activists with a number of people being Republican scouts at the age of eleven killed as suspected informers, including With them, he helped build barricades to fear of persecution were he to be one close friend of Mackin's who was protect his neighborhood from Loyalist shot "execution style" in the Irish Repub­ mobs who were aided by the sectarian deported to the north of Ireland, as lic. police force, the Royal Ulster Constabu the Immigration and Naturalization On a number of occasions, Mackin lary(RU< had his life threatened by the Garda From the beginning, his political ac Service seeks, is an understatement. Special Branch. They also threatened to tivism made him the focus of a high level illegally hand him across the border to the of official harassment ,\\\(.\ physical intimi Northern Ireland security forces. dation. Throughout the I970's, he was RUC was investigated by both Amnesty refused to do so. After Mackin eventually fled to the constantly arrested and received physical International and an official British gov­ So in the early 1980s, the authorities United States for the safety of both him­ beatings at the hands of the British army ernment inquire. Both reports cited instituted a number of prosecutions based self and his family, McGlinchey was ar­ and the RUC. Mackin's experiences of ill-treatment, and on the uncorroborated evidence of the rested after a series of shoot-outs with the From 1976 on, it was common for both investigations found a systematic so-called "Supergrass" witness. Mackin Irish security forces. He was extradited to Mackin to be held for periods of an hour pattern of ill treatment of Republican was implicated by five of these "Super­ the north of Ireland, where he was con­ or more on consecutive days, and some­ suspects. grasses". What eventually drove Mackin victed on an extremely dubious murder JUNE 2, 1990 IRELAND UNITED GAELIC AND FREE PAGE 11 and Political Asylum

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gated extensively to ensure that Mackin charge, which was subsequently over­ and law abiding member of society. He the British army raided locations in Bel­ be returned to British jurisdiction. At turned on appeal. has been very active in various local fast that Mackin had lived or stayed in. In almost every juncture in this case, the INS He was then re-extradited to the Irish community organizations and charitable one instance, Mackin's permanent resi­ have shown a flagrant disregard for the Republic to face charges surrounding his endeavors. dence was raided twice in the one day by American tradition of providing sanctu­ capture. After McGlinchey was convicted Sean Mackin seeks political asylum in soldiers inquiring about Mackin's where­ ary for victims of political persecution. and incarcerated, his wife Mary was shot the United States. To say that Mackin has abouts. This was the same address to dead in front of her children at her house Your support is crucial in ensuring in Dundalk in the Irish Republic. that the INS is prevented from circum­ venting, at the behest of the British au­ The civil and political unrest in the At almost every juncture in this case, thorities, one of the oldest rights en­ north of Ireland over the last twenty years shrined in American law.** has resulted in the death, injury and the INS have shown a flagrant imprisonment of tens of thousands of Benefit Social for people. That unrest has spilled over into disregard for the American tradition the Irish Republic and resulted in the off providing sanctuary for victims of Sean Mackin introduction of emergency legislation and will be held extraordinary powers for the police force. political persecution. In November 1983, Sean Mackin June 2 1990, at the came to the United States. He did so, not Galty More pub on E. because he sought the kind of opportuni­ Gun Hill Road and ties for advancement that this country a reasonable fear of persecution were he which the Royal Marines regiment sent offers in abundance, but because he feared to be deported to the north of Ireland, as the threatening Christmas card. Webster in the Bronx for his life and that of his wife and young the Immigration and Naturalization Serv­ In August 1985, Sean Mackin was Music by Patsy Ryan daughter. ice seeks, is an understatement. arrested at his home in the Bronx by Virtually since the day he arrived in As recently as December 1989, more federal agents. Since then, the Immigra­ and Climate New York, Mackin has been a tax paying than six years after Mackin left Ireland, tion and Naturalization Service has liti­ 8:00 PM Start JUNE 2, 1990 IRELAND UNITED GAELIC AND FREE PAGE 12 Join Irish Northern Aid We accuse the British and their Americans. Through skillful manipula­ all political prisoners; and a constitutional can join. allies of causing the troubles in tion of the American media they have convention of all Irish political parties to Ireland. put the blame for the "troubles" upon the create the political and economic condi­ IS THERE AN AGE LIMIT? They undemocratically imposed par­ very people that are suffering most from tions necessary for a true and lasting tition, internment, Diplock courts and in­ the "troubles." Through censorship of peace in a united Ireland. No. Everyone is welcome irrespec­ former trials. They use assassinations, the electronic media in the UK and Ire­ Irish Northern Aid morally and finan­ tive of age. plastic bullets and torture. They invade land and through a US visa denial policy cially supports Irish nationalist political Irish homes, insult Irish women and beat which prevents the most articulate na­ prisoners and their families. There are CAN ORGANIZATIONS SUCH Irish men. 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tanced from the reality, but who should the burning of Long Kesh and with the have known better, to do nothing and pieces on the general political situation as BOOK REVIEW eventually to distort and misrepresent seen from behind the wire. Poignant those prisoners. The result was 'intellec­ because it covers a transition period which tuals' like Fintan OToole. was to be followed by even greater trag­ edy. BALANCE REDRESSED Confessions This book is an important part of the OMINOUS by-now extensive literature that serves to Less than a month after Frank Stagg redress the balance. Based simply on died the British Labour government in­ from the Cages articles written by Gerry under the pen- troduced the criminalisation policy. name Brownie in Republican News be­ Adams gave some of the first ominous 5H tween August 1975 and Febmary 1977, reports of how that was being imple­ B |;S:: :;i| it is a very funny, honest, sad and inspir­ mented in the newly-built H-Blocks. Many 1 H H :: :| ing account of life in the Cages of Long of his comrades, the main characters of is 1 S Kesh. this book, were to find themselves follow­ •'••'• ••eBBi i II 1 S' ;'3§S *>*•'' JH S&gfl For some of those who had the privi­ ing Kieran Nugent, the first blanket man, B:Wi« 19 lege of being in the custody of Her on the long, slow, tortuous path through K is»lli:' RiWX: Majesty's government as political prison­ '76, 77, '78, 79, '80 and '81 as they :^m ers at that time the book will provide fought, "each in his separate hell", to win :-'W entertainment as they identify themselves humane conditions and defeat criminali­ S:>S| l • *J8 sation. Some of the men who had been in :S:» and their comrades in the madly-named 1 I characters and in the exploits and expe­ the Cages and who, on March 1st 1976, :;•&•••. S riences common to all prisoners. For the suddenly 'became criminals' were to fol­ :i:S|ffl I J rest of us Cage Eleven is an enjoyable and low Frank Stagg to death on hunger- ; : : ™rB : :: :V: 3H8 educational chapter in republican prison strike. ii» wiwiM Bi&ssj history. oiMirai SLlli PRELUDE II *M"*i Hin k*$$$:. inn fjjTTr' 1'jT^PI':; MOONSHINE As well as providing another impor­ [lfi|I In a unique and personal way Adams tant chapter in political prison history, recounts the crack and the heartache, the and indeed in modern Irish history, Cage

::o:'::fl K«K-flB monotony and the moonshine, the tun­ Eleven comes as a timely prelude to the

SBS' 1M nels and the tantrums that made life marking next year of the tenth anniver­ Si'" HMII 1 9 jjj$£9 bearable or unbearable in the Cages. sary of the H-Block hunger-strikes. Read­ ( Here for the first time Adams reveals how ing it I was reminded again of how many confessions were conducted for pious thousands oi Irish people have been IN A RECENT COLUMN of his in the 1916 Rising. OToole's piece and a POWs in a manner well in advance of imprisoned by Britain this past 20 years, Irish Times Fintan OToole referred to subsequent column he wrote on the Irish Vatican II. The mysteries of prison poitin the tens of thousands of men, women ' 'the grotesque procession of the remains language deserve a reply at length in the and the misery of collective hangovers and children, families, friends and loved of the hunger-striker Frank Stagg, brought future but I was reminded of the Stagg are described. ones who have been affected by that home from England and followed across quote when reading Gerry Adams' Cage Wry humour characterises the lighter imprisonment and yet how little of this is Ireland by armoured cars, buried under Eleven. chapters but they are not the whole story. reflected in modern Irish literature and concrete and guarded day and night, like The latest book from the West Belfast Men died and went mad in the Cages of art. Most of the "men of art", as Bobby the body of a vampire". MP contains an article he wrote in 1976 Long Kesh. Imprisonment broke up rela­ Sands called them, still close their eyes to OToole was not castigating the for Republican News in which he graphi­ tionships and families. Long years of the present and ignore the recent history Coalition government which was respon­ cally described Stagg's horrific ordeal of awful conditions, only tolerable because of their own people. Through books such sible for the desecration of Frank Stagg's force-feeding and urged attention and of the comradeship of the republican as this the high ground is reclaimed from body nor the British Labour government action on the plight of the dying hunger- POWs, were mirrored on the outside by them. which was responsible for his torture and striker. Then as now censorship cut people the endurance of families. Cage Eleven by Gerry Adams. Pub­ death through force-feeding. The colum­ off from the reality of life for many hun­ This is a highly evocative and poign­ lished by Brandon. Price £4.95. Avail­ nist wrote this in the context of an attack dreds of Irish political prisoners. It made ant book. Evocative because it captures able from Sinn Fein Bookshop, 44 Par- on nationalists for commemorating the it easier for some people who were dis- the mood of the time, as with the diary of nell Square, Dublin. Seventeen brave days A SECOND EDITION of the to the politics and the writings of a great hugely popular Diary of Bobby Sands has Irishman. Sands' grasp of what success just been published. This first 17 days of for the national liberation struggle en­ Sands' heroic H-Block hunger-strike to tailed comes across clearly in this brief the death, recorded by him in diary form, diary and he had a better understanding contains the original foreword by Danny than most of the importance of the jail Morrison, former Sinn Fein director of battle within that broader struggle. It was publicity and editor of An Phoblacht/ an understanding he constantly attempted Republican News, who is now himself to impart to others. held on remand at Crumlin Road Jail, Belfast. SYMBOL OF COURAGE A new feature of the latest issue is a The humanity of a man who is a hero foreword by Brendan 'Bik' McFarlane to many in Ireland and a symbol of who succeeded Bobby Sands as O/C of courageous anti-imperialist resistance fa the republican POWs in the H-Blocks many others throughout the world, shines text. sold out world-wide, and this new edition, when the hunger-strike commenced. through the pages of the diary. His deep The diary will evoke many feelings with drawings by POWs and photographs McFarlane subsequently participated in concern for his imprisoned comrades, for and varying emotions within the reader from the time, is long overdue and par­ the mass jail break from Long Kesh by the Irish people, and in particular for the — sadness in particular, but also anger ticularly timely with the tenth anniversary republican POWs in 1983, was re-ar­ oppressed nationalists of the North to and laughter. The overall impression of the 1981 hunger-strike next year. rested, extradited from the Netherlands, whom he refers as the 'risen people', is though is Sands' success at conveying a The Diary of Bobby Sands, Price and is now serving the remainder of his expressed repeatedly. feeling of immense confidence that Ire­ £1.50, published by Republican Publica­ sentence in the H-Blocks. His resignation to the prospect of his land will achieve national freedom and tions is available from the Sinn Fein Written in the most difficult of circum­ death on hunger-strike is something which justice for all her people. Bookshop, 44 Parnell Square, Dublin or stances, the diary is a good introduction can only be understood within this con- The original 1981 edition completely 51/55 Falls Road, Belfast. JUNE 2, 1990 IRELAND UNITED GAELIC AND FREE PAGE 14 SPONSORED BY MC ELHONE/EGAN UNIT WOLFE TONE IRISH NORTHERN AID WEST BRONX COMMEMORATION SUNDAY, JUNE 17TH

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PRIVATE DAVID HOLDEN, who shot dead Aidan It's good to see the Bibi Show providing some real COPS' SAFE CRACKED. McAnespie as he walked past a British army checkpoint entertainment for once, however unwitting. More than £2,000 in overtime pay was stolen from at Aughnacloy two years ago, has been finally kicked out a safe in the administration office of the police's South of the army. CONGRATULATIONS to all concerned with the London area HQ in Brixton. The Grenadier Guardsman has been medically dis­ making of Ken Loach's film, Hidden Agenda, which was So far a criminal investigation by Detective Chief charged, due apparently, to recurring nightmares. awarded the Prix de Jury at the Cannes Film Festival last Inspector Ron Williams has failed to trace the money or Holden had been allowed to remain in the army Monday night, to generous applause. come up with a suspect, but the possibility of an inside following the fatal shooting, his punishment for the The jury praised the film as a denunciation of the job has not been ruled out. murder being a small fine for negligence. After the abuse of power by government for political ends. "THE GARDA performed a stupid piece of driving, killing the British army had claimed that his finger British tabloid journalists complained to the festival which others might call dangerous, but I call plain "slipped" on the trigger of the heavy machine-gun director, Gilles Jacob, that the film was anti-British, but stupid." which cut down the young Aughnacloy man. other British journalists undermined this unprecedented This was how Judge Frank Martin described Garda The results of the post mortem examination carried protest by dissociating themselves from the protest in a Jim Duncan's motoring skills as he awarded motorcy­ out by the 26-County state pathologist on Aidan letter to the festival's chief press officer. clist Joseph Murphy £9,135 damages on Thursday, McAnespie's body have never been published. May 17th. A COMRADE in Belfast was just leaving the AP/RN Murphy successfully sued the Minister for Justice THE WOMAN FROM RTE. office last Friday when he overheard a group of Scottish and the Attorney General following his motorcycle's RTE's Bibi Show, hosted by Bibi Baskin, was broad­ Brits harassing a young lad directly outside the door. He collision with the unmarked Garda car on December cast last week from the Leitrim town of Drumshanbo. stayed inside to listen. 10th, 1987. Duncan had pulled out from a parking The Leitrim county librarian, Sean O Suilleabhain, The Brits were giving the lad a hard time when he space Jn Rathmines at night without turning on lights or spoke about a new scheme where Leitrim librarians broke free and made a run for it. One of the Brits started indicating. offer to trace the roots of the world wide Irish diaspora. to chase him, to curses from his boss. The judge said he totally accepted the evidence of It has apparently proved extremely popular with the The luckless tartan terrorist tripped over a pile of the independent witness, 26-County army Private Paul estimated 1,000,000 Americans of Leitrim descent. rubble, spraining his ankle. Meanwhile, the youth made Grant and rejected Duncan's claim that the road was O Suilleabhain gave some examples of the strange good his escape. clear before he attempted the right-hand turn. ways some Yanks address their letters. Mail had been His boss roared at the injured peacekeeper, calling received, he said, addressed to' The Mayor of Leitrim", him a "stupid bastard" for running after the youth. THE real facts seem to escape certain people, even "I \e.r Majesty's Militia, Leitrim", "The Mayor of Balli- "I had him in my sights," he said. when they stare them in the face, but Waterford Work­ namore" and "The Registrar — Derrada". He then told the rest that he was calling the RUC, ers' Party hacks took the biscuit on April 8th when they At this point members of the audience start to titter. saying their story would be that the youth had assaulted issued a photocopied leaflet on the Waterford Crystal "Where's Derrada?" enquires Bibi. one of them before making off. strike with their weekly The Irish People. The entire audience starts to laugh. One of the Brits was heard to ask he of the sprained The strikers are referred to throughout this docu­ "They know something that I don't!" exclaims the ankle did his foot hurt. ment as the Crystal men' or 'the Glass men'. Someone hapless Bibi "Only when I stand on it," he replied. should tell Waterford Workers' Party members that over The audience erupts into fits of laughter. 400 women are on strike too — around one sixth of the "Well I wouldn't worry too much about Derrada," ARMY BOSSES have banned Territorial Army total. says O Suilleabhain, smirking as he avoids further troopers in Britain from taking portable phones with enquiry. them onto the battlefield during manoeuvres. AN ex-Para was put on two years probation on Derrada, for those Baskins among you, is an insig­ According to one TA officer: "Everybody carries Monday, May 14th, after being found guilty of inflicting nificant wood on the outskirts of I^allinamore which hit portable phones. They climb into a trench and phone grievous bodily harm on his girlfriend. the headlines in 1983 when it played host to a famous home." Mark Richard, from Solihull, West Midlands, a supermarket mogul from Dublin — Don Tidey. Malvinas veteran, smashed a poker over Helen Nash's head following a heavy drinking session. During a drunken argument two days after Christ­ These intellectual pursuits p There'6 a lot to be mas, Richard threatened Nash with a carving knife, bit said for lying in bed rwuat be postponed when the struggle £or social Justice makes demand* her on the wrists and threatened to kill her. He punched and contemplating the her repeatedly in the face before hitting her over the hurnan condition en orvz'h time. The serious revolution­ ary must achieve the correct link head with the poker. She suffered a fractured jaw, a between theory and practice- black eye, a loose tooth and bruising. however- •Good Richard has had a number of convictions since afternoon quitting the Paras. He was put on probation earlier this year by the same judge for theft. Judge Michael Harrison Hall told Richard, who the court heard has a drink problem: "The Falklands was a long time ago and the time has run out for you to be mm* granted any sort of special treatment. The question is ^L whether you get one last chance, and I will give you that chance."

^//Sh< How I look FORTY Birmingham policemen have been ques­ ^ / Well, I'm going to ^ forward each day to tioned after a man received 25 stitches when a glass was carrv»«a out mv tsdks a meeting in trie fight -for freedom! Vbu're looking after smashed in his face in a pub where the coppers were And what does today the children, going to holding a farewell party. hold for us ••••? p^~ the shop*,,and The Brummie boys in blue apparently decided to do one for the road when, according to a friend of the victim, Tony Tuite. "at least ten of them beat him up". The attack apparently began when somebody grabbed Tuite's wife by the arm in the Ward End Pub. "The attackers were like lager louts with a badge." said family friend Tina Mytton. Subscribe to the Irish People