Limerick Now
Socialist Press1979 1979-01-17Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 4 →
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Fighting for democratic rights under the Lynch regime-a march last month organised by the Contraception Action Programme demanding free, legal contraception now. ' O'Kennedy calling on British imperialism to take an 'initiative" in finding a political solution.
O'Kennedy' has gone even further and last month tacitly defended the barbaric conditions inflicted by the British on 350 republican prisoners in 'H' Block of the Armagh jail chaplin An tAthair • Muiri, who has provided extensive documented. accounts of ill-treatment, and who has pointed out that the blanket protest is:
"one of the few forms of protest left to them against an administration which has deprived them of the ordinary necessities of life.".
But of course O'Kennedy is not interested in the facts, but in curbing the latest republican IFL