[TWO REPUBLICANS Noel and Marie Murray will soon…]
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TWO REPUBLICANS Noel and Marie Murray will soon be hanged on trumped up charges after a nojury trial in which the main evidence against them was their own 'confessions' extracted under torture.
There could be no clearer case of the rightward movement of the Dublin government than the action of the "Special Criminal Court' with its three judges.
The press in Ireland has blanked out any reporting of this case which shows that it is not some chance use but the stepping up of a campaign.
Meanwhile, British government policy towards Ireland made dramatic advances into the Nineteenth Century on November 8th when the Irish Party' represented by Frank Maguire gave his vote in the House of Commons to the government who were then able by a majority of one to guillotine debate on the Shipbuilding Nationalisation Bill Bill saved by the IRA" was the Tory reaction to the intervention of a man whom British imperialism had once interned.
What the British government "sold' in return for Maguire's vote was a matter of speculation but Frank MacManus, the former Independent Republican MP for Fermanagh had no doubt as to what Maguire should demand.
He hoped that Maguire was not only negotiating for the rights of political prisoners, Republicans who are being tortured in British jails, but also for the transfer of