Campaign for Noel Maguire   TJ O Conchúir • 8 March 2007 A Chairde, I'm coordinating an effort with a few other comrades to launch an International Day of Action for POW Noel Maguire scheduled for March 30. We are trying to make this as big as possible and gain as many supporters which we will post on our website; we already have activists in six different countries behind this effort! About two years ago when we were trying to reptriate Aiden Hulme, a number of us participated in the New Republican Forum-led international day of protest calling for Hulme's immediate repatriation. There were demonstrations in cities across the USA, Ireland and Britain. Not long after we saw Hulme's case resolved adequately. I believe if we all demonstrate on the same day across the world for Maguire that it could positively effect his case. We are seeing a general upturn in the republican struggle in Ireland, as well as an increased refusal by the Irish government to repatriate Noel Maguire. This makes this an excellent time to launch this campaign and continue to energise the republican community; in particular we hope to draw in more independent and non-aligned republicans and republican socialists. We are seeking your endorsement, and as many individuals and organisations possible to endorse this campaign. Everyone who signs up to it will be provided with literature for the day of international demo's so that we can speak in one unified voice. I will also issue a press release to demonstrate how many of us still stand behind the anti-imperialist political prisoners. We have nothing to be afraid of in taking part in this campaign; we are only demanding that Maguire be given his democratic rights afforded to many other prisoners before him. Just to be clear so there is no doubt, I do not claim to speak for any of the POWs. However, following this letter is a statement from Noel Maguire expressing his support for this campaign. Is míse le meas, TJ O Conchúir Irish Republican Socialist Movement North American Coordinating Committee Member Prison Welfare Officer A statement by Noel Maguire Friends and comrades a chairde, as many of you know already, my latest application for repatriation to serve the remaining years of my sentence in the country of my birth, has once again been refused by the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. I am at a loss as to why the Dept continues to refuse me my rights. Under the European Convention on the rights of prisoners to serve their sentence in country of origin, I qualify on all counts. My wife and two young children live within an hours journey of Portlaoise and Mountjoy Prisons, and my brother, sisters, uncles and aunts all live within visiting distance. I have no relatives in Britain and I have not seen my children for six years I have received numerous communications from the Dept of Justice - and the Irish embassy here - but at no time ever have I been given a clear-cut satisfactory explanation for my applications being refused. Furthermore I am now informed I cannot apply again until January 2008. This is contrary to the legislation agreed my all EU member states - that a prisoner can at any time apply for repatriation to country of origin. I am an Irish citizen, hold a valid Irish passport, and to all intents and purposes I qualify for repatriation in law. My co-accused have all been repatriated and I believe my continued detention here is victimisation - if not illegal. I appreciate all that is being done for me outside these walls by good comrades and friends at home and abroad who believe my incarceration is a travesty of justice Your campaign has my total support - and my thanks. Noel Maguire HMP Full Sutton, York. YO41-IPS. 06.03.2007                                               Index: Current Articles + Latest News and Views + Book Reviews + Letters + Archives

There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it. - Frank Zappa Printer Friendly Index: Current Articles 14 March 2007 Other Articles From This Issue: Legal Aid Wrangle Continues Michael McKevitt Justice Campaign Statements on the Arrest of Gerry McGeough Various Campaign for Noel Maguire TJ O Conchúir Paisleyites & Peelers Anthony McIntyre Equating Spectacle at Stormont with United Irishmen is Perverse Tommy Gorman Seacht mbuicéad caca go dtite ar a gcinn Michael Gillespie Nothing But the Truth John Kennedy Snapshot, 1993: Voters' Rights, MI5 Wrongs Fionnbarra Ó Dochartaigh Broad Church for Unionism Dr John Coulter The Man Without the Mask Anthony McIntyre The New Boyne Harriers Brian Mór UUP Possibilities Dr John Coulter Blinkered Vision Anthony McIntyre Damned by Debt Relief Pauline Hadaway • 6 March 2007 • Irish Republican Ex-POWs Against the RUC/PSNI & MI5 Whispering Past the Graveyard John Kennedy RSF Campaign Reports Tony McPhillips – Election Agent Save Derry Brian Mór Support Peggy O Hara Ex-POWs and Concerned Republicans Against RUC/PSNI & MI5 Only the Beginning Mick Hall St Bore's Day Anthony McIntyre SS Sinn Fein John Kennedy Election Guarantees Nothing David Adams Coulter's Pre-Election Report Dr John Coulter Others Promise... Brian Mór The Curse of the Caudillo Complex Mick Hall Rest, Do Not Surrender Dolours Price ...We Deliver Brian Mór Super Six Dictator Dr John Coulter Anyone Up for a Serious Alternative? Philip Ferguson The View from Outside Jerry Pepin Boom to Bust? Dr John Coulter Tyre Trees Anthony McIntyre Cleanliness Not Next to Godliness in the Shankill Marty Egan Leadership Needed Stephen Hughes Where Does the State of the Union Leave the Rest of Us? Richard O'Rawe

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