Remove Death Threat say Republican Sinn Fein

The decision by the Provisional leadership to sit on Police Boards in the Six Counties while Loyalists issue death threats to republicans and nationalists has been condemned by a spokesman for Republican Sinn Fein.

Joe Lynch from Ballinacurra Weston in Limerick, the vice- chairman of the Munster RSF Executive said today that the Loyalist assassination threats against republicans who oppose the Stormont Agreement should be lifted.

“It is an exercise in barefaced hypocrisy for the Adams leadership to sit down with the political representatives of the Loyalist killer gangs on a Policing Board while Republicans remain under threat.

“The Loyalist murder gangs have not decommissioned and they represent a threat to Republicans who oppose the Stormont Agreement.

“While the Adams leadership has ended their campaign and abandoned the ideal of a new and united Ireland, we remain true to and still adhere to the Proclamation of Easter 1916 and say the Irish people have a right to national self-determination.

“We oppose the Stormont deal because it fails to address the real cause of conflict and that is the British presence.  We say that partition still exists and therefore there cannot be a lasting peace on this island.”