Sinn Fein/IRA

In resent days some prominent Unionist politicians have stopped referring to the party which represents republicans in Northern Ireland as Sinn Fein/IRA. For more information click here.

The name Sinn Fein/IRA reminded the people of Northern Ireland and further a field of republicans’ links to terrorism.

Now that the DUP, a party which told its supporters in its last manifesto that "inclusive, mandatory coalition government which includes Sinn Fein under d'Hondt or any other system is out of the question".
, wants to go into government with Adams and co they have found it expedient to drop IRA from the name of this organization.

This is in spite of the fact that:

Sinn Fein/IRA leader Gerry Adams
has been accused of being the IRA commander in Belfast during the 1970s,
was photographed at the funeral of IRA man Francis Liggett dressed in the IRA’s black beret at the funeral of IRA man Francis Liggett and
was arrested after the La Mon Restaurant Bombing in February 1978 (in which 12 Protestant civilians were burned to death).

Sinn Fein/IRA chief negotiator Martin McGuinness
confirmed to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry that he had been second-in-command of the Provisional IRA in Londonderry in 1972,
Peter Lilley, a British MP, speaking in a Westminster debate on December 13 2001, recalled that McGuinness while a commandant of the IRA in Londonderry claimed to have “had a dozen Catholic informers killed”,
was convicted by the Republic of Ireland’s Special Criminal Court in 1973, after being caught with a car with 250 lb (113 kg) of explosives and nearly 5000 rounds of ammunition. At the trial McGuinness said, "I am a member of Oglaigh na eireann and very, very proud of it’ ( Oglaigh na eireann is Irish for IRA) and
in 2005, the Irish government claimed McGuinness, along with Gerry Adams and Martin Ferris, were members of the seven-man IRA Army Council.

Sinn Fein/IRA policing and justice spokesman Gerry Kelly
was convicted of causing explosions and conspiracy to cause explosions in Britain,
shot a prison warder in the head during his escape from the Maze prison in 1983 and
in 1986, when he was recaptured in Holland, Kelly was caught with 4 rifles, 100,000 rounds and about a ton of nitro-benzine (explosive).

And I could go on.

The connections between the political and military wings of Irish republicanism are not just historic.

On this page I will post links to republican sites which prove that the links continue today.

Yours,
Hanson.