Hunger Strike in Maghaberry prison

Maysa07

Has anyone heard anything about this? I saw this Facebook earlier but there's no media reporting on it?

At the moment there is an on going hunger strike in Maghaberry prison. The media will not report this despite efforts to bring it to their attention both north and south of the border. Four men Tommy Hammil, Dessie Hammil, Austin Creggan and Mark McGilloway are currently thirty days into a HUNGER STRIKE. They are on HUNGER STRIKE because the prison services will not give them P.O.W. status and place them on a republican landing with fellow republicans. While they have been in prison they have also suffered threats on their lives from loyalist gangs. I have posted this status to create awareness of this situation and to prevent another black day in Irish history were Irish Republicans were left to die on hunger strike.

Manco

A quick Google throws up this informative thread: http://www.politicalworld.org/showthread.php?t=12567&page=3

BlaasForRafa

Leave them starve until they cop on.

Fenian Army

afaik there is no hunger strike, but rather they are refusing to eat prison food (ie eating goodies from the tuck shop)

Quite stupid and embarrassing all round tbh... the lads in questions are real sinn fein aligned... RCIRA or some nonsense

Hotblack Desiato

Anything these people do to reduce their own life expectancy is absolutely fine with me.

Laminations

From reading the politicalworld thread:

1. They claim they were arrested on political crimes. They were arrested for terrorist activity, weapons possession and robbery.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ne...-16104573.html Two are on remand for allegedly robbing a filling station i January and weapons charges. Dessie Hamill, Austin Creggan

See also Pair accused of robbery ‘engaged in terrorist activity’, court told http://www.tyronetimes.co.uk/news/lo...told-1-3971108

8 court appearances but case not progressing ......

2. With at least 8 court appearances their time on remand seems to be down to them not recognising the jurisdiction of the courts and frustrating the process.

3. They blame the 'British' prison officers for not moving them when in reality it is fellow 'republicans' CIRA who object to them being placed on the republican landing. Moving to that landing doesn't seem to be an option. Do they want the prison guards to force the other republicans to accept their splinter group and be friends with them?

Just because these men claim to be republicans does not mean SF should have to comment on them or defend them. So terrorist sympathisers will use SFs silence on this as further ammunition to undermine their republican convictions. Feck if the men claimed to be FGers would FG be expected to defend them?

SF, if they feel the need to comment should say 'we don't represent these men and their criminal terrorism. A peace process is in place and common criminals cannot be protected from the consequences of their actions by flying some pseudo- republican flag'.

FTA69

Real Continuity IRA? Just when you think the current litany of armed groups can't get any thicker...

CHERNOBY

theres no real continuity ira they are to different groups u gob****e
you have RIRA AND CIRA WAT R YOU GABBN ON ABOUT REAL CONTINUITY IRA ?:P

Gee Bag

CHERNOBY wrote: »

theres no real continuity ira they are to different groups u gob****e
you have RIRA AND CIRA WAT R YOU GABBN ON ABOUT REAL CONTINUITY IRA ?:P

Maybe you didn't get the memo, this is what he means...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/26/ira-northern-ireland-dissident-republican-groups

southsiderosie

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Brussels Sprout

Fenian Army wrote: »

afaik there is no hunger strike, but rather they are refusing to eat prison food (ie eating goodies from the tuck shop)

Dying from starvation is so last century-these guys are hoping to get diabetes.

haulagebasher

Utterly pathetic. These scumbag republican sympathisers can starve for all I or anyone else cares. Still, I guess we'll have the usual suspects like the CSM and Solidarity books here in Cork and every other crack leftist and republican group banging on about "POWs" and they'll be flypostering about it and organising stupid protests and so forth because of this.

Rediculous stuff.