Arrests in Monaghan and Fermanagh

national | miscellaneous | press release Wednesday January 21, 2009 13:17 by Richard Walsh - Republican Sinn Féin tiocfaidh at btinternet dot com +44-7835 620 592 / +353-87 261 8603

Three men have been detained in a cross-border operation targeting Republicans in Counties Monaghan and Fermanagh.

Three men have been detained in a cross-border operation targeting Republicans in Counties Monaghan and Fermanagh. Two men were arrested at their homes in County Fermanagh at around 7:00a.m. on Tuesday morning following the arrest of a man by the 26-County police in County Monaghan on Monday. They are being held under the provisions of the “Offences Against the State Act” and the “Terrorism Act 2000” respectively.

Seven carloads of RUC men arrived, along with a jeep and a transit van, at the home of one of the Fermanagh men this morning. At least some of these were based in Armagh. They brought equipment capable of forcing entry into the property as well as tools for lifting manholes.

RSF Director of Publicity, Richard Walsh, said that the operation once again showed the collaboration between the forces of both statelets within Ireland.

“It is ironic, though not surprising, that at a time when the Free State are falsely claiming continuity with the First Dáil – which came into being exactly ninety years ago to the day – they are collaborating with those who subverted Dáil Éireann, and locking up those who seek to secure the realisation of the high ideals expressed in the Mansion House in 1919.

“The operation carried out on both sides of the border, and indeed the very existence of that border, give the lie to the claim that the administration operating out of Leinster House is the linear successor to the First and Second All-Ireland Dáil.”

ENDS