First Rist Victim
Socialist Organiser1982 1982-07-22Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 14 →
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LAST Tuesday, 13th, Gerard Tuite was jailed for ten years by the Dublin Special Criminal Court.
It was the first use of laws drafted by the Dublin government to enable them to get round Irish courts' refusal to extradite people to Britain. Under the Criminal Law (Jurisdiction) Act Tuite was tried in Dublin on charges of keeping explosives in Britain.
Republicans demonstrated outside the court. For them Tuite is not a criminal, but a soldier it his country's fight to be united, independent and free of British troops.
That the IRA is an irregular popular militia, which has to operate on the run, rather than a regular force with all the pomp of state militarism, makes no difference. Britain has no right to criminalise' Republican volunteers; and an Irish government has no business to do Britain's work for it.
For all that, the conviction continues a decadeslong record or repression of Republicans by the Dublin government.
Today's repression is no more likely than previous decades' to extinguish the Republican cause or stop the war in Northern Ireland. Only the creation of a free and united Ireland will end the war.