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. Approximately 500 people took part in a demonstration held by the Ballymun Gas Consumers Association in Dublin last weekedn. The protest took the form of a march from the Garden of Remembrance Eireann viewers were goting to get a programmes:

The real bombshell was dropped the next day though, when a statement from the Govt. announced that LICENCES Publicity stunts are nothing new to 26 Co. government ministers. Ever since Patrick Hillery’s visit to the Falls in 1970 there have been many similar - ventures mostly with a splash of publicity. SDLP party members! Garret FitzGerald’s was a secret two-hour visit to Derry last Friday.

to the GPO where a meeting was held.

The association was formed recently to demand that fuel prices for domestic uses be reduced. In Ballymun in particular On Wednesday September 11th last the were going up by 33 1/3rd%'to enable proud announcement that Radio Telefis RTE keep improving the standards of its “colourful winter on T.V.” appeared in The old Black and White licence was the 26 Co. newspapers and on RTE already £9 and will now go up to £12. newsbulletins. The old Colour licence was £15 and will “FANTASTIC”! no doubt for those now go up to £20. It seems that the wealthy enough to afford Colour T.V. Coalition is not just content with But for the ordinary black and white curbing workers wages, but is intent on viewer there was no cause to jump for taking bigger and bigger chunks of them joy. in various taxes and licences. Truly this is a case of the country’s 400,000 black and white viewers being made pay for Conor Cruise O’Brien’s department of the increased pleasured of the better-off.

He claimed that he had ‘’a good opportunity of getting a cross section of minority views on the North of Ireland situation’’.

Afterwards it turned out that he had met only the Loyalist mayor, the Alliance Party deputy mayor and some So much for the credibility of the government Information Services. supplied-by Dublin Corporation. RUC by manning roadblocks and can be said of the training and of intimidation. householders have been given crippling bills which many people are simply unable to pay. In Ballymun there is no option but to use the expensive central heating The involvement of the 26 Co. army in collaborating with the British Army and checkpoints, taking part in searches and raids etc. has come to a head in recent weeks with the shooting in Monaghan of a young unarmed civilian. That incident showed up some of the trigger-happiness which seems to be the key point in the described. latest phase of recruitment and virtual retraining of the army to be used as an anti-Republican, anti-Socialist and above all anti-People force. The ‘Defence’ forces are supposedly for defence of national territory, but the one thing that BERTIE oe ert Be! sages ——____—_——_—"_ ‘SIGNALS—THE VITAL LINK THE technical expertise of the Royal Signals finds many uses in Northern Ireland These can be as mundane as installing radios in cars or electronic targets on ranges or as unusual as producing voice disguisers for witnesses giving evidence at special courts at the Maze. Once the gadget is turned on the voice becomes unrecognisable and the hidden-from-view witness can give evidence without fear rearmament drive begun in 1973 is that defence is the last thing that is considered by the Coalition government.

The one object of the army’s training seems to be to use all military methods with ruthlessness. It is to dull the mind of the recruit, to turn him into a virtual zombie who will act solely on orders. It also has the object of glorifying military weapons and other equipment, to the exclusion of the effects that these have on people, and to the exclusion of the POLITICAL PURPOSE WHICH DICTATES THEIR USE. How else can this extract from the monthly 26 Co. Defence Forces’ magazine ‘AN COSANTOIR’ be Here we have, in a journal of the 26 Co. Army, a glorification of the machinery used in infamous and widely condemned Compton Tribunals system whereby witnesses go without identification, where Special Branch torturers churn out their rigged evidence to jail anti-Unionists Soldier (UK)

for anything up to 20 years.

We wonder when we can expect a glorification of the Hollywood Palace Barracks Torture Compound ‘noise machine’, or of the ‘ingenious’ equipment dreamt up by other British Army engineers for electric shock torture during interrogation.

It is indeed a wonder that there have not been more attempts at roadside executions by the 26 Co. mercenaries.