Garda Attack Brings Huge Support — — __fok Prisoners’ Demonstration
Unfree Citizen1974The Southern state and its partiesThe Southern state and its parties
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“ee le PENAN Sate, : el \3 ACCES | 7" 7 T Q vs * O Last Saturday the Irish Civil Rights Association in Dublin organised a picket and sit-down protest in support of prisoners demands for better conditions and food parcels in 26 Co. jails and also calling for the release of Joe: Cahill who is seriously ill in Portlaoise. The protesters had barely sat down on the road when the Gardai moved in without uttering a word and removed the people from the road with the full force of ‘their’ law — the boot and fist. The Gardai however were reckoning without the ordinary shoppers and workers in O’Connell Street where the demonstration was held. Within seconds hundreds of people were out on the road supporting the demonstration and attacking the brutal behaviour of the Gardai. They stopped the | traffic for nearly half-an-hour in support of the prisoners. iti is becoming more and more obvious thatthe people in the 26 Counties are getting sicker of the.Collaborating Cosgrave/O’Brien regime and its police state. Last Saturday’s show of solidarity from ofdinary people was an indication that people are prepared to take action in support of the Struggle ' in the North and against repression in the South. fi (Our photographs show P.D. member Marie Mac-Mahon being lifted by the hair from the road and the big picture shows the Dublin shoppers blocking the. road in support of the demonstration)
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