RSF protest at Limerick visit by Six-County policing board

national | miscellaneous | press release Monday September 22, 2003 15:08 by Ailín

The Limerick branch of Republican Sinn Féin has condemned the presence of members of the District Policing Boards from the Six Counties in deprived areas of the city.

RSF Director of Elections Joe Lynch from Ballinacurra Weston said that members in Moyross had staged a protest against the visit and the purpose of such visits must be questioned.

"At a time when the policing boards are not acceptable to the Nationalist people of the Six Counties we must query why they are visiting places like Moyross in Limerick," he added.

"The fact is that Moyross suffers from a variety of social disadvantages and high rates of unemployment - and the police cannot play a positive role in improving the economic conditions affecting the residents there.

"We staged a protest because this is all part of trying to normalise British rule in Ireland - but the fact is that the British presence is the real cause of conflict in our country.

"While the local Provos in Moyross have no problem meeting and greeting the members of the Policing Boards, their party leader has yet to accept places on such boards saying that the police have not been adequately reformed - on this occasion we agree - and that is why we in Republican Sinn Féin staged a protest in Moyross."


Joe Lynch, Limerick Republican Sinn Féin
September 21, 2003