{UAH} Militant Irish Republican group plan Scottish rally to recruit new supporters
Militant Irish Republican group plan Scottish rally to recruit new supporters
Their aim is to unite Northern Ireland with the south to create a 32-county socialist republic and they oppose the Good Friday Agreement.
A hardline militant Republican group who want the Good Friday Agreement to be scrapped have planned a rally in Scotland in search of new supporters.
Saoradh – Irish for "liberation" – were formed last year and have already had their Belfast offices targeted in a police raid.
Now senior figures of the organisation – who have the support of former IRA prisoners – have organised a seminar today at a Glasgow hotel.
The party's chairman David Jordan was accused of attempting to murder a police officer in a bomb attack in 2008 but had charges against him dropped last year.
Other key members include Mandy Duffy, whose brother-in-law Colin Duffy – allegedly a senior member of the New IRA – was cleared of shooting two soldiers as they left their barracks to collect a pizza in Northern Ireland in 2011.
He is due to stand trial with two other men on charges of belonging to an IRA grouping and attempting to murder members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. He has denied the charges and is on bail.
Mandy is married to Paul Duffy, who faced IRA charges in 2015 before the case against him collapsed.
The political group also have the backing of former inmates including Real IRA member Kevin Murphy, who helped launch them. Murphy was cleared of conspiring to murder police and soldiers and having a rocket launcher in 2002.
Saoradh have booked space at Glasgow's Premier Inn in Argyle Street today.
Their aim is to unite Northern Ireland with the south to create a 32-county socialist republic.
They are opposed to the Good Friday Agreement peace deal, which was struck in Northern Ireland between political parties in 1998.
A Saoradh spokesman said the meeting was in response to high levels of support from Scotland for the Republican cause and to give information on the new party.
He added: "Scotland has been a traditional area of solidarity in the struggle for Irish freedom.
"There has been a lot of interest and a strong support for Republican prisoners and other Irish issues. A lot of people travel over for Easter Rising commemorations.
"We are simply consolidating existing support in Scotland."
Police Scotland said: "We are aware of this meeting."
The Scottish Conservatives said: "Many people will be nervous about a controversial group travelling to Scotland to stoke up activity in this way."
Premier Inn said: "We never comment on individual bookings."
Earlier this month, Saoradh's HQ in Falls Road, Belfast, was raided by armed officers in relation to dissident Republican activity.
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