Statement From Joe Lynch (RSF)

RESIST MOVE TO DOWNGRADE MURDERED MAYORS

The call to hold a separate commemoration for the murdered
Mayors of Limerick apart from the Easter Sunday ceremonies
by Sinn Fein Councillor Maurice Quinlivan has been criticised by a spokeman for Republican Sinn Fein.

Joe Lynch from Beechgrove Avenue in Ballinacurra, the RSF chairman in the south side of Limerick said the proposal by the Councillor is yet another attempt to distance his party from their Republican past.

It is all very well for Provisionals like Councillor Quinlivan to engage in political revisionism with his party but when he now attempts to enlist City Hall in this process someone must cry halt,
he said.

What Maurice Quinlivan is now trying to do is to get City Hall do his dirty work and move the ceremonies for the two Mayors who were murdered by British forces away from the Easter time.

The Mayors, Clancy and O’Callaghan who were murdered by
British armed forces are remembered during the Easter Sunday ceremonies by all true Republicans.

The pretext that Maurice Quinlivan uses to move the event is that they may be remembered by other political parties. But this excuse is a mere charade to remove the men from the Republican roll of honour and align them with Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and the Provisionals.

It is important that this tactic does not work because it is all part of the current attempts by the political parties to normalise British rule throughout Ireland. We must not forget that the party of Cllr. Quinlivan has Crown Ministers as members – and these men serve the British Crown – the very same crown whose forces murdered the Mayors of Limerick.

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