Annual hunger strike march in Bundoran

THE 1981 H-Block Martyrs Committee of Bundoran/Ballyshannon announced that the annual Hunger Strike Commemoration march will take place on Saturday, August 29 at 3pm, assembling at the East End of Bundoran, Co. Donegal. Guests of Honour are the families of the martyred Hunger Strikers.

This year's speakers are Galway County Councillor Tomás Ó Curraoin; ex-POW Stephen Daly from County Tyrone; Cáit Trainor from County Armagh and Bob Loughman of the Emerald Society Police Band in New York.

In a statement the organisers said that: "This year we will be focusing our attention particularly on the alarming situation in the Six Counties where internment by remand has increasingly become a tool of the Crown to silence their opponents. However, we in Bundoran shall not be silenced. We shall continue to herald the true Republican message from the platform.

"There are still Republican prisoners and always will be so long as the British presence remains in Ireland."