IRIS Update: Josephine Hayden Suffers 2nd Heart Attack Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit UPDATE 2 JULY 97 IRISH REPUBLICAN INFORMATION SERVICE (no. 203) Teach Daithi O Conaill, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1, Ireland. Phone: +353-1-872 9747; FAX: +353-1-872 9757 e-mail: saoirse@iol.ie Republican Sinn Fein homepage: http://indigo.ie/~saoirse View our SAOIRSE homepage: http://iol.ie/~saoirse Release Josephine Hayden: http://iol.ie/~saoirse/hayden WOMAN POLITICAL PRISONER SUFFERS SECOND HEART ATTACK Josephine Hayden (51), the only woman political prisoner in the 26 Counties, was again removed to hospital from the women's wing of Limerick jail on July 2 after suffering a second heart attack. The mother-of-two had complained of a pain in her chest and of feeling unwell and is being closely monitored by the staff of Limerick Regional Hospital. Just three weeks ago she was sent back from the same hospital to the primitive conditions in Limerick jail seven days after her first heart attack, which occurred on May 30. In a statement on July 2, Peig King, Republican Sinn F=E9in POW Department said: "Republican Sinn F=E9in has been calling for Josephine Hayden's unconditional release on humanitarian grounds for the past month. We warned that her premature release from hospital care one week after a moderate heart attack could be extremely dangerous. For the past three weeks Josephine has been back in her third floor cell, having to negotiate three flights of stairs every day and enduring the worst conditions in any wing of any prison in the 26 Counties. "It is clear that if Josephine Hayden was not a political prisoner she would have been released by now to be cared for by her family and their doctor. How long will the Dublin Department of Justice and the new Leinster House administration continue to take their pound of flesh in this manner? "Let them act now before it is too late and release Josephine Hayden immediately from Limerick prison." >>Information about the campaign to release Josephine Hayden is available on the web in English and German. http://iol.ie/~saoirse/hayden >>>>>Picket: 26-County Embassy RELEASE JOSEPHINE HAYDEN Grosvenor Place London SW1X 7HR SATURDAY JULY 5 Assemble at 1.30pm outside Embassy Organised by Republican Sinn Fein Release Josephine Hayden! ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytire-07.03.97-04:07:04-16490