Seamus Costello remembered by AP/RN Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit source:IRSP Oct 18 1997 [Some of you may have seen this, but this week's AP/RN features a reprint of the article they wrote after Seamus Costello was killed. --Tom] An Phoblacht/Republican News Thursday 16 October 1997 Seamus Costello Assassinated Last Wednesday afternoon in Dublin Seamus Costello, leader of the Irish Republican Socialist Party, and prominent republican for over 20 years, was assassinated as he sat in his car. A man armed with a sawn-off shotgun fired two blasts and ran off down into North Strand. The Sticks, whose Republicans Clubs' members in the North had had a prolonged feud with the IRSP in 1975, denied any involvement. (It was, in fact, "the Sticks"--or OIRA--who killed Costello. The INLA eventually identified the killer and executed him.--Peter ) The Irish Republican Army in a statement also denied any involvement. (There was a general suspicion that British agents were involved in the killing and attempts would be made to stir up inter-Republican strife. This was strengthened by a Dublin newspaper which carried a story on ``A telephone claim of responsibility from Saor Eire'' and the statement from the IRSP leadership, ``We believe there are pseudo SAS-type gangs operating in Dublin''). Costello was buried in Bray and James Daly gave the oration. Prominent republicans, including Ruairi O'Bradaigh and Charlie McGlade, attended the funeral at which a volley of shots was fired in salute. Nora Connolly O'Brien, daughter of executed republican leader James Connolly, presided. Part of the oration read: But he was a Volunteer soldier of the people. He was not a military elitist, but a believer in the self-liberation of the Irish people by mass political activity. As a soldier of the people he was a genuine man of peace, unlike the mercenary ``Peace'' Movement, which exists only to encourage Irish people to be informers to their British oppressors. Republican News 15 October 1977 North American Coordinator Irish Republican Socialist Committees 2057 15th Street, Suite B San Francisco, CA 94114 irsp@netwiz.net http://irsm.pair.com/irsm/irscna/ ================================================================= 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-10.20.97-23:58:16-10245