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Appropriation Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...service we probably ever had in this State other than one belonging to another country. The book was produced in 1924 which was called Ireland's Secret Service in Britain. This book was about the IRA carrying out actions in Britain during the 1919 to 1921 war and I think a man called Brady was the author. This organisation did not exist but consisted of whoever operated in Britain...

An Bord Pleanála: Statements (15 Sep 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...at the end of Easter week. This was where the last meeting of the 1916 Rising Military Council met and where the surrender was decided to avoid further loss of civilian life. This is where the soldiers of the republic, namely, the IRA, were told that there would be a day soon when the war would be waged again. However, there are some who would rather erase our history. In this context,...

Statistics (Decade of Centenaries) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Oct 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...events had on certain areas. We know some of the effects but we could then see it family by family. This period also covers the Easter Rising, the leaders' executions, internment, the release of prisoners, the revival of Sinn Féin and the IRA that paved the way for the 1918 general election, the extension of the franchise, including its extension to women for the first time, and...

Ceathrú Chultúir 1916 Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Mar 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...xd3;glaigh na hÉireann or the Irish Citizen Army, or a member of Fianna Éireann, rushing jaded from the inferno that was the GPO that Friday in April 1916, a few long days after the Proclamation was first read aloud on O'Connell Street. It should show what it was like for the IRA garrison that ran up Henry Place with James Connolly on a stretcher, under constant fire, before...

Statistics (Decade of Centenaries) Bill 2020: First Stage (8 Dec 2020)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...thousands of Irishmen for the First World War, from 1914 to 1918, and the deaths of approximately 50,000 Irishmen in that war; the Easter Rising in 1916; internment; the release of prisoners; and the revival and rebirth of Sinn Féin and the IRA that paved the way for the 1918 general election victories and the extension of the franchise, including, for the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Commemorative Events (21 Feb 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: .... I welcome the information provided. Two major stores of historical information were destroyed, one when the Free State Army attacked the Four Courts and the other when, under de Valera, the IRA attacked the Custom House. My question was trying to build on capital projects such as that at Richmond Barracks, the GPO, Teach an Phiarsaigh and the Military Archives, which are now...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Commemorative Events (20 Jun 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...strike and the death and funeral of Thomas Ashe but to my knowledge, there has been no planning for a State event to mark that. Other major events include the Sinn Féin Ard-Fheis in 1917 or the IRA convention, which had a major impact on the progress of war thereafter. If we are to have the same success the nation experienced with regard to events celebrating and commemorating...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Proposed Legislation (15 Feb 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...legislation similar to the Defence Forces (Second World War Amnesty and Immunity) Act 2013 to pardon Free State troops who were executed or imprisoned by the State for switching allegiance to the IRA during the Civil War. [7301/17]

Defence Forces (Second World War Amnesty and Immunity) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...án MacBride to Oliver J Flanagan and members of the Labour Party, de Valera's Government contracted the infamous British executioner, Albert Pierrepoint, to hang Charlie Kerins. Kerins joined the IRA after the Government used the pretext of the Emergency to up the ante and come down more harshly on republicans, resulting in the unspeakable cruelty that took place in the Curragh.

Defence Forces (Second World War Amnesty and Immunity) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...and executed. The Government even went as far as banning any mention of his killing by the State on radio and in newspapers to prevent any groundswell of public support. George Plant, who had been an IRA volunteer since the 1920s, was a Protestant from the Minister of State's part of the country. Plant was dubiously tried and sentenced to death for the capture and interrogation of an...

Defence Forces (Second World War Amnesty and Immunity) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...is the amnesty or pardon for the members of the Defence Forces who joined the Free State forces in the mistaken belief they would stand by the Republic but then left, having seen sense, to join the IRA during the civil war? No such apology has been given and the individuals in question have not been recognised. Chun filleadh ar an príomh cheist atá ag déanamh tinneas duinn...

Road Transport Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Nov 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...it only got as far as being taken in committee. Another Bill has now been produced but it only deals with minor offences. The Minister has turned the very argument he made on its head when he said IRA membership was not regarded as a serious offence and that this Bill only deals with convictions for serious offences. A look back on the history of this State and convictions in the Special...

Road Transport Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Nov 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...allowed them in many ways to be railroaded into prison. Some of these people who were convicted were never involved in the activity for which they were convicted. They may have been republicans or IRA members but the circumstances of the decision taken by the IRA in those years was, at times, not to recognise the court. That meant that a defence was not even put up in some cases, and in...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion (Resumed) (18 May 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...are not alone in their quest for the truth. There have many been other travesties where justice was denied, including the attempt at mass slaughter at the Widow Scallans pub which left a truly brave IRA volunteer, Martin Doherty, dead after he tackled a British-directed death squad on that occasion. I ask the Taoiseach and Tánaiste to make themselves aware of the facts surrounding the...

Corporation Tax Rate: Motion (23 Nov 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...if he was here and what would he think of his party's capitulation to the very same traitors? When he went out on the morning of Bloody Sunday, 21 November 1920, with the Dublin brigade of the IRA, did he ever conceive that one day a so-called republican party would indenture the Irish people in the interests of those economic traitors, as my good friends, the Garda, has called them? It...

Irish Historical Artefacts. (16 Dec 2009)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...against Eamon de Valera, the founder of Fianna Fáil and former Sinn Féin leader. It was said at the time that what was taken was seditious material. However, a number of documents taken when IRA volunteers or Sinn Féin members were arrested in the 1916-1923 period were not subsequently used and should be returned to the families concerned or to this State. Given our plans to roll out...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2009)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...by the opinion of the others. The problem in the special court over the years was that the judges did not accept a contrary argument when it was dealing with people who were charged with IRA membership and that the basis of the evidence was just a garda's word. What the level of that evidence had to be changed over the years but it was still used on occasion to convict. That appears to...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2009)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...vast quantities of weapons with which they can intimidate communities. Such weapons enter the country in virtually every shipment of drugs that arrives here. In another era, the Provisional IRA might have been proud of some of these weapons. However, if one considers the type and amount of them that the gangs possess, it is clear that the only purpose to which they can be put is to...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Apr 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: .... However, the most recent instance I recollect in which this type of privileged information was used was where a Garda superintendent swore it was his opinion that somebody was a member of the IRA. When asked to prove it, he initially refused and then stated that his opinion was based on Garda files. The court forced him to produce the files but they were only made available to the...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion. (14 Jun 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...European Convention on Human Rights also permits temporary derogations from certain human rights obligations and it imposes similar conditions to those of the international covenant. Last July the IRA called an end to the military campaign and in September completed its final act of placing all its arms and weaponry permanently and verifiably beyond use. This was confirmed by the...