Remember the Prisoners
By: Irish Voice Columnist (letters@irishvoice.com) | Published Thursday, December 16, 2010, 2:50 PM | Updated Friday, September 9, 2011, 9:58 PM
AT this time of year many of us are busy getting prepared for
Christmas -- buying gifts for loved ones, planning the dinner menu, baking cookies, looking forward to being with our families and friends, etc.
At present there are nearly 100 Irish Republican political prisoners being held in British and Irish prisons on both sides of
Britain's border in
Ireland and in
England. They cannot share any of these Christmas joys with their families.
There are no dinners at home feasting on favorite home-cooked holiday dishes. There’s no family midnight Mass or opening presents Christmas mornings.
These prisoners have spouses, children, parents and siblings from whom they are separated at Christmas. Their families need the support of others who care about the sacrifices these young men have made for their country.
That is why I support the annual Cabhair Christmas Swim, which will again be held this year on Christmas morning at the Grand Canal in Inchicore,
Dublin.
Cabhair supports dependants and family members of Republican political prisoners. For more information please see www.irishfreedom.net.
Every single dollar will help brighten someone’s Christmas.
Jane Enright
Woodside, New York
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.wizardofoz | Feb 14, 2011, 06:12 AM EST
“Every single dollar will help brighten someone’s Christmas” LIAR...!!!! So, I take it you’ll also be passing the auld ‘cloth cap’ around for those other murdering terrorists/ Freedom Fighters, the Taliban/Mujahideen, correct? After all they employ the exact same tactics as the IRA murdering criminals did/do, you know, planting I.E.D.s, then running away all the while luring American soldiers to their death, a tactic learned from your murdering scum, Irish Republicans. Remember, ‘what’s good for the goose is good for the gander’. When it comes to terrorists, you can’t pick and choose, either your for them, or agin them! Filth...one and all...!!! How dare you solicit funds for murdering criminals? I’ll lay London to a brick none of yours are in harms way in Iraq or Afghanistan. The British soldiers are the only true allies you lot have and you have the effrontery to canvas finances for the cowards who commit murder against British soldiers for no other reason than these brave boys defend their own people. You are a traitor of the first order!