Group reaches out to ex-prisoners
THE Republican Ex-Prisoners’ Association in Ardoyne, Bone and Ligoniel elected a new committee at our Annual General Meeting held in January of this year.
Since the meeting, the committee have decided to renovate our premises at the top of Brompton Park and agreed to share the use of the premises with the Irish language cultural group Glór an Tuaiscairt and the Ardoyne Safer Neighbourhood Project.
The renovation work on the premises is now well under way and we hope for a completion date for the work in September when we will relaunch services for the Republican Ex-Prisoners’ community in Ardoyne, Bone and Ligoniel.
The new committee also agreed to run a number of events in the area to enable Republican POWs to meet up with old comrades and build on the friendships forged during our incarceration.
This week we are running an Ex-Prisoners’ Day in the Glenpark on Saturday, August 8 from 1pm to 4pm as part of the Ard Eoin Fleadh celebrations.
This will include an exhibition on the struggle in the prisons and a wide range of ex-prisoners will be there to share their experiences with the public.
We are also running a ‘Teacht le Cheile’ reunion night of craic and ceol in the Glenpark that evening starting at 8pm with the highly-rated Dublin band Clan Carney playing.
We hope to see as many ex-prisoners coming to this event as possible as it has been some time now since former POWs in the area have organised any sort of get-together.
We are trying to reach as many republican ex-prisoners as possible and have sent out over 250 invitations to the function. We are aware, however, that our list of local ex-prisoners is incomplete. If you know anyone that we may have missed out, could you contact Paddy Flood on 079 3468 1881 or Mary Doyle on 07596 764960
Is mise,
Seán Mag Uidhir,
Cathaoirleach
