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21/10/2002
RIRA prisoners withdraw support for leadership
Real IRA prisoners have withdrawn their allegiance to the current Army council in a disagreement over the leadership's financial dealings.
In a letter to the ruling council last month prisoners within Portlaoise prison in the Republic, and prisons throughout England, called for the current Army leadership to "stand down with ignominy".
The prisoners withdrew their allegiance to the current leadership claiming its motivation was now financial rather than political.
In a statement issued at the weekend the prisoners revealed that they were now awaiting a response to the letter sent on September 27.
In the statement prisoners said that the "current Army leadership" had forfeited all moral authority to lead the Real IRA as a result of their "financial motivations" and described this as "morally and politically unacceptable".
However, republican sources in the north said they believed many Real IRA units within the province would continue their armed campaign despite the release.
There has been no statement from any RIRA prisoners within Northern Ireland prisons such as Maghaberry since the statement was released.
The dissident republican group, which was responsible for the Omagh bombing in 1998, which killed 29 people, spilt from the Provisional IRA in 1997. While the group declared a ceasefire shortly after the Omagh bomb, it eventually returned to violence a short time later.
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In a letter to the ruling council last month prisoners within Portlaoise prison in the Republic, and prisons throughout England, called for the current Army leadership to "stand down with ignominy".
The prisoners withdrew their allegiance to the current leadership claiming its motivation was now financial rather than political.
In a statement issued at the weekend the prisoners revealed that they were now awaiting a response to the letter sent on September 27.
In the statement prisoners said that the "current Army leadership" had forfeited all moral authority to lead the Real IRA as a result of their "financial motivations" and described this as "morally and politically unacceptable".
However, republican sources in the north said they believed many Real IRA units within the province would continue their armed campaign despite the release.
There has been no statement from any RIRA prisoners within Northern Ireland prisons such as Maghaberry since the statement was released.
The dissident republican group, which was responsible for the Omagh bombing in 1998, which killed 29 people, spilt from the Provisional IRA in 1997. While the group declared a ceasefire shortly after the Omagh bomb, it eventually returned to violence a short time later.
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