Irish News Black Out!

by Release Dessie O'Hare! Tue Aug 16, 2005 23:13

The "Free Dessie O'Hare Campaign" encourage you to write, email and fax
letters of protest to Irish Embassies and Consuls in you country, objecting
to Dessie's continued imprisonment and demand his immediate release.

List of Irish Embassies and Consuls around the world in alphabetical order:

Argentina
EMBASSY Address:
Embassy of Ireland
Avenida del Libertador 1068, 6th Floor
C1112ABN Buenos Aires
Telephone: (+54-11) 57870801
Fax: (+54 11) 57870802
Email: info@irlanda.org.ar

Australia
EMBASSY Address:
Embassy of Ireland
20 Arkana Street
Yarralumla
A.C.T. 2600
Canberra
Telephone: +612 6273 3022, +612 6273 3201
Fax: +612 6273 3741
Email: irishemb@cyberone.com.au

Austria
EMBASSY Address:
Embassy of Ireland
Fifth Floor
Rotenturmstrasse 16-18
1010 Vienna
Telephone: + 43 1 7154246
Fax: + + 43 1 7136004
Email: vienna@iveagh.irlgov.ie

Belgium
EMBASSY Address:
Embassy of Ireland
50 Rue Weirz
1050 Brussels
Telephone: +32-2-235-6676
Fax: +32-2-235-6670

Canada
EMBASSY Address:
Embassy of Ireland
Suite1105, 130 Albert Street
Ottawa
K1P 5G4
Ontario
Telephone: +1-613-233-6281
Fax: +1-613-233-5835
Email: emb.ireland@sympatico.ca

Chile
HONORARY CONSUL Address:
Isidora Goyenechea 3162
Piso 8, Oficina 801
Las Condes
Santiago
Telephone: +56-2-2456616
Fax: +56-2-2456636
Email: aylwin@netline.cl

China
EMBASSY Address:
Embassy of Ireland
3 Ri Tan Dong lu
Chaoyang District
Beijing 100600
Telephone: + 86 - 10 - 6532 - 2691/2914
Fax: +86 -10 - 6532 - 6857
Email: Ireland@public3.bta.net.cn

Cyprus
HONORARY CONSUL Address:
Armenias & Kalypso Streets
Lefkosia
Telephone: +357-2-333-985
Fax: +357-2-331-580

EMBASSY Address:
1 Armenias Avenue
P.O.Box 20523
1660 Nicosia
Telephone: 00357 2333 985
Fax: 00357 2331 580
Email: irishembassy@cytanet.com.cy

Czech Republic
EMBASSY Address:
Embassy of Ireland
Velvyslanectv Irska
Trziste 13
118 00 Praha 1
Telephone: +42-02-57530061
Fax: +42-02-57531387
Email: irishembassy@iol.cz

Danmark
EMBASSY Address:
Embassy of Ireland
Ostbanegade 21
2100 Copenhagen
Telephone: +45 35 42 32 33
Fax: +45-35-43-18-58
Email: irlemb_dk@yahoo.com

Egypt
EMBASSY Address:
3 ABU EL FIDA St(7th Floor)
Zamalek, Cairo
Postal Address
P.O. Box 2681, Zamalek
Cairo
Telephone: +202 7358264, +202 7358547
Fax: +202 7362863
Email: irishemb@rite.com

Finland
EMBASSY Address:
Erottajankatu 7 A
00130 Helsinki
Postal Address:
PL 33
00131 Helsinki
Telephone: +358-9-646-006
Fax: +358-9-646-022
Email: embassy.ireland@ireland.pp.fi

France
EMBASSY Address:
Embassy of Ireland
4 Rue Rude
75116 Paris
Telephone: +33-1-44-17-67-00
Fax: +33-1-44-17-67-60
Email: irembparis@wanadoo.fr

Germany
EMBASSY Address:
Friedrichstrasse 200
10117 Berlin
Telephone: +49 30 220 720
Fax: +49 30 220 72299

HONORARY CONSUL GENERAL Address:
Denninger Strasse 15,
81679 Munich
Telephone: +4989-2080 5990,
Fax: +4989-2080 5989

HONORARY CONSUL GENERAL Address:
Frankenforsterstrasse 77,
51427 Bergisch-Gladbach,
Cologne
Telephone: +492204-609 860
Fax: +492204-609 861

HONORARY CONSUL GENERAL Address:
Feldbrunnenstrasse 43
20148 Hamburg
Telephone: +49-40-44186113
Fax: +49-40-44186551

Greece
EMBASSY Address:
Embassy of Ireland
7 Leoforos Vasileos
Konstantinou
GR 106 74 Athens
Telephone: +30-01-723-2771
Fax: +30-01-729 3383

Inda
EMBASSY Address:
230 Jor Bagh
New Delhi 110003
Telephone: +91-11-462-6714
Fax: +91-11-469-7053
Email: ireland@ndf.vsnl.net.in

Indonesia
HONORARY CONSUL Address:
c/o Jakarta International School
JI.Terogong Raya 33
Jakarta 12430
Telephone: +62-21-769-5142
Fax: +62-21-750-3644

Israel
EMBASSY Address:
The Tower, 17th Floor
3 Daniel Frisch Street
Tel Aviv 64731
Telephone: +972-3-6964166
Fax: +972-3-6964160
Email: telaviv@iveagh.irlgov.ie

Italy
EMBASSY Address:
Embassy of Ireland
Piazza di Campitelli 3
00186 Rome
Telephone: +39-06-697-9121
Fax: +39-06-679-2354

Lebanon
HONORARY CONSUL Address:
Rue de Chilie
Kollelat Building - Verdun
P.O. Box 11-746
Beirut
Telephone: +961-1-863-040 / -863-239
Fax: +961-1-860-076

Luexmborg
EMBASSY Address:
28 Route D'Arlon
L-1140
Luxembourg
Telephone: +352-450-610 / +352-450-609
Fax: +352-458-820
Email: office@irish.embassy.lu

Malta
HONORARY CONSUL Address:
Marsovin Limited
The Winery
Masara
Malta
Telephone: +356-824-918 +356-842-920
Fax: +356-826-548

Mexico
HONORARY CONSUL Address:
Ave San JerÛnimo No. 790- A
Col. San JerÛnimo Lidice
Deleg. Contreras
10200 Mexico DF
Telephone: 005255 595 3333
Fax: 005255 681 5481

Netherlands
EMBASSY Address:
9 Dr. Kuyperstraat
2514 BA The Hague
Telephone: +31-70-363-0993/+31-70-363-0994
Fax: +31-70-361-7604
Email: info@irish-embassy.demon.nl

New Zealand
HONORARY CONSUL GENERAL Address:
6th Floor
18 Shortland Street
1001
Auckland
Telephone: +64 9 302 2867
Fax: +64 9 302 2420

Norway
EMBASSY Address:
Interim address
c/o Radisson SAS Scandinavia Hotel
Holbergsgate 30
N-0166 Oslo
Telephone: + 47 22 20 43 70
Fax: +47 22 20 43 71
Email: hibernia@online.no

Peru
HONORARY CONSUL Address:
Av. Angamos Oeste 340
U.R.B. Aurora
Miraflores
Lima 18
Telephone: +51-1-446 3878
Fax: +51 1 449 6289
Email: mgrperu@pol.com.pe

Portugal
EMBASSY Address:
Rua da Imprensa
a Estrela 1-4
1200684 Lisbon
Telephone:
+351-21-392-9440
Fax:
+351-21-397-7363

Philippines
HONORARY CONSUL Address:
70 Jupiter Street
Bel Air 1
Makati
Metro Manila
Telephone: +632 8964668
Fax: +632 8978534

Russia
EMBASSY Address:
Grokholski Pereulok 5
Moscow 129010
Telephone: +7-095-937 59 11
Fax: +7-095-975 20 66

South Africa
EMBASSY Address:
First Floor, Sothern Life Plaza
1059 Schoeman Street (Corner Festival Street)
Arcadia 0083
Pretoria
Postal Address
P.O. Box 4174, Pretoria 0001
Telephone: +27-12-342-5062
Fax: +27-12-342-4752
Email: pretoria@iveagh.irlgov.ie

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EMBASSY Address:
Ireland House
Paseo de la Castellana 46-4
28046 Madrid
Telephone: 00 34 91 436 4093
Fax: +34-1-435-1677
Email: embajada.irlanda@ran.es

Sweden
EMBASSY Address:
Ostermalmsgatan 97
P.O. Box 10326
100 55 Stockholm
Telephone: +46-8-661-8005
Fax: +46-8-660-1353
Email: irish.embassy@swipnet.se

Switzerland
EMBASSY Address:
Kirchenfeldstrasse 68
CH-3005 Berne
Telephone: +41-31-352-1442
Fax: +41-31-352-1455

Turkey
EMBASSY Address:
Ugur Mumcu Caddesi No.88
MNG Binasi, B Bloc, Kat 3,
Gaziosmanpasa
Ankara 06700
Telephone: +90-312-446 6172
Fax: +90-312-446 8061
Email: ireland@superonline.com

UN
MISSION Address:
Permanent Mission of Ireland
to the United Nations
Rue de Moillebeau 58
1209 Geneva 2
Telephone: +41-22-919-1950
Fax: +41-22- 919 1951/2
Email: mission.ireland@itu.ch

UN New York
MISSION Address:
Permanent Mission of Ireland
to the United Nations
1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
885 Second Avenue
19th Floor
New York N.Y. 10017
Telephone: +1-212-421-6934
Fax: +1-212-752-4726
Email: Irlun@Undp.org

Ukraine
HONORARY CONSUL Address:
20/21 sophiyevska Street
Kiev
01025 Ukraine
Telephone: + 380 44 229 2159
Fax: + 380 44 464 1487

UK
EMBASSY Address:
17 Grosvenor Place
London SWIX 7HR
Telephone: +44-207-235-2171
Fax: +44-207-235 2851

U$A
EMBASSY Address:
2234 Massachusetts Ave. N.W.
Washington D.C. 20008-2849
Telephone: +1-202-462-3939
Fax: +1-202-232-5993
Email: embirlus@aol.com

CONSULATE GENERAL Address:
Ireland House
345 Park Avenue - 17th Floor
New York, NY 10154-0037
Telephone: +1-212 319-2555
Fax: +1-202-980-9475
Email: congenny@aol.com

CONSULATE GENERAL Address:
Chase Building
535 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
Telephone: +1-617-267-9330
Fax: +1-617-267-6375
Email: irlcons@aol.com

CONSULATE GENERAL Address:
400 North Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611
Telephone: +1-312-337-1868
Fax: +1-312-337-1954
Email: irishconchicago@aol.com

CONSULATE GENERAL Address:
44 Montgomery St. #3830
San Francisco, CA 94104
Telephone: +1-415 392-4214
Fax: +1-415-392-0885
Email: IrishCGSF@aol.com

HONORARY CONSUL Address:
Honorary Consul of Ireland
920 Schelbourne Street
Reno NV 89511
Telephone: +1 775 853 4497
Fax: +1 775 853 4497
Email: bbrady@nvbell.net

HONORARY CONSUL Address:
2511 NE 31st Court
Lighthouse Point
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33064
Telephone: +1 954 785 3427
Fax: +1 954 532-3426

HONORARY CONSUL Address:
3200 Arden Road NW
Atlanta, GA 30305
Georgia
Telephone: +1 404-8167977
Fax: +1 404-2611781

HONORARY CONSUL Address:
65 Broadview
St Louis, MO 63105
Telephone: +1 314 7271000
Fax: +1 314 7272960

HONORARY CONSUL Address:
2711 Weslayan
Houston, TX 77027
Telephone: +1 713 961 5263
Fax: +1 970 925 7900

HONORARY CONSUL Address:
Consulado de Irlanda
Torre Cavendes, Piso 11, Oficina 1103
Caracas 1060
[Postal Address: CCS 3053
PO Box 025323
Miami, FL 33102-5323]
Telephone: +58-2-286-0672
Fax: +58-2-286-6912
Email: peter.macaulay@db.com

by Rick Og Tue Aug 16, 2005 23:21

I know that Dessie O'Hare has done his time over the actions which took place a long time ago, but why is he still being held even though the GFA states that he and others like him should be released?

Is it one rule for group and another rule for another?

I think if they let the likes of some of the top loyalist murderers out then O'Hare must be immediately freed.

I support todays actions, well done to all those involved.

by won't say Tue Aug 16, 2005 23:34

Dessie O'Hare used a hammer and chisel to cut off the fingers of dentist John O'Grady.

And he did a lot worse than that.

I'm not saying he shouldn't be released. But he was a seriously sick puppy at one time, so it should be very clear that he no longer poses a threat to people.

Anyway, I thought he'd been kicked out of the INLA before he kidnapped O'Grady?

by Realta Rua Tue Aug 16, 2005 23:37

Great news, this is the only way to secure the misinformation on political prisoners like Dessie O'Hare.

Direct action will get the goods everytime!

Free Dessie Now!

by Socialist Republican Wed Aug 17, 2005 02:23

Dessie is a political hostage of the capitalist system. Their agents attempts to paint this patriot and fighter for the emancipation of workers in a bad light are part of their plan to keep him in prison and as such all our support should be given to the campaign to secure his release.

Free Dessie O'Hare! F*ck McDowell and the PDs. McDowell and Harney are the enemies. Do not let them divide revolutionary forces.

Forward to the Irish Revolution!

by Free Dessie O'Hare Wed Aug 17, 2005 21:30

Activists breech security at Government building

On Tuesday afternoon, eleven activists of the Free Dessie O’Hare campaign occupied the top security Dept of Justice on St Stephens Green. The Government building, which is rigged with high tech surveillance equipment, is manned by a 24 hr Garda presence inside and out side the main entrance.

Activists had been watching the building for a number of weeks and noting Garda shift routines. It was noticed that one particular female officer always parked her car opposite the government building and five to ten minutes before her shift was finished would make her way across the busy road and sit in her car until her replacement took his position guarding the main entrance of the government building.

It was decided that Tuesday afternoon at 2pm would be the best time opportunity to gain access to the building. At 11am an activist of the Free Dessie O’Hare Campaign confirmed that the same garda was on duty, so we all arranged to meet in Stephens Green at 1.45. All activists made there way over to the park entrance facing the Government building. At 1.55 the female garda keeping to her routine left her post and made her way over to her car so as to sit and wait for her replacement to come on duty. Activists bolted out of the park armed with banners and posters and made there way across the road and entered through the revolving doors of the Government building to the shock and dismay of the two receptionists. It was immediately made known to them that it was a peaceful protest organized to draw attention to the continued refusal of the Irish Government to release Dessie O’Hare.

At this time the extremely agitated female garda came barging into the reception and roared with a number of expletives that we must have been waiting for her to get into her car. She demanded that we leave at once that it was a Government building and that we were breaking the law. I interceded to calm her down and told her to take a chill pill, that we were not going to be lectured on law breaking particularly when the Irish Government has by its actions totally ignored a high court ruling which recognized Dessie O’Hare as a qualifying prisoner under the terms of the GFA. This seemed to make her worse, she started roaring and screaming at us to get out. I refused her request and told her that we were engaging in a peace full protest. She stormed out of the building to get reinforcements. One of the activists took a number of photos with a digital camera and then left the building to put the camera off side.

A few minutes later a number of Garda reinforcements arrived and we took a collective decision to leave the building and continue our protest outside. Six special branch men who proceeded to take names and addresses of all Free Dessie O’Hare activists soon joined us. After an hour we called a halt to the protest and decided to split up in pairs so as to distract the attentions of the special branch. Not long after I received a phone call from wheel chair bound Eddie Mc Garrigle co-coordinator of the Free Dessie O’Hare Campaign who explained that he and another Female activist were stopped and forcibly searched by the special branch who demanded that they hand over the digital camera. Eddie told them that he or his companion didn’t have a camera on his possession. They then physically lifted him up to see was he sitting on the camera and removed the back cushion of his wheelchair to search for any hidden objects. When they couldn’t find anything they soon left to harass other activists.

For the attention of the special branch, Photographs of yesterdays event will be posted up later on today.

by Socialist Republican Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:52

Here are photos of the takeover of the dept of injustice

by Mary Harney - West Brit Thu Aug 18, 2005 14:00

Well done to all those involved in raising Dessies continued internment. The direct action also showed the incompetence of the justice minister to oversee adequate security arrangements at his own government building. Perhaps he can breathe a sigh of relief, as things could have been a lot worse.

What preventative measures were in place to prevent a Iraqi insurgent incensed at Shannon Airport been used to ferry occupying troops to IRAQ, from delivering a more devastating message to Mc Dowell and the Irish Government in general.

by Political Prisoner Supporter Thu Aug 18, 2005 22:24

Daily Ireland
11 August 2005
"Free O'Hare Now"
By Conor McMorrow

Monsignor Denis Faul has called for the immediate release of INLA prisoner Dessie O'Hare from Castlerea Prison in Roscommon.

Mr O'Hare, who was known as the Border Fox, was given a 40-year prison sentence in April 1988 for offences including the kidnapping and mutilation of Dublin dentist John O'Grady. The sentence was the longest in the history of the Republic for any offence other than capital murder.

Last week revealed that a number of senior figures in the Catholic Church had thrown their weight behind the campaign for Mr O'Hare's release.

Now Monsignor Faul, who has visited O'Hare in prison on a number of occasions, has spoken out, stating his belief that O'Hare had served enough time and should be released.

"The man has served his sentence and I don't believe that he should be left in jail," said Msgr Faul.

"There are so many people that are part of the forgotten wreckage of the Troubles and while Dessie O'Hare is not so much forgotten, he is part of that wreckage."

He added that Dessie O'Hare posed no threat to people in Ireland.

"People are sent to jail to be punished and get rehabilitated before their release, if they don't pose any threat to people outside," he said.

"In my opinion Dessie O'Hare has been rehabilitated, has served his punishment and would not pose any threat to people when he gets out, so any further detention of Dessie O'Hare would be purely vindictive. He should be released soon."

Msgr Faul also criticised the way certain sections of the media have treated Mr O'Hare's case.

"The Dublin media should leave him alone and in my view he should be left to get on with his life along with his wife and two children," said the parish priest of Carrickmore, Co Tyrone.

"The man has been in jail for all these years and the prison authorities are in favour of his release. There are other clergymen that have been to visit him and they also believe that he should be released."

Msgr Faul added: "Family circumstances and the fact that his wife has been ill means that he should be allowed out."

From Keady, Co Armagh Mr O'Hare was a member of the IRA before defecting to the INLA.

In December 2002 he was transferred from the Midlands Prison in Portlaoise, Co Laois to the lower security Castlerea Prison in Co. Roscommon, and put on a pre-release programme. He has been freed on 15 to 20 temporary paroles over the past three years as part of that programme.

Eddie McGarrigle, a director of Teach na Failte, a group that provides support for republican socialist ex-prisoners and their families, has been spearheading the campaign to have Mr O'Hare released.

Mr McGarrigle, who is also on the Ard Comhairle of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP), said: "The background to the situation is that the Prison Service have basically washed their hands of Dessie and say that it is up to Michael McDowell when he gets released.

"Michael McDowell agreed to release Dessie in April and the prison service is now saying that the decision lies with the minister."

Mr McGarrigle, who has been working closely with Mr O'Hare's family as part of the campaign to have him released, described their anguish as they await Mr O'Hare's release.

"They have been put under serious mental torture and mental anguish as they have been waiting for three years for his release," he added.

No-one from the Department of Justice was available for comment yesterday.

by mad dog Thu Aug 18, 2005 23:37

Maybe he should have a finger removed with a chisel first?

This threads an Orwellian joke.

Mike.

by jack whyte Sat Aug 20, 2005 03:16

Hi Mike, why do you charcterise it as an orwellian joke?

Seriously, I remember the pursuit of O'Hare, the chiseled fingers, the fiasco and yes, I was freaked out by the hammer house of horror style mutilation. But beyond the gore, the other INLA and IRA prisoners have been released under the terms of the GFA. Not to mention the UVF, UFF and LVF - about whom there is little discussion down south whilst they continue culling one another. But many other 'republican' prisoners, having been convicted for infinitely more serious offenses (ie killings, bombings), were released under the terms of the agreement. Is your position that such a deal should never have been done? If one supports the deal, then there should be no qualms about its application. If you don't support the deal, you should outline an alternative scenario. My understanding is that O'Hare falls under the terms of the GFA, and although I haven't checked the court decision, the IRSP claim there is a High Court decision to that effect.

A related, although seperate and wider, point relates to the purpose of incarceration: if it is correctional and rehabilitative then it's based on the assumption that people have the capacity to transform themselves and thus change the nature of their relationship with those around them. If it is punitive and preventitive then it is simply to remve them from circulation, which is an argument for detaining people indefinitely. The Irish system is based on the former I believe. Cases like this, because of the cruelty involved, test the basis of that approach, but the alternative appears a medieval vision of justice as 'terminal solutions', more similar to the 6 counties past (and present?) rather than any desirable future.