Picket at Croke Park, Dublin

national | history and heritage | event notice Tuesday February 20, 2007 00:13 by Josephine Hayden - Republican Sinn Fein jo.hayden at oceanfree dot net

Our protest is making a political point and is not anti-rugby.

Join in the peaceful protest on Saturday February 24, and remember the fourteen men who were murdered by British forces in Croke Park on November 21, 1920.

On 'Bloody Sunday,' November 21, 1920, English forces murdered fourteen Irish people in Croke Park, Dublin. The playing of God Save the Queen, (the English national anthem) and the flying of the English flag over Croke Park insults their memory. Those events cannot be dismissed as history whilst the English occupation of Ireland goes on.
English rule, English police, English courts and English laws will never be either normal or acceptable in Ireland.
We protest at the presence of the English rugby team in Croke Park because they represent a country which continues to occupy by force the north eastern part of Ireland.
We don't want apologies England. Give us back our country.
Join our protest at 3.30pm at athe junction of North Circular Road and Summerhill Parade, near the Sunset House pub on Saturday, February 24.