Support Noel Maguire Transfer Protest
Noel Maguire has now served almost seven years of the twenty-two year sentence he received for his alleged involvement in a republican bombing campaign in England.
Living under brutal conditions and denied visitation with his family, including his two young children who he has not seen in seven years, Noel’s health and mental well-being are deteriorating.
Throughout all of this time he has continually applied for transfer back to Ireland to serve the remainder of his sentence, as is his right under European law. Successive legal applications for transfer to Ireland have been denied resulting in Noel’s family having to endure huge additional emotional, physical and financial strains.
Despite the fact that his family live within miles of Portlaoise Prison in County Laois Noel’s rights of transfer continue to be denied and this despite the fact that co-convicted Aiden Hulme was recently transferred to that same prison.
A protest has been organised by family members and supporters to demand the immediate transfer of Noel to Ireland to serve the remainder of his sentence.
The protest will take place at the General Post Office, O’Connell Street, Dublin city centre at 2pm, Saturday 8 March.
Éirígí spokesperson Daithí Mac An Mháistír called on all progressives to attend the protest and pledged the party’s support to the campaign,
“Noel Maguire, like every other Irish republican political prisoner, is a victim of the British occupation in Ireland. In the two centuries since the birth of Irish republicanism the British government and its surrogates in Ireland have imprisoned men and women of every generation for resisting British rule and this generation is no different.
Éirígí fully support the campaign for Noels transfer and furthermore calls for the release of all Irish republican political prisoners. We call on all republicans, socialists, democrats and progressives to stand with Noel’s family on Saturday and show their support for his transfer back to Ireland.”