Members of Saoradh marching on the 103rd anniversary of the 1916 Rising earlier this year. Image: Sam Boal Members of Saoradh marching on the 103rd anniversary of the 1916 Rising earlier this year. Image: Sam Boal THE RADICAL REPUBLICAN party Saoradh held its fourth Ard Fheis in Newry last weekend, and although many observers consider it the unregistered political wing of the New IRA, party members continue to deny this.
Over the following decade, militant republicans, many of them experienced members of the provisionals, joined with members of so-called dissident republicans to form the New IRA in 2012. Many observers expected, or rather hoped for, a decline of the party in the aftermaths of the killing. Thomas Ashe Mellon, who recently spoke at a press conference about house raids and stop-and-search practices in Derry, was another delegate. The Derry office, Junior McDaid House, was searched by the PSNI two days before the party conference took place.“There was hardly any debate on Brexit, our position is clear and has not changed,” explained national public relations officer Paddy Gallagher.
This anti-EU stance is, indeed, a long-standing republican position developed since the Sinn Féin opposition to the European Economic Community – the former name for the EU – in the 1960s. The speeches stressed a democratic-socialist ideology. Strikingly, the word nationalism was largely omitted, instead replaced by revolutionary republicanism. Another term that often appeared was internationalism.
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