Policing Debate

national | rights, freedoms and repression | other press Thursday November 30, 2006 17:50 by Cormac Ryan - éirígí press at eirigi dot org

éirígí comments on policing debate

A debate entitled `Policing - A Bridge Too Far For Republicans?' took place last Monday November 27th in the Conway Mill, West Belfast.

éirígí is encouraged by this event coming as it does only a couple of weeks after a similar debate organised by the James Connolly debating society, also in West Belfast. éirígí hopes that these initiatives mark the beginning, however belated, of a community and Ireland-wide debate on the nature and type of policing needed in a new Ireland.

It is éirígí's considered opinion that the acceptance by some republicans of the proposed policing structures will have the effect of concretising British rule in Ireland and perpetuating the denial of democracy that this entails.

Click below for the full news item and a link to a report on the Conway Mill debate carried on RTÉ's Tuesday edition of the Morning Ireland radio programme.

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