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SOME 30 Republican Sinn Féin members from all over Munster area staged a white line protest in Ennis on Saturday afternoon.
The protest, which saw the RSF members carry placards and block traffic while walking down the centre of the road, lasted for about an hour. It was designed to highlight Republi- can Sinn Féin prisoners in Maghab- erry Jail which, RSF officials say, are being denied POW status.
“We had a large turnout of mem- bers from the James Connolly and Brugh South branch of Republican
Sinn Féin,’ said Paddy Kenneally of Republican Sinn Féin.
‘The picket was designed to high- light the situation in Maghaberry and was timed to coincide with a simi- lar protest taking place on the Falls Road in Belfast.
“It was a peaceful protest designed to highlight five key demands for the prisoners up there; namely the right of free association, the end to con- trolled movement, the right to full- time education, separate visiting fa- cilities and the right to organise their own landing.”
There was a large Garda presence at the protest.