Republicans will continue to honour ‘brothers or sisters, our sons and daughters, our friends and comrades’

» John Hedges

An Phoblacht Editor

'They are of a generation that experienced the injustices of partition and the Orange state. They marched for the demands of Civil Rights and equal citizenship. They marched on Bloody Sunday'

REPUBLICANS will honour their patriot dead because “these were our brothers or sisters, our sons and daughters, our friends and comrades”, Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Raymond Mc Cartney said at a commemoration in Strabane on Sunday in memory of 23 local republicans listed on the West Tyrone Roll of Honour and Remembrance.

The former IRA Hunger Striker (pictured) added:

“They were the people we grew up with, the people whom we went to school with. They are of a generation that experienced the injustices of partition and the Orange state. They marched for the demands of Civil Rights and equal citizenship. They marched on Bloody Sunday.

"They campaigned for political prisoners and were on the streets as the Hunger Strikes awakened yet another generation of republicans. They were leaders in our communities and they were fearless in the face of adversity.

“We carry the memories of our republican dead in our minds and our goal of a united nation for us to achieve. The path to it will be made by our collective actions. Let our work continue and our day will come.”