Dissident republicans ‘only concerned with Sinn Féin’

DISSIDENT militants are more concerned with undermining the leadership of Sinn Féin than in securing a united Ireland, a republican commemoration service heard yesterday.

Fr Joe McVeigh, a republican and peace campaigner, from Fermanagh, said dissident groups, which have mounted numerous attacks on security forces in the North over the past year, have no support or following among most people in his community.

“They represent nobody but a rump of embittered individuals whose gripe is not with British imperialism, but with the leadership of Sinn Féin,” he told over 100 people at the General Liam Lynch commemoration at Kilcrumper Cemetery in Fermoy, Co Cork.