Sinn Fein leaders have ‘turned their backs on Republican cause’

The state funerals of ten IRA revolutionaries in Dublin are a Government trick to fool people that the British occupation of the north is ‘‘normal’’, a party conference heard today.

Ruairi O’Bradaigh, leader of Republican Sinn Fein, told delegates at his party’s conference that the removal of the bodies of Kevin Barry and his War of Independence comrades from Mountjoy prison was premature because ‘‘Ireland is not yet free’’.