A scurrilous article appearing in today’s edition of the Free State gutter press newspaper the Sunday World [21/09/14], by the disreputable tabloid journalist Eamon Dillon, has come to the attention of the leadership of Republican Sinn Féin. The leadership of Republican Sinn Féin now make the following facts public. The above mentioned article has no basis in fact whatsoever, it is composed completely of lies and slander and is no more than a low attack on Republican Sinn Féin, and the character and good name of a senior member of RSF. This article was concocted by the following individuals who have recently left the republican movement; Frank Nolan, his brother Robert Nolan and Stephen Fogarty, on a visit to Portlaoise Gaol last Tuesday [16/09/2014]. It has become known by RSF that similar scurrilous articles carried in the Sunday World relating to other republican groups are also the work of Frank Nolan and an accomplice, who is also known to RSF. Frank Nolan does not speak for any POW’s other than his brother Robert Nolan and Stephen Fogarty, who’s criminal past is well documented, as the following link can attest to: http://www.herald.ie/news/courts/suspect-threw-gun-in-flowers-as-he-fled-29149905.html It has also since transpired that Frank Nolan was expelled from another Republican group along with other un-desirables in 2007, as was stated in the newspaper of that organisation. Unfortunately, Frank Nolan was then accepted as a member of RSF by people who left RSF in 2010 with the Ó Brádaigh / Dalton gang. Republican Sinn Féin now send the following warning to other republican groups which Frank Nolan may seek membership of: Frank Nolan and those he associates with are no more than anti-republican reprobates who carry out the work of MI5 and Free State Special Branch, they are the enemies of Irish republicanism who feed the gutter press with anti-republican propaganda and profit from this and other base activities. They are to be avoided at all costs by all decent Irish Republicans.
Issued by the Ard Chomhairle, Republican Sinn Féin, 21/09/2014
