Sinn Fein planning another IRA commemoration this Saturday with several hundred attendees

It is set to be addressed by English-born Donegal Sinn Fein TD Padraig Mac Lochlainn.

According to the Parades Commission, it involves a march beginning at 2.30pm in St Patrick’s Hall in Dromore, Co Tyrone.

It will proceed along the village’s main street to the “Hunger Strikers Memorial Stone” at the junction of Church Street/John Street.

One band is set to take part – Strabane Memorial Flute Band.

The expected number of participants is listed as 200, and the number of supporters at 400.

It has not been marked as “sensitive” by the Parades Commission.

The commission has records of similar parades daying back at least to 2016. Ordinarily they involve several bands, not just one.

The Sunday commemoration in south Armagh has attracted a huge amount of publicity, in large part due to the involvement of John Finucane.

But, as republicans have been pointing out over the course of the past week, other Sinn Fein commemorations are happening all the time, unnoticed and unremarked upon.

Recently these have included:

• A graveside tribute by members of the Molloy/Devlin/McCauley Sinn Fein Cumann to Danny McCauley, a leading member of the West Tyrone IRA who died “on active service” on June 3, 1991 (he was said to have died of natural causes after “an IRA operation” though it is not clear what this was – although the same day in east Tyrone a trio of IRA men were shot dead by the SAS);

• A memorial service by Coalisland/Clonoe Martyrs Sinn Fein Cumann on May 14 to honour Kevin Kilpatrick, a wanted PIRA man killed in a gunfight with troops in 1971;

• A parade in Cullyhanna, south Armagh, on April 9, by the Michael McVerry Cumann (named after the former PIRA commander in the area, killed in 1973 while planting a bomb in an effort to kill police officers);

• A parade in Camlough, south Armagh, on the same date, by the Seamus Steele Cumann (named after an IRA man from the pre-Troubles border campaign era);

• A wreath-laying and memorial lecture by the Louis Leonard Cumann of Newtownbutler in December, honouring the Fermanagh PIRA man of that name.

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