Concerned Republicans, formed in December 2006, is an umbrella political groups which plans to run independent republican candidates in the 2007 Northern Ireland Assembly election on a manifesto of non-endorsement of the Police Service of Northern Ireland and would be anti-Good Friday Agreement and anti-St Andrews Agreement.
Possible candidates
A number of figures have indicated their willingness to run as independent republican candidates in the forthcoming election, including:
- Peggy O'Hara (76), mother of Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) hunger striker Patsy O'Hara[1]
- Paul McGlinchey, brother of murdered INLA leader Dominic McGlinchey[2]
- Gerry McGeough, former Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer, gunrunner and Sinn Féin Ard Comhairle member, from County Tyrone.
References
- ↑ Connla Young , "Mother of INLA hunger striker to stand if elections go ahead", Irish News, 15 January 2007 (subscription required)
- ↑ Dan Keenan, "SF may face dissident candidates", Irish Times, 16 January 2007 (subscription required)
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