Irish Candidates In Gaol
(Rec. 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 16. Seven candidates for Britain’s General Election on May 26 are in prison in Belfast—and evon if elected to Westminster, are due to stay behind bars for the five-year life of the next Parliament. The men will be nominated in Northern Ireland by the Sinn Fein (Republican extremists) Party, bringing the strangest contests of the General Election. Five of the men are serving sentences for their part in last year’s armed raid on military barracks at
Omagh, County Tyrone, and the other two are in gaol for subversive activities.
Their'only campaign activity will be to sign the necessary legal documents for their nomination when they are taken to their cells by officials of the constituencies they are contesting. Outside the prison walls, leaders of the Sinn Fein will plead the men’s case at the hustings. The party plans to contest all 12 of the Northern Ireland seats. Nine are now held by Unionists (Conservative supporters), two by Irish Nationalists and one by Irish Labour,
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27636, 18 April 1955, Page 11
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