Sorry to have to pop up again, but it's pretty clear the campaign hasn't been cross community or cross party from very early on.
The main reason for this has been the very deep involvement of the Republican Movement in the campaign for Noah Donohoe.
Relatives For Justice sound to GB ears like a neutral, cross community group in pursuit of justice for families. In reality, it is a Provisional Republican front group who literally ignore the majority of injustices because it doesn't fit their agenda.
A former PSF/PIRA man, Shane Doherty (denounced the IRA in 1978) explained the motives and behaviour of this group in 2018.
Link is here:
irishpeaceprocess.blog/2018/04/17/relatives-for-justice-time-for-truth-or-time-for-really-big-lies/
Provisional Sinn Féin and Provisional IRA sent John Finucane to speak on their behalf. Despite the fact they continue to refuse to condemn murders of many people and obstruct efforts to achieve justice for many to this day. This includes the murder of Edgar Graham in similar circumstances to his father, Pat Finucane.
Most infamously, the Quinn family whose son was tortured, beaten and murdered by PSF/PIRA in 2007. Their mother still campaigns for justice today.
Yet we do not see any standing in solidarity with the Quinns. This is another Catholic family denied justice by the Republican Movement and others in their area.
Féile An Phobail - Once again, we hear of the crowd chanting pro-IRA nonsense which demonstrates the one-sidedness of this event as well as the implication PSF/PIRA injustices are.....irrelevant. The SDLP's Carl Whyte has condemned this annual pro-IRA chanting Once again. Clearly, it is not an inclusive, cross community event, but is very much Republican in nature as evidenced from the chanting.
One member of the SDLP attended the 13th August protest, but it appears this was in a personal capacity. The main SDLP twitter account made no reference to the protest on 13th August on their twitter account.
People Before Profit attended in an official capacity as well. Again, this is a Republican socialist party which is small.
Àontu also attended. Another Republican party.
Provisional Sinn Féin/Provisional IRA organised public protests which the MumsNettersForNoahandFiona account tried to initially deny.
Far from the campaign being an inclusive, cross community initiative, it is very much predominantly Republican in nature. Unfortunately, sectarianism has been part of this from the beginning due to the area in which Noah Donohoe was found.
It says a lot when Provisional Sinn Féin and Provisional IRA is deeply involved in such events. Yet the likes of SDLP, Alliance and various Unionist parties are not involved.
Especially Alliance who are a party with members from both sides of the divide. Their leader is a reasonable woman who has a track record of being fair-minded, even-handed and committed to cross community relations. Additionally, a Justice Minister cannot intervene in live ongoing criminal investigations or proceedings.
There is a reason more grounded parties like the above don't have a big role in the Noah Donohoe campaign. And it's not because they're sectarian. Alliance is non-sectarian. SDLP is a Catholic party. I am from a non-sectarian Catholic family myself.
Not even a Republic of Ireland party attended.
And yet every single party leader expressed condolences to the Donohoe family upon the news of his death. Quite rightly so.
The motivation for the Republican Movement is very much political and that's to unforgivably use Noah Donohoe's tragic death as a political weapon against the British State and people. All the other parties on the island of Ireland can see that, hence their clear absence from the 13th August protest. This is what has happened to these protests, unfortunately. These absences are not explained by sectarian, anti-Catholic bigotry which has been suggested or implied in multiple threads.
To be clear, I am all in favour of campaigns for justice AND truth for anyone so long as it is done in a non-political, non-partisan manner. But that has not been the case here as Republican groups have been involved from the beginning.
The various different accounts that are now used on Mumsnet have all tried to conceal the role and involvement of the Republican Movement in this campaign. They have been advised they were making a massive mistake involving the Provisionals aka Provos aka Sinn Féin and Provisional IRA.
They ignored it and continued to misrepresent it as being inclusive to GB Mumsnetters who wouldn't know anything unless someone points it out. There is a reason they didn't want you to know - they know the British people are reluctant to get involved in any campaign which heavily features Republican Movement groups. As a result, it became political by involving these groups.
It is not possible to campaign for justice AND truth whilst standing with PSF/PIRA who actively deny justice to others in what's claimed to be an inclusive, cross community campaign.
A massive, massive missed opportunity has been missed here to create a truly cross community campaign for justice. That must be a source of huge regret and sadness. These campaigns ALWAYS do best in an inclusive, cross community fashion when political parties are kept away.
Especially ones with the kind of history Provisional Sinn Féin and Provisional IRA have.
Unquestionably, Noah Donohoe more than deserves a true, inclusive and cross community public campaign. The truth also deserves to come out.
An inquest will be held in November 2022 which should provide the answers to many, many questions in the mystery of Noah Donohoe.
I urge all Mumsnetters to wait for the conclusion of that before they make their minds up based on incomplete information they're reading on Mumsnet.
Stating these things is not derailing or anything else that may be claimed. The OP and various accounts has repeatedly claimed the campaign has been inclusive. As one can see, it has not.
I wholeheartedly pray that the Donohoe family get the answers they require from the impending inquest. Sincerely.
But I cannot in all good conscience get involved in anything led by the Provisional Republican Movement. Neither can many, many people due to the sheer hypocrisy and insult the Provos continue to do.
May the truth come out in time so Noah Donohoe's soul can rest in peace.