Belfast Calling! Please join his family this Saturday, 13th August for Noah Donohoe and for all children - everybody welcome

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Noah was just a child, like my children, perhaps like your children. He set out on his bike one sunny Sunday to meet his school friends to work on his Duke of Edinburgh Award. He didn't arrive. Nobody helped him. His naked body was found in a drain six days later. Over two years on, his mummy is still having to fight for the truth about how her only child died and for justice for him.

Noah's mummy Fiona Donohoe and his auntie Niamh Donohoe have organised a peaceful gathering at City Hall, Belfast at 1pm this Saturday, 13th August, 2022. If you are in Belfast or can be on Saturday, please come along to support Fiona and Niamh. They are calling for the truth and for justice for young Noah, and are speaking out against the use of Public Interest Immunity Certificates by the Police Service of Northern Ireland. One has just been approved by new NI Secretary of State/MP for North West Cambridgeshire Mr Shailesh Vara. It will keep almost 600 pages of information secret - and for decades - about the disappearance and death of this innocent and beautiful child. This has happened before and with devastating consequences for the whole of the UK and Ireland - Robert Howard, who went on to kill another child in Kent, protected by a PII Certificate in the death in NI of young Arlene Arkinson, for example - and will continue to happen unless it is stopped.

Everybody wishing to peacefully support Noah, Fiona and Niamh is welcome - all ages, all backgrounds, all religions and none, all politics and none - everybody. If you can, please make or print out from the internet a poster or banner and wear something blue - but do not worry at all if you can't, because coming along on Saturday just as you are is more important.

If you are new to Noah's story and want to know more, please read this factual pinned thread on Twitter. You do not need to be on Twitter to read it. Just click on 'log in' whenever it asks you to, and then click on 'x'. If the thread ends, click on 'show replies' each time:
mobile.twitter.com/MarymoBelfast/status/1370453351616425985
Please also watch this podcast with Fiona:

The decision currently stands with a coroner, one Joe McCrisken:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-62437301

It is essential that the coroner, the police, the government and those withholding information hear Noah's voice now. Noah can't speak up for himself. Please use your voice to speak up for him and for all children. Please help Noah now.

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I know it's a long post, but it's worth reading.....

Noah Donohoe left home on his bike Father’s Day Sunday June 21st 2020, a warm sunny evening, approximately 5.30pm to make the journey across the city to meet with friends, to work on his Duke of Edinburgh award at Cavehill Country Park. It was a route he knew well, having taken it many times to and from his school at St Malachy’s College on the Antrim Rd. Something would occur however, along Royal Avenue in the City Centre, which would cause Noah to change that well known route and instead of turning left @ Donegal St, cause him to continue on past Ulster University towards the Shore Rd, a part of the city unknown to him. Despite Royal Ave having over 180 CCTV cameras, only 22 would later be checked by PSNI to try to piece together his final journey and even more bizarre, none would pick up Noah . A witness statement would later be made claiming an attack on Noah with photographic evidence, on Royal Ave by 4 men, 1 of whom knew of Noah as his girlfriend resided in a hostel yards away from his home in South Belfast and is furthermore seen on CCTV watching him leave his home a short time earlier. This same man would also claim to ‘find’ Noah’s backpack containing his laptop & books(clearly labelled with Noah’s name) at the Ulster University ( though no CCTVfootage has ever shown either Noah drop his belongings here or indeed said man finding them here). An anonymous tip off would claim to see these possessions, along with Noah’s North Face coat, still missing to this day, being paraded for sale at a house party in Skegoneil just off the Shore Rd by the same man, whilst the search for Noah took place just metres away. Despite a member of staff at Cash Converters calling police the following day to report a male & female entering the premises and attempt to sell a laptop, it would be days before the PSNI would visit their addresses. Noah’s laptop would be found at the woman’s hostel, claiming she was looking after it for the male. Neither their properties would be searched, forensics carried out or neither taken in for questioning. Noah is picked up on CCTV cycling along North Queen St/ York Rd at 6.01pm Sunday evening. A witness would see Noah fall from his bike moments before, dispose of his North face coat before quickly getting back on his bike and cycling on. The last sighting of Noah was minutes later on Northwood Rd. He can be seen on CCTV naked and visibly in distress, running behind 2 houses. He then disappears, never to be seen alive again. Residents who claimed to have seen Noah all said they assumed it was a “Father’s Day prank” and not one would go to assist a naked, distressed Noah. His naked body would be found 6 days later 950m deep inside an obscure storm drain, very few from the area knew existed behind houses on Northwood Rd. Before Noah’s body was examined at autopsy, PSNI put out that they suspected “No Foul Play” and so the narrative was born that Noah died of misadventure and that he acted willingly and completely alone, the whole part of his journey. This theory was quickly questioned by his mother Fiona, who raised serious concerns about the PSNI’s handling of her son’s investigation. After the cause of death was recorded as drowning, it emerged that no water samples were preserved from the drain Noah apparently died, to compare with that in his lungs. This would either prove or disprove that he had indeed died in the drain. The drain area would never be forensically checked, and his family have queried why the only visible marks on Noah’s body when found was a 16cm in diameter bump on his forehead. One would imagine that Noah having climbed his way the equivalent of 4 football pitches in pitch dark through a dirty storm drain, he would acquired significant scratches. Furthermore only his hands & feet would have water damage despite apparently laying in a drain which fills & empties twice daily, for 6 days. Why were bin lorries allowed up the street Noah was last seen, while a major search continued? Why were various witness statements discounted? Why was Community Search & Rescue sent up Cavehill when Noah was last seen in Northwood? Why did time stamps on the last CCTV footage of Noah change 3 times and most worrying of all, why has a Public Interest Immunity Certificate just been signed off concealing hundreds of pages of information relating to his death? It has only just been disclosed to Fiona that police after receiving intelligence on 27th June, had planned to search houses on Premier Drive & Northwood Rd. That very same day however, his body coincidentally would be found in the drain. PII’s have been used here historically to protect identities of informants and strategies of police investigations, however the only other one ever used in a case involving a child was in that of 15yr old Arlene Arkinson. Robert Howard, a police informant, pedophile & child serial killer would be protected and cleared of her murder through the granting of PII. Howard would then go on to murder another child in England, before being brought to justice there. So the big question is, if Noah is the only one involved in Noah’s death, why the need to conceal information? That information belongs to Fiona. To this day she still hasn’t been told exactly when Noah died. It is her right as Noah’s mother to know of his final days/hours, no matter what that was and those involved in his death to be brought to justice. Noah represents all of our children
and quite easily could have been. Which is why we all must stand in solidarity with her against PII on Saturday 13th August. If you can make it, please do. If we tolerate this, any of our children could be next!

Thank you - 100% worth reading. 💙

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Two free buses will now be travelling from Derry on Saturday to Belfast for people wishing to stand with Fiona. The first bus is full, but - as of last night - a small number of places were still available on the second bus. If you need a seat, you must pre-book by email. First come, first served. Book early to avoid disappointment.

Another two free buses are also travelling from Strabane on Saturday to support Fiona in Belfast, thanks to Works Coffee Roasters, the Hillsborough action group Liverpool and local businesses/ groups/ individuals in Strabane. The first bus is already full - 90% women - but please contact Councillor Raymond Barr to check up to date availability on the second bus and to book your place.

Best wishes for the gathering 💙

Another bus, this one from Newry to Belfast on Saturday to support Fiona - you must contact the Magnet Centre on Facebook messenger to check availability now and book, as spaces are limited.

And this bus, leaving from Ballygawley and Tamnamore:

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Thank you @FlibbertyGiblets and @FaithHowells 💙💙

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For those asking or wondering about the Noah Donohoe Foundation jerseys, they are available for delivery and collection from Bourke Sports in sizes from birth to adult.

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PLEASE NOTE; due to road works along A6 and M1, the bus will now leave Derry Guildhall Bus stop at 10.30am - half an hour early.
Don't forget, you must pre-book your seat by email and have this confirmed by Lilian Seenoi-Barr - spaces are limited.

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A bus is also available this Saturday from Fermanagh, for those wishing to attend the rally for Noah. It departs from Lisnaskea, Main Street at 11am. For those still needing to book a seat, please contact the organiser Lisa Smith as soon as possible - number in the image below:

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A reminder too that, due to road works along A6 and M1, the bus from Derry will now leave Derry Guildhall Bus stop at 10.30am - half an hour early.
Don't forget, you must pre-book your seat by email and have this confirmed by Lilian Seenoi-Barr - spaces are limited.