International Support
Following is only a small portion of the hundreds of thousands of individuals and organisations, who have expressed their concerns at the Sallins Case. It is presented to show the widespread concern across the political, religious and social spectrum in Ireland and abroad.
HUMAN RIGHTS/ LEGAL
Free Legal Aid Centres
Law professor Barry McAuley
Irish Civil Rights Association
Pat McCartan (ex- Circuit Court judge.)
James MacGuill (ex- President Law Society.)
Prof. Dermot Walsh
Irish Commission for Justice & Peace
Denis Halliday (Ex- UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq.)
Dublin Gay Rights Collective
Prisoners’ Rights Organisation
PaxChristi Ireland (UN consultative status UNESCO, UNICEF and the Council of Europe)
University College Cork Law Society
The Hooded Men
The Birmingham Six
The Guildford Four
Kadar Asmal (lecturer/ government minister South Africa)
Jerome Connolly (independent expert Irish Department of Foreign Affairs – NGO Standing Committee on Human Rights)
Cormac O’Dualachain S.C.
Michael Farrel (member Irish Council of State.)
WRITERS/ JOURNALISTS/ BROADCASTERS/ ARTISTS/ MUSICIANS
Proinsias Mac Aonghusa
Con Houlihan
Derek Dunne
Seamus Deane
Ulick O’Connor
John Mulcahy
Desmond Fennell
Donal Lunney
Paula Meehan
Keith Donald
Christy Moore
Donal O’Kelly
Robert Merle
Margueretta D’Arcy
Tim Pat Coogan
Robert Ballagh
Vincent Browne
Eamonn McCann
Sean Mac Mathuna
T.O’Mahony
Augustine Martin
ACTORS/ PRODUCERS/ PLAYWRIGHTS
Leila Doolan
Paddy Hayes
Cyril Cusack
Siobhan McKenna
Brendan O’Duill
Raymond Keane
Colm Meaney
Fionnula Flanagan
COUNTY COUNCILS
Donegal Co. Council
Clare Co. Council
Galway Co. Council
Nenagh Co. Council
Longford Co. Council
Sligo Co. Council
Dublin City Council
RELIGIOUS
Archbishop Gaetano Alibrandi (Papal Nuncio Ireland.)
Menonite Church
Bishop James Kavanagh (Dublin.)
Fr. Des Wilson
Fr. Piaras Ó Dúill
Fr. Alec Reid
Monsignor Raymond Murray
Fr. Denis Faul
EDUCATIONAL
Edinburgh University Students Association
University College Dublin Fianna Fail
University College Galway Students Union
Dundalk Regional Technical College Students Union
Union of Students of Ireland
University College Dublin Students Union
Trinity College Dublin Students Union
National Institute of Higher Education Students Unions
POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS & INDIVIDUALS
Labour Party Ranelagh Branch
Community Government Movement
Trinity College Dublin Labour Party
Fianna Fail Harry Boland Cuman
Joe Costello TD
Young Fine Gael
Clare Daly
Conradh na Gaeilge
Bernadette McAliskey (activist/ author/ ex-MP)
Gerry Collins (Fianna Fail justice spokesperson)
Labour Party Dublin Southeast
Matt McCarthy TD
Fianna Fail Eamon O Murchú Cumann
Workers Party Wicklow Comhairle Ceanntar
Connolly Youth Movement
Oliver J. Flanagan
Det Srg Derek Nally (ex- Presidential candidate/ Person of the Year Award in 1995.)
Garret Fitzgerald (ex-Taoiseach)
Martin Kenny (SF Justice spokesperson)
Communist Party of Ireland
Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist Leninist)
Dublin Anarchist Collective
League for the Workers Republic
Peoples Democracy
Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD
Irish Republican Socialist Party
Northside Dublin Women’s Group
Revolutionary Struggle
Sinn Féin
Socialist Workers Movement
Spirit of Freedom Committee
TRADE UNIONISTS
Navan Trades Council Carrick-an-Suir Trades Council
Shannon Trades Council
Sligo Trades Council
Drogheda Trades Council
Irish Post Office Engineering Union Union of Construction
Allied Trades and Technicians Cork 2nd Branch)
Trades Council Plumbers Union (southern)
Irish Post Office Engineering Union
Derry Trades Council
Waterford Trades Council
NEETUnion (Dublin No.1 Branch)
Datsun car workers
Bray Trades Council
Ranks workers
Women Workers Union
Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (Limerick)
Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union (11102 Branch)
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (9d1 Branch)
Irish Transport & General Workers Union Irish Painters and Decorators Union
Limerick Trades Council Dublin Trades Council
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Cashel Co. Council
Leitrim Co. Council
Navan Co. Council
Arklow Co. Council
Naas Urban District Council
Bray Co. Council
Shannon Town Commissioners
Longford Co. Council
Drogheda Corporation
Buncrana Co. Council
Kerry Co. Council
Dublin City Council
Kildare Co. Council
Roscommon Co. Council
MEDICAL
Federated Workers Union of Ireland
Dr. Robert Daly (psychiatrist)
Dr. Rhona Fields (US psychiatrist)
Prof. Ivor Browne
Psychiatric Nurses Association
