FRESH evidence of Jeremy Corbyn’s links with the IRA can be exposed as HOAR reveals he co-sponsored an Irish Republican event alongside a convicted IRA terrorist.
The Labour leader was named as a sponsor at an ‘Irish Solidarity’ conference in 1983 calling for “complete British withdrawal from Northern Ireland”.
A fellow sponsor of the conference was IRA terrorist Vincent Donnelly, who at the time was serving five life sentences and was described as a Prisoner of War on a pamphlet for the event.
Mr Donnelly was a member of an active service unit of the IRA that was involved in planting a series of 16 bombs – 13 of which went off.
Mr Donnelly was jailed in 1977 after a bomb he planted on a train destined for rush-hour London exploded prematurely injuring many of the passengers.
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In his attempt to escape he shot dead the train driver and shot and injured a post officer engineer. He also shot at police.
Mr Donnelly was released in 1998 under the Good Friday Agreement.
The pamphlet for the event, which took place in Mr Corbyns Islington North constituency on October 2, 1983, called for all Prisoners of War like Mr Donnelly to be repatriated to Ireland.
And it also demanded a referendum on uniting Ireland.
Our revelation reveals further evidence of Mr Corbyns close association and solidarity with convicted IRA terrorists with less than a week to go until polling day.
But on Thursday night Labour insisted Mr Corbyn only supported the event because he was trying to bring about peace in Northern Ireland.
A Labour party spokesman said: Jeremy Corbyn has always worked towards peace in Northern Ireland and represents a significant Irish community as a constituency MP.
He has also spoken about how the peace process in Northern Ireland has been a model for other countries trying to bring divided communities together on the basis of recognising different traditions.
Jeremy Corbyn with Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams at the House of Commons in the mid-nineties
File photo dated August 31, 1995, of Sinn Fein boss Martin McGuinness at a news conference in the House of Commons, London, with Jeremy Corbyn to his right
Corbyn with Gerard McLaughlin, left, who was jailed for four years for possession of equipment capable of making bombs, at a Bloody Sunday 20th anniversary march in 1992
labour chiefs John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn smile in a photo-op with Gerry Adams
Jeremy Corbyn with Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness at Labour MP Tony Benns funeral
