THE IRISH OBSERVER: FAI Women’s Committee

FAI Women’s Committee

Chairperson: Frances Smith

Vice Chair: Bríd McGinty

12 October 2022

From: Vincent McKenna BSSc, PGDipSSc MSc (First Class) Certified Digital Marketing Professional

Dear Madam

In or about July 2022, I watched news reports which showed how Ireland women’s football manager Vera Pauw, said she was raped by a “prominent football official” employed by Dutch football early in her career.

Me Too Mary Lou

My heart went out to Vera Pauw, as I had, when a child been raped by a member of Sinn Fein/PIRA, Michael Lynagh, shortly after I had joined that organisation in 1980.

In 2000, I was also convicted of alleged sexual assault, alleged to have happened when I was a member of Sinn Fein/PIRA and that case is returning to The Court of Criminal Appeal in 2022, as I have always maintained my innocence in these matters.

Vincent McKenna

Even if the latter were true, it would not diminish what I am about to say, and may even save someone from the torment of rape.

Today, 12 October, 2022, I have seen a video of the women’s football team chanting pro-Provisional IRAslogans after their game on Tuesday night, a game that made so many of us proud. Those of us who want to see Females as Champions, not second-class citizens.

“The FAI have apologised after footage emerged of Republic of Ireland players singing pro-IRA songs in the aftermath of their qualification for the World Cup in Glasgow on Tuesday night”.

This is not the first time that young women’s teams have been recorded chanting pro-Terrorist slogans, we have had this outrageous behavior in The GAA and Other.

I believe that these young women, be they supportive of Sinn Fein/PIRA or not, are uneducated about the crimes committed by Sinn Fein/PIRA, an organisation that remains under the coercive misogynistic control of an 8-man Provisional IRA Army Council, this is not speculation, but fact.

Education

The first time the Term “Upthe Ra” was used was 1986 at a Sinn Fein/PIRA house-party in Monaghan Town, it was used by Jim Lynagh (My Commanding Officer – shot dead 1987) a Sinn Fein Councilor/PIRA Commander who had sex with a 15-year-old girl on the couch beside me, cast her aside in a drunken range and shouted “Up the Ra”, Jim Lynagh used the term again on a stage in Clontibret, as a rallying cry, when Republican Sinn Fein split from us in 1986.

Those playing music at the event in Clontibret then repeated the slogan as a chant at another function and I then heard the Wolfe Tones chant it at one of their functions. The chanting as in the FAI video, has an almost hallucinogenic impact on the mind, particularly when coupled with alcohol or drugs, as it is supposed to do, at house-parties and Sinn Fein/PIRA functions, young girls would simply surrender themselves, not that it mattered if they surrendered or not, rape victims were quickly warned to remain silent. They knew the consequences if they did not.

Within Sinn Fein/PIRA the chant “Up the Ra” has always meant “Up the Rapists” because of its origins, I know such a mindset would not be so easily understood in 2022, where Females are supposed to be equal partners in society rather than commodities or creatures placed on this earth to serve men.

However, these are the facts, the rape of women and children within Sinn Fein/PIRA and the protection of those rapists was central to the Sinn Fein/PIRA Campaign, indeed, many rapists remain protected by Sinn Fein/PIRA. We had in place Policy, Procedure, Infrastructure, Finance and Personnel to protect our rapists.

In 1998, when I had finally gone public about all that I knew about Sinn Fein/PIRA and their rape of women andchildren and the protection of their rapists, Sinn Fein/PIRA conducted an Internal Audit, just in case some investigative journalist actually done their job and established the facts, and Sinn Fein/PIRA needed to be able to explain the allegations away.

The Audit was directed from Belfast, but involved interviewing Sinn Fein/PIRA figures, all around the country. It was established by Sinn Fein/PIRA’s own Audit, that up until 1998, Sinn Fein/PIRA members had raped over 5,000 Catholic women and children, and had protected the rapists within their ranks.

The rapes have continued post-1998 and there have been over 200 Sinn Fein/PIRA members prosecuted and placed on The Sex Offenders Registers in Northern Ireland and The Republic of Ireland. However, these prosecutions have come about because of the good works of the PSNI and An Garda Siochana with no help from Sinn Fein/PIRA.

There are presently over 4,000 Shinnerbots (Social Media Profiles being operated by Sinn Fein/PIRA, on a Pedophile Watch-List, as many of these accounts are operated by rapists protected by Sinn Fein/PIRA).

Recently two more Sinn Fein Councilors, Jimmy McDonald who raped several children in County Longford and Sinn Fein Councilor, Cathal McLaughlin convicted of sexual assault in Scotland, in July 2022, have been added to the Registers in NI and The Republic.

While all of this was being denied publicly in 1998 by the Sinn Fein/PIRA Leadership, in 2014, Gerry Adams, then President of Sinn Fein/PIRA handed over the names of 27 of the rapiststhat the Sinn Fein/PIRA Leadership had protected, this a small sample of those protected, but the 27 enough to take the political pressure off Sinn Fein/PIRA in 2014. These facts can be established by simply using Google.

The Headlines below appearing in the media today, but it could all have been prevented, if the FAI had put in place, the necessary mechanisms and education processes, to ensure that when young women chant support for an organisation that has murdered and raped so many women and children, they take women back to the dark ages, as elderly men nod in approval.

“Victims of terrorism appalled at pro-IRA chants from Republic of Ireland women's football team”.

“Terrorist victims from both sides of the community have spoken of their disgust at pro-IRA chants from the Republic of Ireland women’s team after their World Cup playoff win over Scotland on Tuesday evening”.

I am publishing this letter on my Blog so that there is a clear record of my warning to the FAI, stop the rot, through education. Anyone on your Team, who does not want to play ball, let them go. The Irish people want a Team we can be proud of, not a Team that is dictated to by misogynistic ritual.

This chanting by the FAI Women's Team has hurt thousands of rape victims today, this before you get to the families of those murdered and maimed by the same criminals. Most recently, Sinn Fein/PIRA involved in the murder of David Byrne at The Regency Hotel, from which another 20 people have been murdered.

Yours sincerely

Vincent McKenna

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