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Noraid

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Noraid or NORAID
abbr.
Irish Northern Aid Committee

Noraid [ˈnɔːrˌeɪd]
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) an American organization that supports the Republicans in Northern Ireland


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Although not directly an IRA fund-raiser himself, he saw no hypocrisy in condemning the violence of the IRA, while at the same time encouraging fund-raising for the likes of Noraid, the Irish-American pressure group whose main beneficiary was that very same terrorist organisation.
But he was also staunchly against republican violence and urged Irish-Americans not to give to the Provisionals' fundraising arm, Noraid.
Martin Galvin, a former director with the Irish-American Noraid group which helped support Sinn Fein during the conflict, was among the crowd.
 
 
 
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