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The Concerned Group for Republican Prisoners (CGRP) is an Irish republican prisoners' support group. Image File history File linksMetadata CGRP.jpg CGRP File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Irish Republicanism is an ideology based on the Irish nationalist belief that all of Ireland should be a united independent republic. ...
The CGRP was established on September 10, 2005 as the result of an internal dispute within the ranks of Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) prisoners being held at Portlaoise Prison. That dispute led to a number of CIRA prisoners to leave the organisation. Three of these prisoners have since aligned themselves with the Irish National Liberation Army landing in the prison, but four others are now independent of any known paramilitary grouping and are known as the Republican Prisoners Group. They are located on E4 landing. The prisoners who chose to remain in the CIRA have moved to E3, the Real IRA landing. September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) is an Irish Republican paramilitary organisation (which supporters recognise as the National Army of the 32-County Irish Republic) that split from the Provisional IRA in 1986. ... Portlaoise Prison is a maximum security prison located in Portlaoise, Co. ... The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) is an Irish republican paramilitary organization which was formed on December 8, 1974. ... Categories: Wikipedia cleanup | Organization stubs | Terrorist organizations in Northern Ireland | Rebellion ...
The CGRP was created at the prisoners request to raise funds and provide moral support for the independent republican prisoners on E4 Landing.