Mr. Galvin is publicity director for the New York-based Irish Northern Aid Committee.

Mr. Durkan wrote extensively on political issues in local Irish-American newspapers and was a supporter of the Irish Northern Aid committee.

"For the soul of Bobby Sands, let us pray," said Gerry Coleman, the political education director of Irish Northern Aid Committee.

Mr. Galvin, publicity director of the Irish Northern Aid Committee, or Noraid, was seized after trying to hold a news conference in Londonderry.

As Britain has long protested, even contributions to the "charitable activities" of the Irish Northern Aid Committee frees up other funds used by the I.R.A. for more violent endeavors.

Noraid or the Irish Northern Aid Committee is an Irish American fund raising organization founded after the start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in 1969.

CHRISTY WARD National Press Relations Officer Irish Northern Aid Committee New York, May 12, 1997

Four years ago, Mr. Flynn recalled yesterday, two acquaintances came to his Manhattan office to seek a contribution to the Irish Northern Aid Committee, whose stated goal is to assist political prisoners.

In 1970, after 43 years in the United States, he was one of the founders of the Irish Northern Aid Committee, which says it is a charitable organization for the children of British political prisoners.

Irish Northern Aid Committee (NORAID)-the University of Ulster's CAIN project entry on NORAID

Attorney General v. Irish Northern Aid Committee (1981) in which the government sought to compel the committee and already registered under FARA, to register more specifically as an agent of the Irish Republican Army (IRA).

Attorney General v. The Irish People, Inc. (1986) in which the court found that the Irish Northern Aid Committee's publication The Irish People also must register under the Act and with the IRA as its foreign principle.

Friends called all day to congratulate Gerry E. Coleman, political education director of the Irish Northern Aid Committee, whose stated aim is to support families of prisoners in Northern Ireland, but which has been accused of financing I.R.A. violence.

And Martin Galvin, a spokesman for the Irish Northern Aid Committee, said that if Mr. Koch had visited "a Catholic ghetto in Belfast and seen how the British rule, he would know the situation, if changed at all, had worsened."

He was active in the Knights of the Red Branch, an Irish Catholic fraternal organization, in the 1940s, and a strong supporter of the Irish republicanism, the Irish Northern Aid Committee, and the Irish American Unity Conference.

"There is very much a parallel with the success that the I.R.A. had with Noraid in the U.S. in the 1970's," he said, referring to British allegations that the Irish Northern Aid Committee funnels money to the Irish Republican Army.

The American, Martin Galvin, publicity director of the Irish Northern Aid Committee, or Noraid, was arrested in Londonderry after holding a news conference with an official of Sinn Fein, the legal political wing of the outlawed Irish Republican Army.

Paper Linked to Noraid The editorial referred to the fact that The Irish People is closely linked to the Irish Northern Aid Committee, an Irish-American group that the British Government has accused of supplying assistance to the Irish Republican Army.

This was stated by the Irish Northern Aid Committee in legal filings and described in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs in the case of associates of the Kashmiri American Council as compared to earlier treatment of the American Zionist Council.

Some said publicity about possible motives for the robbery could hurt the efforts of the Irish Northern Aid Committee, which collects contributions for the children of people it says are being held as political prisoners by the British, although the British Government says it is a front for arms smuggling.

It was the paper of Noraid and first published in 1972.

An American fund-raising group, Noraid, also provides money, although less than it did 10 years ago.

This accusation has always been denied by Noraid.

With her back to him, she said, 'Ryan's one of the bosses of Noraid.

'Backwards and forwards to the States, speaks at Noraid rallies.

Federal attorneys agreed to this, and Noraid resumed filing its financial returns in July 1984.

I think it is pretty similar to what NORAID did.

Over the years he has attended some rallies for a united Ireland, and given money to Noraid drives for schools and hospitals.

In 1981, the letterhead on Noraid stationery included Mr. Cahill's name.

How is that any different from stuff like NORAID in practical terms?

NORAID means more to them psychologically than financially.

Noraid's former leader, Martin Galvin, was banned from the United Kingdom in the 1980s.

Indeed, Martin Galvin, Noraid's spokesman, is a former editor of The Irish People.

The planning included travel to Britain, Europe, and on to the USA where he met the founders of Noraid.

Joe Cahill acted as the contact between NORAID and Harrison.

Although in fairness to NORAID, their goals were limited to reuniting the north and south of Ireland under a single government.

He went on: 'Every gratutitous headline that you put out is money into Noraid's collecting boxes in pubs here and on the east coast of America.

In the late 1980s the Bush administration had been under pressure from Thatcher to do something about Noraid fundraising for PIRA.

Israeli officials and journalists have said that the Palestinian equivalent of Noraid is the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development.

His mission this time is to explain the situation giving rise to a cease-fire to supporters of Noraid, or the Northern Aid Committee, in the United States.

It also said that Mr. O'Connor was active with Noraid, a fund-raising group that has been tied to I.R.A. causes.

Mr. Galvin, publicity director of the Irish Northern Aid Committee, or Noraid, was seized after trying to hold a news conference in Londonderry.

After a while, PIRA had also begun to use the drug trade to raise some of its own money, funds collected by Noraid in the USA.

Mr. Millar and Ms. Fennell lived at various locations in Rochester and New York and both were associated with Noraid, investigators said.

After the decline of Clan na Gael, and the outbreak of the Northern Troubles, he was sympathetic to NORAID.