The Logue/Marley cumann covers the area of Crumlin and Kimmage. It was founded in 1988 and proudly takes its name from two brave volunteers, Gerard Logue from Derry City and Larry Marley from Belfast. Both volunteers lost their lives in March and April of 1987, one from an accidental discharge of a rifle while on active service and the other by the hands of a unionist death-squad.

The Logue/Marley Sinn Féin cumann has remained one of the most active cumainn within Dublin since its foundation almost 16 years ago. Its members played a key role in the election of Aengus Ó Snodaigh as its Sinn Féin TD for the Dublin South Central constituency in the general election of 2002 and the election of Robert Sargent as councillor for the Crumlin/Kimmage local election area within the South Central constituency in the Local Elections of 2004.

The Sinn Féin organisation within the Crumlin/Kimmage local election area, which includes the Logue/Marley and Charlie McGlade cumainn (the Charlie McGlade Sinn Féin cumann, Drimnagh, was set up after the success of the general election 2002) have been, and continue to be, active within our own communities on issues such as:

• Anti-Social behaviour
• Housing
• Drugs
• Bin-Charges
• Health

The Logue/Marley cumann have organised for the past decade our annual Éamonn Ceannt Commemoration which takes place every Easter Saturday in the Éamonn Ceannt Memorial Park (Sundrive Park, Crumlin) and the 1981 Hunger-Strike Perpetual Trophy 5-a-side soccer tournament, which takes place every year for the past several years, on Good Friday. (Also in Sundrive Park, Crumlin) - EVERYONE WELCOME

Both cumainn within the Crumlin/Kimmage local election area also have weekly clinics, details of which can be found on this website.

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Gerard Logue (27) an I.R.A. volunteer, was killed after an accidental discharge of a rifle on 21st March 1987. He was on active service at the time. His untimely and unfortunate death was deeply regretted and mourned by all who knew and loved him, especially his wife Eilish and their three sons Gavin, Tomas and Séan, his mother and father, seven brothers and four sisters, and his comrades in the Republican Movement. Gerard, known to many as 'Bogie' was born and grew up in the top of the hill area of Derry city. Throughout his early life, he experienced the type of treatment that is all to familiar to the working class people of Ireland. He applied to join Fianna Eireann in 1978 at the age of 17 but found that it was more or less defunct in his area. So 'Bogie' being someone who got things done, took on the task of rebuilding and reorganising a slua. His initiative and resourcefulness in that instance were characteristics which made his contribution to the Movement all the more vital.

By early 1979, Gerard had moved into the I.R.A. but he maintained strong links with the Fianna, advising and assisting them where possible and, as he said himself, learning from them all the time. His keen interest in the development of Derry youth led to his involvement in various other activities outside the Movement. He joined Conradh na Gaeilge, learned to speak the language fluently, and later helped to set up a naiscoil in the area. He also played and organised Football and Hurling. In early 1982 he was one of the founder members of a flute band in memory of I.R.A. volunteer Francis Hughes. Gerard and Eilish were married in 1982. He was a loving and devoted husband and father who believed that a better future in a new Ireland was necessary and possible for his and other children to inherit. Because of this, and despite the hardships and dangers faced by an I.R.A. volunteer, Gerard Logue remained actively committed to the struggle for liberation until his tragic death robbed the people of Derry and all of Ireland of another freedom fighter.

Volunteer Larry Marley, from Ardoyne in North Belfast, was 41 years old when he was assassinated by a Loyalist death squad on April 2nd 1987. Larry and his wife, Kate, had been married for 21 years. By 1972 they had three children, Lawrence junior, Emmanuel and Joseph. Larry was an active volunteer from the beginning of this phase of the struggle. He was first imprisoned in the cages of Long Kesh in 1972 and in March 1975 was one of the ten republicans who escaped from Newry courthouse. They were appearing on charges related to another attempted escape. He was recaptured in Belfast in 1977 and charged with possession of weapons during his time on the run and sentenced to another ten years in jail.

The exploits of volunteer Larry Marley are many, and each one who met him will have his or her own story to tell, but they will all centre on the same qualities. His outright determination, his complete unselfishness, his ability to use the resources of his intelligence when the going got tough, and his readiness to help his fellow volunteers all of which describe Larry. These qualities were all recognised from the start of the campaign when he was included in a Belfast Brigade active service unit with which he remained until his capture in late 1972.

Shortly after Larry was jailed, Kate gave birth to two more children, twins Séan and Seamus. Larry Marley was released in 1985. Larry and Kate had just had another baby two weeks before he was assassinated, a boy named Setanta after the legendary hero Cu Chulainn. When the history of this campaign is written it may need two books: one for the active war and one for the prison war. Larry's name will figure largely in both of them.

NOTE: Both accounts of Gerard Logue and Larry Marley were taken from copies of An Phobhlacht / Republican News. Issues dated Thursday 26th March 1987 (Gerard Logue) and Thursday 9th April 1987 (Larry Marley).