NORAID
Noraid ( "Irish Northern Aid Committee") is a US-based organization in 1970 by the IRA veterans Michel Flannery, Jack McCarthy and John MacGowan in New York was founded
Against the background of the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland , the organization brought together members from numerous associations of Irish Americans with the aim of supporting the Catholic- nationalist Irish in Northern Ireland . To this end, extensive fundraising was organized on the one hand, and on the other hand the aim was to influence the American public and politics in the interests of the republican movement . While Noraid himself always stated that he raised money exclusively for humanitarian purposes, in particular to support the Republican prisoners, there is little doubt that the organization also financed, at least indirectly, the purchase of weapons for the IRA .
In the first few years the organization sent $ 600,000 a year to Northern Ireland, during the hunger strike of 1981 this amount rose to as much as 800,000, and then leveled off at around $ 300,000 a year.
Noraid supported the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and has since devoted herself mainly to the political support of the Sinn Féin in America.