organisations, and international support groups. It also served as a method for the British public to learn about the Troubles, organising public meetings, conferences, concerts, a UK-wide branch meeting structure, frequent demonstrations and protests in every major city in Britain, annual and other delegations to Northern Ireland, managed visits to Ireland, publications, etc. Notably, TOM organised "Black Flag" protests on days which Irish hunger strikers in Northern Ireland died. Between 1974 and 1976 the group was infiltrated by an undercover police officer of the Special Demonstration Squad who managed to obtain a leadership position. Later years By the 1990s, TOM, while supporting the Good Friday Agreement for its stance on justice, policing, equality, demilitarisation, employment discrimination, cultural rights and the Irish language, highlighted its failure to address sectarian attacks on republican communities from loyalist paramilitaries. The TOM also started to campaign against the Irish government as it enacted stringent measures against the IRA and supported measures to suppress the organisation, including the shoot-to-kill policy, use of torture, false imprisonment, covert military and paramilitary actions, false confessions, and manipulation of the media to misreport events. They protested for the immediate end to the use of rubber and plastic bullets in Northern Ireland. After the relative peace in Northern Ireland following the Good Friday Agreement and subsequent ceasefire, TOM activity declined. By the mid-2000s, very few, if any active branches existed, the monthly TOM paper ceased publication and the ad-hoc on-line briefing had also stopped. One notable member of the TOM was Paddy Prendiville, who later went on to edit the satirical magazine The Phoenix. References Further reading The Bishopsgate Institute in London has a reasonable archive of political and cultural material accumulated by a TOM member over the 1970s to 2000s, including documents from the East London TOM Branch. External links Official site Irish republican organisations 1973 establishments in the United Kingdom Political organisations based in London Organizations established in 1973