They had their first ard fheis in Newry on Saturday.
Dissident republicans have formed a new political party called Saoradh, the Irish word for liberation.
Several high profile dissidents were among the 150 people that gathered at its first ard fheis in Newry on Saturday.
It is the first time that disparate forces of dissident republicanism have united to form a political party, which will stand in elections on a platform of opposing the power-sharing settlement in Northern Ireland.
During the keynote speech that was delivered by Davy Jordan, the newly elected chairperson of the Revolutionary Irish Republican Political Party, he made a thinly veiled reference to Sinn Féin as “false prophets… defeated and consumed by the very system they claim to oppose”.
Jordan also noted that “our history is littered with the failures of successive ventures into constitutional nationalism, as they were subsumed into the very systems they set out to overthrow,” he said.
Here’s his speech in full.
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