Yes, he’s probably a flight risk, and yes, the “access to considerable funds” is an issue for someone who’s also receiving legal aid. But the charges against Ihab Shoukri of “UDA membership, including one of assisting, arranging, or managing a meeting of the loyalist terror group” are of a “serious nature”? How about this meeting then? Or, indeed, this one? Must be a change in the weather..
It’s not often we get free things to give away to our readers, but courtesy of Palgrave Macmillan we have a nice paperback copy of Brian M Walker’s excellent history of partition of the island and how identities shifted in both the north east and the south and west: as most of the territory that [...] read our review »
It’s the quiet ones you have to watch, they say. When I last saw Eamonn Namcarrow, back in the mid 1980s he was a congenial, good-natured and highly sociable young lad. The next time was 26 years later, in Lavery’s Gin Palace in Bradbury Place. He’d just brought out his first book, Holywood Star about [...] read our review »
Here’s a great review of a fascinating book (H/T reader Rory) on how the Internet is destroying our capacity for intelligent, focused and critical thought. It opens thus: …here is the news that Ulin brings in this slim, meandering book: that reading is “an act of contemplation”; that such an act becomes more difficult in [...] read our review »
Tin foil hats experiment.
Brilliant. I’ll be chuckling all day.
Do i smell an assetts recovery investigation about to start against Ihab and his good lady ?
Maybe he thought he was expected to plead guilty, like his big bro and William Boreland did the other day…
Aside from all the money lost in the bookies just how much are these boys worth. If they did have to pay their own legal costs it would be a start in the right direction.Then they can be stripped of all their houses,cars,business’s etc that they own but have never worked for. Them and their wives and girlfriends.
“Aside from all the money lost in the bookies ”
Have to say I never really believed that one. An easy way to hide cash would be to pick up discarded bookie receipts, say they’re yours and that you lost the money. Meanwhile your mattress is getting fatter…
But that’s just speculation – I’m sure Mr Shoukri is a stand-up bloke and wouldn’t resort to such shenanigans.
You’re obviously a good man who likes to give the benefit of the doubt to those who don’t neccesarily deserve it.I am however just a bitter and twisted spectator, deeply in dept, who , like Ihab, isn’t getting a holiday .
Maybe Ihab and his “considerable funds” could pay for me to go to disney land.
Seems like Loyalists are less forgiving then Republicans.
The music is about to stop for Loyalists and these two brothers are being thrown to the wolves, deserved or not?
http://www.derryjournal.com/journal/Derry-INLA-uncover-39British-agent39.3241241.jp
Seems like Willie Gallagher has some expaining to do with the IRSP/INLA.
However, as they state:
A spokesperson for the IRSP condemned the recruitment of informers and encouraged anyone in a similar position to come forward.
“As a political party, we condemn any efforts by a foreign government to infiltrate our party. We would also encourage anyone else who may find themselves in a similar position of working for British intelligence to come forward and they will get a sympathetic ear from us.â€
O’h and not forgetting a sympathetic finger, some toes, and Nose !!
How much to rent a cottage in Donegal thesedays?
The price has shot up !!
willie g is probably busy chatting with john hogan who has admitted being a brit agent since the 80′s. hogans brother martin was an agent and member of the provos around that time too
http://www.derryjournal.com/journal/Derry-INLA-uncover-39British-agent39.3241241.jp