Policeman in hospital after car bomb attack
The BBC are reporting that a policeman has been taken to hospital after a bomb exploded under his car in Randalstown this morning.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland said the officer has been seriously injured. There is an ongoing security alert at the scene of the explosion on Milltown Road in Randalstown. No one has claimed responsibility for planting the bomb, which exploded at 0630 GMT.
A total disgrace. This society needs to be rid of attacks such as these.
That was really clever I feel inches closer to having a Dail government now, I really do.
The perpetrator needs both prison and reschooling and few cigarette burns in sensitive areas to see if he/she understands the feeling of pain from pain infliction by others.
I really do wish, quite simply, that these people would fuck off.
Anyone claiming the attack yet?
Can someone please tell the dissidents to keep the noise down – can’t they see the rest of us are trying to have a dirtysexymoney political scandal like they have in normal countries?
Hopefully the victim is alright.
Let’s hope the injured officer makes a strong recovery.
“[Goggins] said the work the PSNI was doing to make towns and cities safer” … BBC link above
That would be closing police stations and reducing police manpower and resources – as a result of political direction or otherwise.
stunning steve ,
‘The perpetrator needs both prison and reschooling and few cigarette burns in sensitive areas to see if he/she understands the feeling of pain from pain infliction by others.’
No they don’t . The perpetraitors need summary trial , conviction of guilt, and then a firing squad !!
http://andrumamornuacht.blogspot.com/2010/01/peas-gaelach-gortaithe-go-dona.html
An Druma Mór is reporting that the victim is the captain of the PSNI Gaelic team and is an Irish speaker.
Not that that changes anything.
Good post Gael. I bet the GAA would wish these guys would just fuck off. An earlier Slugger thread was on the dissidents’ new year statements. They live in their own dream world.
And if any GAA man/Gaelgoir knows anything, will lthey be nutted? PIRA have, of coruse, killed GAA members and knee capped Donegal Irish speakers.
Though Irish nationalism is the correct ideology to have in Ireland, Irish patriots certainly devalue the “coin of the realm”, trying, as they do to be parasites on it.
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Martin McGuinness weighs in, saying the injured copper was an Irish speaker etc. One cannot help wonder, however, is this a Provo dirty tricks op to take the spotlight away from Gerry and his pedo family.
To paraphrase the Long Fellow upon the assassination of Field Marshal Henry Wilson:
“I do not approve, but I must not pretend to misunderstand” – Eamon de Valera
I don’t approve or understand.
I hope the victim pulls through.
I really admire Catholic police officers in the PSNI. To my uneducated eye it seems like really good way to make justice and policing more even handed but what do I know.
I hope, like others, that this policeman does fully recover.
I hope too that this story doesn’t get buried in the Robinson feeding frenzy.
Would these scum go away once and for all.
KeiranJ
If you understand, tell the rest of us why these morons don’t have the intellectual capacity to realise the irish people don’t want them or their ideas.
The sort of Ireland that these scumbags are trying to create,is not one that I would want to be a part of,I hope that the officer makes a complete recovery.
I wish this man and his wife every good wish,and would want to express my gratitude to those courageous men and women and their families for the brave decision to join the PSNI and to try and build a better society.
BBC Newsline reporting that injured peeler is Peadar Hefferan a 10 year veteran and relative of a senior shinner.
The timing of this is very suspect imo and one can only hope that this doesn’t deflect attention from Liamgate and Irisgate which expose the rotten nature of partionist politics.
Am I reading between the lines of some posts that this was an Irish Nationalist policeman who was injured? If not, what matter if he was heathen or Jew? Sure the RIC were 99% catholic. What relevance has this to anything?
It has relevance because a consistent theme of republican propaganda has been the fact that the police was overwhelmingly protestant, whilst going out of their way to target Catholic officers.
The thinking behind these kind of attacks are that while part of Ireland remains occupied by the British government and her Armed Forces….they will continue.
They are also designed to intimidate serving RUC/PSNI Officers into leaving the force; while also deterring those thinking about joining.
Let’s be honest here, the RUC/PSNI are and have been working closely with MI5 and the SAS…
Therefore, attacks like this will continue…
No, he isn’t an Irish Nationalist he is a member of the PSNI.
‘The thinking behind these kind of attacks are that while part of Ireland remains occupied by the British government and her Armed Forces….they will continue. Let’s be honest here, the RUC/PSNI are and have been working closely with MI5 and the SAS…’
the current accommodation is the will of almost everyone on this island. if dissidents hate so much what 99.9% of the population are in favour of, they should turn their weapons on themselves
Ardoyne Republican,no body it appears works closer with MI5 than the leadership of the republican movement,This attack is against every Irishman and Irishwoman who exercised their sovereignty in the referenda north and South in 1998 .They cannot claim to have any legitamacy whatsoever,this was wrong,no excuses wrong.
Union Mack,
Sadly Irish history is full of similar attacks and regardless of the ‘will of the people’ etc…
While Britain, imperialism and capitalism remains in Ireland attacks like the one this morning will undoubtably continue…
Condemning is not enough, militant republicanism has been around for over two centuries as have attacks by Britain?
Mr. Crowley
the coming elections will prove the levels of this support. i don’t believe it is sizeable, particularly on the republican side, although time will tell. as for this attack being a conspiracy by those ‘most interested in shoring up’ the status quo, i guess that’s the kind of irrefutable analysis that we have been missing for a long time.
p.s. bit of a cheek to criticise my punctuation error when you can’t seem to spell…
Mr. Crowley
the coming elections will prove the levels of this support. i don’t believe it is sizeable, particularly on the republican side, although time will tell. as for this attack being a conspiracy by those ‘most interested in shoring up’ the status quo, i guess that’s the kind of irrefutable analysis that we have been missing for a long time.
p.s. bit of a cheek to criticise my punctuation error when you can’t seem to spell…
Danny, I didn’t say I agreed with the attack this morning, nor did I say it was right…
I was simply pointing out the facts as those behind it believe…..
Regards being against every Irishman and Woman…I disagree chara, support for these attacks will grow the longer partition and imperialism remain here!
Ardoyne Republican,
Murder or attempted murder is simply that; no dressing it up as a “blow for Irish freedom” will excuse those who try to deny the will of the people, as freely expressed in the referenda, by force of terror.
BBC: Constable Peadar Heffron, 33, is an Irish language specialist for the PSNI and captain of the PSNI GAA team.
And the people who tried to murder him call themselves Irishmen. They are nothing but the scum of the earth!
No the same question was asked and a majority in both Jurisdictions ,is a Majority of the Irish people.The people in the south were an even bigger majority ,The Irish people have spoken on One issue and have given their support,It is therefore the will of the people,I would like to see this country united,but you have to get your head around the fact that the border exists ,not only in jnternational law- but in the hearts and minds of a very large number of people,the people will have to be united,long before the territory,You will not persuade people with bombs and guns.
We are where we are,we are not where we were,how do we chart a course to where we want to go ,based on the reality of where we are now.
I do not think bombs or guns will play any part in uniting the people.
I don’t support armed actions such as what happened today but I also cannot agree with the nonsense that you are spouting here. The GFA was ushered in on the back of what has been proven to have been ‘terror’ largely orchestrated and managed by the same British state which set all the preconditions for negotiations. The GFA was negotiatied by corrupt and compromised politicians who had previously and have since shown contempt for the people whose interests they claimed to represent. Non Unionist GFA supporters are actually more deluded than armed militants.
Mr Crowley
Are you suggesting results would have been any different if this had been an all-island referendum? I hope not as that would be quite foolish. How well did independant republicans poll in the last elections? It wasn’t very well, was it?
Ardoyne Republican
I understand the misgivings directed at capitalism but do you not accept free enterprise plays a very important role in encouraging growth and increasing a country’s wealth? I personally am not a fan of unbridled capitalism due to those at the bottom who are exploited. For many parts of the economy however it does achieve the most efficient allocation of resources. I am all for checks and balances to the system to protect those at the bottom. Do you really think we will ever see an end to capitalism in Ireland?
Mr.Crowley,
No nonsense. The GFA was negotiated by elected politicians and the current bunch, useless though they all are IMO, have been elected too. There you have it.
We are moving away from the issue here. That a young fellow with an interest in indigenous language and sport has, somehow, been misled into believing that joining the british police is a good thing. Misled by the likes of the half a loafers in the SDLP and the drinkers in the Last Chance Saloon, he has been seriously wounded. Will the shadowy old men in armchairs be proud of their latest ‘volunteer’?
Joe Canuck,
Your words about murder or attempted murder are very much like, Maggie Thatcher’s!
Regards the force of terror…Ireland’s right to self-determination has been denied her for over 800 years and while that continues……. attacks against members of the Crown Forces will also continue.
It isn’t about dressing anything-up, it is fact!
socaire-sosick,This man is the victim of a bunch of scumbags who will never accept the will of the people,they have no mandate,no moral justification,only that they are right and everybody else is wrong,deluded fascists with weapons – but no clue on how to build a united Ireland.At least half a loaf is preferrable to jam tomorrow.
Peter, your question is misleading; people were essentially given a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ option on a British treaty which ran contrary to accepted international law and which was ‘negotiated’ on precodition of the acceptance of British rule in Ireland. ‘Yes’ to the GFA and British rule or ‘no’ to the GFA and more violence; quite remeniscent of ‘immediate and terrible war’.
What would be just and proper would be an all Ireland referendum on Irish unity yet Britain has never allowed such a referendum to take place. This is because Britain has ‘selfish, strategic interests in Ireland’ and as such the GFA is founded on a fraud. It is little wonder that it has been championed by the likes of Tony Blair, Bertie Ahern and Gerry Adams.
Corrupt and unscrupulous politicians manage to get elected and the people bare the brunt of their iniquity. Charlie Haughey, Bertie Ahern, Richard Nixon, George W Bush, Tony Blair, Gerry Adams, Iris Robinson and even Adolf Hitler all managed to get elected. There is no such thing as infallibility by mandate.
Wait ’til I tell you, Danny Boy. When the Provisional Alliance were grooming young men and sending them out to lose their lives fighting against the British and their running dogs, your sorry excuse for a party condemned them from the heights. How dare these godfathers mislead our youth and send them out to die. Now you and the likes of you are encouraging ‘our youth’ to join a british paramilitary police force and if they are targetted and killed/wounded you and the likes of you are to blame as YOU use them to advance YOUR policies. Gutless, half a loafers go fóill.
Socaire, the injured peeler is a relative of a senior shinner. The shinners are also encouraging people to join the colonial constabulary and to provide information to their intelligence controllers in MI5. It’s a little rich of you to be slagging a stoop when your party has adopted all of their policies and outstooped them in many cases.
Mr Crowley, you presume too much!
Fact What the provos did was wrong.
Fact what dissidents are doing now is wrong.
Fact republicans did nothing to help people being targetted by loyalists in this area.
Fact they are not my policies,the fact that I am a public representative means that they are the people’s policies.
It is quite clear that you have little understanding of democracy when you cannot seem to get your head around that.
The clue is in the words PUBLIC REPRESENTATIVE.
Just heard all the Heffron family have been summonsed to the hospital.
Hope this isn’t a bad sign.
21 If attacks like these continue then so will the divide. I suspect that some so called Republicans are more interested in their own little empires than they are in uniting the country.
24, Mr Crowley is your christian name Alastair by any chance? A well educated man like you will no doubt immediately recognise the name For your delectation and delight I havent bothered with anything but the minimal punctuation Not necessarily in the right order.
No Mr Crowley Iam a Catholic,I am also a democrat.
I dont give a fiddlers elbow for what you think.Murder is wrong.
Fact: Wrong or not -they’re in and you’re out
Fact: In your humble opinion, the ‘dissidents’ are wrong.
Fact: You would have been the first bombaster on air if the Provos had attacked loyalists in your area.
Fact: They are your party’s policies and you only represent stoop voters.
I know enough about democracy to know that this state is not democratic even though you do your best to pretend.
The clue is in the words HAS BEEN.