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Debating the Churches’ Role in the Peace in Northern Ireland
Tweet This morning’s Sunday Sequence featured a substantial debate (about 35 minutes into the recorded programme) on a new book,Religion, Civil Society and Peace in Northern Ireland (Oxford University Press 2011), written by sociologists John Brewer, Gareth Higgins and Francis Teeney. The debate was framed in an opening vignette by presenter William Crawley in uncompromising [...] read our review » -
Belfast 400: People, Place and History (Sean Connolly, editor)
Tweet Ten days ago I finished reading Belfast 400: People, Place and History, a book published to mark the four hundredth anniversary of the city’s charter. In the light of last week’s reawakened community tensions and violence, it is interesting to look back at the roots of the city and its journey into the twenty [...] read our review »
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Round up of Tuesday’s Political Studies Association conference
Tweet If you want to get a flavour of the proceedings at the Political Studies Association conference on its opening day, then the Storify collation below will bring you some of the images, tweets and sounds of the day. Particular highlights included: the Opening Plenary with David Blunkett, Peter Riddell and Matthew Flinders; and the [...] read our review »
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Comment on Margaret Thatcher dies….
on 8 April 2013 at 7:23 pm
Word in the street around West Belfast has it that there was a very heated meeting today in Connolly House with Martin McGuinness claiming that as deputy First Minister he was politically obligated to attend the funeral of Thatcher with Peter Robinson.
Adams in no uncertain terms warned him that to do so would sound the death knell of the party.
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Comment on #Finucane: this report is a sham, this report is a whitewash
on 12 December 2012 at 10:03 pm
The above should be ‘assassination attempts twice in May 1987
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Comment on #Finucane: this report is a sham, this report is a whitewash
on 12 December 2012 at 10:02 pm
UDA attacks frustrated by the security forces
Page 168 onwards gives details of how the security forces with the assistance of Nelson stopped assassination attempts twice in May 1978 on Gerry Adams.
7.253 In his journal, Nelson suggested that in his subsequent discussions with the FRU:
“It was told to me, by my Handlers, that the assassination of Adams, had it gone ahead, would have been totally counterproductive particularly considering the delicate balance of power within Sinn Fein.”
7.254 It is clear that the security forces did take steps to frustrate the planned UDA attack on Adams, albeit it must be said that the circumstances in which the UDA aborted the plan are somewhat unclear. The Adams case was potentially an early example of Nelson’s value and it was, in fact, cited by A/05 during his evidence in mitigation at Nelson’s trial in 1992.
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Comment on Sinn Fein and the permanent process
on 4 November 2012 at 2:29 am
It seems the SF dirt machine is in full flow against those doing what SF tell people to do and that is cooperate with the PSNI. In all likelihood Gerrys big blood hound is behind this latest smear campaign. Is this the type of justice victims should expect from the Stormont government?
Do victims expect a similiar smear campaign if they report the criminality of members of British institutions or their party members?
What is the so called justice minister doing to protect those who report crimes if the criminals are political?
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Comment on Sinn Fein and the permanent process
on 2 November 2012 at 12:16 am
It seems this Wilson boy was involved in some very dirty dealings including training those involved in the international drugs trade. Not surprising then that was involved in a ghastly murder among other things.
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Comment on Sinn Fein and the permanent process
on 1 November 2012 at 11:16 pm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/colombia/1394300/Adams-allys-trade-in-terror.html
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Comment on Sinn Fein and the permanent process
on 1 November 2012 at 11:15 pm
http://www.belfastdaily.co.uk/2012/11/01/exclusive-top-provo-enforcer-arrested-over-robert-mccartney-murder/
Padraig Wilson who was previously involved in the IRA training the Farc for drug money has yet again been charged. the thing is his licence wasn’t revoked then, nor for the recent case of membership. Now this.
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Comment on Court lifts reporting restrictions on identities of Provisional IRA accused
on 13 October 2012 at 12:52 am
Two high ranking members of Sinn Fein are charged with membership of the IRA going back to 1999 and 2000 and no shouts of outrage from that party, no reference to how they did this or that for the peace process.
Not a word?
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Comment on Sinn Fein: Reconciliation, Logic and Future Direction
on 15 September 2012 at 1:10 am
It appears that a document has been posted online indicating that Derry nearly had a supergrass before Ray Gilmore and that that same person went on to leadership status in the city.
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Comment on Sinn Fein’s super discipline “means they shrink at the head, they rot at the head intellectually…”
on 24 August 2012 at 3:57 pm
I see that the spokesperson for MOVE ON was ranting in todays paper about RAAD and company. It seems that this group is unhappy that the people of Creggan aren’t easily fooled and have no wish to support a group made up of Mothers with no interest other than protecting their own drug dealing and thuggish offspring.
The decent people of the area know about the fight between the two brothers over drugs during which one used a machete and the other a baseball bat on each other. when the fight spread to the rest of the house the mother, a member of MOVE ON was stabbed and a young girl lost the tips of her fingers.
Not a bit wonder they can’t gather together more than a handful at their protests when the ordinary decent people are as fearful of their offspring as they are of RAAD or as she calls them, Really Angry Armed Derrymen. Going by the events such as described it’s their own sons who are really angry armed Derrymen and high on drugs.
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