Slugger O'Toole

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galloglaigh has commented 863 times (26 in the last month).

1. Comment on If politicians in the south are feeling strong enough to ‘come out’, why not the north?
   on 9 May 2012 at 12:01 pm

   [text removed - card to follow]. In fact, when one went for a gay massage, he had an injunction to block it from his evangelical friends in Mid-Ulster. The fear is rife!

   Might get a card for that?

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2. Comment on “RAAD was founded in 2008 by members and recent ex-members of the Provisional IRA in Derry…”
   on 6 May 2012 at 12:36 pm

   The Real IRA in Derry has members who were also members and recent ex-members of the Provisional IRA. But they are not the Provisional IRA, they are the Real IRA. The same Real IRA in Derry, whom Gary Donnelly is the lead figure. The same Gary Donnelly whom Eamon McCann was arrested with at the Raytheon premises on the Buncrana Road. This story, like the story put out by Gregory Campbell, is only speculation, and if anyone has any evidence, they should take it to the PSNI. Otherwise, they should…

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3. Comment on “Truth and trust are intertwined. You can’t have one without the other.”
   on 30 April 2012 at 5:59 pm

   http://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/21845

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4. Comment on “since last February, we have facilitated the forced departure of 57 young people…”
   on 30 April 2012 at 5:54 pm

   And indeed these young fella’s lives were turned upside down, like the mother of one said, when he found out he could buy (then sell on) legal highs online. RAAD in Derry are nothing but a front for extortion. The entire city is against them. They represent the dregs of society, and are well known. One thing they do though, is highlight the problems that exist in Derry. These type of Drugs are destroying the lives of young and old; Catholic, Protestant, and otherwise.

   If the dogs on the street know who these hoods are, why doesn’t the PSNI. I’m sure they have enough resources to covertly curtail this gang? Why aren’t they using MI5? Isn’t that why they are here?

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5. Comment on Last week at Smithwick: nothing to see here
   on 30 April 2012 at 12:26 pm

   He also claims in his book Stakeknife, that the “RUC [was involved] in the murder of the Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane… The FRU [played] God with [lives]… The British State organised and participated in state-sponsored murder… [And] Brian Nelson… infiltrated the UDA, but, rather that save lives, instead he contributed to dozens of sectarian attacks… Nelson [and the UDA] was being used as an extension of the British army’s secret war on the Provisional IRA”. So do you also believe these allegations, or just the allegations that suit your biased and uncorroborated opinion?

   So Turgon, should there also be an independent inquiry into Pat’s murder given the claims made by Ingram?

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6. Comment on “A mix in society between Catholic and Protestant was lost at that time…”
   on 24 April 2012 at 10:02 pm

   Mick

   I’m a straight kinda a guy, but sometimes a curve ball catches out the bat’s man.

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7. Comment on “A mix in society between Catholic and Protestant was lost at that time…”
   on 24 April 2012 at 9:09 pm

   Lamhdearg2

   I’m actually surprised you caught on to that. I was hoping to catch someone out with it. What all this tells us, is that it wasn’t just Protestants who were the victims of pogroms etc. And we shouldn’t rely on things like census reports to build our arguments.

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8. Comment on “A mix in society between Catholic and Protestant was lost at that time…”
   on 24 April 2012 at 4:30 pm

   Whether or not the census was flawed, you can’t prove otherwise. Susan McKay is a journalist and Protestant from Derry. In her publication Northern Protestants An Unsettled People (2000), she describes how Ian Young’s motor parts business on the Cityside had been bombed. Young is cited in McKay’s book as saying “Don’t forget there was a movement of Catholics from the Waterside to the estates on the Cityside as well” (page 342). Mr Young claims the shift was a natural move.

   And as for the last bit, that makes two of us who need to go to Specsavers. Maybe we can go together and get two for one? Or three for two?

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9. Comment on “A mix in society between Catholic and Protestant was lost at that time…”
   on 24 April 2012 at 3:22 pm

   dwatch

   While at the same time, COI ministers and their parishes are switching sides too!

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10. Comment on “A mix in society between Catholic and Protestant was lost at that time…”
    on 24 April 2012 at 3:19 pm

    OK then, start by showing me that Catholics were not being killed in Derry in 1920, like I say they were.

    Then show me how the Catholic population of the Waterside grew between 1971 and 1981 (even though the census says you’re wrong!).

    The whole point of my argument, is that Protestants were not the only people persecuted for their religion. Mopery does not account for reality, and this thread, as well as another, has shown this.

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