Arthur Morgan Watch

“So I suppose, yes, that gives some level of seniority.”

Pete Baker on January 15, 2010, 6:44 pm | Readers 20

In an online, but unembeddable, BBC clip Sinn Féin TD for Louth, Arthur Morgan, has repeated his assertion that “It transpires that Liam Adams did, in fact, chair the Comhairle Centair for two meetings, after which he resigned.” He also told the Irish News that “What I completely overlooked was that he had been chair of the [district executive] for two months.” When asked by BBC NI Dublin corrrespondent Shane Harrison, “But he was obviously a prominent member of Sinn …

Any other ‘slips of the mind’ to declare?

Pete Baker on January 15, 2010, 12:54 am | Readers 13

On Tuesday the Irish News reported that “Prosecutors have asked police to pass on demands that Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams and his niece stop talking to the media about the alleged abuse carried out by his brother.” The, not unreasonable, request was made by Liam Adams’ legal team. In his latest post on This Blog Gerry Adams goes over his version of events again. Including another declaration of ignorance about Liam Adams’ involvement in Louth Sinn Féin. “While I …

“what I told him was that sometimes they are better not doing publicity”

Pete Baker on January 14, 2010, 5:39 am | Readers 0

As Brian has pointed out, “..silence has its risks”. Although, given his crass utterances yesterday, I’m sure the Northern Ireland Secretary of State, Shaun Woodward, MP, was grateful to receive Northern Ireland Executive Junior Minister Gerry Kelly’s advice on commenting publicly on events. Sinn Fein junior minister Gerry Kelly urged against any comments that might unsettle the negotiations and claimed he had warned Mr Woodward against commenting publicly. “I had a meeting with Shaun Woodward on Tuesday and what I …

Arthur Morgan Watch: Day 21…

Mick Fealty on January 13, 2010, 5:33 pm | Readers 5

Well, confession time (one of several I’ll be making in the next day or two after the last weeks of madness)… I got the day wrong. I said yesterday was day 21. In fact today is day twenty one (sorry Arthur!). Just to keep us right, we’ll be instigating a clock that keeps us straight in future. Now, today, we have nothing to report directly on Deputy Morgan’s lack of a response to his false statement that Gerry Adams’ ‘estranged’ …

Arthur Morgan Watch: Day 20…

Mick Fealty on January 12, 2010, 4:41 pm | Readers 3

Okay, as I said in yesterday’s thread, I am not sure how we are going to fill this with content every day. We can only hope that Deputy Morgan steps forward sooner rather than later. It’s not as though the press has not been trying to contact him in relation to his apparently false statement with regards to Gerry Adams’ brother Liam to the Dundalk Argus on Christmas Eve: Although he was a party member, he was never an officer, …

Arthur Morgan Watch: Day 19…

Mick Fealty on January 11, 2010, 5:35 pm | Readers 2

This is Arthur Morgan, TD for the Louth constituency. For his party, Sinn Fein, he holds a watching brief on at least three cabinet level ministerial portfolios being their spokesman on Finance, Enterprise and Trade, and Social and Community Affairs. He’s also a former IRA prisoner having served seven and a half years at Long Kesh prison, where he participated in the blanket protest, before his release in 1984. On the 23rd December last (ie, 20 days ago) Arthur told …