Maíria Cahill

UPDATED: Spotlight investigation to explore republican treatment of ‘abuse’ victim

The Firemen on October 14, 2014, 12:16 am

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BBC NI’s Spotlight programme tonight investigates the republican movement’s handling of sexual abuse allegations against a suspected IRA member. Maíria Cahill has waived her right to anonymity to tell how the republican movement responded to her allegations by first investigating them, then burying them and imposing a code of silence to protect the movement. She is from one of the republican movement’s most famous families. Her great uncle was Joe Cahill, one of the founders of the Provisional IRA and …

UPDATED: Victim claims IRA and Sinn Fein members assigned to deal with her rape allegations internally

Mick Fealty on October 12, 2014, 8:11 pm

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And on Tuesday night Spotlight according to today’s Sunday Independent is on a controversial case of a young woman who makes specific allegations against a named member of the IRA. According to the report a case was prepared against the man concerned but he was acquitted when seemingly at the last minute no evidence was offered at his trial. We’ll have to watch the programme for the actual detail, but the matter is already a subject of some political controversy: Last year, after the jailing of Gerry Adams’ brother …

Micheal Martin claims Sinn Fein’s cover up of sexual abuse goes beyond the Adams case

Mick Fealty on November 28, 2013, 3:06 pm

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And on the day Liam Adams was sentenced to 16 years for the child rape of his daughter, and Gerry Adams odd insouciance on the matter of what he actually did in response to finding out over 20 years ago, this from Sinn Fein… Ms McDonald is furious (apparently) with Micheal Martin for claiming that: From information we have picked up, and we have talked to other people, this may have been a broader trend in the republican movement. Just …

“All tender and effeminate notions must be stilled by a cold and single-blooded passion.”

Mick Fealty on January 27, 2010, 4:12 pm

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In the Belfast Telegraph, Eilis O’Hanlon has written an impressively controlled piece on how Sinn Fein and its wider Republican movement (the organisation formerly known as the IRA) have managed to subordinate the natural bonds of human feeling to the furtherance of ‘the cause’. A dissenting scion of the Cahill family, she begins with her experience of going to her mother’s funeral last Autumn in the literal and metaphorical heart of Republican west Belfast: Most of those individuals who attended my …

Ms Cahill: “The IRA came to me and forced an investigation…”

Mick Fealty on January 25, 2010, 10:01 pm

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Below the fold you can read the statement by Ms Cahill that was sent to the BBC last Wednesday in response to their carrying a denial of her story in the Sunday Tribune. I’ve been reluctant to post the whole thing entirely because of potential legal complications (unlike the BBC we are not indemnified against such action). But we believe this previously unpublished account of what passed between herself and the two IRA volunteers who dealt with her be made …