McGuigan killing

“The Provos can still “put them to bed” if they try it…”

Mick Fealty on September 9, 2015, 12:12 am

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Three accounts out today worth highlighting. All of them treat with the murder of Kevin McGuigan and explore the ramifications. Each seeks to put it in a wider context. All reach different conclusions in varying degrees. The first is a well researched piece from Ed Moloney, who has been re-reading Mary Alice Clancy’s 2013 Peace Without Consensus (the title hints of those poisonous foundations Peter Preston spoke of back in 2007) to good effect. Moloney’s hobby horse for much of the latter part of the Peace …

Chief Constable: It is not the job of police to monitor the activity of paramilitary groups

Mick Fealty on September 3, 2015, 9:36 pm

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Okay, just a quick note on one of the few significant details to emerge from the Policing Board’s interrogation of senior officers of the PSNI today. In response to the proffered idea that that the PSNI should monitor it fell to the Chief Constable to point out to our senior lawmakers that…. …it was not the job of police to monitor the activity of paramilitary groups. He said he would not support any move to change the law to make …

“the involvement of those Provisional IRA ‘structures’ in the events leading up to, and including, the murder of Kevin McGuigan”

Mick Fealty on September 2, 2015, 3:46 pm

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So, here. With a few notable exceptions, many commentators seem to be struggling with the particulars of the current crisis… For all the inattention of the London Press, the problem hasn’t eluded the Times of London, whose leader today is pretty unambiguous. In the Guardian Mary Dejevsky’s analysis appears to miss some of the more granular political detailing, describing “politics in Northern Ireland as singularly resistant to the ambiguity that oils the wheels of diplomacy”. Her colleague the media critic Roy Greenslade points the finger …