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Sinn Fein reps will attend events during the visit of Prince Charles

David McCann on May 17, 2015, 9:07 pm

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A noteworthy announcement from the Sinn Fein President, Gerry Adams tonight which confirms that party representatives will attend a number of events during Prince Charles visit to Ireland. Speaking about how the party made its decision and the symbolism of it Adams said; The Sinn Féin Ard Chomhairle meeting in Kilkenny yesterday discussed the upcoming visit of the Prince Charles to Ireland. At the time of the announcement of the visit I said that it should be an opportunity to …

Gerry Adams’ ‘delinquent’ story on the Cahill case?

The Firemen on October 15, 2014, 10:17 pm

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UPDATED Alleged ‘abuse’ victim Maíria Cahill took to Twitter to reject a statement issued by Gerry Adams via the Sinn Féin website. Adams was reacting to allegations made on BBC Northern Ireland’s Spotlight: In his statement Adams said: In the Spotlight programme, broadcast last night, Mairia Cahill made an accusation relating to a meeting with myself. I totally refute the allegations Mairia made about our conversation. I met Mairia in good faith, at the behest of her cousin and my …

From Arkiv to Haaas. A way out of the deadlock for dealing with the past

Brian Walker on October 30, 2013, 10:36 am

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It’s heart warming to find some of the ideas I’ve been grappling with being taken forward with real authority and integrity. As reported in the Newsletter a firm and positive set of proposals for dealing with the past has been submitted to the Haass talks by a group of historians calling themselves Arkiv. The idea that dealing with the past is a task that can be agreed and dispatched within a given period is not simply an insult to the …

Protestant and Dissenter: the nonsense of Sinn Fein’s outreach

Turgon on September 14, 2011, 11:13 pm

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Part of Sinn Fein’s pitch at the Ard Fheis was the idea of moving forwards “Towards a New Republic.” Alex Kane has pointed out what he calls the “Jekyl and Hyde” quality of Sinn Fein’s unionist outreach: Adams talked, as did Martin McGuinness the night before, of the need to have a “national conversation on the future of the island” and to win unionists over. But then he adds a paragraph about the “British having no right to be here” …

Outreach as a marker of confidence

Turgon on August 14, 2011, 2:00 pm

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Reaching out or attracting others to one’s cause might be considered a friendly and indeed open concept. In Northern Ireland, however, it is often the polar opposite of this. Outreach can be viewed with the gravest suspicion and hostility: indeed it is sometimes regarded as an aggressive act, frequently deliberately aggressive. It is also frequently a marker of confidence even triumphalism on the part of the group purporting to reach out: at least that seems to be the way it …

Republican Facebook site publishes police officers’ pictures

Turgon on August 4, 2011, 11:47 am

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The BBC are reporting that a Facebook page has been set up by dissident republicans which is encouraging members to post images and details of police operations from across Northern Ireland. Terry Spence form the Police Federation said: “This is a very serious matter and I have been in touch with the chief constable’s office this morning.” “I have explained our great concern and asked him to immediately close down the Facebook page and to take immediate action against those …

An honest broker?

Blank on April 12, 2011, 7:38 pm

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Gerry Adams TD has been calling for talks with those that killed PSNI Constable Ronan Kerr. He, like his entire party, have been absolute and unambiguous in their comdemnation of those involved but Adams at least has now expanded his party’s attack to other groups that clearly have no connection to the death. One of these groups, éirígí, has responded and as a result revealed while SF claim a willingness to have discussions on republicanism with those currently and actively engaged in armed actions they …

One rule for ‘ussuns’, another rule for ‘themmuns’?

Blank on October 27, 2010, 7:28 pm

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As Martin McCauley and Stephen Barnes have noted on twitter – after 2 nights of rioting in Rathcoole the PSNI have yet to deploy a single Baton Round or roll out their water cannons. The petrol bombs, vehicle burnings and gunmen mingling within the rioters have been described as ‘different beasts’. Lucky old Rathcoole rioters. But will people in Ardoyne understand the softly, softly PSNI attitude to things just up the road when they got the iron fist? Blank