The Daily Rant (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tut tut; West Belfast MP and Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams appears to be at it again. First there were the claims that he and his fellow Republican inmates sang Monty Python favourite Always Look on the Bright Side of Life to keep up spirits during his time at the Maze prison in the mid 1970s, several years before the track was released. More recently there was the shaky grasp of modern Northern...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The BBC are reporting that the Army’s Special Reconnaissance Regiment were involved in the apprehension of the terrorists who attempted to murder a young police officer in Garrison. Apparently the SRR which has been particularly active in Fermanagh provided the initial information that the police officer was being targeted and were then involved in watching the terrorists for a number of days....
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
REPUBLICAN’S ASSETS FROZEN By Diana Rusk Irish News 11/11/09 RAID: The farm of senior republican Thomas ‘Slab’ Murphy on the Louth-Armagh border as customs and police from both sides of the border carry out a raid in March 2006 as part of an investigation into organised crime, money-laundering and fuel-laundering (Photo: Pacemaker) THE Provisional IRA’s alleged chief-of-staff...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
During the coverage of the UUP Conference today, BBC NI’s Jim Fitzpatrick did a quick interview with the Conservative Party’s Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Owen Paterson, MP. Here’s a question and answer transcribed from that interview. [ Jim Fitzpatrick ] “Perhaps there is less of a tension on the constitutional issue in those areas, although Scotland excepted...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Francie Brolly the Sinn Fein MLA for East Londonderry has announced that he is to retire from the assembly before the end of the year. The 71 year old former teacher and folk singer from Dungiven was elected to Limavady Council in 2001 and the Assembly in 2003 and 2007. Mr Brolly said: “I have been proud to serve the great people of East Derry in all their diversity and I thank God for the privilege...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
THE HUNGER STRIKE Was there a deal? Irish News 22/10/2009 Richard O’Rawe – former republican prisoner, PRO of the 1981 hunger strikers and author of Blanketmen – responds to Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams on claims a deal was available which would have saved the lives of six hunger strikers There is now no room for doubting that the hunger strikers, by their sacrifice and courage,...
The Daily Rant (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
The Åland Islands, it turns out, have another claim to fame, other then as the site of a rare victory for the League of Nations when the flawed supra-national body was called in to decide the archipelago's constitutional status shortly after the end of the First World War. Contained within its territory is the world's smallest sea island to be bisected by an international boundary. The island...
Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Gerry Adams's world tour has moved on to south Wales. Addressing the British Irish Parliamentary Association in Swansea, the grizzled one has promised the pro-Union people in Northern Ireland that they will have every vestige of Britishness granted to them, if only they would forsake the one fundamental that underpins their identity - membership of the United Kingdom. Even Orange parades would seemingly...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Orange Order marches would have a place in a new united Ireland, Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams said today.
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
From teargas , sorry ‘léargas’, the virtual tree from which the wise old owl of Sinn Féin dispenses pellets of ‘insight’, “This blog travels to Wales on Tuesday – to Swansea – to speak to the British Irish Parliamentary Assembly. I will tell that forum that while (sic) Irish republicans want our rights, we do not seek to deny the rights of anyone...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Gerry Adams becomes the first Sinn Fein leader to address the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly in Swansea this morning. He will use rational, pragmatic and economic arguments to urge them “to join in the historic endeavour to bring about the reunification of the people of Ireland” and promises that “Orange marches will have their place in a new Ireland albeit on the basis of respect...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams becomes the first Sinn Fein leader to address the Assembly in Swansea on Tuesday morning. He is expected to make a rational case for Irish unity and seek to accommodate unionist fears and hopes. Watch this space. What do you think Gerry should say?
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh Interview By Allison Morris Irish News 17/10/09 While his successor Gerry Adams has always denied being a member of the IRA, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh has no misgivings about talking publicly of his militaristic past . Having joined the IRA in 1951, he was elected to the ‘army council’ five years later and became chief of staff soon after...
rebels yell (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Adams And McGuinness Asked to Resign This a guest post from an Irish American blogger http://irishblog-irishblog.blogspot.com/ on Irish Republicanism as represented by the current Sinn Fein leadership in Northern Ireland. A Chairde, Many republicans, myself included, subscribed to the view of achieving a 32 county republic first and then developing a Socialist Republic later. It seemed at the time...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Gerry Adams and Mark Durkan of Sinn Fein and the SDLP respectively will be pitching their parties' programme and perspectives in key note addresses at the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly in Swansea next Monday and Tuesday. The leaders will be heard by parliamentarians from across these islands including unionists and, in particular, several voluble critics of the Provisionals from both parts of...
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