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GIVE IRELAND BACK TO THE IRISH

Posted By: August 11, 2013

Give Ireland Back to the Irish: Paul McCartney’s forgotten protest song By Peter Crutchley.BBC . Wednesday, August 7, 2013 In February 1972, Paul McCartney released a song with his new band Wings that caused a storm of controversy and was promptly banned as “unsuitable for broadcasting”. The song Give Ireland Back to the Irish was McCartney’s reaction to the events of […]

Protestants Attack Police

Posted By: August 11, 2013

Loyalist protesters clash with police Dan Keenan. Irish Times.  Saturday, August 10, 2013. Violence erupted on Belfast’s main shopping thoroughfare last night as police tried to contain loyalist protesters demonstrating against an internment commemoration march. Some loyalists involved in the counter-demonstration along with at least two PSNI officers in riot gear were injured. Police deployed a PSNI helicopter and fired […]

Omagh Failures

Posted By: August 10, 2013

O’Loan backs calls for cross-border inquiry over ‘massive failures’ ADRIAN RUTHERFORD .Belfast Teleraph. Saturday,  AUGUST10, 2013 A former Police Ombudsman who criticised the police investigation into the Omagh bombing has backed calls for a cross-border inquiry. ALSO IN THIS SECTION Nuala O’Loan said new information which has emerged was “cause for enormous concern”. In 2001 […]

Dublin and London must not lose focus on North

Posted By: August 09, 2013

Andy Pollak. Irish Times.( Dublin). Thursday, August 8, 2013, 20:03 The mischievous streak in me likes the word “collaboration”: it is a subversive word. I believe in the obvious – that the road to peace out of any conflict, short of outright military victory by one side or the other, lies in eventually collaborating with the old enemy. […]

Intelligence on Omagh bomb ‘withheld from police’

Posted By: August 08, 2013

Security forces had two agents in the Real IRA but did not share that information with Northern Ireland officers, report claims Henry McDonald, Ireland correspondent.  The Guardian( London). Wednesday 7 August 2013 The Omagh Support and Self Help Group report focuses on the role of two state agents who infiltrated the Real IRA. Photograph: Mike Mahoney/Reuters MI5, the FBI and Garda special branch […]

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