Posted By: December 16, 2017
Connla Young. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, December 16, 2017 RELATIVES of the McGurk’s Bar victims have asked Chief Constable George Hamilton and Police Ombudsman Michael Maguire what their organizations did with any information provided by Gary Haggarty about the 1971 attack.Lawyers for the families said they have written to both men following claims that the UVF “Supergrass’” provided information to the […]
Posted By: December 15, 2017
I helped broker the Good Friday Agreement – Ireland’s Brexit deal is meaningless Jonathan Powell. iNews. London.Thursday, December 14, 2017 (Powell was Tony Blair’s chief of staff from 1995 to 2007 and the chief government negotiator on Northern Ireland from 1997 to 2007) The agreement reached last week on Northern Ireland’s border with the […]
Posted By: December 15, 2017
Irish News. Belfast. Friday, December 15, 2017Haggarty sentence (day two) LOYALIST killer turned supergrass Gary Haggarty warned his Special Branch handler about two UVF murders – including the high-profile killing of Raymond McCord Jr.The startling admission was made by defense barrister Martin O’Rourke QC, who said that his client – who became a Special Branch agent in 1993 – was entitled to receive […]
Posted By: December 15, 2017
CAPITOL HILL. Friday, December 15, 2017— Today’s Irish News of Belfast carried a report on the trial of alleged killer/British police agent: “LOYALIST killer turned supergrass Gary Haggarty warned his Special Branch handler about two UVF murders – including the high-profile killing of Raymond McCord, Jr. The startling admission was made by defense barrister Martin O’Rourke QC, who said that his client – who became a Special […]
Posted By: December 15, 2017
“All of the participants in 1916 had come to perceive and recoil from what was a constant theme in the assumptions of the imperialist mind: that those dominated in any colony such as Ireland were lesser in human terms, in language, culture, and politics.The historical evidence for this view was all around: in the circumstances of housing, hunger, emigration, exclusion, and language loss. […]
