Posted By: June 27, 2018
Irish News.Belfast. Wednesday, June 27, 2018A rifle allegedly used by a loyalist paramilitary sniper to carry out some of the Ballymurphy killings was modified to fire the same type of bullets as British army-issue guns, it has been claimed.The UVF claims the weapon was purchased in a Belfast gunsmith and recovered by police more than a decade after the August 1971 shootings.A source close […]
Posted By: June 27, 2018
Mary Lou McDonald said she would like to meet the Orange Order. Mervyn Gibson, the grand secretary of the Orange Order, has insisted UVF gun-running in 1914 was “not an act of terrorism.” Irish News. Belfast.June 27, 2018 The Orange Order has said it has no plans to meet Sinn Féin representatives despite party leader Mary Lou McDonald appearing to apologize […]
Posted By: June 26, 2018
Belfast solicitor (39) shot dead by loyalist paramilitaries in 1989Geraldine Finucane described Sir Desmond’s 2012 report into the killing of her husband as a “whitewash.” The family of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane has urged the United Kingdom’s highest court to rule that a public inquiry should be held into his death.As his widow, Geraldine, arrived at the supreme court in London on Tuesday, she […]
Posted By: June 26, 2018
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889-1975) one of the most eminent English historians explained how England used the Bible in its genocidal, racist, and —after the English Reformation— anti-Catholic oppression of Ireland.Sadly, today there is still a residue of that deep-seated anti-Catholic bigotry in a significant section […]
Posted By: June 26, 2018
Michael McLoughlin Dungannon Councilor 1967-1993. Letters to Editor.Irish News. Belfast. Tuesday, June 26, 2018Seamus McKinney’s article (June 18) on the ‘trigger’ impact of the 1968 Caledon ‘Squat’ on the 1968 Civil Rights Campaign is a factual account of the incident, a rehearsal of a well-told ‘story’ but the account misses the point that to use a biblical analogy, the incident was […]