Posted By: March 16, 2019
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “The recklessness of Brexit wreaks havoc in every direction, poisoning the body politic, and pulling scabs off old wounds. The surge of right-wing English nationalism that animates Brexit has never given a thought to Ireland, North or South—and certainly not to the idea of The Beloved […]
Posted By: March 16, 2019
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “Bloody Sunday was about the murderous strategy of British Government to militarize the situation:to drive the massive Civil Rights Movement off the streets; to twist the issue from being about justice and equality into one of fighting terrorism; and to portray the murderous British Army […]
Posted By: March 15, 2019
Brian Feeney. Irish News. Belfast.Friday, March 15, 2019. LONG before they went on the rampage in Derry in January 1972 the British army’s Parachute Regiment had established its infamous reputation in Belfast, not least in the murderous events in Ballymurphy in August 1971.The Paras were a byword for savagery, brutality, stupidity, and provocation. They inflicted gratuitous violence on passers-by in the streets, smashed […]
Posted By: March 15, 2019
Irish Republican News. Thursday, March 14, 2019 Families of the victims have been left angry and upset after Crown Prosecutors claimed today there is sufficient evidence to prosecute only one the seventeen soldiers known to have been involved in the Bloody Sunday massacre. Fourteen people, half of them teenage boys, were taking part in a civil rightsmarch in Derry when […]
Posted By: March 14, 2019
Bloody Sunday families call for investigation into British defense secretary Gavin Williamson’s remarks Michael McHugh, Press Association. Irish News. Belfast.Thursday, March 14, 2019The attorney general should investigate whether British defense secretary Gavin Williamson has interfered in the judicial process, according to the Bloody Sunday families.Speaking recently in a BBC interview, Gavin Williamson said he was saddened that protection against “spurious […]