Posted By: October 24, 2015
Newton Emerson Saturday column . Irish News(Belfast). Saturday, October 24, 2015 Peter Robinson was back at his desk and smiling for photographers within hours of the paramilitary assessment panelâ??s report being presented to the House of CommonsFor just under an hour after Secretary of State Theresa Villiers presented the paramilitary assessment panel’s report to the Commons, it seemed that Stormont was in real trouble. […]
Posted By: October 24, 2015
Patrick Murphy Saturday column. Irish News(Belfast). Saturday, October 24, 2015 The Real IRA is bad, but the real IRA is good. That appears to be a reasonable summary of republican organisations in the assessment of paramilitary activity presented to the British government. The Irish government’s report was different. It just said ‘What IRA?’ The contents […]
Posted By: October 23, 2015
Brian Rowan. Belfast Telegraph.Friday, October 23, 2015The story of Stakeknife is when the dirty war becomes the filthy war.And for this reason.Here is an agent working for Military Intelligence whose role within IRA internal security was the culling of other agents; finding them, interrogating them – presenting them for execution.He may even have pulled the trigger.The end was […]
Posted By: October 23, 2015
Alex Kane. Irish News(Belfast). Friday, October 23, 2015 The speed with which Peter Robinson ordered his ministerial team to leapfrog back into office took many people by surprise. It was almost as if he had skipped over the difficult bits of the assessment commissioned by Secretary of State Theresa Villiers – you know, the bits […]
Posted By: October 23, 2015
Irish News Editorial( Belfast). Thursday, October 22, 2015 Allegations of the most disturbing nature have long centred around the activities of the British agent known as Stakeknife, unmasked 12 years ago as the high-ranking IRA member Freddie Scappaticci.This is a case which goes to the heart of the shadowy world of collusion, the involvement of the state in serious crimes including murder […]
