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Most of the Irish media failed to bring truth about Gerry Conlon’s innocence to light

Posted By: June 28, 2014

Eamonn McCann. Irish Times.Thursday, June 26, 2014, 13:02 Vincent Browne emerges with credit from the Gerry Conlon story. So do Tom McGurk, the late Mary Holland, David McKittrick and John Mulcahy. There may be other Irish journalists who should be mentioned, but names don’t spring to mind. In the years following the 1975 conviction of […]

Large crowd at funeral of Gerry Conlon in west Belfast

Posted By: June 28, 2014

Large crowd at funeral of Gerry Conlon in west Belfast Conlon spent 14 years in prison wrongly convicted of the 1974 Guildford pub bombing One of the Birmingham Six, Paddy Hill wipes a tear as the coffin of Gerry Conlon is carried into St. Peter’s Cathedral for his funeral Mass in Belfast today. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty […]

PRAISE CONTINUES FOR FR. MC MANUS’ MEMOIRS

Posted By: June 28, 2014

By: Bryan T. McMahon,publisher, The Ponchatoula Times    Article published in The Ponchatoula Times and in The Independence Times   Date: June 27, 2014 at 2:56:57 PM EDT Fr. Sean McManus an equal opportunity flail when it comes to international injustice. “My American Struggle for Justice in Northern Ireland . . . and the Holy Land,” […]

DUP MAKING NO ATTEMPT TO BE 21ST CENTURY PARTY

Posted By: June 28, 2014

  “….Knowing all this …  why do modern, thinking Unionists vote for a party with nutty ideas dominated by a tiny sect of hot gospellers and bible-bashers who comprise fewer than 0.1 per cent of Protestants here? [ the ]tiny sect, the Free Presbyterians, with a total of 10,000 adherents, dominates the par Brian Feeney. Irish News ( Belfast). Wednesday, […]

MI6 planted spies in Irish bars during Troubles

Posted By: June 27, 2014

Robert Mulhern. Irish Post ( London). June 26, 2014 UNDERCOVER British agents masqueraded as bar staff in Irish pubs across Britain to gather information during the Troubles, security sources have suggested. Former officers on both sides of the water claim in some cases the spies went ‘deep undercover’, penetrating Irish communities in emigrant heartlands throughout […]

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