Is Malachy a wind up merchant as well?

CheFinny (UK) - Posts: 1358 - 09/09/2010 15:44:36    769981

Possibly?

seanie_boy (Tyrone) - Posts: 4235 - 09/09/2010 15:54:30    769996

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Maybe in Belfast Patrique but not in the west did people go to republican clubs for advice.The influence of the church has wained but that has little to do with the rise of Sinn Fein.As for the Brits establishing the advice centres,everything is not a conspiracy controlled by the british.The IRA must have been thanking them in a very strange way in the years following 1975 if thats the case.



This one was out in the open, nothing secretive about it.

Read this report or google one of your own.

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/truce/sum.htm


as it says in the last sentence, the manning of the centres opened in many areas gave them a higher profile.

I already know that Britain also operated a major sting that year as described in "The Dirty war" and it was only when Adams and his cohorts were released shortly after this that the real work began in earnest, a long war but with a political wing who could build for a peace.

patrique (Antrim) - Posts: 13709 - 10/09/2010 11:54:19    770675

What about the Iraq and Iran situation Patrique?I'm sure you just can't wait to enlighten me about that.

seanie_boy (Tyrone) - Posts: 4235 - 10/09/2010 13:30:38    770779

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Is Malachy a wind up merchant as well?


Che, did ye meet him in Donegal at the Gaeltacht?

patrique (Antrim) - Posts: 13709 - 10/09/2010 14:29:53    770869

Tony Blair made a huge personal contribution to the GFA and deserves credit and praise for the importance that he attached to the process - no British government had previously come close to doing this (no votes in it so why bother?). However his subsequent actions in telling lies to justify an illegal war in Iraq has forever tarnished his reputation just as much in Ireland as in every other Country. His continual fall back on his deep belief he did the right thing is merely an attempt to justify his deplorable actions which effectively dealt a death blow to the UN, which refused time and time again to pass a resolution to legitimise the invasion. Saddam was a tyrant, but as I have stated previously, we in the West have no right to impose 'our' world view and principles on a foreign people. Iraq was an oil grap, an attempt to stabilise and secure the strategic energy resources of the US and her allies. The possibility of a further invasion of Iran as supported by Blair is another attempt to remove all middle east opposition to the US and more importantly take control of Iran's vast oil resources, should this particular imperialist war of conquest go ahead the consequences for all the peoples of the globe would be catastrophic, none more so than the unfortunates being 'liberated' by the B52's.

artisan (Down) - Posts: 1795 - 10/09/2010 15:11:22    770913