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MICHAEL GOVE, CONTENDER for the leadership of the British Conservative party, has been slammed by Sinn Féin over remarks made in relation to Northern Ireland.
Speaking on BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday, the Leave campaigner defended comments in which he described the Good Friday Agreement as a “capitulation to violence”, a “moral stain” and the “validation of terrorism”.
During the interview host Marr put it to Gove that his comments had been a “horrendous error of judgement”, and that he had been absolutely wrong in making them, to which Gove responded:
We now have peace in Northern Ireland, I’m delighted that we do, but there were things that we did during negotiations and the way that we handled the IRA that I would not have done.
Responding today, Sinn Féin MEP and chair of the party’s United Ireland project Matt Carthy described the comments as “warped fantasies of British military glory”.
“Michael Gove’s stated views in relation to Ireland are deeply disturbing for someone who seeks to become British Prime Minister,” Carthy said.
He has clearly said that he believes that more killings by the British army and RUC, and presumably by their proxies in the unionist paramilitary gangs, would have been a better policy for the British Government to pursue in Ireland than political negotiations and peace.
North-South problems
The criticism of Gove’s comments comes at a politically uncertain time for Northern Ireland.
Earlier today, Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster was in Dublin for the North South Ministerial Council – talking with Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.
Speaking on RTÉ yesterday, Minister for Health Simon Harris laid out how an all-Ireland forum would function in the wake of the Brexit vote.
Following today’s meeting it would now seem that plans for such a group have been placed firmly on the back burner, with Kenny announcing that issues would instead be dealt with through a 10-point plan agreed between representatives from north and south of the border.
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Why didn’t they test it on themselves?
@Derek o keeffe: Because like most clinical trials this one was carried out on mice to gauge reactions/side effects..
Without such trials the average human life expectancy would still be somewhere between 35/55 and we wouldn’t have the vast majority of the current life saving Cancer and AIDS treatments to mention just two…
@Derek o keeffe: a better question is why they didn’t test it on you.
Cannabis works on pain as well oh thats right big pharmaceuticals cant profit off that though.Cannabis is one of the biggest break throughs in medicine but our media seem to ignore it.
Can you “milk” the fish for venom, package it and sell it to people? Asking for a friend.
‘The Fang Blennies’….weren’t they a pop group back in the 80′s?
Is the venom addictive like current opioids? If so what’s the big deal?
Stooooooory bud!!! Ya got any of them fishes the ones with da gear man for me girlfriend like it’s her beerday tomorra!! On tick of course bud scratcher end of the week bud… (over heard in pet shop in Dublin city centre )
What’s the point. Patients still can’t get the medicinal cannabis that could help them.
It’s not IF we lose the Great Barrier Reef it’s WHEN. Better stock up on tanks pumps and protein skimmers all of which will require a lot of fossil fuel generated electricity to run if we want to keep the blenny inter alia.
Mind it’s probably moot given the mindless approach of governments and society to date towards natural painkillers and cancer killing substances. If it actually delivers a useful result he blenny will probably be banned by law.
Do they feel pain themselves I wonder?
I foresee growth in aquarium stockist shops
Were the mice drugged or did they just drown?
Does this come in the form of fish fingers?
Big Bryan Fry experimenting with Small Blenny Fry. The outcome a numbing experience.
You can get bags of it down the quays already
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The happiest fish going lol.
Brilliant, another drug all the social degenerates can get addicted to once it gets licensed!!!
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