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Former Big Brother contestant Nikki Grahame dies aged 38

She appeared on the reality show in 2006.

REALITY TV STAR Nikki Grahame, who rose to fame as a contestant on Big Brother, has died aged 38.

A statement from her representative said: “It is with immeasurable sadness that Nikki Grahame passed away in the early hours of Friday 9th April 2021. Please respect the privacy of Nikki’s friends and family at this tragic and difficult time.”

Grahame, originally from Northwood in London, had recently received treatment for an eating disorder at a specialist clinic following a fundraising campaign organised by friends and fans.

A statement on the Gofundme.com page said: “It is with great sadness, we have to let you know that our dear friend Nikki passed away in the early hours of Friday 9th April.

“It breaks our hearts to know that someone who is so precious was taken from us at such a young age. Nikki not only touched the lives of millions of people, but also her friends and family who will miss her immensely.”

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    Mute Nuala Reid
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 6:31 PM

    So after a tribunal that costs god knows what they still only have the gardai probably colluded but they have no evidence to back it up. What a load of shite

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    Mute Michael Allen
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:40 PM

    “Probable collusion”? This in layman’s terms mean there is no evidence to support Judge Smithicks inquiry; so ultimately it is nothing more than a fu….cking worthless……OPINION!

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    Mute jason bourne
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:42 PM

    He was never going to find anything but that. A waste of money and resources and eight years of huffing and puffing. Nobody wins here.

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    Mute Tony Canning
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:03 PM

    I think that this report will have made a big difference to the families of those RUC officers.

    Probably not going to satisfy the families with such a vague conclusion but it’s certainly something.

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    Mute Michael Allen
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:21 PM

    Sir John Stevens delivered his report to Hugh Orde
    The police and army in Northern Ireland helped loyalist paramilitaries to murder Catholics in the late 1980s, the UK’s most senior police officer has said. The Metropolitan Police Commissioner’s report into collusion between the security forces and loyalist paramilitaries also found that military intelligence in Northern Ireland helped to prolong the Troubles.
    Sir John Stevens said informants and agents “were allowed to operate without effective control and to participate in terrorist crimes”.The latest report, called Stevens Three, found that members of the RUC and Army colluded with the largest loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), to murder Catholics. Its key findings were: Actions or omissions by security forces led to deaths of innocent people

    Collusion in both murders of Pat Finucane and Adam Lambert
    Government minister was compromised in House of Commons
    Three official inquiries wilfully obstructed and misled
    The report, which centres on the murder of Catholic solicitor Pat Finucane in 1989 and Protestant student Adam Lambert in 1987. Sir John said: “I have uncovered enough evidence to lead me to believe that the murders of Pat Finucane and Brian Adam Lambert could have been prevented.
    “I also believe that the RUC investigation of Pat Finucane’s murder should have resulted in the early arrest and detection of his killers.

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    Mute John Burke
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:33 PM

    Wtf is Gilmore apologising for probability? What an idiot.

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    Mute Bill Butler
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 10:50 PM

    Nuala well said more money for the political classes the only jobs that i see being created in this corrupt land is the ones in the corruption industry .

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    Mute Soneps
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 11:17 PM

    Encouraging to see Alan Shatter apologise for the heinous collusion between members of the Gardai and the IRA.

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    Mute Soneps
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 11:23 PM

    Garda Finbar Hickey of Dundalk garda station was convicted for signing blank passport forms for IRA members, yet some on here try to deny there was any collusion. Numerous other gardai were involved.

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    Mute rodrigo detriano
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 11:31 PM

    I thought everyone knew the Republic of Ireland have the most crooked police force in the English speaking world!

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    Mute Guapito Donnochito O'Ceallaigh
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    Dec 4th 2013, 1:19 AM

    Given what happened in Northern Ireland and the overt racism experienced by African Americans and the indigenous peoples of the United States, Australia and South Africa, I don’t think we are doing too badly. Then again, they are setting the bar pretty low!

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    Mute Matt
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    Dec 4th 2013, 6:58 AM

    The British tax payer paid for it. Didn’t cost you a penny or a cent!!!!!

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    Mute Malachy Quinn
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    Dec 4th 2013, 7:17 AM

    This report highlights a need for a truth commission.

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    Mute Harry Price
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    Dec 4th 2013, 10:20 AM

    jason bourne @”"”No body wins here”" ????? ….. but the leeches of lawyers that will be paid large amounts of money by us fooled again in
    the tribunals waste of time carry on”"

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    Mute Tom Hara
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    Dec 4th 2013, 11:30 AM

    And from what law abiding banana republic are you from?

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    Mute Jim Malone
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    Dec 4th 2013, 3:04 PM

    Would I be right in saying Garda Hickey is the ‘colleague’ who was mentioned in the excerpt below?

    The report also names a retired garda, Sergeant Leo Colton, and says there is evidence “on a strong balance of probabilities, that he was someone who in the course of 1995 and 1996 assisted the Provisional IRA” by having a colleague sign fake passport applications for them. “This is a relatively significant form of assistance and suggests to me that members of the Provisional IRA reposed considerable trust in Mr Colton at that point,” the report says.

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    Dec 4th 2013, 3:05 PM

    Would I be right in saying Garda Hickey is the “colleague” mentioned below?

    The report also names a retired garda, Sergeant Leo Colton, and says there is evidence “on a strong balance of probabilities, that he was someone who in the course of 1995 and 1996 assisted the Provisional IRA” by having a colleague sign fake passport applications for them. “This is a relatively significant form of assistance and suggests to me that members of the Provisional IRA reposed considerable trust in Mr Colton at that point,” the report says.

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    Mute jackass ireland
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 6:08 PM

    8 years for a probably I could have given them in half an hour. Another job well done.

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    Mute Snorre Sturleson
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 6:11 PM

    Oops gave thumbs down when I meant Thumbs Up but remember lawyers and Judges would have gone hungry without the farce!

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    Mute Tom Hara
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 6:17 PM

    I wonder when will the British authorities start acknowledging their roles in other atrocities…. but sssshhhh we not allowed to talk about that. Its only atrocities carried out by the IRA that are allowed to invoke horror and disgust on here.

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    Mute Cumidhe O'Fhloinn
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 6:48 PM

    ‘Twasnt an atrocity Tom. It was a well-planned strategic and legitimate act of war

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    Mute Allan
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:04 PM

    Why don’t you write a rebel song about how the Ra bravely ambushed two unarmed men in a car? Better yet ‘The Ballad of the Bombing of Warrington’- presumably you think that was a legitimate target too?

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:09 PM

    Harry Breen, top RUC man and also member of Down Orange Welfare ( a loyalist vigilante group that produced weapons and then handed them over to the mid Ulster UVF for killing sprees). That was certainly a legitimate target.

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    Mute Ciarán Masterson
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:19 PM

    @Pat Mustard

    “Harry Breen, top RUC man and also member of Down Orange Welfare ( a loyalist vigilante group that produced weapons and then handed them over to the mid Ulster UVF for killing sprees).”

    That allegation was made by ex-RUC officer and convicted murderer John Weir and is thus not credible. It’s no surprise that Weir didn’t make this allegation years earlier because Breen cannot defend himself.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:32 PM

    Ciaran, the Barron report ( 2003) p.151 found him to have been “an impressive witness” and they “believed his allegations should be taken seriously”.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:40 PM

    Ciaran by your logic are Darkie Hughes, Dolours Price and every other ex IRA member who make allegations against Gerry Adams not

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:40 PM

    @Allan. The ballad of Harry Breen.? Ya must be joking, poor Dan Breen, IRA volunteer who shot two RIC officers, which started the war of independence, against the wishes of the Sinn Féin government, would turn in his grave.

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    Mute Pat Mustard
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:42 PM

    Credible witnesses because most of them were also convicted of murder or on attempted murder charges. Maybe have a read of the Barron report and you will realise what they thought of Weirs testimonies for yourself.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:01 PM

    I wouldnt quite agree with your description but I do understand where you are coming from with it

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:04 PM

    Or how about the ballad of Bloody Sunday…. or a wee diddly diddly tune to commemorate the Dublin and Monaghan bombings…. you ignoramus

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    Mute Rob Gill
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:08 PM

    Who shot two unarmed catholic RIC officers escorting dynamite and left ten children without a father -probably would not be turning in his grave. Dan Breen was hardly Patrick Sarsfield or Wolfe Tone

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:51 PM

    @Brian Ward

    “Ciaran, the Barron report ( 2003) p.151 found him to have been “an impressive witness” and they “believed his allegations should be taken seriously”.”

    That doesn’t mean it would have led to Breen being prosecuted if he was still alive.

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    Mute gerry campbell
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:55 PM

    There ya go Cumidhe, I was waiting for the old act of war, slogan to pop up. Now would you stick to that lofty principal when discussing republicans taken out in ” the war”, and stop calling that murder. Then at least everyone , people who abhor murder, and people who wish to justify it, like your good self , may sing from the same hymn sheet.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:59 PM

    @Pat Mustard

    “Ciaran by your logic are Darkie Hughes, Dolours Price and every other ex IRA member who make allegations against Gerry Adams not”

    The difference is that, unlike Breen, Adams is still alive and, although he has denied that he was in the IRA, he hasn’t sued the people who say that he was.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 9:53 PM

    Ciaran, your comment was that Weir was not credible, my response is that the Barron Report found that he was credible. Are you saying that the Barron report is wrong and that you are right.

    Secondly, Adams has never sued anyone about the allegations made against him, on the other hand he has never been charged either.

    I am basing my comments on the findings of a former Supreme Court judge, you are using the unsubstantiated allegations of former terrorists as your basis for allegations.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 10:02 PM

    “Credible witnesses because most of them were also convicted of murder or on attempted murder charges. Maybe have a read of the Barron report and you will realise what they thought of Weirs testimonies for yourself.”

    Weir’s statement still wouldn’t be enough for a criminal conviction. There wouldn’t have been any forensic evidence against Breen.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 10:40 PM

    @Brian Ward

    “I am basing my comments on the findings of a former Supreme Court judge, you are using the unsubstantiated allegations of former terrorists as your basis for allegations.”

    I never used the basis of allegations made by Hughes and Price for the basis of allegations against Adams. Ed Moloney, a respected journalist, said that Adams was in the IRA.

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    Mute Kenneth
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 11:49 PM

    Always the victims, predictable and pathetic

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    Mute Malachy Quinn
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    Dec 4th 2013, 7:10 AM

    Because Breen could have shot more like it!

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    Mute Kenneth
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    Dec 4th 2013, 10:24 AM

    I suppose the rape of children was also an act of war, keep digging lads ye are doing sterling work in alienating the very people you ask for your united Ireland – priceless the stupidity if it all but sure that’s the shinners for ya

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    Mute Lord Loverocket
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    Dec 4th 2013, 4:52 PM

    Love thy neighbour Ken. Hatred will chew you up and spit you out.

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    Mute david garland
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 6:34 PM

    Seriously who cares? The UVF had the help of the RUC/UDR/SAS/MRF and the British Army in killing innocent Catholics and even making and planting the bombs in Dublin and Monaghan. This is one case where the IRA had the help of a few Gards in one Garda Station in the Country.

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    Mute Allan
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 6:58 PM

    Who cares? Presumably the families of the murdered RUC men.

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    Mute david garland
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:23 PM

    Well these two lads were senior officers in the RUC and I’m sure they had their hands dirty with the collusion that was going on with the Loyalists and British agents. As they say “If you live by the sword, you’ll die by the sword”

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    Mute Tom Hara
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:00 PM

    Hear hear

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    Mute Allan
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:07 PM

    That’s grand David, presume you agree then that that principle also applies to the three IRA members shot in Gibralter?

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    Mute Brian Ward
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:47 PM

    Allan, the principle would apply except for the fact that the 3 PIRA members shot in Gibraltar were shot by members of the State who had a responsibility to uphold law and order and arrest individuals who clearly were surrendering. You either uphold the law or you don’t otherwise you yourself become lawless. The PIRA murdered the 2 RUC men so the SAS murdered the PIRA volunteers.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:59 PM

    From day one of the troubles loyalists murdered Catholics with the help of British state agencies. Look up Robin Jackson and the Glenanne gang. This group of sectarian killers included RUC members and members of the British Army. They murdered innocent Catholics north and south of the border. Loyalists were involved with all British state agencies in killing Catholics/Nationalists and IRA members. The Gardai were hardly sending out hit squads to take out UVF members, nor were the Irish Government involved in sanctioning IRA murders. So comparing the Cold blooded murder if three IRA members to the killing of two senior RUC officers is laughable at best

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 9:04 PM

    @Alan.

    The Metropolitan Police Commissioner’s report into collusion between the security forces and loyalist paramilitaries also found that military intelligence in Northern Ireland helped to prolong the Troubles.

    Sir John Stevens said informants and agents “were allowed to operate without effective control and to participate in terrorist crimes”.

    The latest report, called Stevens Three, found that members of the RUC and Army colluded with the largest loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), to murder Catholics.

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    Mute Allan
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 10:27 PM

    Love the way armchair republicans come out and say the North was riddled with state sponsored murder but when there’s a hint that rogue Gardai assisted the RA in an ambush it’s suddenly ‘legitimate act of war’. What the British Gov did wasn’t right either was what the IRA did in murdering civilians in shopping centres. Double standards & paranoid victimisation of the Republican movement is sickening.

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    Mute Kenneth
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    Dec 4th 2013, 12:02 AM

    David that logic suggests that the 14 ‘non combatants’ in Derry probably deserved it too :)

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    Dec 4th 2013, 12:20 AM

    Your spot on Alan. Watching that Sinn Fein programme last night on tv3, laughed out loud when the niece of mairead Farrell, who was shot dead in Gibraltar, spoke of her being ‘murdered’ by the British !. If your on active service, then surely your ‘killed in action’ ?, ah no, they don’t see it that way when it’s their arses getting kicked !.

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    Mute Kenneth
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    Dec 4th 2013, 10:29 AM

    The Irish people care and want it to be known that these IRA thugs had absolutely no mandate but yet somehow believed they were the actual government of this state without ever getting a vote. Nothing legitimate about the sc*mbags

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    Dec 4th 2013, 10:32 AM

    David you better go to the police with that compelling evidence that you are pretty sure. Evil and disgusting to dismiss these compelling findings against SF/IRA collusion

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    Mute david garland
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    Dec 4th 2013, 10:59 AM

    Kenneth the evidence is out there for everybody to see. Problem is narrow minded people like yourself only see things one way.

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    Dec 4th 2013, 3:07 PM

    SF told you to say that isn’t evidence

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    Dec 4th 2013, 6:20 PM

    nope kenneth plenty of irish people admire these people and see thema s heros and freedom fighters so jog on and stop talking for everyone

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:56 PM

    Much blood on many hands. Not many involved from any side can have a totally clear conscience. The tit for tat comments on here remind me of the tit for tat killings that tore this country asunder for best part of my childhood. Regardless of how bad this rescission has been nothing compares to the horror of that period of Irish history. May we never go back.

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    Dec 4th 2013, 10:04 AM

    the murder of the two RUC men was a crime and the way our gardai acted is with apathy and finally delay defeats equity and causes cover ups ..collusion by the gardai one to the other is well known…… its now time to have an ombudsman with real powers at work free of any member of the gardai

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    Dec 4th 2013, 11:44 AM

    the usual gang that PR for the gardai in this case its for murder shame on this gang that are now known to red thumb all my comments even this one on the murder of the RUC man

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    Dec 4th 2013, 12:15 PM

    the commissioner is now looking for a political statement having refused to give two interviews what a country of corruption

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    Dec 4th 2013, 2:02 PM

    at the news at one it is very easy to see the cover up begin / political/commissioner/minister shatter .. the lies and dam lies still have not gone away

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    Dec 4th 2013, 2:13 PM

    I have looked on rte news a commissioner with rooling eyes the body language says it all

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    Dec 4th 2013, 3:27 PM

    Any predications for an accumulator for the premier league tonight Harry?

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    Dec 4th 2013, 6:37 PM

    fortune telling seems right up your alley for you seem to day dream a lot@ simon o donnell

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    Dec 4th 2013, 7:35 PM

    Easy on harry. Ur about to have a total break down.

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    Mute Brian Ward
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 6:30 PM

    SO 3 individuals off their own bat “possibly”colluded whereas whole security units like the RUC, UDR and MRF etc did collude and received State sanction in doing so.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 9:10 PM

    Widespread collusion between British security forces and paramilitaries occurred and successive Irish governments have known this. The only problem is they are spineless weasels who are either afraid they will upset their British colleagues or else rather sinisterly do not want to know about anything that will show republicans enemies in a bad light. Why do politicians and journalists in the republic only seem concerned about victims of republicans and simply ignore all the other victims.

    One another note the Smithwick tribunal was set up as part of the Weston Park agreement between the British and Irish governments. While the Irish have investigated their part of the deal it comes as no surprise that the British have simply ignored their part of deal in not setting up a full inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 11:57 PM

    If those two innocent police officers were legitimate targets then pay finnicane was perfectly legitimate target as he was assisting the IRA. Remember SF/IRA think a part time civilian pot washer in an army barracks is legitimate well in the same vein pat deserved all he got for assisting terrorism :)

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    Dec 4th 2013, 7:16 AM

    Good man Kenneth- will you bring that comment to a truth commission when it is set up & we can all move on from recrimination!

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    Dec 4th 2013, 4:54 PM

    Ken, you’re a horrible wee cvnt. FOAD.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 6:59 PM

    Will the State now show the same commitment to expose the true extent of British collusion in the Dublin/Monaghan bombings, the worst single atrocity of the conflict?

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:43 PM

    FG/Lab coalition in power at the time, FG/Lab in coalition now. Not even Paddy Power would give odds on that!

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 9:04 PM

    Incidentally, the same FG who sent men to fight for Spanish Fascists

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    Dec 4th 2013, 10:46 AM

    IRA fought with hitler- your point is?

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    Dec 4th 2013, 12:20 PM

    Lol! Really? Where exactly did they fight ‘with Hitler’? Several Abwhr agents arrived in Ireland and were immediately interned, not exactly ‘fighting with Hitler is it?

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 6:32 PM

    As with every tribunal we’ve had, another total waste of money.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 6:09 PM

    Judge Peter Smithwick’s report shocked nation with suggestion that the Gadai would be ‘probably’ corrupt. Maidens across the nation swooned, grown men were seen to weep and the very fibre of the nation was shaken.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:10 PM

    The important thing about this story is that it brings home to my cousins in the republic that they are and always have been involved in the northern conflict.

    From the active republicans in the south, those that hid and helped the ‘on the runs’, those that fund raised, those that looked the other way and even those in the security forces; the struggle was island wide, dirty and hard to deal with at times.

    We all, as people of this island have difficult truths to deal with, yet listening to the southern state and media it seemed as if it was just the affliction of those in the north. The only answer and/or solution is that ‘we’ as an island people focus on reconciliation with the British overseas and at home.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 11:20 PM

    I agree Eugene. there was blood on all three sides – it’s time to move on.

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    Dec 4th 2013, 1:21 AM

    Well said! People have a tendency to isolate the Troubles and dismiss them as something ‘up there’ and not our problem.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 6:16 PM

    Of course the state were going to fudge this, they were hardly gonna give the Ra credit for running a very professional surveillance operation on Dundalk Garda station were they?

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 11:50 PM

    ‘professional surveillance operation’? In other words some dosser parked up for the day across from the station studying the racing pages while keeping an eye on whos going in and out.oh yeah very impressive,wonder where they recruited this crack special agent,ladbrokes or paddy powers?

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 6:11 PM

    Gardai involved in illegal activities.. I refuse to believe it. Will be interesting to see how the do gooders will react on here to this… you know the ones who scream murder etc if anything sinn fein is mentioned on here.

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    Dec 4th 2013, 10:07 AM

    Were two people not murdered?

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    Dec 4th 2013, 11:37 AM

    And your point being?

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 6:36 PM

    Once again, we’re missing the point. At the time the officers were ambushed, the 26 county state laid constitutional claim to the six counties. Therefore the officers were members of a hostile force, upholding the rogue state. Therefore, the only question of collusion lies with those within the Garda who were meeting with, exchanging intelligence and therefore colluding with the enemy of the state at that time. Waste of money such a tribunal.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 6:44 PM

    Goodman John ya di.khead

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 6:51 PM

    @johnny. Me a dixkhead.? I just pointed out the constitutional situation which prevailed at the time. You’re just too stupid to see that or a proud free state partitionist lackie.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:02 PM

    Good man John- picking & choosing the elements of the constitution that supports your argument. We may have had a claim to the 6 but we were constitutional committed to achieving unification through peaceful means & via consent of all on the island. Your ‘hostile force/rogue state’ is utter nonsense.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:59 PM

    Try see it another way. What if Jack Lynch had upheld his constitutional obligations and sent troops into Derry in 69.? The brits would have done the same in Belfast and a totally different dynamic would have followed. A dynamic to achieve a lasting peace, 30 years earlier. Would have saved so many lives on all sides. Subsequent governments then bent over backwards to acquiesce/collude with the status quo with Cosgraves government standing out amongst its peers. The IRA did not start the conflict and it was the failure of 26 county governments to effectively address their constitutional obligations which delegated this responsibility to the IRA by proxy, thus prolonging the conflict by years.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:15 PM

    What constitutional obligation!?! The old Art 2 of the constitution said that the territory of Ireland was the island of Ireland. Art 3 provided that the laws of the state would only cover the 26 counties until such time as the 6 were ‘reintegrated’. Hardly a mandate for lynch to invade Derry!!

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 9:53 PM

    Don’t be silly Allan. If you can wrap a tricolour around yourself and construct a coherent sentence, you have a constitutional right to make up constitutional law as you go along.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 11:31 PM

    That’s a ridiculous idea. I remember Jack Lynch’s speech at the time it was made. Everyone knee it was just rhetoric. The Irish Army was in no position to invade Northern Ireland in 1969. If it it would have been destroyed by the RAF and by the British Army. It would have been a suicide mission. And the people of Dun Laoghaire would have woken up one morning and seen the Royal Navy steaming into Dyblin Bay.

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    Dec 4th 2013, 12:09 AM

    @John Mullen

    “What if Jack Lynch had upheld his constitutional obligations and sent troops into Derry in 69.? The brits would have done the same in Belfast and a totally different dynamic would have followed.”

    Sending Irish soldiers into Northern Ireland would have been futile. The British military would have wiped the floor with them. It would have been like a Polish cavalry charge against German tanks. Furthermore, it would have provoked further anti-Catholic attacks.

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    Dec 4th 2013, 1:42 AM

    David, how disappointing it is to learn that you are a rabid right-wing British Thatcherite..

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    Dec 4th 2013, 10:34 AM

    Seek help John

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    Dec 4th 2013, 10:37 AM

    Allan don’t baffle idiots with sense these are shinners ie the mental maturity if a six year old. Oops sorry kids is a touchy subject around the shinners at the minute

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    Dec 4th 2013, 10:39 AM

    Padraic us so refreshing to know you are a shinner and not to take seriously :)

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    Dec 4th 2013, 12:03 PM

    Kenneth, your right I’m a Sinn Féin voter, and very proud to be so. But do you, as an anti-Irish right-wing west Brit, and that other poster David Giles, who is a British Conservative member posting from London, a known Thatcherite – do you really believe that the both of you are in any way trusted or “taken seriously” on these pages?

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    Dec 4th 2013, 12:40 PM

    Padraic

    I am not a rabid right-wing British Thatcherite. I am Irish and proud of it.and proud it it. But like the vast majority of Irish people I do not support Sinn Fein or the Provisional IRA. Nor do I support the Democratic Unionisty Party and the various so called- Loyalist paramilitary groups or illegal activities by anyone or any organisation including the British or Irish Governments, armies or police forces.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 6:19 PM

    Perhaps there would have been a conclusive result if it had been a Guiness or a Murphys tribunal.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 9:19 PM

    Carlsberg would probably get a conclusive result.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 6:36 PM

    That’s one HELL of an inaccurate headline!!!!

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:11 PM

    Paul Whitters 15 April 25 1981 Shot in the chest by RUC from a distance of 5-7 yards.

    Nora McCabe 32 July 9 1981 Shot in the head by the RUC from a distance of 2 yards. Non-riot situation.

    Not rioting Sean Downes 22 August 12 1984 Shot in the chest by RUC from a distance of 2 yards.

    Keith White 20 April 14 1986 Shot in the head by RUC at point blank range.

    Seamus Duffy 15 August 9 1989 Shot in the chest by RUC from a distance of less than 10 yards. Non-riot situation.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:19 PM

    COLLUSION?
    Farmers, shopkeepers, publicans and businessmen were slaughtered in a bloody decade of bombings and shootings in the counties of Tyrone and Armagh in the 1970s. Four families each lost three relatives; in other cases, children were left orphaned after both parents were murdered. For years there were claims that loyalists were helped and guided by members of the RUC and Ulster Defence Regiment.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:20 PM

    Stephen McConomy. 12 years. Shot in the back of the head in broad daylight, after sticking a vote Sinn Féin sticker on a police land rover at butchers gate, city walls, Derry.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:23 PM

    Jean McConville widowed mother of 10 murdered by the IRA 1972

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:26 PM

    Well said Alan

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:27 PM

    Oops meant well said Michael :)

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:50 PM

    Ink toner why do you respond with the name of someone murdered by an illegal paramilitary murder to the names of innocent civilians murdered by the STATE forces. Surely the actual security forces of a country should be held to a higher standard than a bunch of criminals in they eyes of the state in question.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:51 PM

    Tout

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 9:48 PM

    The IRA’s line at the time was that it was the legitimate government of the whole of Ireland. So trying to distinguish between it and the State doesn’t work as an argument.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 10:27 PM

    I don’t understand the mentality of ppl red thumbing facts! There was huge collusion on the British side, where innocent people, people with no links to politics or republicanism, other than perhaps being a supporter of the GAA were slaughtered! I’m not talking about those in IRA or UVF who were killed, but genuine innocent people! Why do us irish feel the need to lessen the value of a life of somebody killed by British? There is more sorrow and pity for a lost RUC officer than a hard working farmer or publican etc, who was killed by UVF/RUC/UDR. It truly puzzles me!

    There is huge discontent about a few individuals who perhaps shared intelligence, but please look at the other side too!.. There are countless incidents where British collusion caused deaths, multiple deaths! Look at the 1970s in south Armagh, Tyrone, louth, Monaghan! Read ‘Lethal Allies’ by Anne cadwallader for full discription!

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 10:43 PM

    @Michael Allen

    RUC officers were under constant threat during the Troubles, even when there were no riots. Sometimes, they mistakenly believed that individuals were terrorists, just like armed police mistakenly believed that Jean Charles de Menezes was a suicide bomber.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 10:54 PM

    @ciaran was this when they went to people’s houses and shot them in their hallways, or maybe when they opened fire on civilians in pubs, or maybe when they planted bombs in pubs, cars and houses.. Yea..suppose they could have confused people putting their kids to bed as IRA members! Fair point! Jesus can people please begin to sf-educate rather than making stupid remarks based on media spin!!!

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 10:55 PM

    *self-educate

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 10:55 PM

    Totally agree with you Clodagh, it’s a strange country indeed with such attitudes. I think it’s just hatred for the republican movement that spurs some people on and their only agenda is to try and damage SF. They couldn’t give a f*ck about any victim of the Troubles but just use the names of victims to further their agendas. If they actually cared about victims why are they not vociferously pushing the British to release papers, and carry put inquiries into the countless murders of collusion. Their failure to do so and focus on a select few victims just proves how narrow minded their agendas are.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 10:57 PM

    @Clodagh

    I wasn’t referring to the crimes of the Glenanne gang. I was referring to the incidents that Michael Allen referred to.

    “Paul Whitters 15 April 25 1981 Shot in the chest by RUC from a distance of 5-7 yards.

    Nora McCabe 32 July 9 1981 Shot in the head by the RUC from a distance of 2 yards. Non-riot situation.

    Not rioting Sean Downes 22 August 12 1984 Shot in the chest by RUC from a distance of 2 yards.

    Keith White 20 April 14 1986 Shot in the head by RUC at point blank range.

    Seamus Duffy 15 August 9 1989 Shot in the chest by RUC from a distance of less than 10 yards. Non-riot situation.”

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 11:45 PM

    The IRA has never been the legitimate government of the whole of Ireland. Even during the War of Independence, the IRA was subordinate to Dail Eireann, the Cabinet and the Government. The Civil War happened because a minority of the IRA refused to accept the authority of Dail Eireann. A majority of that minority then went on go found Fianna Fail and accept the authority of Dail Eireann. A minority of that minority called itself Sinn Fein which was in reality controlled by a minority of the minority faction of the original IRA which then called itself the IRA.

    Various failed minor military campaigns were undertaken in the nineteen-fifties and fifties, including collaboration with Nazi Germany. Eventually in the nineteen-seventies a minority of the minority of the minority split from Sinn Fein and became Provisional Sinn Fein whose paramilitary organisation called itself the Provisional IRA.

    The Irish Army whose first Commander in Chief was General Michael Collins was and is the only Army of the Irish Republic.

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    Dec 4th 2013, 12:10 AM

    So what Michael they eliminated undesirables what’s the problem I would give them a medal

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    Dec 4th 2013, 12:12 AM

    Defacing government property is a crime, just a non combatant to use SF termonology

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    Dec 4th 2013, 10:53 AM

    Clodagh opinions are not facts. I do think it was a possibility that there was the conclusion you speak of but there is nothing by means of evidence and the shinners harping on about murder squads etc when the portraty the IRA as alter boys is disgusting. Innocent people are always innocent. The British aren’t investigating but they ain’t denying and that’s what SF are at

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    Dec 4th 2013, 10:59 AM

    Read your post again pat- what on earth could anyone have with that. The mind boggles at your stupidity it really does

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 6:44 PM

    Hard to believe that any Garda would actually assist a terrorist organisation who murdered his own colugues,the investigation needs to go on and find the traitor responsible !

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:01 PM

    It’s obviously going to be very difficult to piece together what happened after all these years.

    This should be a compelling reason for an independent investigation into the Omagh bombings and what British intelligence services knew at the time before persons involved die due to old age etc

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:24 PM

    Just waiting on the Brit Shyte Patrick Lyons to have a field day on this :) He only comments on IRA stuff after all the RUC never colluded with loyalist s c u m

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:34 PM

    There seems to no end to the amount of crime that these IRA gangsters were involved in.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:40 PM

    Either Pat is still in shock or he is confused as to which fake account to use.

    Although the person using “Ink Toner” does look a bit suspicious to me….

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:40 PM

    I’m surprised Kenneth sat this one out too, hopefully it stays that way..

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:53 PM

    Oh thank God Pat, I thought that you had taken a turn there!

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:59 PM

    Thanks for the concern Brian – I was busy throwing darts at a picture of Gerry Adams.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:28 PM

    Sony prat is pat the tan and ink toner is kenneth/stephen

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:28 PM

    There seems to be no end to the number of people who despise you and your anti Irish views.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:37 PM

    Why Brian ? Is that because I have an opinion ? Have I hit a raw nerve or something? Suspicious is a word you properly make a lot more use of!

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:39 PM

    A load bull little mick!

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:41 PM

    That doesn’t make sense ya quaaaaaare

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:41 PM

    No Ink, it’s just that the number of fake accounts that appear on here with the same opinion are suspicious. I mean even Pat Lyons has given up pretending that he isn’t “Sony Plat”.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:55 PM

    No Brian I think what you mean is the growing number of people who are sick of the SF media manipulation & propaganda on this site who are beginning to fight back – it must be hard for you to understand that a lot if people have the same opinion!

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 10:02 PM

    Ink, you are right when you say ” I think what you mean is the growing number of people who are sick of the SF media manipulation & propaganda on this site who are beginning to fight back ”

    A handful of people using multiple anonymous accounts that pop up out of no where to promote their view point! If the Shinners were to do the same thing no one would use their own name and the place would be over run.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 10:12 PM

    Kenneth’s probably out on the fleg protest drinking Buckie and sniffing glue shouting no surrender to the IRA, just like the old days. Oh how he and his ilk miss the old days. Bring back the Provos, we wanna be all superior again!!!

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 10:15 PM

    What planet are you on Brian? Everyone knows your colours, do you really think people are that stupid???

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 10:27 PM

    Brian, I never pretended anything. Pat Lyons/Sony Plat/Tony Slap.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 11:16 PM

    The anti Sinn Féin posters with the multiple names are Loyalists and two known Fine Gaelers.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 11:38 PM

    Padraic, if your an example of the calibre of person that SF has to offer I don’t think the rest us need not lose any sleep!

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    Dec 4th 2013, 12:16 AM

    Well we now know the Gardai colluded with the IRA s*um and they us an undeniable fact.

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    Dec 4th 2013, 3:13 PM

    :)

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 6:08 PM

    Surprise surprise

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:55 PM

    And how many times did the RUC do the same ?

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:02 PM

    Jesus Shatter must be raging. In the Sf who are they documentary he went to town on Sinn Fein and it’s IRA links! Don’t think this revelation is anything that people are shocked by!

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:37 PM

    One day all this trouble will end and the history books will take over.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 9:22 PM

    The unproven (to a criminal standard) actions of what looks like a few gardai tipping off the IRA and leading to the murder of two RUC officers is quickly labelled as collusion whereas the widespread systematic targeting those fitting the criteria of being catholic or sympathetic to the republican movement by state intelligence and police who effectively outsourced the dirty work to loyalist murder squads (many of whom simply took their uniforms off and put a balaclava on) is rejected as collusion tooth and nail by academics in our universities, the media and anyone interested in maintaining the status quo.

    The line is it was everything but collusion when the Brits are involved (bad apple,etc) labeling anyone who disagrees as a terrorist sympathizer or a sucker for their propaganda but they’re quick to call the other side on it when presented with the opportunity.

    Much of the truth will come out sooner or later and you can rest assured the Irish states hands will be glistening in comparison to what the British did to defeat the Ira and break their much needed support base. Not actively pursuing IRA on the run is nothing compared to handing over intelligence of innocent people and their families to UVF/UDA gunmen.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 10:36 PM

    Sean plain and simple they are opportunistic hypocrites of the highest order. Politicians in this country are pathetic in their denouncement of crimes when attributed to republicans but then when the same crimes are carried out by the British they never have nothing to say, or reject the same accusations they make when they are attributed to republicans.

    You should see how easy it is to catch out politicians, especially councillors and people put canvassing for Labour or FFG over the years. Whenever I cross paths with them I question them on Gerry Adams association with the IRA and they always go off on rants denouncing the association. I then put it to them about Eamon Gilmore and the Official IRA, the reactions are absolutely priceless with them trying to worm their way out of a hole of their own digging.

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    Dec 4th 2013, 12:47 AM

    @Pat Mustard

    “You should see how easy it is to catch out politicians, especially councillors and people put canvassing for Labour or FFG over the years. Whenever I cross paths with them I question them on Gerry Adams association with the IRA and they always go off on rants denouncing the association. I then put it to them about Eamon Gilmore and the Official IRA, the reactions are absolutely priceless with them trying to worm their way out of a hole of their own digging.”

    I have no time for Gilmore but he, unlike Adams, has never been accused of involvement in murder.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:15 PM

    Nice little story from the movie makers who brought you WMD No proof though.

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    Dec 4th 2013, 1:06 AM

    Of course there was collusion between the IRA and the Gardai. This was only to be expected seen as the IRA was very strong in Louth and for many Gardai they were friends, family and neighbours. If I was told there was no collusion I would be more shocked. This report has found that there were at least 3, maybe more Gardai from Dundalk Garda station helping the IRA in the late eighties so you can imagine this wasn’t the only station compromised. We should also remember that the government in the republic sought arms to supply the IRA at one stage. The whole 26 weren’t anti IRA as the media would have us believe, there was support throughout the country in all sections of society.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:19 PM

    Sounds like an opinion to me. No facts or evidence to back it up.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 10:29 PM

    Harry Breen and his sectarian comrades in the RUC were involved in the murder of Catholics in the murder triangle. The disgrace in this story is that this sectarian RUC murderer was welcomed into any Garda station in the 26 counties. That fact is the only reason members of An Garda Siochana should hang their heads in shame tonight.

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    Mute Kenneth
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    Dec 4th 2013, 12:21 AM

    Isn’t baron Adams welcomed in any police station after what his gang did to Gardai

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    Mute Harry Price
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:01 PM

    IFS, BUTS, AND ANDS, TO MURDERs that points to garda involvement.. judge said there was gardai collusion .. what happens behind closed doors in gardai stations stays there .. could it be a cover up

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:15 PM

    It was only a matter of time til you came out from under the bridge harry

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 9:22 PM

    I bet the ‘Irish Independent’ & the UK media etc. will just revel in this.

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    Mute Pádraic Ó Braonáin
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 11:36 PM

    I agree Zoe, the “Irish” Independent especially. This rag always took the British side in the conflict, and were/are constantly maligning the nationalist people of the six counties – the paper is absolutely HATED up north.

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    Dec 4th 2013, 12:19 AM

    Right so zoe we have to expose the republicans for what they really are, the game is up :)

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    Dec 4th 2013, 12:05 AM

    You have to understand the shinners. British collusion = bad, Irish collision = good. Church child rape = bad, SF child rape = good. State cover up = bad, IRA cover up = good. This the inbred ways if a republican

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    Mute Lord Loverocket
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 10:14 PM

    This outcome now puts the pressure on Westminster to do the decent thing and investigate the countless atrocities and collusion its forces were involved in.

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    Mute Thomas Hannigan
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:20 PM

    Probably…?.for fcuk Sake.

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    Mute Michael Daly
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 10:57 PM

    In my opinion the resort to violence is always wrong and immoral. In the case of NI it achieved absolutely nothing that couldn’t have been achieved by other means. For instance what if Dev et al hadn’t sulked down here because they didn’t get there way but had sought to engage with the British and the Unionists. Might it not have been possible to persuade the Unionists that we didn’t pose a threat and as a consequence they might not have felt the need to treat the Nationalist population of the North so badly?

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 11:56 PM

    Well said Michael Daly. You cannot unite Ireland without uniting the Irish people. You cannot unite the Irish people by excluding, attacking and murdering other Irish people. Irish unity cannot only be achieved by consent. Every action taken by the Provisional IRA since its foundation has been counter-productive to its stated aim of a United Ireland. Sinn Fein because of its close association with the Provisional IRA is a major obstacle on the road to a United Ireland. The sooner Sinn Fein and the Provisional IRA go away, the better.

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    Dec 4th 2013, 12:51 AM

    David your logic baffles me, are we to believe that the murder, discrimination and pathological hatred perpetrated on the Nationalist/Catholic population in the North of Ireland was the fault of those living in the 26 counties? Those poor wee Orangemen we’re so terrified of us that they had to beat down their own countrymen and neighbours at every opportunity. Please enlighten me!

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    Mute Pádraic Ó Braonáin
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    Dec 4th 2013, 12:53 AM

    Hi Michael, you say Dev maybe could have “engaged with the British and the Unionists”
    It would not have been easy Michael, or even possible at that time. Unionists (backed by the British) were not willing to give up or even come to any arrangement at all on their cozy little apartheid statelet – and they held/hold this pure hatred for anything Irish or Catholic…..I remember as a young man and my first experience of it at work in a large car sales firm in Belfast. It has to be experienced to be believed. To walk across the parts shop floor and have grown men block your path, and every time you would move to one side to pass, they would move an block you again. The visual hatred on their faces was like was something out of a Hollywood horror film, (I knew one as a part time B Special) I was called a “dirty taig” and threatened with “don’t come in to work in the morning”…..I don’t see how there could have ever been any talking with these people – it took a bloody War to just to get even basic civil rights..

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    Dec 4th 2013, 11:08 AM

    Why on earth would you send the Irish army to a British situation, we didn’t care then and we don’t care now. The shinners underestimated the Irish people and it has backfired badly

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    Dec 4th 2013, 11:50 PM

    Gerard, I do not deny that the Nationalist population of North-East Ireland suffered very serious discrimination and mistreatment at the hands of the Unionist majority. I am very happy to have supported the struggle for civil rights in the sixties and seventies. In fact I was once spoke at a meeting alongside Sean MacBride SC, the former Chief of Staff of the IRA, on this very subject. I took part in the protests against Bloody Sunday and visited Derry the week after it happened as a gesture of solidarity with the people of that city. But the violence that followed on all sides can be justified. I was present in Harrods in London when the PIRA exploded a bomb in the street outside it killing and wounding innocent people. I was in Belfast on occasions when bombs were going off also. I remember when the PIRA exploded bombs in Birmingham, in Warrington and Canary Wharf. These were PIRA bombs – not British Army, RUC, UDR or UVF bombs. Sinn Fein has never apologised for atrocities.

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 6:28 PM

    I know you believe what you think you heard me say, but you must realise that what I said is not what I meant.
    Phase four of the operation: the State must ensure that the truth will never be told.
    Shame, shame, shame.

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    Mute Butter bean
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 7:40 PM

    Ah back then the ra and guards were one and the same.get over it.

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    Mute Kenneth
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 11:48 PM

    So after years of calling foul it appears that SF/IRA are complete hypocrites. But you won’t get them to admit it, disgusting vile humans

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    Dec 3rd 2013, 8:12 PM

    The publication of report from Judge Peter Smithwick of Smithwicks Tribunal
    http://opac.oireachtas.ie/AWData/Library3/smithwickFinal03122013_171046.pdf

    Smethwick Tribunal Fourth Report
    http://static.rasset.ie/documents/news/smithwick.pdf

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    Mute Kevin MacDermott
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    Dec 3rd 2013, 11:39 PM

    “The balance of probability” is a mathematical conclusion and should have no place in a judicial finding. Inquiries and trials are about establishing fact on which to base convictions or other measures, the balance of probability is neither conclusive or convincing. We deserve to know facts and findings of fact.

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    Dec 4th 2013, 11:13 AM

    Thank god there is a provision for beyond reasonable doubt. Don’t know what the shinners are getting upset about their credibility was in tatters before this it only makes a difference to the Gardai. You gave to laugh at these Shinnerbots a rare inbreed

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    Dec 4th 2013, 11:43 AM

    You are a great promotion for sinn fein. Your over the top, offensive, anti irish, filthy, and ignorant comments actually convinced me that come next election I am voting Sinn Fein. I was a Labour voter but they have let me and many others down. Sinn Fein are getting my vote and let me also add… I know many others who will vote for them next time round. Oh and sorry to disappoint…. I’m a professional, university educated, from a farming backgroundg without even as much as a parking ticket to my name.

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    Dec 4th 2013, 9:46 AM

    No evidence, no proof , no facts …
    but sure personal opinion is good enough when dealing with anything to do with Republicans … and our pro unionist FG/LAB government rush out to apologise for something that may never have happened while maintaining a deafening silence on the slaughter of unarmed Irish civilians by British murder gangs .. gotta give the unionists a victory I suppose …

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    Mute Mindfulirish
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    Dec 4th 2013, 1:54 AM

    Corrupt police ???? Corrupt charities.
    Bankers and politicians still still on inflated salaries. Who can you trust? The British must think we are a third world country with no integrity. It turns out the only honest people are the ordinary people with no power. Power has attracted all these corrupt people. Police and detectives will need a few generations to get some integrity back. It’s a black day for Irish people who these people are supposed to represent. My sympathy as an Irish person goes to the families of the deceased police officers and prsably other British police who were hung out to be killed by these guys.

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    Dec 4th 2013, 10:02 AM

    Avoid, deflect, nothing to see here…. As the terrorist empire implodes :D

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    Dec 4th 2013, 7:33 AM

    Picture this SF form a Government – they formulate a truth commission. IRA members participate & talk openly as it is in the interests of moving on, then both Governments participate …. OMG they would have to come clean about EVERYTHING!
    Quick lets up our game in operation anti SF in the media. Contact TV3, Indo & RTE- we can’t let the truth be known!

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