Category: IRA
Deal Done on Maze AND Stadium?
The Belfast Telegraph reported on Monday that DCAL minister Gregory Campbell is about to scrap the Maze stadium plans. Amongst all the boring and spectacularly un-newsworthy talks between the DUP and Sinn Fein, apparently the DUPes and the Sinners have d… more »
Whiter than white Celtic fans
by Michael Shilliday 
on 28 Aug 2008 at 14:15. Categories: Internet, Sport, Local Wackos, Blogging, IRA, Republicans, Myths and Lies Balrog doesn't get any better
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Celtic fans are not, never were and never will be sectarian.
Really?
Nuff said really. more »
Balrog on the deaths of children
by Michael Shilliday on 17 Aug 2008 at 16:19. Categories: Local Wackos, IRA, Republicans, Myths and Lies, Law & Order Balrog is critical of those who praise Sergeant Lee Clegg for his role in Afghanistan.
I was disgusted to learn that the British military establishment are now exalting murdering bastard Para Lee Clegg in Afghanistan, as some type of noble war hero. P… more »
Mixed Messages in Newry & Mourne
£3 million was budgeted last year on trying to reduce the relatively large number of people taking their own lives in Northern Ireland, a problem which the executive is resolved to tackle and one that disproportionately affects young people (and ma… more »
Where we were in 1998
by Michael Shilliday on 23 Apr 2008 at 11:29. Categories: United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein, IRA, Politics, Devolved Government, History I was recently required to do an analysis of an academic research paper. A colleague I was working with chose this one, which I hadn't read before. There are some fascinating things in the responses.
Page 6 of the PDF shows the huge swing in support… more »
Bomber Celebration Banned as SF Agenda Becomes Clear
The Assembly Commission, which runs the estate at Stormont, has drawn up new rules that mean events held in the Long Gallery now require "cross-community backing of three MLAs" (I'm guessing this means three from each community?).
This effectively m… more »
US Envoy Denounces Provo Concessions
by beano on 02 Mar 2008 at 17:50. Categories: United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein, IRA, Direct Rule, Republicans, Law & Order, Politics, USA The traditional view of Americans participation in the "Peace Process" here is generally seen as "cynical playing to the green Irish vote" by taking the side of nationalists and/or republicans. This was particularly true under the Clinton years.
With… more »
Terrorism, not warfare
by Michael Shilliday on 19 Feb 2008 at 13:25. Categories: United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Irish Republic, Sinn Fein, IRA, Dissident Republicans, Culture, Politics, History The Assembly has rejected any suggestion that the IRA's sectarian murder campaign was a war. A good thing, and fairly unsurprising.
I've always liked Danny Kennedy, but his performance since devolution has impressed me, and he is clearly im proving… more »
No More Death, No More FARC
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez recently called for governments to recognise Colombian terrorists (and friends of the IRA) FARC to be recognised as "an army". Sound familiar?
Today Colombians will take to the streets to march in protest against FARC… more »
Dublin Football Fans' Sectarian Attack in Londonderry
Approximately 30 supporters from Bohemians, a Dublin football team, launched a sectarian attack on the Tavern; the last Protestant-owned city-centre bar in Londonderry west of the Foyle on Tuesday evening before a match with Derry City [BBC video report]… more »
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