Abortion Exclusive - Ann's Story -

Abortion – Ann’s Story



In 1982 I was 19 years old and living in Monaghan Town. I was sexually active but at that time it was illegal for people in the Irish Republic to get the contraceptive pill or even durex. So I became pregnant. I wanted to keep my baby, but my mother who had her ‘image’ to uphold demanded that I get rid of my child. I had never even heard of abortion back then, but my mother was insistent that I would get rid of my unborn baby.



My mother and father drove to Emyvale in north Monaghan to the home of the lad they thought had got me pregnant and they demanded that he pay for me to travel to England to get rid of my unborn baby. The lad said it was not his baby, which was probably true, and my parents went to his sister and demanded they pay for my abortion.



My mother said she could not afford to pay for me to travel to England as she had her 25th Wedding anniversary that year, and she did not want the neighbours to know that I was pregnant outside of marriage, I would later learn that my Mother had in fact been pregnant when she married my father, still plenty of hypocrites in Ireland.



I continued to insist that I would not kill my unborn baby, however, my mother who continues to hug the altar rails in St Maccartan’s Cathedral every Sunday morning insisted that her grandchild would be disposed of or I would be thrown out of the family home where I lived.



Eventually I was put on the boat to England and my Mother had made an appointment for me at one of the abortion clinics over there. I was booked into a seedy bed and breakfast that was full of drunks and drug addicts; this suited my mother, as it was cheap.



When I went to the Clinic I was very scared. I was treated like an animal, I seen young girls coming out crying and their mothers telling them it was for the best. Eventually my name was called and I was taken into a room that had a leatherette bench covered in tissue paper, two stirrups were hanging from the ceiling and an array of surgical tools were laid out on a stainless steel table.



I was told to remove my clothes as two male and one female in white coats moved about the room, I was given a white paper gown to put on. I felt naked, embarrassed and scared.



I was told to get onto the bench, as I did I noticed the large black plastic bucket full of water at the end of the bench, I was so ashamed and scared, but I felt I had no choice, my Church going mother would throw me out if I did not do this terrible thing.



I was given an injection in the top of my leg and my legs placed in the stirrups. I was awake as the doctor placed long stainless steel scissors inside my womb, I could feel cutting motions inside my body, I had no real idea what was happening. The female then placed a vacuum type thing against my virgina and I could hear stuff being sucked from my body. The male doctor them used clamps to remove something from inside my body, I then seen the tiny head and torso of my baby son as they placed his dismembered body into the bucket of water to ensure he would breath no more.



I have never recovered from this horrible ordeal, I can still hear the faint cries, I think that’s what I heard. I hate my mother and father for what they forced me to do, I will never recover and I hate those ‘feminists’ who say it is a woman’s choice, it is not a choice for many thousands of young girls who are forced by their hypocrite parents to murder their unborn children each year. It is obvious that these women have never been forced to undergo this murderous procedure or they would have a real understanding that abortion is a tool of oppression and not a tool of liberation for women.



It is worth mentioning that in Ireland in 1982 anyone assisting in the unlawful destruction of an unborn child could face Life in prison under the 1821 Offences Against The Person Act, however, my Mother and Father have never been prosecuted, they are not the only ones to have committed such heinous crimes and I guess they won’t be the last.

Dissident Attack within Days -

Recent successes by both the Gardai and PSNI against Dissident republican terrorists have left the Real IRA and Continuity IRA more determined to open 2011 with attacks in the north, it is believed that dissident terrorists will carry out attacks in Armagh, Tyrone, Derry and Fermanagh in the coming weeks with dissidents determined to carry out a spectacular in Armagh hours into 2011.





Dissident Interview: Exclusive: by theirishobserver.blogspot.com



This is an exclusive interview with a member of a dissident terrorist organisation, the RIRA. This dissident has been known to the interviewer for over thirty years and so this interview is going to be open and honest. If you do not wish to read strong language then stop reading now.







Q. Do you honestly believe that you can achieve anything with your on going terror campaign?







A. The fight for national self-determination cannot be won by Sinn Fein sitting in a partitionist Stormont, propping up British rule in Ireland, or Sinn Fein lap dogs sitting in a Freestate Parliament, what have they achieved with their sell-out, 4% of the vote.







Q. But surely your leadership in the RIRA were involved in the secret talk’s process that took place between the PIRA leadership and the Brits?







A. While I recognise that there are those within our leadership who knew about the secret talks between Mc Guinness and M16, they did step down from the PIRA leadership when they realised that those talks could only lead to a partitionist settlement.







Q. I think you are being very naive if you think that Michael Mc Kevitt, Liam Campbell and so forth ever believed that the Brits were going to with draw from Ireland because the PIRA had entered a talk’s process, surely Mc Kevitt and company knew very well that these talks were always about the surrender of militant republicanism?







A. I would say that Mc Kevitt and others allowed the talks process to proceed as they believed that the armed struggle would always be their fall back if the talks did not deliver.







Q. To be honest with you I think that is a load of bollocks, M16 Agent Michael Oakley had Sean O’Callaghan as his key advisor at all times during the talks with Mc Guinness, are you really trying to suggest that Sean O’Callaghan was helping to achieve a United Ireland?







A. We had no idea that O’Callaghan was advising the Brits, our position was simply to establish what the Brits were prepared to offer in terms of all Ireland institutions and so forth, political and policing reform, release of prisoners, in the event that a cease-fire were to be called.







Q. I would have to put it to you that you knew very well that the Brits would deliver on most of those demands, and indeed they did deliver, and I would say to you that Mc Kevitt and others walked away over personal and petty matters rather than any fundamental political flaw in what had and could be achieved by dealing with the Brits?







A. I would say that Mc Kevitt has paid a heavy price for his political position and dedication to the republican cause.







Q. I would put it to you that Mc Kevitt has paid a heavy price because he was stupid man who trusted an American truck driver who was working for the FBI?







A. He made mistakes but his motivation was driven by his republicanism.







Q. Would you not agree that Mc Kevitt like so many more so called republicans, were and are more interested in making personal fortunes from criminality than they are about a United Ireland?







A. That is untrue; I don’t know any republican that has made financial gain from the conflict.







Q. What about Slab Murphy, and the rest of his cronies including Mc Kevitt, Liam Campbell and so forth, surely they have all made personal fortunes from the conflict?







A. I have not seen any such fortunes and I would suggest that all the talk about republicans profiteering from the conflict is Brit propaganda.







Q. Why if it is Brit propaganda have so many so called republicans settled with CAB and other State agencies in the Irish Republic, why have members of your organisation served prison time for taking protection money from lap dancing clubs and other criminal activity?







A. Name any dissident that has served time for taking money from lap dancing clubs on our behalf?







Q. William ‘Billy’ Clare is just one that I could mention, do you want me to mention more?







A. There may have been people operating on their own and using our name.







Q. No, that is not true, as Billy and others were accepted into your wings in Portlaoise Prison, so I am afraid you’re not being honest with yourself or your supporters in terms of who you are doing business with or what your business is. I further put it to you that your members are heavily involved with criminal gangs in Limerick, Cork and Dublin?







A. That is not true and we have never been involved with criminal gangs in those cities, we are an Irish liberation organisation and our war is against the Brits not the Irish people.







Q. I put it to you that your organisation has supplied guns, pipe bombs and other weapons to gangs in those cities, and that you have used your relationship with those organisations to profit from drug dealing, cigarette smuggling and the importation of semi-automatic weapons?







A. That is totally untrue, we have not been involved in drug dealing or other forms of criminality.







Q. Surely your organisation murdered Kieran Doherty in Derry a few months ago because he was dealing drugs without your knowledge, had Kieran shared his enterprise with your leadership he would not be dead?







A. Kieran was executed because he had compromised himself both by way of drug dealing and by way of working for the Brits.







Q. I put it to you that you are a liar and your leadership are liars, Kieran Doherty did not work for the Brits and you know that very well, Kieran Doherty was using a house owned by another senior RIRA member Seamus Mc Creavy, to run a drug dealing operation, had Kieran told your leadership what he was doing, your organisation would have had no problem with him?







A. That is a lie, we do not tolerate drug dealing or drug dealers, and we have recently knee capped drug dealers in Belfast.







Q. Listen, the reason your organisation shoot people in the knees is in order to silence the community and share in the profits of drug dealing just as the Provos done before you. You and I know that those within your ranks who shoot people in the knees are cowards who don’t have the balls to take on the Brits and indeed as we seen with Freddie, many touts and informers are allowed to engage in that type of low profile activity to get access to intelligence on behalf of their handlers.







A. That is totally untrue we shoot those who we believe are a threat to our communities, we are not the Provos we have our own leadership and our own plan for the way forward.







Q. Surely the difficulty for your organisation is that you are simply wearing the Provos clothes and like the Provos your organisation will be infiltrated to the neck with touts, agents and informers, and that young men and women will be imprisoned and thousands of Brits will be kept in good jobs thanks to your criminality?







A. We do not tolerate criminality, we do not engage in criminality, we are an Irish liberation organisation and we are prepared for the long war.







Q. Well that is a load of nonsense as well you know, Mc Kevitt and company are only interested in profiteering from criminality. However, back to the reason for your existence, can I put it to you that your leadership Mc Kevitt, Campbell and company are responsible for the deaths of dozens of PIRA volunteers. Is it true to say that while Mc Kevitt and company were involved in secret talks with M16, that M15 and the SAS were wiping out dozens of PIRA volunteers in Fermanagh and Tyrone in particular, 28 in total between 1986-1992.







A. Mc Guinness was the one talking to M16 not Mc Kevitt or Campbell, Mc Guinness is a traitor and he and Adams sold out to the Brits so that they could sit in Stormont and play politics.







Q. Mc Guinness may well have been the one engaged in the meetings with M16, however, it was Mc Kevitt and company who sanctioned those meetings, I put it to you again that Mc Kevitt split the republican movement over personal and petty reasons rather than any fundamental political flaw, as did O’Bradaigh before him in 1986?







A. I can’t say why Mc Kevitt split the organisation, my view is that he did not want to be part of a sell out and neither do those of us within the RIRA and CIRA; the war must go on until Ireland is free from Brit occupation.







Q. Personally, I think that you are being very dishonest, you know that Mc Kevitt, Campbell, Slab Murphy and others are nothing less than criminals who have filled their bank accounts while good Irish men, women and children have been butchered to death. Does your organisation have a military strategy?







A. It is no secret that we are now stronger than ever before, many former comrades in the Provos have now joined our ranks and many young people have now been recruited and trained, we will strike at the Brits and their collaborators as and when possible.







Q. Do the dissident groupings have the capacity to hit the British on their home soil as it appears that you have been unable to strike in England for almost a decade?







A. Yes, we have the capacity to strike at the heart of England and that will be a priority for us in the coming months, we will also maintain our campaign in the north and our primary targets will be the Brits and their collaborators, commercial targets will be a secondary consideration as we must maximise our resources.







Q. Your organisation claimed the murder of Dennis Donaldson in Donegal, but dogs on the street know that Dennis Donaldson was murdered by a senior member of the East Tyrone Brigade of the PIRA (TC), why did your organisation claim that cowardly act?







A. I do not know who executed Dennis Donaldson, but I do know that he was executed because he had admitted he was an M15 agent for several decades.







Q. I put it to you again, Dennis Donaldson was a member of Sinn Finn/PIRA, and it was a member of the PIRA that murdered him, why did your organisation claim that murder?







A. Because he was a self confessed British Agent.







Q. Let me put it to you this way, your organisation claimed the murder of Dennis Donaldson, because the PIRA said you could as it was too politically sensitive for them to have anything to do with, your organisation are nothing more than a proxy for the provos?







A. That is not the case, personally I don’t think we should have claimed responsibility for Donaldson’s execution but that was a leadership decision.







Q. The Dissidents say that they view Mc Guinness and Adams as traitors indeed Mc Guinness has described the dissident leadership as traitors, so why are you not shooting each other, do you not have the balls to take on the Provos, do you find it easier to shoot children?







A. I am not in a position to say what will or will not take place in relation to the Provo traitors, we are focused on fighting the Brits and don’t at this time want to get distracted by internal disputes.







Q. Again your being dishonest, your organisation can kidnap and shoot ordinary citizens within yards of the homes of senior Sinn Fein members, I put it to you that your organisations don’t have the balls to take on the provos, and that you find it easier to knee-cap children?







A. I don’t accept that, we will do what we feel is best for our organisations, in terms of gaining in strength and support, we are in this for the long war and we don’t want at this time to deal with internal republican disputes.







Q. In the wake of the of Liam Adams exposure, is it fair to conclude that there are many similar deviants within your own ranks and that those deviants will be protected at any cost as long as they stay on board with your organisations.







A. It is an outrage to suggest that we would protect sex criminals within our ranks, we do not tolerate any criminality and where that criminality is brought to our attention we will deal with it.







Q. I think that is a lie, your membership were heavily involved with Christy Griffin in Dublin before he was sentenced to life for raping a child, your members knew about those crimes and yet you continued to do business with Christy, the same can be said of Eddie in north Belfast and indeed many of your members socialised with Liam Adams when he lived in Dundalk?







A. I can’t say what went on in Dublin, but I do know that our leadership is dedicated to stamping our criminality within our ranks if such criminality is found.







Q. In the aftermath of the provo cease-fire in 1994 you and others continued to be engaged in criminal activity, namely murdering drug dealers as they were refusing to pay protection money to the provos, the Brits gave you licence to carry-out that activity by describing it as Internal-house-keeping, surely your activities suits the Brits as they have now been able to set up M15 headquarters in the north?







A. I would agree that the Brits would have done anything to help Adams and Mc Guinness to stay in the peace process, and I would agree that as provos at that time we had a free hand to do as we pleased, we were able to kill and knee-cap, rob at will, but no such hands off approach is being adopted towards the dissidents.







Q. Have you ever considered the fact that the provos are planting some of their men within your ranks in order to get good intelligence that they can feed back to the security services?







A. We are constantly vigilant about informers and agents, but that is the way it has always been, those who join our ranks will be fully blooded and if they are touts they will sink with the rest of us.







Q. A few weeks back your organisation almost murdered three children in Lurgan, if that had happened would you have ended your campaign?







A. The simple answer is No, there will always be casualties of war, it would have been a tragedy but that’s the reality of war.







Q. I put it to you that your members are cowards that your membership finds it easier to plant a bomb than take the Brits on face to face?







A. We have to use the personnel and equipment at our disposal to the best of our ability; we have nothing to gain by having our men arrested or our equipment confiscated, so bombs carry a lower risk to our resources.







Q. Yesterday the Brits up graded the threat from the dissident groupings, is that up grading based on a realistic threat from your organisations or is it Brit spin to keep their security budgets in tact?







A. We have the capacity and the determination to hit the Brits at home in the coming months, as Suzanne Breen said on the news yesterday evening, one bomb in England is worth ten bombs in the north, I would say a hundred bombs in the north if we hit the right target, we have learned from recent successful attacks by Muslim activists and we will be adopting our tactics to maximise our national and international profile.







Q. Finally, thanks for this interview, I am convinced that the dissident groupings are driven by criminality, I am convinced that you are on the road to nowhere, that you have no legitimacy, that you are recruiting and training children to do the dirty work of criminal Godfathers most of whom are traitors to the republican cause and that the end result of your criminality with be the death of more innocent people.







A. I disagree, we will do our upmost not to kill civilians and our campaign will help bring about a united Ireland from British rule.







For a full history of militant republicanism see: irishrepublicanarmy-ira.blogspot.com

Gerry Adams - IRA Leader -

Some will know the name Gerry Adams some will not. In Ireland Gerry Adams is widely viewed as the face of the republican movement. Gerry Adams is the President of Sinn Fein which is the political wing of the republican movement. The IRA is the now ‘decommissioned’ military wing of the republican movement. Gerry Adams has for some strange reason always publicly stated that he was never a member of the IRA. For those of us who were members of the republican movement it is well known that Gerry Adams was a senior member of the IRA in Belfast and that he had a seat at the table of the IRA Army Council. Indeed I can put my hand on my heart and say that in 1984 I was present when Gerry Adams arrived at a venue for a meeting of some of the most senior members of the IRA. I was not a senior member of the IRA but was simply present before the meeting started. Gerry Adams and Brendan ‘Darkie’ Hughes did not leave when the meeting started. I will set out here the reality of Gerry Adams janus-face position in the republican movement.




So it was that the British Army were brought into the north as ‘peace-keepers’. The British army were initially feed and given tea by many grateful Catholics who had suffered so much at the hands of loyalist mobs. Indeed the IRA leadership had initially put in place a no shoot policy in relation to the British Army, this policy was put in place as the British Army were so welcomed initially, however, the IRA had no such policy in relation to Protestants and they continued to murder Protestants at will. Yet as the British army were used to break up no-go areas and were the main body tasked with the Internment of Irish Catholics their role as ‘peace-keeper’ would wear thin quickly. There is no doubt that Internment, the breaking up of no-go areas and the IRA’s own mishaps were insuring that the IRA could not operate at full capacity. It was inability to operate at full capacity that foolishly lead the British and Irish Governments to believe that the IRA could be defeated as the ordinary people turned away from the men of violence. The ordinary people could be bought off with reforms in Stormont and the IRA defeated by isolation and imprisonment, thought the Governments.



The Irish Government under Jack Lynch who had just recovered from the controversy surrounding the supplying of guns to the IRA appeared ready and willing to take on rather than tolerate the IRA. Lynch had been backed into a corner as loyalist terrorists had already moved into the Irish Republic in 1972 and fire bombed hotels in Dublin and the loyalists said they would carry out further attacks if the Irish Government did not stand up to the IRA. The loyalists did return and murder dozens of innocent civilians in Monaghan and Dublin.



At the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis in 1972, the PIRA Chief of Staff, Mac Stiofain was not offering Lynch any hope of compromise when he said there would be no compromise with the British; it was all or nothing, “Brits Out”. Lynch decided it was time to put the Provisionals out of business and he had Mac Stiofain arrested and imprisoned.



In 1973, when Seamus Twomey was arrested Gerry Adams took over as commanding officer of the IRA in Belfast. The Adams leadership was well able to match the body count which occurred under Twomey in 1972 which read, 81 innocent Catholics and 41 innocent Protestants mainly murdered in no warning IRA bomb attacks. In his new book Ed Moloney gives a clear insight into the role played by Adams when Moloney reproduces an interview that he carried out with Brendan ‘Darkie’ Hughes before Brendan died in 2009. Brendan Hughes who was a close friend and comrade of Gerry Adams alleges that Adams was the person who ordered the murder of innocent Mother of ten, Jean Mc Conville, amazon.co.uk/Voices-grave-two-mens-ireland. The sectarian bloodbath was overflowing and the British and Irish Governments were at a loss as to what the next step should be. The sectarian drive of the PIRA and indeed Gerry Adams is best captured by Adams himself in his book A Pathway to Peace http://www.brandonbooks.com/authors.php?authors_id=1



Of all the differences between the Ireland of Tone’s time and the Ireland of today, unquestionably one of the most noticeable – although far from being the most significant – is the changed political attitudes of the mass of Protestants, especially in the North. Instead of forming a cordial union with their fellow Irishmen to run their own country for themselves in their own interests, they find themselves the prisoners of a fossilised, politico-religious sectarianism which is entrenched and institutionalised as an integral part of the imperial administrative system in the six counties[1]





Adams fails to see in his own words the very sectarianism of his own politics in the fact that the deaths of over three thousand mainly innocent people in forty years of republican death and destruction have driven an insurmountable wedge between Protestants and Catholics. Few families in the north’s population of 1.5 million have been left unscathed by both loyalist and republican violence, the deaths of over three thousand, the maiming of tens of thousands, the imprisonment of tens of thousands have left the Protestant community more fundamentally opposed to Irish Unity than the British State could have achieved in another eight hundred years of Imperial rule. Interesting though is that fact that Adams himself would eventually become part of what he described as:



An integral part of the imperial administrative system in the six counties.



While Adams and other members of the republican movement continue to try and attach their brand of republicanism with that of Wolfe Tone there is no link, there is no attachment. Wolfe Tone represented the aspirations of a united Irish people both Protestant and Catholic fighting for a French style Republic free of British Imperialism, modern day militant republicanism does not fall within the shadow of Wolfe Tone’s republic. Adams continues to refer to Wolfe Tone and others as the starters of the unfinished business, as if the work of Wolfe Tone is to be found in the sectarian politics of 20th/21st century Sinn Fein/IRA. In the Sinn Fein document The Evolution of Sinn Fein (1995) this desired linkage to Wolfe Tone and others is made six times, this would not be so noticeable if this were not a one page document.



This attempt by the Adams to claim linage to the old IRA is clearly seen in the re-write of the IRA’s Green Book in 1977. In the 1956 edition of the IRA’s Green Book the authors do not engage in any legitimisation of the armed struggle beyond its historical context of resistance to occupation. The 1977 edition which was written by Gerry Adams and other leading republicans claims direct legitimacy from the members of the second Dail, who transferred their authority to the IRA in 1938 after the takeover of the IRA Army Council by Sean Russell. Antony Mc Antyre a former republican prisoner, now an academic and scholar says that:



The modern republican movement has persistently been the product of BritishState strategies rather than a body which has existed for the sole purpose of completing the unfinished business of uniting Ireland.[2]





Contrary to what Imperialist type motives republicans attribute to the BritishState, it remains in Ireland in response to the Protestant/Unionist demands to remain British. This is a correct analysis and one that was supported in my own research as republicans admit to having recognised that Protestants were the real obstacle to a united Ireland as early as the 1970s. Tugwell states that;



That campaign (IRA violence) would use the international, domestic and economic side effects of armed struggle on the British Government and ‘Public’ to cause the necessary shift from the British state viewing the North of Ireland as an asset to a liability.





Following forty years of sectarian violence resulting in over three thousand deaths, the majority of whom were Northern Irish, the public can now be more clearly defined as being physically and psychologically the British Protestant people of Northern Ireland and psychologically and economically the British people of England, Scotland and Wales. All of whom would eventually see the benefits of a united Ireland unless the sectarian bankruptcy of the republican movement was first realised.



Up until September 1973 an IRA bombing campaign had lasted several months with death and mutilation becoming part of the daily routine for the people of Belfast and Derry. Lynch’s Government had taken a tough line against the men of violence and had initiated a sustained program of anti-terrorist legislation as extreme and as tough as the British response to the men of violence. 1974 began with the Provisionals planting bombs all over the north and in Birmingham (England). The PIRA’s New Year message was;



We look forward with confidence to 1974 as a year which the British rule in Ireland shall be destroyed and the curse of alien power banished from our land for all time.





On the 28th of June the new Northern Ireland elections had returned Twenty-three Official Unionist candidates, twenty-seven loyalist candidates, nineteen SDLP (Catholic), eight Alliance (cross-community) and DUP (loyalist). On Tuesday the 14th of May 1974 at six o’clock in the evening, the Assembly voted forty-four to twenty-eight in favour of Faulkner’s amendment supporting the Sunningdale agreement for reform. The Ulster Workers Council (Protestant/loyalist) announced a province wide strike. The north came to a stand still as Protestants held key positions in all of the utility control centres in the north including electricity and water. Loyalists sent death squads back into the Republic of Ireland once again and on the 17th of May 1974 they exploded bombs in Dublin and Monaghan killing dozens of innocent civilians and injuring hundreds more.



The British Government under Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson were not prepared to break the loyalist strike. Intimidation, food shortages, water shortages and electrical shortages continued, Wilson’s inaction had simply made matters worse. Wilson defending the new Northern Ireland Assembly called the loyalists, “Spongers on the British public”. The strength of the loyalist strike proved too much for the constitutional politicians and when Faulkner asked Secretary of State, Rees to talk with the UWC and Rees refused Faulkner and his loyalist colleagues resigned and Sunningdale fell.



Meanwhile the republican movement was again at war within its own ranks. In 1974 the Official IRA lead by Goulding called the PIRA “Fascists” as more splits began to unfold. Republican uncertainty manifested itself into yet another split; on the 8th of December 1974 Seamus Costello and other uncompromising Official IRA members created the IRSP (INLA) yet another republican splinter group. In 1975 members of the INLA killed a number of their former Official IRA comrades. The INLA while small in number would prove to be a ruthless sectarian killing machine, only out done in number and deed by the PIRA.



In 1974 the Official IRA dropped abstentionism to Westminster and the Northern Ireland convention and were now out of the business of violence, at least on any political level. From the 22nd of December 1974 until the 2nd of January 1975 the PIRA called a cease-fire as they were told that if they showed good will talks with the British could take place. Merlyn Rees, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland said on the 20th of December, no specific undertakings had been given. The IRA extended the cease-fire for two weeks, this writer remembers that cease-fire well, but that hope was not to last. Rees refused to talk directly to the IRA and on the 16th of January the IRA returned to violence, having used the cease-fire to get organised and rearmed.



On the 9th of February 1975 the IRA Army Council announced an indefinite cease-fire following discussions with British officials. Loyalists however continued to kill innocent Catholics and the INLA and Official IRA continued to kill each other. The British Government would not or could not give a declaration of intent to withdraw from Northern Ireland and the PIRA continued to use the threat of violence. The loyalists believed that the IRA cease-fire was simply a ploy by the PIRA to get regrouped and rearmed and that a return to full scale violence was only a matter of time. The PIRA wanted the British Government to become persuaders of the Protestant people of Northern Ireland of the benefits of a united Ireland; this was not going to happen in the short term.



The first four chapters of this book have focused on the regression of the republican movement who were constantly falling back into a politico-sectarian blindness coupled by internal feud and disagreement. Their central focus to this point has been the physical and psychological brutality of the Protestant people of Northern Ireland in order to coerce them into a united Ireland. Loyalists are not faultless; however, a clear distinction must be made between ordinary decent hard working Protestants and the small number of criminals who made up the loyalist murder squads.



Chapter 4 Ends





Coming next: A Fairly Secret Army - Chapter 5 – Political Development - Prisons and Hunger Strikes









[1] Page 44 Adams,1988



[2] Page 98 Irish Political Studies, 1995







IRA



IRA. Coming Next

As a footnote to this chapter it is worth noting that Gerry Adams has recently been forced to admit that he knew that his Brother Liam had sexually abused his (Liam's) own daughter Aine from she was a toddler, Gerry has also been forced to admit that his own Father Gerry Adams Snr was a child molester. Yet with this knowledge Gerry Adams continued to allow his brother Liam to remain as a senior member of the republican movement and indeed he gave his father Gerry Snr a full style IRA funeral when he died. When Gerry Adams was asked why he had not mentioned any of this in his auto-biography and why he had painted a cosy profile of his father and brother Liam he said:







"In respect of references to him in my book ‘Before the Dawn’ which deals with my life growing up in west Belfast , I included references to other siblings also. My account of my childhood memories is exactly that. It would have been highly irresponsible and wrong of me to make any reference to the allegations against Liam in the book".





In Chapter 5 I will begin to look at the central role played by republican prisoners and the hunger strikes in 1980/81 in relation to the political development of the republican movement.

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Abortion - Ann's Story - Exclusive -

Abortion – Ann’s Story


In 1982 I was 19 years old and living in Monaghan Town. I was sexually active but at that time it was illegal for people in the Irish Republic to get the contraceptive pill or even durex. So I became pregnant. I wanted to keep my baby, but my mother who had her ‘image’ to uphold demanded that I get rid of my child. I had never even heard of abortion back then, but my mother was insistent that I would get rid of my unborn baby.

My mother and father drove to Emyvale in north Monaghan to the home of the lad they thought had got me pregnant and they demanded that he pay for me to travel to England to get rid of my unborn baby. The lad said it was not his baby, which was probably true, and my parents went to his sister and demanded they pay for my abortion.

My mother said she could not afford to pay for me to travel to England as she had her 25th Wedding anniversary that year, and she did not want the neighbours to know that I was pregnant outside of marriage, I would later learn that my Mother had in fact been pregnant when she married my father, still plenty of hypocrites in Ireland.

I continued to insist that I would not kill my unborn baby, however, my mother who continues to hug the altar rails in St Maccartan’s Cathedral every Sunday morning insisted that her grandchild would be disposed of or I would be thrown out of the family home where I lived.

Eventually I was put on the boat to England and my Mother had made an appointment for me at one of the abortion clinics over there. I was booked into a seedy bed and breakfast that was full of drunks and drug addicts; this suited my mother, as it was cheap.

When I went to the Clinic I was very scared. I was treated like an animal, I seen young girls coming out crying and their mothers telling them it was for the best. Eventually my name was called and I was taken into a room that had a leatherette bench covered in tissue paper, two stirrups were hanging from the ceiling and an array of surgical tools were laid out on a stainless steel table.

I was told to remove my clothes as two male and one female in white coats moved about the room, I was given a white paper gown to put on. I felt naked, embarrassed and scared.

I was told to get onto the bench, as I did I noticed the large black plastic bucket full of water at the end of the bench, I was so ashamed and scared, but I felt I had no choice, my Church going mother would throw me out if I did not do this terrible thing.

I was given an injection in the top of my leg and my legs placed in the stirrups. I was awake as the doctor placed long stainless steel scissors inside my womb, I could feel cutting motions inside my body, I had no real idea what was happening. The female then placed a vacuum type thing against my virgina and I could hear stuff being sucked from my body. The male doctor them used clamps to remove something from inside my body, I then seen the tiny head and torso of my baby son as they placed his dismembered body into the bucket of water to ensure he would breath no more.

I have never recovered from this horrible ordeal, I can still hear the faint cries, I think that’s what I heard. I hate my mother and father for what they forced me to do, I will never recover and I hate those ‘feminists’ who say it is a woman’s choice, it is not a choice for many thousands of young girls who are forced by their hypocrite parents to murder their unborn children each year. It is obvious that these women have never been forced to undergo this murderous procedure or they would have a real understanding that abortion is a tool of oppression and not a tool of liberation for women.



It is worth mentioning that in Ireland in 1982 anyone assisting in the unlawful destruction of an unborn child could face Life in prison under the 1821 Offences Against The Person Act, however, my Mother and Father have never been prosecuted, they are not the only ones to have committed such heinous crimes and I guess they won’t be the last.

Unlicensed Mind Altering drugs feed to children by corrupt GPs -

Unlicensed Mind Altering Drugs such as Seroxat used in IRELAND to distort childhood memories of abuse.





Senior Social Worker Speaks Exclusively to The Irish Observer.blogspot.com

Today The Irish Observer.blogspot.com has been given the opportunity to speak exclusively with a now recently retired Senior Social Worker who says that she could not speak out while employed by the HSE and could still face prosecution due to the confidentiality clause in her contract of employment. However, she feels so strongly about certain issues that she has decided to speak with The Irish Observer where her anonymity will be protected.



Q. How long where you a Social Worker?



A. For over twenty years.



Q. And is it the case that you have retired in the normal course of events?



A. Yes, I was due to retire earlier but worked on due to the shortages in staff.



Q. Where in Ireland did you work while you were a Social Worker?



A. I worked in three area Health Boards, this was due mainly to my various promotions and I went to those areas where expertise was absent due to retirements or simply lack of staff.



Q. Your main reason for contacting me by email was the fact that I had written a number of articles on sexual crime in Ireland, is that correct?



A. Yes, I stumbled across your Blog when I was researching a paper on sexual crime, and I would have to say that your Blogs appeared to be saying exactly what my experience had told me. Although I would have to say I was surprised that you had such an insight into how the HSE and criminal justice system work.



Q. Well I am sure you are well aware that my journey through life has not been a smooth one?



A. Yes, I am well aware of your past, I have read your Blogs



Q. Has Child Protection changed for the better in your twenty years as a Social Worker?



A. The simple answer is No. Social workers and other professionals continue to have far too much power when it comes to dealing with Child Protection issues.



Q. Can you expand on that idea of professionals having too much power?



A. The reality is that there is no mandatory reporting of child abuse including child rape in this country that means that a child reporting rape to a teacher, a GP, even a Social Worker can not be certain that the information provided will be passed onto the Gardai. This means that effectively people like my self can decide what cases we report and what cases we keep quiet. You can imagine how this works in small towns and villages.



Q. Are you saying that a GP has no legal obligation to report the rape of a child to the Gardai?



A. Absolutely not and I have witnessed many cases where such reports to GPs and other professionals have been hidden for many years and only come to light when a rape victim becomes an adult and pursues a criminal prosecution themselves.



Q. In such cases are we talking about children sexually abused by family members?



A. That would make up a great deal of such cases but not exclusively. You have to remember that in rural areas, small towns and villages a GP’s income can be heavily dependent on a small number of extended families, for a GP to report the rape of a child to the Gardai it could cost him/her their lively hood in that area.



Q. Are you saying that economic considerations are taken into account in matters of Child Protection?



A. Well that’s nothing new, as you have often said yourself the Government could find millions to spend on top hotels and other luxuries yet they could not find the small amount of money needed to ensure the protection of children in their own care.



Q. How wide spread a problem is child abuse in Ireland?



A. People try to suggest that there are varying degrees of child abuse, however, in my experience those who physically abuse children will also have the propensity to sexually abuse children, and the important thing for an abuser is the objectification of the victim. The abuser views the child as being their property and therefore they can do what they like to that child without facing any real prospect of punishment. There will be exceptions to every rule but my experience suggests that all abuse should be treated with equal seriousness. Each of the fourteen area Health Boards confirm approximately one-thousand cases of child abuse each year, that is approximately fourteen-thousand confirmed cases of child abuse in Ireland each year, the degrees of abuse will vary from excessive beatings, serious neglect to multiple rapes.



Q. How much goes undetected?



A. That is impossible to answer, however, I think we only touch the tip of the ice-berg, children are easily silenced and when those who facilitate or conceal such crime don’t face any punishment, this leaves perpetrators of abuse with a free hand.



Q. But surely many cases are prosecuted through the courts?



A. Less than four per cent of confirmed cases of child sexual abuse are ever prosecuted, there are thousands of files within the Health Boards where men and women in equal number have admitted to sexually abusing children and none of those files have ever been passed onto the Gardai. I have seen cases where people who have admitted raping several children were simply sent by Social Workers to the Granda Institute for counselling, those abused children remained in the family home. The HSE is legally bound and cannot release this confidential information to anyone, even if that person is working with children, if the person is not prosecuted then their name does not show up when employers are vetting potential employees.



Q. Why do you think the Government have failed to introduce Mandatory reporting of child rape?



A. I honestly believe that child abuse is too close to home for many, I was often lobbied by County Councillors and TDs not to send certain files forward to the Gardai, Politicians had a great deal of influence when they were on the Health Board Committees and indeed they still have power and influence.



Q. Are you saying that Politicians would lobby Health Board staff in order to stop prosecutions?



A. What I am saying is that in certain cases where politicians were contacted by perpetrators or the family of perpetrators and asked to contact the Health Board with a view to stopping matters going forward to the Gardai those politicians contacted us and in most cases those cases did not go forward to the Gardai.



Q. What is your view on the scandal now hitting the Catholic Church about the rape and sexual molestation of children by members of its religious orders?



A. Firstly, I think that it is important to point out that the Catholic Church did not conceal these crimes on their own, there are many files relating to members of religious orders gathering dust in Health Board offices, many of these reported cases were never investigated due to the power of the Church and their friends in high places. I did not need the Ferns, Murphy or Ryan Reports to tell me that there had been a massive cover up. However, what I would say is that any case that I handed over to the Gardai was fully and comprehensively investigated and prosecutions followed from many of those investigations in the three Health Board areas where I worked, however, I did not have control over all cases and many were buried upon instruction.



Q. Do you believe that we have got the full story about what happened within the Catholic Church?



A. Absolutely not, the cover ups are continuing, thousands of religious were simply moved from pillar to post to cover up their crimes, few if any prosecutions will follow from the three reports that I have mentioned and that means that thousands of known child rapists continue to live in communities all over this country and further a field and nobody is aware of their crimes, indeed, even the Gardai have no legal right to monitor the activities of these individuals setting aside the fact that the task is beyond the budget of any police service.



Q. That brings me on to another question, setting aside those who have not been prosecuted, are those who have been prosecuted for sexual crimes against children being monitored in accordance with best practice in child protection?



A. No, is the simply answer, the Gardai are doing their best with the legislation and resource available to them, however, the reality is that persons convicted of sexual offending have no access to rehabilitative care while in prison, they are simply warehoused and then thrown out onto the street with no follow up services available. Some have post release supervision orders but these are simply a waste of time as we don’t have the staff to follow through. The obligation for a convicted person to notify the Gardai of their address within seven days of their release from prison is useless as it is legal to give no fixed abode as their legal address. All of the International standards set down by countries such as Canada are completely ignored in Ireland. What we need is a seamless transition for such offenders where they are firstly given access to rehabilitative opportunity in prison such as the specific programme that was run in Arbour Hill Prison, upon release they need to be safely housed and given job or training opportunities. International best practice suggests that those who have committed sexual crimes can be best monitored while in full time work/training or education and are appropriately housed.



Q. Do you believe that Mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse would reduce child sexual crime in Ireland?



A. It would have an immediate effect; unlike the 2001 Sex Offenders Act which since its introduction sexual crimes right across the board has went sky high, ill considered legislation simply facilitates sexual crime. If people who are concealing and facilitating sexual crime from the Gardai know they will face prosecution if they do not come forward then the sea in which perpetrators swim will soon dry up. Fathers/Mothers, Uncles/Aunts, Grannies/Granddads, Bishops/Cardinals, Politicians/Social Workers the list is endless will soon step forward if they know that they will face public prosecution if they do not report the sexual abuse of children.



Q. What I found interesting about our initial conversation was that you said that unlicensed Mind Altering drugs are continuing to be feed to children in this country is that correct?



A. Yes, Mind Altering drugs that are not licensed in this country for children such as Seroxat are still being prescribed for children yet they have been banned for child consumption in all other European Countries. This is particularly dangerous when dealing with children who are claiming abuse.



Q. Are you saying that children who are making allegations of abuse are being given Mind Altering drugs that are not licensed in this country?



A. Yes, this can have a very dangerous out come in such cases and those prescribing the drugs know very well the effects of such unlicensed drugs. For example, if a child makes and allegation of sexual abuse against a parent or relative and the family would rather that these allegations were concealed it is very easy to get a GP to proscribe something like Seroxat for the child in question. Seroxat should not be used on children as it has mind and mood altering effects, the result is that the child becomes abusive and disruptive and the focus moves from the alleged perpetrator to what is now an abusive and disruptive child. Equally and I have seen all of this happen, Seroxat coupled with discredited practice such a regression therapy can take a child from making allegations of physical abuse to allegations of sexual abuse, rape and even satanic ritual. I have watched in horror as judges have handed down heavy sentences to people as the judge said the child had tried to take their own life as a result of the alleged abuse, yet I knew and so did those involved in the cases, that these children had not tried to take their own life until they had been feed Seroxat or some other Mind Altering drug.



Q. Are you then suggesting that some allegations of sexual abuse may have arisen from the misuse of unlicensed Mind Altering drugs and such discredited practice as regression therapy?



A. I am saying that very clearly, I have seen it happen and I have been supported in my views by Forensic Psychologists and other professionals, however, in the present environment of moral panic and knee jerk political reaction where social policy is dictated by Tabloid headlines I doubt that any serious discussion of these matters will be had for some time to come.



Q. Are you saying that people may have been convicted before the courts on false evidence, evidence that may well be true in the mind of the alleged victim but was invented through the misuse of unlicensed mind altering drugs and discredit practices such as regression therapy?



A. In my view, any case that has involved the use of unlicensed Mind Altering drugs such as Seroxat should never have went to court, and if such cases have went to court and a conviction was secured then those cases should be over turned with immediate effect. I am an advocate for international standards of best practice in child protection, I am not an advocate for miscarriages of justice and in my view there have been many of them. The vast majority of those accused of child sexual molestation normally admit their crimes, however, there is an over whelming burden on juries in this country to believe the ‘victim’, why would he/she say such a thing about a relative, however, if the jury knew what some of these children are being subjected to I think the verdicts could be different in some cases. I think that Barristers, Judges, the Gardai and others need to be aware that unlicensed Mind Altering Drugs and discredited practices are being used behind the scenes. This evidence is never produced in Court and even if it were the Courts would have no idea what they were dealing with. I have seen children so indoctrinated that they have been able to reproduce their original statements to the Gardai with 100% word accuracy to the Court, even though the original statement may have been made years earlier.



Q. But surely no professional is going to allow what could be false evidence to go before the court if it means an innocent person going to jail?



A. It all depends on the case, some professionals like the headlines as much as everyone else, if there is a drive against a particular individual then all the stops will be pulled out to secure a conviction, I have seen it done, but I had no control over the said cases.



Q. I am absolutely amazed that unlicensed Mind Altering drugs are being used in such cases, can anything be done?



A. I think the pharmaceutical companies are very powerful and they have to sell their drugs, the Irish Medicines Board are too reliant on third party research that can often be traced back to the pharmaceuticals, GPs have far too much autonomy, and newly qualified psychologists are simply learning their trade as they go along, psychology is not a science yet certain discredited practices coupled with the use of unlicensed Mind Altering drugs can have a deep mental, psychological, emotional and medical impact on an individual and in particular a child. I don’t think any Government will have the political will to face up to what is a momentous task.



Q. Finally, what would your advice be to the Government in relation to cases of alleged childhood abuse where Seroxat or any other Mind Altering drug was administered to the alleged victim?



A. All convictions based on the evidence of any child or children who were given Seroxat or any other Mind Altering drug should be immediately quashed, there should be an immediate end to the use of unlicensed Mind Altering drugs such as Seroxat for any child in any circumstances but particularly in cases where allegations of abuse are being made. It is a crazy situation where an unlicensed Mind Altering drug can be administered to children by GPs and others, not all Doctors are good Doctors (See, case of Dr Woods, below) . Such discredited techniques as regression therapy should be banned in all cases relating to allegations of childhood abuse. We need a system of checks and balances in which GPs and others are regularly checked to ensure that they are meeting with best practice when it comes to child protection in particular. We cannot continue with the bizarre situation where some GPs are operating surgeries out of their front sitting room without any regular checks or balances in place by the HSE.





Thank you for this insightful interview, I can only hope that it will be used to help bring about best practice in Child Protection in Ireland.



http://www.independent.ie/national-news/monsignor-would-not-report-paedophile-to-gardai-2102871.html





When contacted about the allegations in this interview, The Irish Medicines Board referred me to the following statement on their web site in relation to the use of the unlicensed Mind Altering drug Seroxat:



SEROXAT (PAROXETINE) CONTRAINDICATED FOR CHILDREN

The Irish Medicines Board (IMB) confirmed that the findings of recent Seroxat clinical studies undertaken by the manufacturers GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) found that it was not effective in children and adolescents with major depressive disorder and showed an increased rate of self harm and potentially suicidal behaviour in children and adolescents treated in the studies. As a result of this new information the IMB considers that Seroxat should not be used to treat children and teenagers under the age of 18 years. The IMB has ensured healthcare professionals have been advised of this latest information and have amended the Patient Information Leaflet (PIL) and product licence to contraindicate use of Seroxat in patients under 18 years of age with major depressive disorder.



The IMB re-emphasises to healthcare professionals that Seroxat is not and has not been licensed for use in children or adolescents in Ireland. However, doctors have the authority to prescribe any product for a patient under their care if it is deemed appropriate. The IMB wants to stress the importance for doctors, patients and parents to be aware of this new advice and for patients under 18 years who may be taking Seroxat to consult their doctor for advice. It is essential that patients taking Seroxat do not suddenly discontinue use of their treatment, because of the risk of withdrawal effects. Any changes must take place under medical supervision.



Up Date: 2nd June 2010:



The professional competence of all doctors will assessed every year under a new law launched today.



The Medical Council revealed that within 12 months, GPs and medics nationwide will be legally obliged to maintain a minimum set of standards to continue to practise.



President Professor Kieran Murphy said while the majority of doctors already fulfil the measures voluntarily, the annual monitoring would be an important milestone for enhancing patient safety.



"It will ensure that all doctors are helped to maintain and develop their knowledge and skills during the course of their professional lives and will help ensure that patients are getting the highest possible standards and quality of care," he added.



Health Minister Mary Harney formally launched Part 11 of the 2007 Medical Practitioners Act, which stipulates all medical practitioners must register with a professional competence scheme within the next 12 months.



The process will include continuing professional development and clinical audit of patient files.



Where an area of concern is highlighted, a doctor will be assisted, but any a medic who refuses to co-operate will be subject to a complaint to the Medical Council and could be brought before a Fitness to Practise Committee.



Minister Harney said the provisions will, for the first time, set a statutory requirement for doctors to maintain their professional competence.



"This is a significant step in implementing a modern, reformed system of regulation for the medical profession which will satisfy the public and the profession that medical practitioners are appropriately qualified and competent to practise in a safe manner on a continuing basis," said Minister Harney.

Rapist Jew for Sentence -

Former Israeli president Moshe Katsav was found guilty of rape and other sex crimes today which could see him jailed for years, in what prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a sad day for the Jewish state.




"Katsav's testimony was riddled with lies," the three-judge panel said in its ruling. "When a woman says no, she means no."



Katsav had denied the charges of twice raping an aide when he served as a cabinet minister in the late 1990s, and of molesting or sexually harassing two other women who worked for him during his 2000-2007 term as president.



He was also convicted of obstructing justice, for trying to confer with one complainant about her testimony to police.



"This is a sad day for the state of Israel and its residents," prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the right-wing Likud party of which Katsav is a veteran member, said in a statement after the verdict.



"Today the court conveyed two clear-cut messages, that all are equal before the law and that every woman has exclusive rights to her body," Mr Netanyahu said.



The 65-year-old Katsav had no comment for reporters as, ashen-faced, he was spirited out of Tel Aviv district court by a scrum of relatives, attorneys and bodyguards. One of his lawyers declined to say whether Katsav would appeal to the Supreme Court against the unanimous verdict or any prison time that follows.



Rape carries a minimum prison term of four years and a maximum of 16 years in Israel.



Though the scandal had forced Katsav's early retirement in disgrace, it had little impact on Israeli government functions, as the presidency is largely ceremonial.



But the allegations against the Iranian-born leader, whose rise from the slums once served as a shining example for disadvantaged Jewish immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa, stirred deep emotions in Israel, where the elite has traditionally been of European descent.



The head of state is supposed to be a beacon of morality and national unity for a country often riven by drift and division.



The verdict was dubbed an "earthquake" by one Israeli newspaper and welcomed by women's groups that have long complained of lax attitudes to sexual harassment in workplaces.



Katsav, who is religiously observant, had cast himself as the victim of extortion and an ethnically-motivated "witch hunt". Relatives said he would campaign to clear his name.



"This trial, where the judges rule according to their feelings, is not in keeping the ethics of Israel," Katsav's son Boaz told reporters.



"God willing, the whole nation will know that dad, the eighth president of the State of Israel, is innocent."



Out of concern for the complainants' privacy, much of the trial had taken place behind closed doors. Some commentators predict Katsav, should he appeal, will argue that the Tel Aviv district court proceedings were not transparent enough.



Katsav immigrated with his family to Israel in 1951. At age 24 he became the country's youngest mayor and went on to hold a number of Likud cabinet posts.



Parliament elected him president in 2000 in a surprise victory over Shimon Peres, Israel's Nobel Peace Prize-winning elder statesman. Peres succeeded Katsav as president.



The eruption of the Katsav affair had amplified corruption scandals that brought down Israel's then premier, Ehud Olmert.



Hosting Mr Olmert in Moscow in late 2006, Vladimir Putin, Russia's president at the time, quipped before TV cameras that Katsav "didn't look like a guy who could be with 10 women".

Vincent Mc Kenna was Sinn Fein Spokesman -

I am presently conducting research into the role of local media in politics, at this time I am wading through hundreds of copies of the Northern Standard in Monaghan Town. I have found some very interesting articles and thought readers might be particularly interested in this Sinn Fein statement that was published in the Northern Standard 22/1/1987 which clearly shows that Vincent Mc Kenna was a leading member of Sinn Fein in Monaghan.

Those who care to remember, will remember that Mc Kenna became an International critic of the role played in criminality by members of Sinn Fein/IRA, Mc Kenna was a thorn in the side of the British and Irish Governments who were turning a blind eye to Sinn Fein/IRA criminality in order to keep Sinn Fein/IRA in the 'peace-process'.

Mc Kenna's high profile criticism of Sinn Fein/IRA criminality was unwelcomed, however, Mc Kenna was proven true in his criticism as the murders of Garda Gerry Mc Cabe, Andrew Kearney, Robert Mc Cartney, Paul Quinn and dozens more have proven since. The revelations surrounding Gerry Adams and other senior members of Sinn Fein/IRA prove that Mc Kenna had his facts right.

It is also worth noting that the campaign to discredit Mc Kenna was driven by British agent Dennis Donaldson at Stormont and another RUC tout in Monaghan.

Friends of Sinn Fein Convicted -

For those of us who care to remember that Sinn Fein sent three bird watchers down to Columbia a while back, the same three bird watchers who would be sentenced to 17 years by Columbian authorities, while they remain on-the-run in Ireland, will be pleased to see that the US Government are continuing to crack down on Sinn Fein's narco-terrorist friends. FARC remains one of the largest suppliers of illegal drugs in the world, FARC also maintains close contact with Sinn Fein.

Christian Fernando Borda and Alvaro Alvaran-Velez, two narcotics traffickers aligned with the Autodefenses Unidas de Colombia (AUC), were found guilty today in U.S. District Court of conspiring to import ton-quantities of cocaine into the United States, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division. The AUC is a Colombian paramilitary group designated by the U.S. Department of State as a foreign terrorist organization.




The guilty verdicts returned today follow a seven-week trial before U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler in the District of Columbia. Borda, 46, and Alvaran-Velez, 56, who are Colombian nationals, were extradited from Colombia to the United States on Oct. 29, 2009, and trial began with jury selection on Oct. 21, 2010. Following two days of deliberations, the jury found Borda and Alvaran-Velez guilty of one count of conspiring to distribute cocaine with the knowledge and intent that it would be imported into the United States.



"These drug traffickers were responsible for facilitating the delivery of tons of cocaine from Colombia into the United States, and today 12 U.S. jurors found them guilty," said Assistant Attorney General Breuer. "Over the course of many years, the United States and Colombia have worked together to bring to justice in both countries the leaders and associates of these dangerous organizations, and today marks another milestone in that continued effort."



According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, between February 2005 and March 16, 2007, Borda and Alvaran-Velez were members of a major narcotics trafficking organization based in Colombia that transported multi-ton quantities of cocaine from Colombia to the United States via Mexico.



Borda, as the leader of this drug trafficking organization, obtained large amounts of cocaine from Colombian paramilitary sources and directed others in their drug trafficking activities. Alvaran-Velez, an associate of Borda, coordinated and facilitated shipments of cocaine through his Mexico contacts.



According to court documents and trial evidence, one of their shipments of cocaine in 2005 involved approximately 1,500 kilograms of cocaine that was smuggled in drums of palm oil on a ship departing from the north coast of Colombia. Additional cocaine shipments in 2005 and 2006 involved quantities of more than 3,000 kilograms per shipment.

Ta Gaelscoil Ultain ag ceiliuradh 25 bliain ar an fhod i mbliana -

In September 1986 Gael Scoil Ultain opened its doors in Monaghan Town with 23 pupils, 25 years on and Gael Scoil Ultain has 240 pupils on its roll book.

Gael Scoil Ultain was the dream of Brendan O' Duffy, a young Irish speaker from County Monaghan. For the first two years of its existance Gael Scoil Ultain was not recognised by the Department of Education and was accommodated as a stream within the CBS on the Clones Road in Monaghan Town, thanks to the openness of the CBS Headmaster, former GAA supremo Sean Mc Cague.

Funding for Gael Scoil Ultain for the first two years of its existence came from Vincent Mc Kenna, who was a sponsored runner in a number of Dublin City Marathons to raise the much needed cash for Gael Scoil Ultain. Vincent Mc Kenna also raised much needed funds for the CBS as a way of saying thanks for the help and support of Sean Mc Cague.

Vincent Mc Kenna was one of a small group of parents who wanted their children to learn Irish on an equal power with the English Language. Mc Kenna would some years later introduce a bi-lingual policy at Queens University in Belfast when he studied there as a mature student.

The Irish Observer would like to wish Gael Scoil Ultain every success on celebrating their 25 years of delivering the highest standards in education and making an historic contribution to the survival of our native tongue.

The main event of the celebrations is a Dinner Dance in the Hillgrove Hotel, Monaghan Town, 5th June 2011, everyone is welcome.

Exclusive, Fiona Mc Cleary, House Gutted -

Fiona Mc Cleary

Mullaghmatt council housing estate in Monaghan Town

The former home (149 Mullaghmatt, Monaghan Town, County Monaghan) of Fiona Mc Cleary who was accused by her daughter Sorcha Mc Kenna of concealing her abuse for several years, has been gutted in a mysterious fire. Gardai in Monaghan Town say they are following a definite line of inquiry.


Sorcha told Monagahn Circuit Court:

"I told my Mother, Fiona Mc Cleary, on two occassions that I was being sexually abused and she done nothing to protect me. I remember my Mother being in the bed with me when I was being abused".

For further information contact: Patrick Tierney Tel: 088-279 0051

Sinn Fein/IRA man to give State's Evidence -

The picture above shows Paul Quinn who was murdered by Sinn Fein/IRA criminals in Monaghan a few months ago and right is former IRA Chief of Staff, Thomas 'Slab' Murphy. Gardai in Monaghan are continuing to search for the body of school boy Columbia Mc Veigh who was kidnapped, tortured, murdered and secretly buried by Sinn Fein/IRA criminals in Monaghan.

Sinn Fein/IRA member preparing to turn State’s Evidence.

It is being widely whispered in security circles that a former member of Sinn Fein/IRA from County Monaghan who now lives outside of Ireland is preparing to turn State’s evidence against his former IRA comrades in Monaghan.



It is believed that the former Sinn Fein/IRA member approached the security services with the intention of unburdening himself of his past crimes while he was a member of Sinn Fein/IRA in Monaghan. It is believed that sworn statements have already been made and that the State must now decide how many people will face charges.



This latest development could see some of Sinn Fein’s most prominent members before the courts.

Female Rapists given Free Hand -

Few people in Ireland want to accept that women and men commit sexual crimes against children in equal measure. It is no surprise that our people remain in denial having been reared on a daily diet of the Virgin Mary and the good old days when Granny never seen such violence as we have in modern Ireland.




The reality is somewhat different, the HSE has 23,000 Files relating to women who have admitted that they raped and sexually abused children, these files have never been sent to the Gardai as there is no Mandatory Reporting of Child Rape in Ireland. Some women have been prosecuted for raping children and some of those cases remain before the courts, however, 23,000 known female sex offenders will never see the inside of a Court room.



The majority of these rapes and sexual assaults by women have taken place in the family home or have been committed against a child/children known to the offender. We will never hear so called ‘victims’ groups calling for the prosecution of female rapists, mainly because they must remain in denial of the role played by women in the rape of children. It is much easier to paint a picture of the rain coated male hiding in the bushes; than it is to accept that the female relative so eager to babysit for you is actually a sexual predator.



Since the founding of the Irish Free-state and before, women have been leaders in the sexual abuse of children, the facilitation of the sexual abuse of children and the concealment of the sexual abuse of children. When female rapists are reported to social services they are treated as patients rather than criminals, they are offered a few weeks counselling and then returned to the family home to continue as normal.



Women are advised to say they have been victims of domestic abuse, even sexual crime in order to mitigate their crimes; the reality is that they needed no help or assistance in their crimes.



Mothers and Grandmothers have taken pregnant girls as young as 11 years old down to CURA in Dublin and those girls were forced to sign away their babies to the Catholic Church so that their Rapist could never be prosecuted. Women hugging the altar rails in Monaghan Town and Cork City have disposed of their children and grandchildren as if they were unwanted dogs. These women would dare to tell you that they done it for the child’s benefit, in reality these women never done anything for anyone only themselves.



There is no Mandatory Reporting of Child Rape in Ireland; the reason for this Human Rights violation is that the Catholic Church and Fianna Fail are in collusion to continue to conceal the daily rape of children in Ireland. Thousands of known female sex offenders continue to live and work in communities all over Ireland; people continue to allow baby sitters into their homes without realising that on a dusty shelf in the HSE there is a file where these people have admitted sexual crimes against children.



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In recent years more women are coming before the Courts in Europe charged with sexual criminality. Traditionally men were believed to be the sole perpetrators of sexual crime. However, recent high profile cases show that women without any assistance from men are capable of committing some of the most heinous crimes imaginable. Yesterday in Ireland another case came before the courts and here are the details:



A WOMAN charged with 87 counts of indecently assaulting a number of girls may face further charges.



Tullamore Circuit Court was told a jury would be required for the trial of the 61-year-old, who is pleading not guilty to offences that allegedly took place at an Offaly school between 1973 and 1977.



A number of the alleged victims were in the court, as was the defendant.



The book of evidence refers to seven named female victims, with 20 offences each alleged to have been committed against three of them, 10 against two other victims, six against one and one charge against the final victim.



I simply use this case as an example of the latest to appear before the Irish Courts. The correct forensic psychological term for a woman sexually abusing female children is a Homophile. Men who abuse young boys are also Homophiles. Men who abuse young girls are Hetrophiles. Women who abuse Boys are Hetrophiles. People who abuse boys and girls are known as peadophiles.



You may ask why make a distinction; surely they are all scum bags. The answer to that is simple. If we don’t make these very important distinctions then we are giving parents and children the impression that there are certain sections of our society who do not abuse children.



Over 98% of those members of religious orders who abused children the world over were Homophiles. These were men abusing pre-puberty boys. Or women abusing pre-puberty girls as in the case alleged above. If we as a society create the impression that certain people don’t abuse children then we are guilty of facilitating that abuse.



Children can only be protected by vigilance and education. If we fail to educate our society that sexual crime is not the preserve of one group of individuals, then we facilitate sexual crime. For generations Social Services and the Criminal Justice system have dealt with men and women differently when it has come to sexual crime. It was always believed that women were not capable of sexually abusing children.



The reality is that the 14 Health Boards in Ireland show that women are in fact the greater abusers of children. While men are periodically dragged before the courts and paraded in the tabloids, women are more often given counselling or sent off for a few weeks’ holidays having committed the exact same sexual crimes.



Our Political System and Criminal Justice system are dominated by men, and these men appear in most cases to be unable to deliver the laws necessary to address the sexual criminality of women. Indeed in the latest piece of sexual crime legislation introduced in Ireland, a male under the age of 17 years can be charged with rape while a woman cant.



It is this type of blinkered law that facilitates and condones the sexual abuse of many thousands of children and others each year at the hands of women. Of course those so called 'victims' groups that are mainly run by men haters are not going to highlight the sexual criminality that is committed by women.



So we have in Ireland a Moral Quagmire in which the female sex criminal can continue to ply their trade. It is shameful and disgusting to think that our politicians are incapable or unwilling to stand up and be counted, to address the rape of a child by a woman, with equal outrage as that by a man. However, our politicians have been bullied in to silence. They fear that if they openly and honestly address the rape of children by women, they will be lambasted in the lurid tabloids in which they have so much faith.



Yes many of our legislators are at the dictate of the lurid tabloids, the same tabloids that facilitate and promote the sexual objectification of men, women and children with their lurid sex chat lines, their pornography and filth. This tabloid filth facilitates and normalises the rape of men, women and children, yet out legislators sit like baying dogs, as they seek applause from the filth mongers.



The rape and sexual abuse of human beings by other human beings has been about since time began, however, in 2010 there is no excuse for our legislators to facilitate the rape and sexual abuse of men, women and children by failing to address the sea of legislative uncertainty that allows these deviants to swim in their moral quagmire.

Convicted Rapists Will Vote for Fianna Fail (Irish Political Party - presently in Government)



In a letter sent to The Irish Observer a group styling themselves, "The National Association of Convicted Sex Offenders", have stated that they are ensuring that all of their members are registered to vote in prison and will be encouraging their members to vote for Fianna Fail in the forth coming General Election.

The letter signed by former DJ/Journalist, Eamon 'Captain' Cooke, who is presently serving life in Wheatfield Prison for raping children, states that:

"We the members of NACSO pledge our support to Fianna Fail who have consistently opposed calls from those in the 'victims industry' to introduce Mandatory reporting of Child Rape, it is essential that people such as Cardinal Sean Brady, Gerry Adams and other leaders in our country are able to help and assist sex offenders when the opportunity is presented".


"We salute in particular former Minister for Justice, John O Donoghue TD, for ensuring that those members of the religious orders who were accused of sexual crime were given One Billion Euro in order that they could be protected from financial ruin".



When contacted by The Irish Observer today, the Irish Prison Service said that prisoners had the right to register to vote and that they could vote for whomever they desired. The IPS also confirmed that the right for prisoners to vote was achieved by Stephen 'Rossi' Walsh some years ago in a High Court challenge, Walsh is presently serving 13 years in Wheatfield for sexually abusing two children.


Sexual Crime in Ireland


John Muncie (2000) sets the media and public’s attitude to crime, into context, when he tells us that:



Any cursory glance at television programme listings, the contents of mass circulation newspapers or the shelves of fiction in book shops will confirm the extent to which an audience perceives crime not just as a social problem but as a major source of amusement and diversion, the way in which we enjoy violence, humiliation and hurt casts doubt on the universal applicability of harm as always connoting trouble, fear, loss and so on. For participants, too, the pleasure in creating harm, or doing wrong or breaking boundaries is also part of the equation and needs to be thought through (p.225).


Prof. Paul O’Mahony (1996) goes further in addressing the media and crime, when he says:



Sections of the media never tire of reflecting a fearful message of crime back to the public and amplifying it through selective reporting, sensational headlines and frequently inflammatory editorialising. For most part the media rhetoric of fear and moral panic is built on isolated cases taken out of the broader context of crime in Ireland. Traditional barriers of good taste and reticence have been broken down. As the parameters of the permissible have expended some sections of the media have developed a reprehensible, approach which is sensational and voyeuristic. Supposedly factual accounts and purportedly serious analyses and comment are often exaggerated, unsubstantiated by any reliable supporting evidence, and intended to provoke hysterical response (p.167).

This manufacturing of hysterical responses guillotines public and political debate and pushes certain weak politicians towards quick fix and usually harsh and ill considered repressive and punitive legislation, the results of which are more damaging to society in the long term. Brenda O’ Brien says:

I have always said that the media have played a positive role in helping us to come to terms with child abuse, but there is a real danger that they will become intoxicated with their own power (Irish Times. 2002).

READ Full article at sexualcrimeinireland.blogspot.com

Exclusive - Accused House Gutted -

The former home (149 Mullaghmatt, Monaghan Town, County Monaghan) of Fiona Mc Cleary who was accused by her daughter Sorcha Mc Kenna of concealing her abuse for several years, has been gutted in a mysterious fire. Gardai in Monaghan Town say they are following a definite line of inquiry.

contact: Patrick Tierney Tel: 088-279 0051

Dissident Bomb Attacks for 2011 -

Recent successes by both the Gardai and PSNI against Dissident republican terrorists have left the Real IRA and Continuity IRA more determined to open 2011 with attacks in the north, it is believed that dissident terrorists will carry out attacks in Armagh, Tyrone, Derry and Fermanagh in the coming weeks with dissidents determined to carry out a spectacular in Armagh hours into 2011.



Dissident Interview: Exclusive: by theirishobserver.blogspot.com

This is an exclusive interview with a member of a dissident terrorist organisation, the RIRA. This dissident has been known to the interviewer for over thirty years and so this interview is going to be open and honest. If you do not wish to read strong language then stop reading now.



Q. Do you honestly believe that you can achieve anything with your on going terror campaign?



A. The fight for national self-determination cannot be won by Sinn Fein sitting in a partitionist Stormont, propping up British rule in Ireland, or Sinn Fein lap dogs sitting in a Freestate Parliament, what have they achieved with their sell-out, 4% of the vote.



Q. But surely your leadership in the RIRA were involved in the secret talk’s process that took place between the PIRA leadership and the Brits?



A. While I recognise that there are those within our leadership who knew about the secret talks between Mc Guinness and M16, they did step down from the PIRA leadership when they realised that those talks could only lead to a partitionist settlement.



Q. I think you are being very naive if you think that Michael Mc Kevitt, Liam Campbell and so forth ever believed that the Brits were going to with draw from Ireland because the PIRA had entered a talk’s process, surely Mc Kevitt and company knew very well that these talks were always about the surrender of militant republicanism?



A. I would say that Mc Kevitt and others allowed the talks process to proceed as they believed that the armed struggle would always be their fall back if the talks did not deliver.



Q. To be honest with you I think that is a load of bollocks, M16 Agent Michael Oakley had Sean O’Callaghan as his key advisor at all times during the talks with Mc Guinness, are you really trying to suggest that Sean O’Callaghan was helping to achieve a United Ireland?



A. We had no idea that O’Callaghan was advising the Brits, our position was simply to establish what the Brits were prepared to offer in terms of all Ireland institutions and so forth, political and policing reform, release of prisoners, in the event that a cease-fire were to be called.



Q. I would have to put it to you that you knew very well that the Brits would deliver on most of those demands, and indeed they did deliver, and I would say to you that Mc Kevitt and others walked away over personal and petty matters rather than any fundamental political flaw in what had and could be achieved by dealing with the Brits?



A. I would say that Mc Kevitt has paid a heavy price for his political position and dedication to the republican cause.



Q. I would put it to you that Mc Kevitt has paid a heavy price because he was stupid man who trusted an American truck driver who was working for the FBI?



A. He made mistakes but his motivation was driven by his republicanism.



Q. Would you not agree that Mc Kevitt like so many more so called republicans, were and are more interested in making personal fortunes from criminality than they are about a United Ireland?



A. That is untrue; I don’t know any republican that has made financial gain from the conflict.



Q. What about Slab Murphy, and the rest of his cronies including Mc Kevitt, Liam Campbell and so forth, surely they have all made personal fortunes from the conflict?



A. I have not seen any such fortunes and I would suggest that all the talk about republicans profiteering from the conflict is Brit propaganda.



Q. Why if it is Brit propaganda have so many so called republicans settled with CAB and other State agencies in the Irish Republic, why have members of your organisation served prison time for taking protection money from lap dancing clubs and other criminal activity?



A. Name any dissident that has served time for taking money from lap dancing clubs on our behalf?



Q. William ‘Billy’ Clare is just one that I could mention, do you want me to mention more?



A. There may have been people operating on their own and using our name.



Q. No, that is not true, as Billy and others were accepted into your wings in Portlaoise Prison, so I am afraid you’re not being honest with yourself or your supporters in terms of who you are doing business with or what your business is. I further put it to you that your members are heavily involved with criminal gangs in Limerick, Cork and Dublin?



A. That is not true and we have never been involved with criminal gangs in those cities, we are an Irish liberation organisation and our war is against the Brits not the Irish people.



Q. I put it to you that your organisation has supplied guns, pipe bombs and other weapons to gangs in those cities, and that you have used your relationship with those organisations to profit from drug dealing, cigarette smuggling and the importation of semi-automatic weapons?



A. That is totally untrue, we have not been involved in drug dealing or other forms of criminality.



Q. Surely your organisation murdered Kieran Doherty in Derry a few months ago because he was dealing drugs without your knowledge, had Kieran shared his enterprise with your leadership he would not be dead?



A. Kieran was executed because he had compromised himself both by way of drug dealing and by way of working for the Brits.



Q. I put it to you that you are a liar and your leadership are liars, Kieran Doherty did not work for the Brits and you know that very well, Kieran Doherty was using a house owned by another senior RIRA member Seamus Mc Creavy, to run a drug dealing operation, had Kieran told your leadership what he was doing, your organisation would have had no problem with him?



A. That is a lie, we do not tolerate drug dealing or drug dealers, and we have recently knee capped drug dealers in Belfast.



Q. Listen, the reason your organisation shoot people in the knees is in order to silence the community and share in the profits of drug dealing just as the Provos done before you. You and I know that those within your ranks who shoot people in the knees are cowards who don’t have the balls to take on the Brits and indeed as we seen with Freddie, many touts and informers are allowed to engage in that type of low profile activity to get access to intelligence on behalf of their handlers.



A. That is totally untrue we shoot those who we believe are a threat to our communities, we are not the Provos we have our own leadership and our own plan for the way forward.



Q. Surely the difficulty for your organisation is that you are simply wearing the Provos clothes and like the Provos your organisation will be infiltrated to the neck with touts, agents and informers, and that young men and women will be imprisoned and thousands of Brits will be kept in good jobs thanks to your criminality?



A. We do not tolerate criminality, we do not engage in criminality, we are an Irish liberation organisation and we are prepared for the long war.



Q. Well that is a load of nonsense as well you know, Mc Kevitt and company are only interested in profiteering from criminality. However, back to the reason for your existence, can I put it to you that your leadership Mc Kevitt, Campbell and company are responsible for the deaths of dozens of PIRA volunteers. Is it true to say that while Mc Kevitt and company were involved in secret talks with M16, that M15 and the SAS were wiping out dozens of PIRA volunteers in Fermanagh and Tyrone in particular, 28 in total between 1986-1992.



A. Mc Guinness was the one talking to M16 not Mc Kevitt or Campbell, Mc Guinness is a traitor and he and Adams sold out to the Brits so that they could sit in Stormont and play politics.



Q. Mc Guinness may well have been the one engaged in the meetings with M16, however, it was Mc Kevitt and company who sanctioned those meetings, I put it to you again that Mc Kevitt split the republican movement over personal and petty reasons rather than any fundamental political flaw, as did O’Bradaigh before him in 1986?



A. I can’t say why Mc Kevitt split the organisation, my view is that he did not want to be part of a sell out and neither do those of us within the RIRA and CIRA; the war must go on until Ireland is free from Brit occupation.



Q. Personally, I think that you are being very dishonest, you know that Mc Kevitt, Campbell, Slab Murphy and others are nothing less than criminals who have filled their bank accounts while good Irish men, women and children have been butchered to death. Does your organisation have a military strategy?



A. It is no secret that we are now stronger than ever before, many former comrades in the Provos have now joined our ranks and many young people have now been recruited and trained, we will strike at the Brits and their collaborators as and when possible.



Q. Do the dissident groupings have the capacity to hit the British on their home soil as it appears that you have been unable to strike in England for almost a decade?



A. Yes, we have the capacity to strike at the heart of England and that will be a priority for us in the coming months, we will also maintain our campaign in the north and our primary targets will be the Brits and their collaborators, commercial targets will be a secondary consideration as we must maximise our resources.



Q. Your organisation claimed the murder of Dennis Donaldson in Donegal, but dogs on the street know that Dennis Donaldson was murdered by a senior member of the East Tyrone Brigade of the PIRA (TC), why did your organisation claim that cowardly act?



A. I do not know who executed Dennis Donaldson, but I do know that he was executed because he had admitted he was an M15 agent for several decades.



Q. I put it to you again, Dennis Donaldson was a member of Sinn Finn/PIRA, and it was a member of the PIRA that murdered him, why did your organisation claim that murder?



A. Because he was a self confessed British Agent.



Q. Let me put it to you this way, your organisation claimed the murder of Dennis Donaldson, because the PIRA said you could as it was too politically sensitive for them to have anything to do with, your organisation are nothing more than a proxy for the provos?



A. That is not the case, personally I don’t think we should have claimed responsibility for Donaldson’s execution but that was a leadership decision.



Q. The Dissidents say that they view Mc Guinness and Adams as traitors indeed Mc Guinness has described the dissident leadership as traitors, so why are you not shooting each other, do you not have the balls to take on the Provos, do you find it easier to shoot children?



A. I am not in a position to say what will or will not take place in relation to the Provo traitors, we are focused on fighting the Brits and don’t at this time want to get distracted by internal disputes.



Q. Again your being dishonest, your organisation can kidnap and shoot ordinary citizens within yards of the homes of senior Sinn Fein members, I put it to you that your organisations don’t have the balls to take on the provos, and that you find it easier to knee-cap children?



A. I don’t accept that, we will do what we feel is best for our organisations, in terms of gaining in strength and support, we are in this for the long war and we don’t want at this time to deal with internal republican disputes.



Q. In the wake of the of Liam Adams exposure, is it fair to conclude that there are many similar deviants within your own ranks and that those deviants will be protected at any cost as long as they stay on board with your organisations.



A. It is an outrage to suggest that we would protect sex criminals within our ranks, we do not tolerate any criminality and where that criminality is brought to our attention we will deal with it.



Q. I think that is a lie, your membership were heavily involved with Christy Griffin in Dublin before he was sentenced to life for raping a child, your members knew about those crimes and yet you continued to do business with Christy, the same can be said of Eddie in north Belfast and indeed many of your members socialised with Liam Adams when he lived in Dundalk?



A. I can’t say what went on in Dublin, but I do know that our leadership is dedicated to stamping our criminality within our ranks if such criminality is found.



Q. In the aftermath of the provo cease-fire in 1994 you and others continued to be engaged in criminal activity, namely murdering drug dealers as they were refusing to pay protection money to the provos, the Brits gave you licence to carry-out that activity by describing it as Internal-house-keeping, surely your activities suits the Brits as they have now been able to set up M15 headquarters in the north?



A. I would agree that the Brits would have done anything to help Adams and Mc Guinness to stay in the peace process, and I would agree that as provos at that time we had a free hand to do as we pleased, we were able to kill and knee-cap, rob at will, but no such hands off approach is being adopted towards the dissidents.



Q. Have you ever considered the fact that the provos are planting some of their men within your ranks in order to get good intelligence that they can feed back to the security services?



A. We are constantly vigilant about informers and agents, but that is the way it has always been, those who join our ranks will be fully blooded and if they are touts they will sink with the rest of us.



Q. A few weeks back your organisation almost murdered three children in Lurgan, if that had happened would you have ended your campaign?



A. The simple answer is No, there will always be casualties of war, it would have been a tragedy but that’s the reality of war.



Q. I put it to you that your members are cowards that your membership finds it easier to plant a bomb than take the Brits on face to face?



A. We have to use the personnel and equipment at our disposal to the best of our ability; we have nothing to gain by having our men arrested or our equipment confiscated, so bombs carry a lower risk to our resources.



Q. Yesterday the Brits up graded the threat from the dissident groupings, is that up grading based on a realistic threat from your organisations or is it Brit spin to keep their security budgets in tact?



A. We have the capacity and the determination to hit the Brits at home in the coming months, as Suzanne Breen said on the news yesterday evening, one bomb in England is worth ten bombs in the north, I would say a hundred bombs in the north if we hit the right target, we have learned from recent successful attacks by Muslim activists and we will be adopting our tactics to maximise our national and international profile.



Q. Finally, thanks for this interview, I am convinced that the dissident groupings are driven by criminality, I am convinced that you are on the road to nowhere, that you have no legitimacy, that you are recruiting and training children to do the dirty work of criminal Godfathers most of whom are traitors to the republican cause and that the end result of your criminality with be the death of more innocent people.



A. I disagree, we will do our upmost not to kill civilians and our campaign will help bring about a united Ireland from British rule.



For a full history of militant republicanism see: irishrepublicanarmy-ira.blogspot.com