In 1999 Colm Lynagh, brother of IRA Commander Jim Lynagh, lined up with a variety of Provisional IRA/Sinn Fein cheer leaders and other pro-Brit elements to assist the British Broadcasting Corporation to discredit Vincent Mc Kenna, who in 1999 was publicly critical of the criminals housed within Sinn Fein/IRA, and the fact that that criminality was being tolerated by the British and Irish establishment in order to offer succour to those within the Provisional Leadership who had been doing business with the British from the mid-1980s. The truth of McKenna’s claims have now been ventilated on many occasions, with former Prime Minister, Tony Blair admitting in his autobiography, that he did lie to parliament and the public in order to move the ‘peace process’ forward.
In effect the British Government and their Fianna Fail counterparts in the Freestate turned a blind eye to what Mo Mowlan would describe as ‘Internal House-keeping’ when she was talking about the torture and murder of young Catholic Charles Bennett at the hands of IRA sex criminals in Belfast. As we now know children were having their legs broke or mutilated in order to command their silence about their rape or sexual abuse at the hands of Sinn Fein/IRA members. At that time Liam Adams was being ushered to Dundalk after being exposed by his own daughter as a child rapist, Gerry Adams and other members of the IRA leadership in Belfast knew that Liam Dominic Adams was a child rapist, yet they continued to promote him within the organisation, this at a time when Sinn Fein/IRA British agents and informers and their tabloid rag An Phoblacht were forcing child rape victims out of the community.
Colm Lynagh had been approached to get involved in the campaign against Vincent McKenna by RUC informer Owen/Eoin Smyth, Monaghan Town, Colm was a willing accomplice, however, it now appears that Mc Kenna was in fact an IRA Intelligence Officer, who was continuing to do what he had been taught by Jim Lynagh, only this time Mc Kenna was trying to establish who had betrayed Jim Lynagh and his comrades at Loughgall in 1987. Mc Kenna was questioned for several hours by detectives from Northumbria when he was accused of providing the intelligence that led to the shooting in England of RUC tout Martin Mc Gartland. It was alleged that Mc Kenna had passed Mc Gartland’s details to an IRA member in west Belfast who had been on hunger strike with Mc Kenna’s cousin Sean Mc Kenna.
Many of those who lined up to discredit Mc Kenna were and remain in the pay of the British State, some have learned the hard way that Mc Kenna was at all times telling the truth about the criminal and treacherous nature of the Sinn Fein/IRA organisation. Colm Lynagh for his part has learned the hard way that following the instructions of people like Owen/Eoin Smyth gets you nowhere, Colm Lynagh denied that Vincent McKenna was ever associated with IRA Commander Jim Lynagh, indeed, Vincent McKenna was one of the few people who visited Colm Lynagh when he was in Portlaoise Prison for shooting dead Gabriel Murphy, a doorman from Emyvale in north Moanghan, an action that cost Sinn Fein many supporters and activists, as the killing of Gabriel Murphy was a cowardly act.
In May 2011 Colm Lynagh found out that his cheer leading for Sinn Fein/IRA had not gained him any credit points, when Colm was set upon and severely beaten by members of Sinn Fein/IRA in Clones, County Monaghan. Colm Lynagh was beaten for his criticism of the Sinn Fein/IRA leadership, Colm told Suzanne Breen, Ireland’s premiere journalist:
"They called me a traitor for speaking out against the party line and saying the Provisionals are no longer republicans. I was attacked by men in their 20s and 30s – ceasefire soldiers not fit to tie Jim's boots," said Colm Lynagh.
"I'm worried they'll come after me again but neither I nor my family will be intimidated. Sinn Féin has abandoned the cause of Irish freedom and we won’t be silenced. Being Jim's brother gives my views more credibility and makes me more of a target."
Actually Colm being Jim’s brother does not give your views more credibility, you have no republican credibility as you assisted the British establishment to discredit the one and only person who has never given up on finding out who betrayed Jim Lynagh and his comrades. Colm continued to tell Suzanne:
"The people who assaulted me might claim to be IRA but they are blackshirts and fascists who want to shut up anyone in the republican community who speaks out against them.
"I campaigned for two independent republican candidates in the council elections and they didn't like that. They stalked me around Clones, telling people they were going to shut me up for good.
"Three times I left where I was and went elsewhere but they kept following me. I was talking to a friend's daughter on the street when they came over. I was punched several times. I didn't respond to my attackers in any way."
"Our family know what the Provos are capable of but we will continue to speak out. We're very disillusioned with Sinn Féin. They've signed up to a British process and support right-wing policies at Stormont," Colm Lynagh said.
Gerry Adams delivered the oration at Jim Lynagh's funeral. At that time, Martin McGuiness was already engaged in secret meetings with MI6 agent Michael Oakley. Michael Oakley had Sean O Callaghan as his key advisor during all the secret meetings with Martin Mc Guinness.
Yet Adams told mourners at the graveside: "Anyone who does business with the British, the SDLP or the Free State establishment are fools as they've all sold out on the Irish people."
The extracts that I have used from Suzanne Breen’s article appeared in the May 15, 2011 edition of the Sunday World.
