THE IRISH OBSERVER: October 2022

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

FAI Women’s Committee

Chairperson: Frances Smith

Vice Chair: Bríd McGinty

12 October 2022

From: Vincent McKenna BSSc, PGDipSSc MSc (First Class) Certified Digital Marketing Professional

Dear Madam

In or about July 2022, I watched news reports which showed how Ireland women’s football manager Vera Pauw, said she was raped by a “prominent football official” employed by Dutch football early in her career.

Me Too Mary Lou

My heart went out to Vera Pauw, as I had, when a child been raped by a member of Sinn Fein/PIRA, Michael Lynagh, shortly after I had joined that organisation in 1980.

In 2000, I was also convicted of alleged sexual assault, alleged to have happened when I was a member of Sinn Fein/PIRA and that case is returning to The Court of Criminal Appeal in 2022, as I have always maintained my innocence in these matters.

Vincent McKenna

Even if the latter were true, it would not diminish what I am about to say, and may even save someone from the torment of rape.

Today, 12 October, 2022, I have seen a video of the women’s football team chanting pro-Provisional IRAslogans after their game on Tuesday night, a game that made so many of us proud. Those of us who want to see Females as Champions, not second-class citizens.

“The FAI have apologised after footage emerged of Republic of Ireland players singing pro-IRA songs in the aftermath of their qualification for the World Cup in Glasgow on Tuesday night”.

This is not the first time that young women’s teams have been recorded chanting pro-Terrorist slogans, we have had this outrageous behavior in The GAA and Other.

I believe that these young women, be they supportive of Sinn Fein/PIRA or not, are uneducated about the crimes committed by Sinn Fein/PIRA, an organisation that remains under the coercive misogynistic control of an 8-man Provisional IRA Army Council, this is not speculation, but fact.

Education

The first time the Term “Upthe Ra” was used was 1986 at a Sinn Fein/PIRA house-party in Monaghan Town, it was used by Jim Lynagh (My Commanding Officer – shot dead 1987) a Sinn Fein Councilor/PIRA Commander who had sex with a 15-year-old girl on the couch beside me, cast her aside in a drunken range and shouted “Up the Ra”, Jim Lynagh used the term again on a stage in Clontibret, as a rallying cry, when Republican Sinn Fein split from us in 1986.

Those playing music at the event in Clontibret then repeated the slogan as a chant at another function and I then heard the Wolfe Tones chant it at one of their functions. The chanting as in the FAI video, has an almost hallucinogenic impact on the mind, particularly when coupled with alcohol or drugs, as it is supposed to do, at house-parties and Sinn Fein/PIRA functions, young girls would simply surrender themselves, not that it mattered if they surrendered or not, rape victims were quickly warned to remain silent. They knew the consequences if they did not.

Within Sinn Fein/PIRA the chant “Up the Ra” has always meant “Up the Rapists” because of its origins, I know such a mindset would not be so easily understood in 2022, where Females are supposed to be equal partners in society rather than commodities or creatures placed on this earth to serve men.

However, these are the facts, the rape of women and children within Sinn Fein/PIRA and the protection of those rapists was central to the Sinn Fein/PIRA Campaign, indeed, many rapists remain protected by Sinn Fein/PIRA. We had in place Policy, Procedure, Infrastructure, Finance and Personnel to protect our rapists.

In 1998, when I had finally gone public about all that I knew about Sinn Fein/PIRA and their rape of women andchildren and the protection of their rapists, Sinn Fein/PIRA conducted an Internal Audit, just in case some investigative journalist actually done their job and established the facts, and Sinn Fein/PIRA needed to be able to explain the allegations away.

The Audit was directed from Belfast, but involved interviewing Sinn Fein/PIRA figures, all around the country. It was established by Sinn Fein/PIRA’s own Audit, that up until 1998, Sinn Fein/PIRA members had raped over 5,000 Catholic women and children, and had protected the rapists within their ranks.

The rapes have continued post-1998 and there have been over 200 Sinn Fein/PIRA members prosecuted and placed on The Sex Offenders Registers in Northern Ireland and The Republic of Ireland. However, these prosecutions have come about because of the good works of the PSNI and An Garda Siochana with no help from Sinn Fein/PIRA.

There are presently over 4,000 Shinnerbots (Social Media Profiles being operated by Sinn Fein/PIRA, on a Pedophile Watch-List, as many of these accounts are operated by rapists protected by Sinn Fein/PIRA).

Recently two more Sinn Fein Councilors, Jimmy McDonald who raped several children in County Longford and Sinn Fein Councilor, Cathal McLaughlin convicted of sexual assault in Scotland, in July 2022, have been added to the Registers in NI and The Republic.

While all of this was being denied publicly in 1998 by the Sinn Fein/PIRA Leadership, in 2014, Gerry Adams, then President of Sinn Fein/PIRA handed over the names of 27 of the rapiststhat the Sinn Fein/PIRA Leadership had protected, this a small sample of those protected, but the 27 enough to take the political pressure off Sinn Fein/PIRA in 2014. These facts can be established by simply using Google.

The Headlines below appearing in the media today, but it could all have been prevented, if the FAI had put in place, the necessary mechanisms and education processes, to ensure that when young women chant support for an organisation that has murdered and raped so many women and children, they take women back to the dark ages, as elderly men nod in approval.

“Victims of terrorism appalled at pro-IRA chants from Republic of Ireland women's football team”.

“Terrorist victims from both sides of the community have spoken of their disgust at pro-IRA chants from the Republic of Ireland women’s team after their World Cup playoff win over Scotland on Tuesday evening”.

I am publishing this letter on my Blog so that there is a clear record of my warning to the FAI, stop the rot, through education. Anyone on your Team, who does not want to play ball, let them go. The Irish people want a Team we can be proud of, not a Team that is dictated to by misogynistic ritual.

This chanting by the FAI Women's Team has hurt thousands of rape victims today, this before you get to the families of those murdered and maimed by the same criminals. Most recently, Sinn Fein/PIRA involved in the murder of David Byrne at The Regency Hotel, from which another 20 people have been murdered.

Yours sincerely

Vincent McKenna

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Monday, October 3, 2022

Irelands Future, 3Arena, Dublin, October 2022, Review

Empirical Evidence

The 3Arena in Dublin with which this writer is very familiar, has a seating capacity of 8,000 and a standing capacity of 13,000. For the Irelands Future event over 3,000 empty seats were hidden behind a wall of grey curtains. Many of the seats that were ‘sold’ remained empty throughout the event, this is proven by the pictures and live streaming of the event from those present.

Irelands Future Promotion and Marketing

In the weeks leading up to the Irelands Future Event at the 3Arena in Dublin, advocates for the event and very polished social media marketing campaigns were advising the public that this would be an “Historic” event. Many journalists Zooming (Zoombies) from their bedrooms repeated without any analysis that this would in deed be a seismic moment in Ireland’s history.

Those championing the cause of ‘Irish Unity’ attacked and abused anyone on-line who dared challenge the prevailing Irelands Future narrative being put forward by paid actors such as James Nesbitt and Colm Meaney, or Human Rights Professors such as Colin Harvey.

I was personally subject to hundreds of abusive messages and threats on-line simply because I asked questions about exclusion and perception relating to the event, as some of those advocating for the event had made many statements that made the event unpalatable for those with a view that was at variance with those advocates.

My View of Irelands Future

In the early 1990s, I began the public discussion about Irelands Future, and I was supported in that endeavor by some of Irelands greatest protagonists who were prepared to give ‘peace’ a chance. My inspiration was and remains, John Hume MEP. My view of Irelands Future did not exclude anyone, it did not marginalize anyone, I did not have to pay professional actors, I did not have to get people bused to my events, I did not have to exaggerate the numbers in my audiences.

So, in effect, Professor Colin Harvey, is continuing at Queens University Belfast, the work that I and others began in the early 1990s, work that excluded no one, but offered an open and warm house to everyone, and yet difficult decisions were made and difficult topics openly and honestly discussed.

In this picture I am with William Smyth PUP/UVF (a true friend of peace) and Barry McElduff Sinn Fein/PIRA at QUB, 1995.

Irelands Future

The marketed campaign leading up to the Irelands Future event on October 1, 2022, stated that this was an “Historic” event, a “Seismic” event, but where did this “Historic” event originate?

When the group Irelands Future was formed in 2017, Professor Colin Harvey and others wrote to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, setting forward a number of propositions for the Future of the Constitutional position of Northern Ireland within the Island of Ireland.

Brandon Lewis them Secretary of State for Northern Ireland responded as follows:

“The secretary of state must have regard to reasonable factors and make a judgement based on objective, reliable and empirical evidence”.

This prerequisite of “Empirical Evidence” is not alien to Professor Colin Harvey, in fact it is the bread and butter of academia, a Phd or Professorship would quickly be withdrawn if it was found that anyone being granted or awarded such title had used flawed methodology to state a non-truth as fact.

On Saturday 1 October, 2022, as Professor Colin Harvey stood in the 3Arena in Dublin, he declared on Twitter @cjhumanrights to the world “Full House”. Those of us who were observing proceedings, and who know the 3Arena exceptionally well, having attended the venue many times for many events, were taken aback by this declaration of “Full house”, as we could see that seats in which I and others had previously occupied were not even in public view, they were in fact along with over 3,000 other empty seats hidden behind a wall of grey curtains.

Having communicated with several people who were in the main body of the hall, it was confirmed for me that there were in fact over 3,000 empty seats hidden behind a wall of grey curtains. I then communicated with Prof Colin Harvey and others on Twitter to establish what ‘empirical’ evidence had been used to make the bold declaration of “Full House”.

Having asked these very basic questions about ‘empirical’ evidence, I was subject to a torrent of abuse, for trying to undermine the event and its theme, in fact I was simply trying to establish facts so that I could write a review of the event. It was then stated on various postings that tickets had only been offered for 5,000 of the 8,000-seat capacity 3Arena, the 3Arena can also offer 13,000 standing capacities.

So now at least some of those involved in promoting the event over the previous weeks, were moving away from their early public pronouncements about possibly needing Croke Park (Capacity over 80,000) to host the Irelands Future Event due to real time demand. Also, the daily mantra by those promoting the event that the youth of Ireland were “Rallying” to the call of the Irelands Future Event, began to ring hollow as those occupying the seats 'some gifted' and many paid for, were being filled by people such as Gerry Adams and many hundreds of ‘silver surfers.

I then made a number of phone calls to old comrades within the ranks of Sinn Fein/PIRA to establish exactly what role they (Sinn Fein/PIRA) were playing in the Irelands Future Event, as up until Saturday I had genuinely believed (although I had not thought that much about it) that the Irelands Future Event was to be non-partisan and funded by sponsorship and ticket sales. Then the penny finally dropped, a former Sinn Fein/PIRA comrade told me that they (Sinn Fein) were running upwards of 50 buses to the Irelands Future Event and they had bought tickets on a corporate scale at 10 Euro each and which they can claim back in expenses.

In this picture 60-year-old, Sinn Fein MP, Michelle Gildernew joins a bus load of older people on their way to 3Arena for the Irelands Future Event

To confirm what my former comrade had told me, pictures of bus loads of Sinn Fein/PIRA supporters began to appear on my Twitter newsfeed showing senior members of Sinn Fein/PIRA taking selfies as they made their way to the Irelands Future Event on their hired buses. Yet with all of this empirical evidence, those journalists attending the event, presented a standing ovation for Mary Lou McDonald, as something of a spontaneous surprise.

Mary Lou McDonald being the person who recently stated that the Campaign of Murder and Rape by Sinn Fein/PIRA was “Justified”, journalists forgot to include Mary Lou’s biograph.

As the Irelands Future Event began to take shape it was clear, that Professor Colin Harvey and others had not used ‘empirical evidence’ (as required by Brandon Lewis) to make the bold claim “Full House”, in fact the house was only at 50% capacity and Professor Colin Harvey was standing right there in the middle of it. Let us hope that Professor Colin Harvey’s work as a Human Rights academic is not such a blind experiment.

Professor Colin Harvey @cjhumanrights used Flawed Methodology when he said, “Full house here in Dublin” to describe the audience at 3Arena for Ireland’s Future Event, in fact, 3,000 empty seats were hidden behind a curtain and seats visible were never filled.

Irelands Future in Perspective

In September, 2022, Gareth Brooks sold-out five concerts at Dublin’s Croke Park, Gareth Brooks brought 400,000 people into a single space. While many could dismiss this phenomenon as nothing more than a gig on steroids, it was much more, because, Gareth Brooks managed to place senior members of The DUP and Sinn Fein/PIRA on the same benches. The latter I witnessed with my own eyes at close quarter.

Irelands Future brought paid actors, with prepared scripts, such as James Nesbitt to declare themselves ‘representative’ of the Protestant community, in fact, those of us who have taken the time to know the Protestant community, know that, no one person, no one group of people represent Protestantism in all of its historical, cultural and political complexities. Still, for an audience, filled with bus loads of Sinn Fein/PIRA supporters, tokenism was greatly appreciated.

In the end, the Irelands Future Event, was not what it was advertised to be. Yes, 5,000 tickets may have been sold at 10 Euro each, however, at least 50% of those tickets were bought on a corporate scale by Sinn Fein/PIRA supporters, this was also supported by the booing of Leo Varadakar TD who made a contribution about inclusion and the ‘surprise’ standing-ovation for Mary Lou McDonald.

It is not unfair to say, that based on the empirical evidence presented in this review, that the Irelands Future Event, while not necessarily intending to be, was nothing more than a further attempt by Sinn Fein/PIRA to legitimize Sinn Fein/PIRAs Campaign of Murder and Rape.

If Irelands Future wants to make a genuine contribution, then they need reach beyond the sectarianism and hate that is Sinn Fein/PIRA. Gareth Brooks had no support acts, just the correct mood music to make everyone feel included.