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THE BROKEN ELBOW
The ten Ballymurphy victims. On Tuesday 11 May 2021, when Coroner, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan presented her findings of the inquest into the death of ten people killed in Ballymurphy, Belfast between 9-11 August 1971, it was almost a half century since news first emerged of theshootings.
EOGHAN HARRIS BY VINCENT BROWNE Eoghan Harris The sacked Sunday Indo columnist has an interesting past, which Vincent Browne chronicled in Magill magazine: THE OFFICIAL IRA AND WORKERS PARTY IN THE WAKE OF THE DE The Official IRA and Workers Party In The Wake Of The De Rossa Split. I received the piece below as a comment on an article I wrote on the recent split in what remains of the Workers Party and Official IRA. ‘Helmut Oberlander’ is the undoubtedly fictitious byline that came with the article but knowing a little about the organization THE WORM IS TURNING ON ISRAEL IN BIDEN’S DEMOCRATS…. At least in New York, where Democrat Senate leader, Chuck Shumer may face a primary challenge for his Senate seat, writes Mondoweiss founder Philip Weiss, from AOC who has called Israel ‘an apartheid state’, reflecting a growing grassroots anger ‘THE IRA STILL EXISTS & “OVERSEES”* SF’, PSNI TELLS In the seemingly endless debate about whether or not the Provisional IRA still exists and whether or not it controls Sinn Fein – questions that loom like Banquo’s ghost over negotiations about the formation of a new government in Dublin – little attention has been paid to a PSNI assessment made as recently as last November that the IRA did at that time exist and that it controlled Sinn Fein. ETA, THE PROVOS AND AN ARMS DEAL POST THE GOOD FRIDAY ETA, The Provos And An Arms Deal Post The Good Friday Agreement. The above photo of James Monaghan, one-time IRA Director of Engineering and a central figure in the alleged 2001 plot by the IRA to train the Columbian FARC guerrillas, and Evelyn Glenholmes, daughter of late Short Strand IRA veteran Dickie Glenholmes, who was at the centre of a BRITISH ARMY TRAINING ZONES DURING THE TROUBLES By Ed Moloney and Bob Mitchell During the Troubles the British Army constructed or used already erected mock towns/streets to replicate the urban environment that their troops would experience during tours of Northern Ireland. Below is a selection of photos of the sites and some training exercises. Only one, at the Ballykinlar camp in Co MEET SAS COMMANDER JULIAN ‘TONY’ BALL, ROBERT NAIRAC’S Meet SAS Commander Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, Robert Nairac’s Comrade-in-Arms. If Robert Nairac was involved in the Miami Showband massacre, the man who would have known more than most about his role was Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, a legendary former commander of a secret SAS unit based in Co. Armagh in the mid-1970’s, a squad that Nairacliaised
‘THE GOOD OLD IRA’ Funny the tricks memory can play on people. In a post yesterday dealing with Gerry Adams’ recent claim that the IRA had ‘disappeared’ an estimated 200 alleged informers during the Anglo-Irish war, and that the modern IRA had thus behaved no differently or more barbarously than the heroic founders of the Irish state, I made reference to a pamphlet called ‘The Good Old IRA’which had
WHAT DOES ‘OGLACH’ AS IN ‘OGLACH MARTIN MCGUINNESS’ MEAN So what does 'Oglach' mean? In my experience IRA members use it, when they use Irish, to mean 'Volunteer', i.e. a rank and file member of the IRA. But there are other meanings, as Focloir Gaelige-Bearia (O Donaill 1971) makes clear. Nonetheless the military essence dominates: óglach, m. (gs. & npl.THE BROKEN ELBOW
The ten Ballymurphy victims. On Tuesday 11 May 2021, when Coroner, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan presented her findings of the inquest into the death of ten people killed in Ballymurphy, Belfast between 9-11 August 1971, it was almost a half century since news first emerged of theshootings.
EOGHAN HARRIS BY VINCENT BROWNE Eoghan Harris The sacked Sunday Indo columnist has an interesting past, which Vincent Browne chronicled in Magill magazine: THE OFFICIAL IRA AND WORKERS PARTY IN THE WAKE OF THE DE The Official IRA and Workers Party In The Wake Of The De Rossa Split. I received the piece below as a comment on an article I wrote on the recent split in what remains of the Workers Party and Official IRA. ‘Helmut Oberlander’ is the undoubtedly fictitious byline that came with the article but knowing a little about the organization THE WORM IS TURNING ON ISRAEL IN BIDEN’S DEMOCRATS…. At least in New York, where Democrat Senate leader, Chuck Shumer may face a primary challenge for his Senate seat, writes Mondoweiss founder Philip Weiss, from AOC who has called Israel ‘an apartheid state’, reflecting a growing grassroots anger ‘THE IRA STILL EXISTS & “OVERSEES”* SF’, PSNI TELLS In the seemingly endless debate about whether or not the Provisional IRA still exists and whether or not it controls Sinn Fein – questions that loom like Banquo’s ghost over negotiations about the formation of a new government in Dublin – little attention has been paid to a PSNI assessment made as recently as last November that the IRA did at that time exist and that it controlled Sinn Fein. ETA, THE PROVOS AND AN ARMS DEAL POST THE GOOD FRIDAY ETA, The Provos And An Arms Deal Post The Good Friday Agreement. The above photo of James Monaghan, one-time IRA Director of Engineering and a central figure in the alleged 2001 plot by the IRA to train the Columbian FARC guerrillas, and Evelyn Glenholmes, daughter of late Short Strand IRA veteran Dickie Glenholmes, who was at the centre of a BRITISH ARMY TRAINING ZONES DURING THE TROUBLES By Ed Moloney and Bob Mitchell During the Troubles the British Army constructed or used already erected mock towns/streets to replicate the urban environment that their troops would experience during tours of Northern Ireland. Below is a selection of photos of the sites and some training exercises. Only one, at the Ballykinlar camp in Co MEET SAS COMMANDER JULIAN ‘TONY’ BALL, ROBERT NAIRAC’S Meet SAS Commander Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, Robert Nairac’s Comrade-in-Arms. If Robert Nairac was involved in the Miami Showband massacre, the man who would have known more than most about his role was Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, a legendary former commander of a secret SAS unit based in Co. Armagh in the mid-1970’s, a squad that Nairacliaised
‘THE GOOD OLD IRA’ Funny the tricks memory can play on people. In a post yesterday dealing with Gerry Adams’ recent claim that the IRA had ‘disappeared’ an estimated 200 alleged informers during the Anglo-Irish war, and that the modern IRA had thus behaved no differently or more barbarously than the heroic founders of the Irish state, I made reference to a pamphlet called ‘The Good Old IRA’which had
WHAT DOES ‘OGLACH’ AS IN ‘OGLACH MARTIN MCGUINNESS’ MEAN So what does 'Oglach' mean? In my experience IRA members use it, when they use Irish, to mean 'Volunteer', i.e. a rank and file member of the IRA. But there are other meanings, as Focloir Gaelige-Bearia (O Donaill 1971) makes clear. Nonetheless the military essence dominates: óglach, m. (gs. & npl. AN AMERICAN JEW WRITES FROM HEBRON Mondoweiss, a blog mostly written by Jewish anti-zionists and other critics of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians of Gaza, has been on my required reading list for years now, and occasionally I have been privileged to write for it. The current edition has a great article about a visit to Hebron written by Benjamin Moser, SINN FEIN AND BOBBY SANDS’ FUNERAL Sinn Fein And Bobby Sands’ Funeral. There is only one way to settle the disputed claim over where Bobby Sands wanted to be buried. Sinn Fein has produced the text – but not a copy – of a ‘comm’ from the dead hunger striker saying that he was now content to be buried in Milltown. This was issued by a former low level SF press officer UNDER BIDEN’S WHITE HOUSE US HEALTHCARE STILL STINKS….AND Under Biden’s White House US Healthcare Still Stinks.And The Progressive Dems DisappointTHE BROKEN ELBOW
Many thanks to “Wicklow” for this tip that the famous Tom Mangold interview with a young Martin McGuinness is now on YouTube, the one which begins with the celebrated question: “As the officer commanding the Derry part of the IRA Provisionals.? THE WORM IS TURNING ON ISRAEL IN BIDEN’S DEMOCRATS…. At least in New York, where Democrat Senate leader, Chuck Shumer may face a primary challenge for his Senate seat, writes Mondoweiss founder Philip Weiss, from AOC who has called Israel ‘an apartheid state’, reflecting a growing grassroots anger WHO’S WHO OF WP SPLIT EMERGES; GERRY ADAMS’ BROTHER-IN-LAW The ‘PLC Machine’ is a fancy way of referring to the Workers Party’s portfolio of bars and businesses, some as far away as San Francisco, that were built up over the years courtesy of scams like building site tax rackets, as well as drink licence permits discretely arranged by the Northern Ireland Office in the days when OIRA was regarded by HMG as an acceptable alternative to the Provos. ‘AT LEAST THREE PROVO INFORMERS HELPED LOYALISTS/BRITISH A son of the late Provisional IRA icon Larry Marley – the Ardoyne republican who masterminded the 1983 mass escape from the Maze prison, Long Kesh – has posted a claim on the internet that ‘at least three IRA informers.and possibly more’, helped set up his father for assassination in 1987 at the behest of British intelligence agencies. MARTIN DILLON ON RUBY DAVISON, AN IRA TRAITOR AND ONE OF By Martin Dillon When I visited Belfast last November, I made my way to Milltown Cemetery where my parents, and many of my Dillon, Clarke and Carson relatives are buried. It was a cold, early morning when I strode through the pathways between theUNCATEGORIZED
Posts about Uncategorized written by The Broken Elbow. A View of the World from New York and Belfast (Public PGP Key: 210D6F47) BONO’S OFFSHORE TAX SHELTER INVESTMENTS REVEALED A number of international publications have begun publishing the contents of the so-called Paradise papers, secret records of offshore, i.e. tax-free investments made by the super-rich and hidden out of reach and sight of their fellow countrymen and women and governments. This cache was unearthed by researchers from the International Consortium of Journalists and theTHE BROKEN ELBOW
The ten Ballymurphy victims. On Tuesday 11 May 2021, when Coroner, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan presented her findings of the inquest into the death of ten people killed in Ballymurphy, Belfast between 9-11 August 1971, it was almost a half century since news first emerged of theshootings.
EOGHAN HARRIS BY VINCENT BROWNE Eoghan Harris The sacked Sunday Indo columnist has an interesting past, which Vincent Browne chronicled in Magill magazine: THE OFFICIAL IRA AND WORKERS PARTY IN THE WAKE OF THE DE The Official IRA and Workers Party In The Wake Of The De Rossa Split. I received the piece below as a comment on an article I wrote on the recent split in what remains of the Workers Party and Official IRA. ‘Helmut Oberlander’ is the undoubtedly fictitious byline that came with the article but knowing a little about the organization THE WORM IS TURNING ON ISRAEL IN BIDEN’S DEMOCRATS…. At least in New York, where Democrat Senate leader, Chuck Shumer may face a primary challenge for his Senate seat, writes Mondoweiss founder Philip Weiss, from AOC who has called Israel ‘an apartheid state’, reflecting a growing grassroots anger ‘THE IRA STILL EXISTS & “OVERSEES”* SF’, PSNI TELLS In the seemingly endless debate about whether or not the Provisional IRA still exists and whether or not it controls Sinn Fein – questions that loom like Banquo’s ghost over negotiations about the formation of a new government in Dublin – little attention has been paid to a PSNI assessment made as recently as last November that the IRA did at that time exist and that it controlled Sinn Fein. ETA, THE PROVOS AND AN ARMS DEAL POST THE GOOD FRIDAY ETA, The Provos And An Arms Deal Post The Good Friday Agreement. The above photo of James Monaghan, one-time IRA Director of Engineering and a central figure in the alleged 2001 plot by the IRA to train the Columbian FARC guerrillas, and Evelyn Glenholmes, daughter of late Short Strand IRA veteran Dickie Glenholmes, who was at the centre of a BRITISH ARMY TRAINING ZONES DURING THE TROUBLES By Ed Moloney and Bob Mitchell During the Troubles the British Army constructed or used already erected mock towns/streets to replicate the urban environment that their troops would experience during tours of Northern Ireland. Below is a selection of photos of the sites and some training exercises. Only one, at the Ballykinlar camp in Co MEET SAS COMMANDER JULIAN ‘TONY’ BALL, ROBERT NAIRAC’S Meet SAS Commander Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, Robert Nairac’s Comrade-in-Arms. If Robert Nairac was involved in the Miami Showband massacre, the man who would have known more than most about his role was Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, a legendary former commander of a secret SAS unit based in Co. Armagh in the mid-1970’s, a squad that Nairacliaised
‘THE GOOD OLD IRA’ Funny the tricks memory can play on people. In a post yesterday dealing with Gerry Adams’ recent claim that the IRA had ‘disappeared’ an estimated 200 alleged informers during the Anglo-Irish war, and that the modern IRA had thus behaved no differently or more barbarously than the heroic founders of the Irish state, I made reference to a pamphlet called ‘The Good Old IRA’which had
WHAT DOES ‘OGLACH’ AS IN ‘OGLACH MARTIN MCGUINNESS’ MEAN So what does 'Oglach' mean? In my experience IRA members use it, when they use Irish, to mean 'Volunteer', i.e. a rank and file member of the IRA. But there are other meanings, as Focloir Gaelige-Bearia (O Donaill 1971) makes clear. Nonetheless the military essence dominates: óglach, m. (gs. & npl.THE BROKEN ELBOW
The ten Ballymurphy victims. On Tuesday 11 May 2021, when Coroner, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan presented her findings of the inquest into the death of ten people killed in Ballymurphy, Belfast between 9-11 August 1971, it was almost a half century since news first emerged of theshootings.
EOGHAN HARRIS BY VINCENT BROWNE Eoghan Harris The sacked Sunday Indo columnist has an interesting past, which Vincent Browne chronicled in Magill magazine: THE OFFICIAL IRA AND WORKERS PARTY IN THE WAKE OF THE DE The Official IRA and Workers Party In The Wake Of The De Rossa Split. I received the piece below as a comment on an article I wrote on the recent split in what remains of the Workers Party and Official IRA. ‘Helmut Oberlander’ is the undoubtedly fictitious byline that came with the article but knowing a little about the organization THE WORM IS TURNING ON ISRAEL IN BIDEN’S DEMOCRATS…. At least in New York, where Democrat Senate leader, Chuck Shumer may face a primary challenge for his Senate seat, writes Mondoweiss founder Philip Weiss, from AOC who has called Israel ‘an apartheid state’, reflecting a growing grassroots anger ‘THE IRA STILL EXISTS & “OVERSEES”* SF’, PSNI TELLS In the seemingly endless debate about whether or not the Provisional IRA still exists and whether or not it controls Sinn Fein – questions that loom like Banquo’s ghost over negotiations about the formation of a new government in Dublin – little attention has been paid to a PSNI assessment made as recently as last November that the IRA did at that time exist and that it controlled Sinn Fein. ETA, THE PROVOS AND AN ARMS DEAL POST THE GOOD FRIDAY ETA, The Provos And An Arms Deal Post The Good Friday Agreement. The above photo of James Monaghan, one-time IRA Director of Engineering and a central figure in the alleged 2001 plot by the IRA to train the Columbian FARC guerrillas, and Evelyn Glenholmes, daughter of late Short Strand IRA veteran Dickie Glenholmes, who was at the centre of a BRITISH ARMY TRAINING ZONES DURING THE TROUBLES By Ed Moloney and Bob Mitchell During the Troubles the British Army constructed or used already erected mock towns/streets to replicate the urban environment that their troops would experience during tours of Northern Ireland. Below is a selection of photos of the sites and some training exercises. Only one, at the Ballykinlar camp in Co MEET SAS COMMANDER JULIAN ‘TONY’ BALL, ROBERT NAIRAC’S Meet SAS Commander Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, Robert Nairac’s Comrade-in-Arms. If Robert Nairac was involved in the Miami Showband massacre, the man who would have known more than most about his role was Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, a legendary former commander of a secret SAS unit based in Co. Armagh in the mid-1970’s, a squad that Nairacliaised
‘THE GOOD OLD IRA’ Funny the tricks memory can play on people. In a post yesterday dealing with Gerry Adams’ recent claim that the IRA had ‘disappeared’ an estimated 200 alleged informers during the Anglo-Irish war, and that the modern IRA had thus behaved no differently or more barbarously than the heroic founders of the Irish state, I made reference to a pamphlet called ‘The Good Old IRA’which had
WHAT DOES ‘OGLACH’ AS IN ‘OGLACH MARTIN MCGUINNESS’ MEAN So what does 'Oglach' mean? In my experience IRA members use it, when they use Irish, to mean 'Volunteer', i.e. a rank and file member of the IRA. But there are other meanings, as Focloir Gaelige-Bearia (O Donaill 1971) makes clear. Nonetheless the military essence dominates: óglach, m. (gs. & npl. AN AMERICAN JEW WRITES FROM HEBRON Mondoweiss, a blog mostly written by Jewish anti-zionists and other critics of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians of Gaza, has been on my required reading list for years now, and occasionally I have been privileged to write for it. The current edition has a great article about a visit to Hebron written by Benjamin Moser, SINN FEIN AND BOBBY SANDS’ FUNERAL Sinn Fein And Bobby Sands’ Funeral. There is only one way to settle the disputed claim over where Bobby Sands wanted to be buried. Sinn Fein has produced the text – but not a copy – of a ‘comm’ from the dead hunger striker saying that he was now content to be buried in Milltown. This was issued by a former low level SF press officer UNDER BIDEN’S WHITE HOUSE US HEALTHCARE STILL STINKS….AND Under Biden’s White House US Healthcare Still Stinks.And The Progressive Dems DisappointTHE BROKEN ELBOW
Many thanks to “Wicklow” for this tip that the famous Tom Mangold interview with a young Martin McGuinness is now on YouTube, the one which begins with the celebrated question: “As the officer commanding the Derry part of the IRA Provisionals.? THE WORM IS TURNING ON ISRAEL IN BIDEN’S DEMOCRATS…. At least in New York, where Democrat Senate leader, Chuck Shumer may face a primary challenge for his Senate seat, writes Mondoweiss founder Philip Weiss, from AOC who has called Israel ‘an apartheid state’, reflecting a growing grassroots anger WHO’S WHO OF WP SPLIT EMERGES; GERRY ADAMS’ BROTHER-IN-LAW The ‘PLC Machine’ is a fancy way of referring to the Workers Party’s portfolio of bars and businesses, some as far away as San Francisco, that were built up over the years courtesy of scams like building site tax rackets, as well as drink licence permits discretely arranged by the Northern Ireland Office in the days when OIRA was regarded by HMG as an acceptable alternative to the Provos. ‘AT LEAST THREE PROVO INFORMERS HELPED LOYALISTS/BRITISH A son of the late Provisional IRA icon Larry Marley – the Ardoyne republican who masterminded the 1983 mass escape from the Maze prison, Long Kesh – has posted a claim on the internet that ‘at least three IRA informers.and possibly more’, helped set up his father for assassination in 1987 at the behest of British intelligence agencies. MARTIN DILLON ON RUBY DAVISON, AN IRA TRAITOR AND ONE OF By Martin Dillon When I visited Belfast last November, I made my way to Milltown Cemetery where my parents, and many of my Dillon, Clarke and Carson relatives are buried. It was a cold, early morning when I strode through the pathways between theUNCATEGORIZED
Posts about Uncategorized written by The Broken Elbow. A View of the World from New York and Belfast (Public PGP Key: 210D6F47) BONO’S OFFSHORE TAX SHELTER INVESTMENTS REVEALED A number of international publications have begun publishing the contents of the so-called Paradise papers, secret records of offshore, i.e. tax-free investments made by the super-rich and hidden out of reach and sight of their fellow countrymen and women and governments. This cache was unearthed by researchers from the International Consortium of Journalists and theTHE BROKEN ELBOW
The ten Ballymurphy victims. On Tuesday 11 May 2021, when Coroner, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan presented her findings of the inquest into the death of ten people killed in Ballymurphy, Belfast between 9-11 August 1971, it was almost a half century since news first emerged of theshootings.
EOGHAN HARRIS BY VINCENT BROWNE Eoghan Harris The sacked Sunday Indo columnist has an interesting past, which Vincent Browne chronicled in Magill magazine: THE OFFICIAL IRA AND WORKERS PARTY IN THE WAKE OF THE DE The Official IRA and Workers Party In The Wake Of The De Rossa Split. I received the piece below as a comment on an article I wrote on the recent split in what remains of the Workers Party and Official IRA. ‘Helmut Oberlander’ is the undoubtedly fictitious byline that came with the article but knowing a little about the organization THE WORM IS TURNING ON ISRAEL IN BIDEN’S DEMOCRATS…. At least in New York, where Democrat Senate leader, Chuck Shumer may face a primary challenge for his Senate seat, writes Mondoweiss founder Philip Weiss, from AOC who has called Israel ‘an apartheid state’, reflecting a growing grassroots anger ‘THE IRA STILL EXISTS & “OVERSEES”* SF’, PSNI TELLS In the seemingly endless debate about whether or not the Provisional IRA still exists and whether or not it controls Sinn Fein – questions that loom like Banquo’s ghost over negotiations about the formation of a new government in Dublin – little attention has been paid to a PSNI assessment made as recently as last November that the IRA did at that time exist and that it controlled Sinn Fein. ETA, THE PROVOS AND AN ARMS DEAL POST THE GOOD FRIDAY ETA, The Provos And An Arms Deal Post The Good Friday Agreement. The above photo of James Monaghan, one-time IRA Director of Engineering and a central figure in the alleged 2001 plot by the IRA to train the Columbian FARC guerrillas, and Evelyn Glenholmes, daughter of late Short Strand IRA veteran Dickie Glenholmes, who was at the centre of a BRITISH ARMY TRAINING ZONES DURING THE TROUBLES By Ed Moloney and Bob Mitchell During the Troubles the British Army constructed or used already erected mock towns/streets to replicate the urban environment that their troops would experience during tours of Northern Ireland. Below is a selection of photos of the sites and some training exercises. Only one, at the Ballykinlar camp in Co MEET SAS COMMANDER JULIAN ‘TONY’ BALL, ROBERT NAIRAC’S Meet SAS Commander Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, Robert Nairac’s Comrade-in-Arms. If Robert Nairac was involved in the Miami Showband massacre, the man who would have known more than most about his role was Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, a legendary former commander of a secret SAS unit based in Co. Armagh in the mid-1970’s, a squad that Nairacliaised
‘THE GOOD OLD IRA’ Funny the tricks memory can play on people. In a post yesterday dealing with Gerry Adams’ recent claim that the IRA had ‘disappeared’ an estimated 200 alleged informers during the Anglo-Irish war, and that the modern IRA had thus behaved no differently or more barbarously than the heroic founders of the Irish state, I made reference to a pamphlet called ‘The Good Old IRA’which had
WHAT DOES ‘OGLACH’ AS IN ‘OGLACH MARTIN MCGUINNESS’ MEAN So what does 'Oglach' mean? In my experience IRA members use it, when they use Irish, to mean 'Volunteer', i.e. a rank and file member of the IRA. But there are other meanings, as Focloir Gaelige-Bearia (O Donaill 1971) makes clear. Nonetheless the military essence dominates: óglach, m. (gs. & npl.THE BROKEN ELBOW
The ten Ballymurphy victims. On Tuesday 11 May 2021, when Coroner, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan presented her findings of the inquest into the death of ten people killed in Ballymurphy, Belfast between 9-11 August 1971, it was almost a half century since news first emerged of theshootings.
EOGHAN HARRIS BY VINCENT BROWNE Eoghan Harris The sacked Sunday Indo columnist has an interesting past, which Vincent Browne chronicled in Magill magazine: THE OFFICIAL IRA AND WORKERS PARTY IN THE WAKE OF THE DE The Official IRA and Workers Party In The Wake Of The De Rossa Split. I received the piece below as a comment on an article I wrote on the recent split in what remains of the Workers Party and Official IRA. ‘Helmut Oberlander’ is the undoubtedly fictitious byline that came with the article but knowing a little about the organization THE WORM IS TURNING ON ISRAEL IN BIDEN’S DEMOCRATS…. At least in New York, where Democrat Senate leader, Chuck Shumer may face a primary challenge for his Senate seat, writes Mondoweiss founder Philip Weiss, from AOC who has called Israel ‘an apartheid state’, reflecting a growing grassroots anger ‘THE IRA STILL EXISTS & “OVERSEES”* SF’, PSNI TELLS In the seemingly endless debate about whether or not the Provisional IRA still exists and whether or not it controls Sinn Fein – questions that loom like Banquo’s ghost over negotiations about the formation of a new government in Dublin – little attention has been paid to a PSNI assessment made as recently as last November that the IRA did at that time exist and that it controlled Sinn Fein. ETA, THE PROVOS AND AN ARMS DEAL POST THE GOOD FRIDAY ETA, The Provos And An Arms Deal Post The Good Friday Agreement. The above photo of James Monaghan, one-time IRA Director of Engineering and a central figure in the alleged 2001 plot by the IRA to train the Columbian FARC guerrillas, and Evelyn Glenholmes, daughter of late Short Strand IRA veteran Dickie Glenholmes, who was at the centre of a BRITISH ARMY TRAINING ZONES DURING THE TROUBLES By Ed Moloney and Bob Mitchell During the Troubles the British Army constructed or used already erected mock towns/streets to replicate the urban environment that their troops would experience during tours of Northern Ireland. Below is a selection of photos of the sites and some training exercises. Only one, at the Ballykinlar camp in Co MEET SAS COMMANDER JULIAN ‘TONY’ BALL, ROBERT NAIRAC’S Meet SAS Commander Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, Robert Nairac’s Comrade-in-Arms. If Robert Nairac was involved in the Miami Showband massacre, the man who would have known more than most about his role was Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, a legendary former commander of a secret SAS unit based in Co. Armagh in the mid-1970’s, a squad that Nairacliaised
‘THE GOOD OLD IRA’ Funny the tricks memory can play on people. In a post yesterday dealing with Gerry Adams’ recent claim that the IRA had ‘disappeared’ an estimated 200 alleged informers during the Anglo-Irish war, and that the modern IRA had thus behaved no differently or more barbarously than the heroic founders of the Irish state, I made reference to a pamphlet called ‘The Good Old IRA’which had
WHAT DOES ‘OGLACH’ AS IN ‘OGLACH MARTIN MCGUINNESS’ MEAN So what does 'Oglach' mean? In my experience IRA members use it, when they use Irish, to mean 'Volunteer', i.e. a rank and file member of the IRA. But there are other meanings, as Focloir Gaelige-Bearia (O Donaill 1971) makes clear. Nonetheless the military essence dominates: óglach, m. (gs. & npl. AN AMERICAN JEW WRITES FROM HEBRON Mondoweiss, a blog mostly written by Jewish anti-zionists and other critics of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians of Gaza, has been on my required reading list for years now, and occasionally I have been privileged to write for it. The current edition has a great article about a visit to Hebron written by Benjamin Moser, SINN FEIN AND BOBBY SANDS’ FUNERAL Sinn Fein And Bobby Sands’ Funeral. There is only one way to settle the disputed claim over where Bobby Sands wanted to be buried. Sinn Fein has produced the text – but not a copy – of a ‘comm’ from the dead hunger striker saying that he was now content to be buried in Milltown. This was issued by a former low level SF press officer UNDER BIDEN’S WHITE HOUSE US HEALTHCARE STILL STINKS….AND 1 day ago · Under Biden’s White House US Healthcare Still Stinks.And The Progressive Dems DisappointTHE BROKEN ELBOW
Many thanks to “Wicklow” for this tip that the famous Tom Mangold interview with a young Martin McGuinness is now on YouTube, the one which begins with the celebrated question: “As the officer commanding the Derry part of the IRA Provisionals.? THE WORM IS TURNING ON ISRAEL IN BIDEN’S DEMOCRATS…. At least in New York, where Democrat Senate leader, Chuck Shumer may face a primary challenge for his Senate seat, writes Mondoweiss founder Philip Weiss, from AOC who has called Israel ‘an apartheid state’, reflecting a growing grassroots anger THE IRA AND SINN FEIN DURING THE TROUBLES An academic view of the Provisionals during the Troubles. The author studied the subject from Canada and clearly comes from the controversy-free, mainstream academic school of thought: The IRA and Sinn Féin during the Troubles: two faces of the same organization Arthur Nogacz University of British Columbia Political Science Department The second half of the WHO’S WHO OF WP SPLIT EMERGES; GERRY ADAMS’ BROTHER-IN-LAW The ‘PLC Machine’ is a fancy way of referring to the Workers Party’s portfolio of bars and businesses, some as far away as San Francisco, that were built up over the years courtesy of scams like building site tax rackets, as well as drink licence permits discretely arranged by the Northern Ireland Office in the days when OIRA was regarded by HMG as an acceptable alternative to the Provos. ‘AT LEAST THREE PROVO INFORMERS HELPED LOYALISTS/BRITISH A son of the late Provisional IRA icon Larry Marley – the Ardoyne republican who masterminded the 1983 mass escape from the Maze prison, Long Kesh – has posted a claim on the internet that ‘at least three IRA informers.and possibly more’, helped set up his father for assassination in 1987 at the behest of British intelligence agencies. MARTIN DILLON ON RUBY DAVISON, AN IRA TRAITOR AND ONE OF By Martin Dillon When I visited Belfast last November, I made my way to Milltown Cemetery where my parents, and many of my Dillon, Clarke and Carson relatives are buried. It was a cold, early morning when I strode through the pathways between theUNCATEGORIZED
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The ten Ballymurphy victims. On Tuesday 11 May 2021, when Coroner, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan presented her findings of the inquest into the death of ten people killed in Ballymurphy, Belfast between 9-11 August 1971, it was almost a half century since news first emerged of theshootings.
EOGHAN HARRIS BY VINCENT BROWNE Eoghan Harris The sacked Sunday Indo columnist has an interesting past, which Vincent Browne chronicled in Magill magazine: SINN FEIN AND BOBBY SANDS’ FUNERAL Sinn Fein And Bobby Sands’ Funeral. There is only one way to settle the disputed claim over where Bobby Sands wanted to be buried. Sinn Fein has produced the text – but not a copy – of a ‘comm’ from the dead hunger striker saying that he was now content to be buried in Milltown. This was issued by a former low level SF press officer THE OFFICIAL IRA AND WORKERS PARTY IN THE WAKE OF THE DE The Official IRA and Workers Party In The Wake Of The De Rossa Split. I received the piece below as a comment on an article I wrote on the recent split in what remains of the Workers Party and Official IRA. ‘Helmut Oberlander’ is the undoubtedly fictitious byline that came with the article but knowing a little about the organization THE WORM IS TURNING ON ISRAEL IN BIDEN’S DEMOCRATS…. At least in New York, where Democrat Senate leader, Chuck Shumer may face a primary challenge for his Senate seat, writes Mondoweiss founder Philip Weiss, from AOC who has called Israel ‘an apartheid state’, reflecting a growing grassroots anger MEET SAS COMMANDER JULIAN ‘TONY’ BALL, ROBERT NAIRAC’S Meet SAS Commander Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, Robert Nairac’s Comrade-in-Arms. If Robert Nairac was involved in the Miami Showband massacre, the man who would have known more than most about his role was Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, a legendary former commander of a secret SAS unit based in Co. Armagh in the mid-1970’s, a squad that Nairacliaised
ETA, THE PROVOS AND AN ARMS DEAL POST THE GOOD FRIDAY ETA, The Provos And An Arms Deal Post The Good Friday Agreement. The above photo of James Monaghan, one-time IRA Director of Engineering and a central figure in the alleged 2001 plot by the IRA to train the Columbian FARC guerrillas, and Evelyn Glenholmes, daughter of late Short Strand IRA veteran Dickie Glenholmes, who was at the centre of a ‘THE IRA STILL EXISTS & “OVERSEES”* SF’, PSNI TELLS In the seemingly endless debate about whether or not the Provisional IRA still exists and whether or not it controls Sinn Fein – questions that loom like Banquo’s ghost over negotiations about the formation of a new government in Dublin – little attention has been paid to a PSNI assessment made as recently as last November that the IRA did at that time exist and that it controlled Sinn Fein. BRITISH ARMY TRAINING ZONES DURING THE TROUBLES By Ed Moloney and Bob Mitchell During the Troubles the British Army constructed or used already erected mock towns/streets to replicate the urban environment that their troops would experience during tours of Northern Ireland. Below is a selection of photos of the sites and some training exercises. Only one, at the Ballykinlar camp in Co THE BRITISH SOLDIER WHO KILLED JIM BRYSON INTERVIEWED The British Soldier Who Killed Jim Bryson Interviewed.. Amongst the litany of heavy blows inflicted by the British Army on the Provisional IRA during the early 1970’s – when the war really was IRA vs British military – one of the most severe was the shooting dead of Ballymurphy IRA leader Jim Bryson and Patrick Mulvenna in August 1973THE BROKEN ELBOW
The ten Ballymurphy victims. On Tuesday 11 May 2021, when Coroner, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan presented her findings of the inquest into the death of ten people killed in Ballymurphy, Belfast between 9-11 August 1971, it was almost a half century since news first emerged of theshootings.
EOGHAN HARRIS BY VINCENT BROWNE Eoghan Harris The sacked Sunday Indo columnist has an interesting past, which Vincent Browne chronicled in Magill magazine: SINN FEIN AND BOBBY SANDS’ FUNERAL Sinn Fein And Bobby Sands’ Funeral. There is only one way to settle the disputed claim over where Bobby Sands wanted to be buried. Sinn Fein has produced the text – but not a copy – of a ‘comm’ from the dead hunger striker saying that he was now content to be buried in Milltown. This was issued by a former low level SF press officer THE OFFICIAL IRA AND WORKERS PARTY IN THE WAKE OF THE DE The Official IRA and Workers Party In The Wake Of The De Rossa Split. I received the piece below as a comment on an article I wrote on the recent split in what remains of the Workers Party and Official IRA. ‘Helmut Oberlander’ is the undoubtedly fictitious byline that came with the article but knowing a little about the organization THE WORM IS TURNING ON ISRAEL IN BIDEN’S DEMOCRATS…. At least in New York, where Democrat Senate leader, Chuck Shumer may face a primary challenge for his Senate seat, writes Mondoweiss founder Philip Weiss, from AOC who has called Israel ‘an apartheid state’, reflecting a growing grassroots anger MEET SAS COMMANDER JULIAN ‘TONY’ BALL, ROBERT NAIRAC’S Meet SAS Commander Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, Robert Nairac’s Comrade-in-Arms. If Robert Nairac was involved in the Miami Showband massacre, the man who would have known more than most about his role was Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, a legendary former commander of a secret SAS unit based in Co. Armagh in the mid-1970’s, a squad that Nairacliaised
ETA, THE PROVOS AND AN ARMS DEAL POST THE GOOD FRIDAY ETA, The Provos And An Arms Deal Post The Good Friday Agreement. The above photo of James Monaghan, one-time IRA Director of Engineering and a central figure in the alleged 2001 plot by the IRA to train the Columbian FARC guerrillas, and Evelyn Glenholmes, daughter of late Short Strand IRA veteran Dickie Glenholmes, who was at the centre of a ‘THE IRA STILL EXISTS & “OVERSEES”* SF’, PSNI TELLS In the seemingly endless debate about whether or not the Provisional IRA still exists and whether or not it controls Sinn Fein – questions that loom like Banquo’s ghost over negotiations about the formation of a new government in Dublin – little attention has been paid to a PSNI assessment made as recently as last November that the IRA did at that time exist and that it controlled Sinn Fein. BRITISH ARMY TRAINING ZONES DURING THE TROUBLES By Ed Moloney and Bob Mitchell During the Troubles the British Army constructed or used already erected mock towns/streets to replicate the urban environment that their troops would experience during tours of Northern Ireland. Below is a selection of photos of the sites and some training exercises. Only one, at the Ballykinlar camp in Co THE BRITISH SOLDIER WHO KILLED JIM BRYSON INTERVIEWED The British Soldier Who Killed Jim Bryson Interviewed.. Amongst the litany of heavy blows inflicted by the British Army on the Provisional IRA during the early 1970’s – when the war really was IRA vs British military – one of the most severe was the shooting dead of Ballymurphy IRA leader Jim Bryson and Patrick Mulvenna in August 1973 THE OFFICIAL IRA AND WORKERS PARTY IN THE WAKE OF THE DE The Official IRA and Workers Party In The Wake Of The De Rossa Split. I received the piece below as a comment on an article I wrote on the recent split in what remains of the Workers Party and Official IRA. ‘Helmut Oberlander’ is the undoubtedly fictitious byline that came with the article but knowing a little about the organizationTHE BROKEN ELBOW
Many thanks to “Wicklow” for this tip that the famous Tom Mangold interview with a young Martin McGuinness is now on YouTube, the one which begins with the celebrated question: “As the officer commanding the Derry part of the IRA Provisionals.? JUNE | 2021 | THE BROKEN ELBOW It was the subsequent use of a Laundry Van by the MRF in Belfast that was to partly lead to the units downfall. In MRFs Four Square Laundry operation, Sapper Ted Stewart, from Strabane, and Lance Corporal Sarah Jane Warke were ambushed in Turf Lodge after the operation had been discovered by PIRA intelligence. WHO’S WHO OF WP SPLIT EMERGES; GERRY ADAMS’ BROTHER-IN-LAW The ‘PLC Machine’ is a fancy way of referring to the Workers Party’s portfolio of bars and businesses, some as far away as San Francisco, that were built up over the years courtesy of scams like building site tax rackets, as well as drink licence permits discretely arranged by the Northern Ireland Office in the days when OIRA was regarded by HMG as an acceptable alternative to the Provos. THE IRA AND SINN FEIN DURING THE TROUBLES An academic view of the Provisionals during the Troubles. The author studied the subject from Canada and clearly comes from the controversy-free, mainstream academic school of thought: The IRA and Sinn Féin during the Troubles: two faces of the same organization Arthur Nogacz University of British Columbia Political Science Department The second half of the ‘AT LEAST THREE PROVO INFORMERS HELPED LOYALISTS/BRITISH A son of the late Provisional IRA icon Larry Marley – the Ardoyne republican who masterminded the 1983 mass escape from the Maze prison, Long Kesh – has posted a claim on the internet that ‘at least three IRA informers.and possibly more’, helped set up his father for assassination in 1987 at the behest of British intelligence agencies. MARTIN DILLON ON RUBY DAVISON, AN IRA TRAITOR AND ONE OF By Martin Dillon When I visited Belfast last November, I made my way to Milltown Cemetery where my parents, and many of my Dillon, Clarke and Carson relatives are buried. It was a cold, early morning when I strode through the pathways between theUNCATEGORIZED
Posts about Uncategorized written by The Broken Elbow. A View of the World from New York and Belfast (Public PGP Key: 210D6F47) ‘THE GOOD OLD IRA’ Funny the tricks memory can play on people. In a post yesterday dealing with Gerry Adams’ recent claim that the IRA had ‘disappeared’ an estimated 200 alleged informers during the Anglo-Irish war, and that the modern IRA had thus behaved no differently or more barbarously than the heroic founders of the Irish state, I made reference to a pamphlet called ‘The Good Old IRA’which had
BONO’S OFFSHORE TAX SHELTER INVESTMENTS REVEALED A number of international publications have begun publishing the contents of the so-called Paradise papers, secret records of offshore, i.e. tax-free investments made by the super-rich and hidden out of reach and sight of their fellow countrymen and women and governments. This cache was unearthed by researchers from the International Consortium of Journalists and theTHE BROKEN ELBOW
The ten Ballymurphy victims. On Tuesday 11 May 2021, when Coroner, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan presented her findings of the inquest into the death of ten people killed in Ballymurphy, Belfast between 9-11 August 1971, it was almost a half century since news first emerged of theshootings.
EOGHAN HARRIS BY VINCENT BROWNE Eoghan Harris The sacked Sunday Indo columnist has an interesting past, which Vincent Browne chronicled in Magill magazine: SINN FEIN AND BOBBY SANDS’ FUNERAL Sinn Fein And Bobby Sands’ Funeral. There is only one way to settle the disputed claim over where Bobby Sands wanted to be buried. Sinn Fein has produced the text – but not a copy – of a ‘comm’ from the dead hunger striker saying that he was now content to be buried in Milltown. This was issued by a former low level SF press officer THE OFFICIAL IRA AND WORKERS PARTY IN THE WAKE OF THE DE The Official IRA and Workers Party In The Wake Of The De Rossa Split. I received the piece below as a comment on an article I wrote on the recent split in what remains of the Workers Party and Official IRA. ‘Helmut Oberlander’ is the undoubtedly fictitious byline that came with the article but knowing a little about the organization THE WORM IS TURNING ON ISRAEL IN BIDEN’S DEMOCRATS…. At least in New York, where Democrat Senate leader, Chuck Shumer may face a primary challenge for his Senate seat, writes Mondoweiss founder Philip Weiss, from AOC who has called Israel ‘an apartheid state’, reflecting a growing grassroots anger MEET SAS COMMANDER JULIAN ‘TONY’ BALL, ROBERT NAIRAC’S Meet SAS Commander Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, Robert Nairac’s Comrade-in-Arms. If Robert Nairac was involved in the Miami Showband massacre, the man who would have known more than most about his role was Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, a legendary former commander of a secret SAS unit based in Co. Armagh in the mid-1970’s, a squad that Nairacliaised
ETA, THE PROVOS AND AN ARMS DEAL POST THE GOOD FRIDAY ETA, The Provos And An Arms Deal Post The Good Friday Agreement. The above photo of James Monaghan, one-time IRA Director of Engineering and a central figure in the alleged 2001 plot by the IRA to train the Columbian FARC guerrillas, and Evelyn Glenholmes, daughter of late Short Strand IRA veteran Dickie Glenholmes, who was at the centre of a ‘THE IRA STILL EXISTS & “OVERSEES”* SF’, PSNI TELLS In the seemingly endless debate about whether or not the Provisional IRA still exists and whether or not it controls Sinn Fein – questions that loom like Banquo’s ghost over negotiations about the formation of a new government in Dublin – little attention has been paid to a PSNI assessment made as recently as last November that the IRA did at that time exist and that it controlled Sinn Fein. BRITISH ARMY TRAINING ZONES DURING THE TROUBLES By Ed Moloney and Bob Mitchell During the Troubles the British Army constructed or used already erected mock towns/streets to replicate the urban environment that their troops would experience during tours of Northern Ireland. Below is a selection of photos of the sites and some training exercises. Only one, at the Ballykinlar camp in Co THE BRITISH SOLDIER WHO KILLED JIM BRYSON INTERVIEWED The British Soldier Who Killed Jim Bryson Interviewed.. Amongst the litany of heavy blows inflicted by the British Army on the Provisional IRA during the early 1970’s – when the war really was IRA vs British military – one of the most severe was the shooting dead of Ballymurphy IRA leader Jim Bryson and Patrick Mulvenna in August 1973THE BROKEN ELBOW
The ten Ballymurphy victims. On Tuesday 11 May 2021, when Coroner, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan presented her findings of the inquest into the death of ten people killed in Ballymurphy, Belfast between 9-11 August 1971, it was almost a half century since news first emerged of theshootings.
EOGHAN HARRIS BY VINCENT BROWNE Eoghan Harris The sacked Sunday Indo columnist has an interesting past, which Vincent Browne chronicled in Magill magazine: SINN FEIN AND BOBBY SANDS’ FUNERAL Sinn Fein And Bobby Sands’ Funeral. There is only one way to settle the disputed claim over where Bobby Sands wanted to be buried. Sinn Fein has produced the text – but not a copy – of a ‘comm’ from the dead hunger striker saying that he was now content to be buried in Milltown. This was issued by a former low level SF press officer THE OFFICIAL IRA AND WORKERS PARTY IN THE WAKE OF THE DE The Official IRA and Workers Party In The Wake Of The De Rossa Split. I received the piece below as a comment on an article I wrote on the recent split in what remains of the Workers Party and Official IRA. ‘Helmut Oberlander’ is the undoubtedly fictitious byline that came with the article but knowing a little about the organization THE WORM IS TURNING ON ISRAEL IN BIDEN’S DEMOCRATS…. At least in New York, where Democrat Senate leader, Chuck Shumer may face a primary challenge for his Senate seat, writes Mondoweiss founder Philip Weiss, from AOC who has called Israel ‘an apartheid state’, reflecting a growing grassroots anger MEET SAS COMMANDER JULIAN ‘TONY’ BALL, ROBERT NAIRAC’S Meet SAS Commander Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, Robert Nairac’s Comrade-in-Arms. If Robert Nairac was involved in the Miami Showband massacre, the man who would have known more than most about his role was Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, a legendary former commander of a secret SAS unit based in Co. Armagh in the mid-1970’s, a squad that Nairacliaised
ETA, THE PROVOS AND AN ARMS DEAL POST THE GOOD FRIDAY ETA, The Provos And An Arms Deal Post The Good Friday Agreement. The above photo of James Monaghan, one-time IRA Director of Engineering and a central figure in the alleged 2001 plot by the IRA to train the Columbian FARC guerrillas, and Evelyn Glenholmes, daughter of late Short Strand IRA veteran Dickie Glenholmes, who was at the centre of a ‘THE IRA STILL EXISTS & “OVERSEES”* SF’, PSNI TELLS In the seemingly endless debate about whether or not the Provisional IRA still exists and whether or not it controls Sinn Fein – questions that loom like Banquo’s ghost over negotiations about the formation of a new government in Dublin – little attention has been paid to a PSNI assessment made as recently as last November that the IRA did at that time exist and that it controlled Sinn Fein. BRITISH ARMY TRAINING ZONES DURING THE TROUBLES By Ed Moloney and Bob Mitchell During the Troubles the British Army constructed or used already erected mock towns/streets to replicate the urban environment that their troops would experience during tours of Northern Ireland. Below is a selection of photos of the sites and some training exercises. Only one, at the Ballykinlar camp in Co THE BRITISH SOLDIER WHO KILLED JIM BRYSON INTERVIEWED The British Soldier Who Killed Jim Bryson Interviewed.. Amongst the litany of heavy blows inflicted by the British Army on the Provisional IRA during the early 1970’s – when the war really was IRA vs British military – one of the most severe was the shooting dead of Ballymurphy IRA leader Jim Bryson and Patrick Mulvenna in August 1973 THE OFFICIAL IRA AND WORKERS PARTY IN THE WAKE OF THE DE The Official IRA and Workers Party In The Wake Of The De Rossa Split. I received the piece below as a comment on an article I wrote on the recent split in what remains of the Workers Party and Official IRA. ‘Helmut Oberlander’ is the undoubtedly fictitious byline that came with the article but knowing a little about the organizationTHE BROKEN ELBOW
Many thanks to “Wicklow” for this tip that the famous Tom Mangold interview with a young Martin McGuinness is now on YouTube, the one which begins with the celebrated question: “As the officer commanding the Derry part of the IRA Provisionals.? JUNE | 2021 | THE BROKEN ELBOW It was the subsequent use of a Laundry Van by the MRF in Belfast that was to partly lead to the units downfall. In MRFs Four Square Laundry operation, Sapper Ted Stewart, from Strabane, and Lance Corporal Sarah Jane Warke were ambushed in Turf Lodge after the operation had been discovered by PIRA intelligence. WHO’S WHO OF WP SPLIT EMERGES; GERRY ADAMS’ BROTHER-IN-LAW The ‘PLC Machine’ is a fancy way of referring to the Workers Party’s portfolio of bars and businesses, some as far away as San Francisco, that were built up over the years courtesy of scams like building site tax rackets, as well as drink licence permits discretely arranged by the Northern Ireland Office in the days when OIRA was regarded by HMG as an acceptable alternative to the Provos. THE IRA AND SINN FEIN DURING THE TROUBLES An academic view of the Provisionals during the Troubles. The author studied the subject from Canada and clearly comes from the controversy-free, mainstream academic school of thought: The IRA and Sinn Féin during the Troubles: two faces of the same organization Arthur Nogacz University of British Columbia Political Science Department The second half of the ‘AT LEAST THREE PROVO INFORMERS HELPED LOYALISTS/BRITISH A son of the late Provisional IRA icon Larry Marley – the Ardoyne republican who masterminded the 1983 mass escape from the Maze prison, Long Kesh – has posted a claim on the internet that ‘at least three IRA informers.and possibly more’, helped set up his father for assassination in 1987 at the behest of British intelligence agencies. MARTIN DILLON ON RUBY DAVISON, AN IRA TRAITOR AND ONE OF By Martin Dillon When I visited Belfast last November, I made my way to Milltown Cemetery where my parents, and many of my Dillon, Clarke and Carson relatives are buried. It was a cold, early morning when I strode through the pathways between theUNCATEGORIZED
Posts about Uncategorized written by The Broken Elbow. A View of the World from New York and Belfast (Public PGP Key: 210D6F47) ‘THE GOOD OLD IRA’ Funny the tricks memory can play on people. In a post yesterday dealing with Gerry Adams’ recent claim that the IRA had ‘disappeared’ an estimated 200 alleged informers during the Anglo-Irish war, and that the modern IRA had thus behaved no differently or more barbarously than the heroic founders of the Irish state, I made reference to a pamphlet called ‘The Good Old IRA’which had
BONO’S OFFSHORE TAX SHELTER INVESTMENTS REVEALED A number of international publications have begun publishing the contents of the so-called Paradise papers, secret records of offshore, i.e. tax-free investments made by the super-rich and hidden out of reach and sight of their fellow countrymen and women and governments. This cache was unearthed by researchers from the International Consortium of Journalists and theTHE BROKEN ELBOW
The ten Ballymurphy victims. On Tuesday 11 May 2021, when Coroner, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan presented her findings of the inquest into the death of ten people killed in Ballymurphy, Belfast between 9-11 August 1971, it was almost a half century since news first emerged of theshootings.
EOGHAN HARRIS BY VINCENT BROWNE Eoghan Harris The sacked Sunday Indo columnist has an interesting past, which Vincent Browne chronicled in Magill magazine: THE OFFICIAL IRA AND WORKERS PARTY IN THE WAKE OF THE DE The Official IRA and Workers Party In The Wake Of The De Rossa Split. I received the piece below as a comment on an article I wrote on the recent split in what remains of the Workers Party and Official IRA. ‘Helmut Oberlander’ is the undoubtedly fictitious byline that came with the article but knowing a little about the organization THE WORM IS TURNING ON ISRAEL IN BIDEN’S DEMOCRATS…. At least in New York, where Democrat Senate leader, Chuck Shumer may face a primary challenge for his Senate seat, writes Mondoweiss founder Philip Weiss, from AOC who has called Israel ‘an apartheid state’, reflecting a growing grassroots anger ‘THE IRA STILL EXISTS & “OVERSEES”* SF’, PSNI TELLS In the seemingly endless debate about whether or not the Provisional IRA still exists and whether or not it controls Sinn Fein – questions that loom like Banquo’s ghost over negotiations about the formation of a new government in Dublin – little attention has been paid to a PSNI assessment made as recently as last November that the IRA did at that time exist and that it controlled Sinn Fein. BRITISH ARMY TRAINING ZONES DURING THE TROUBLES By Ed Moloney and Bob Mitchell During the Troubles the British Army constructed or used already erected mock towns/streets to replicate the urban environment that their troops would experience during tours of Northern Ireland. Below is a selection of photos of the sites and some training exercises. Only one, at the Ballykinlar camp in Co MEET SAS COMMANDER JULIAN ‘TONY’ BALL, ROBERT NAIRAC’S Meet SAS Commander Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, Robert Nairac’s Comrade-in-Arms. If Robert Nairac was involved in the Miami Showband massacre, the man who would have known more than most about his role was Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, a legendary former commander of a secret SAS unit based in Co. Armagh in the mid-1970’s, a squad that Nairacliaised
‘THE GOOD OLD IRA’ Funny the tricks memory can play on people. In a post yesterday dealing with Gerry Adams’ recent claim that the IRA had ‘disappeared’ an estimated 200 alleged informers during the Anglo-Irish war, and that the modern IRA had thus behaved no differently or more barbarously than the heroic founders of the Irish state, I made reference to a pamphlet called ‘The Good Old IRA’which had
WHAT DOES ‘OGLACH’ AS IN ‘OGLACH MARTIN MCGUINNESS’ MEAN So what does 'Oglach' mean? In my experience IRA members use it, when they use Irish, to mean 'Volunteer', i.e. a rank and file member of the IRA. But there are other meanings, as Focloir Gaelige-Bearia (O Donaill 1971) makes clear. Nonetheless the military essence dominates: óglach, m. (gs. & npl. DID GERRY ADAMS ‘FELON SET’ IVOR BELL TO THE PSNI? Here is the full statement issued by Gerry Adams yesterday via 4ni.co.uk. The reference to Ivor Bell, which the PSNI and the prosecution service are likely to seize on, is in the penultimate paragraph: “Everyone has the right to record their history but not at the expense of the lives of others. “The Boston College BelfastProject was
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The ten Ballymurphy victims. On Tuesday 11 May 2021, when Coroner, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan presented her findings of the inquest into the death of ten people killed in Ballymurphy, Belfast between 9-11 August 1971, it was almost a half century since news first emerged of theshootings.
EOGHAN HARRIS BY VINCENT BROWNE Eoghan Harris The sacked Sunday Indo columnist has an interesting past, which Vincent Browne chronicled in Magill magazine: THE OFFICIAL IRA AND WORKERS PARTY IN THE WAKE OF THE DE The Official IRA and Workers Party In The Wake Of The De Rossa Split. I received the piece below as a comment on an article I wrote on the recent split in what remains of the Workers Party and Official IRA. ‘Helmut Oberlander’ is the undoubtedly fictitious byline that came with the article but knowing a little about the organization THE WORM IS TURNING ON ISRAEL IN BIDEN’S DEMOCRATS…. At least in New York, where Democrat Senate leader, Chuck Shumer may face a primary challenge for his Senate seat, writes Mondoweiss founder Philip Weiss, from AOC who has called Israel ‘an apartheid state’, reflecting a growing grassroots anger ‘THE IRA STILL EXISTS & “OVERSEES”* SF’, PSNI TELLS In the seemingly endless debate about whether or not the Provisional IRA still exists and whether or not it controls Sinn Fein – questions that loom like Banquo’s ghost over negotiations about the formation of a new government in Dublin – little attention has been paid to a PSNI assessment made as recently as last November that the IRA did at that time exist and that it controlled Sinn Fein. BRITISH ARMY TRAINING ZONES DURING THE TROUBLES By Ed Moloney and Bob Mitchell During the Troubles the British Army constructed or used already erected mock towns/streets to replicate the urban environment that their troops would experience during tours of Northern Ireland. Below is a selection of photos of the sites and some training exercises. Only one, at the Ballykinlar camp in Co MEET SAS COMMANDER JULIAN ‘TONY’ BALL, ROBERT NAIRAC’S Meet SAS Commander Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, Robert Nairac’s Comrade-in-Arms. If Robert Nairac was involved in the Miami Showband massacre, the man who would have known more than most about his role was Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, a legendary former commander of a secret SAS unit based in Co. Armagh in the mid-1970’s, a squad that Nairacliaised
‘THE GOOD OLD IRA’ Funny the tricks memory can play on people. In a post yesterday dealing with Gerry Adams’ recent claim that the IRA had ‘disappeared’ an estimated 200 alleged informers during the Anglo-Irish war, and that the modern IRA had thus behaved no differently or more barbarously than the heroic founders of the Irish state, I made reference to a pamphlet called ‘The Good Old IRA’which had
WHAT DOES ‘OGLACH’ AS IN ‘OGLACH MARTIN MCGUINNESS’ MEAN So what does 'Oglach' mean? In my experience IRA members use it, when they use Irish, to mean 'Volunteer', i.e. a rank and file member of the IRA. But there are other meanings, as Focloir Gaelige-Bearia (O Donaill 1971) makes clear. Nonetheless the military essence dominates: óglach, m. (gs. & npl. DID GERRY ADAMS ‘FELON SET’ IVOR BELL TO THE PSNI? Here is the full statement issued by Gerry Adams yesterday via 4ni.co.uk. The reference to Ivor Bell, which the PSNI and the prosecution service are likely to seize on, is in the penultimate paragraph: “Everyone has the right to record their history but not at the expense of the lives of others. “The Boston College BelfastProject was
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Many thanks to “Wicklow” for this tip that the famous Tom Mangold interview with a young Martin McGuinness is now on YouTube, the one which begins with the celebrated question: “As the officer commanding the Derry part of the IRA Provisionals.? EKSUND | THE BROKEN ELBOW Posts about Eksund written by The Broken Elbow. In fact we now know that the British had known about the Libyan smuggling operation for some time, tipped off at a senior level within the IRA and had been following the Eksund almost from the moment it left Tripoli harbor. The cover story was concocted – and likely the rudder sabotaged – to protect the British source inside the IRA. THE IRA AND SINN FEIN DURING THE TROUBLES An academic view of the Provisionals during the Troubles. The author studied the subject from Canada and clearly comes from the controversy-free, mainstream academic school of thought: The IRA and Sinn Féin during the Troubles: two faces of the same organization Arthur Nogacz University of British Columbia Political Science Department The second half of the ETA, THE PROVOS AND AN ARMS DEAL POST THE GOOD FRIDAY The above photo of James Monaghan, one-time IRA Director of Engineering and a central figure in the alleged 2001 plot by the IRA to train the Columbian FARC guerrillas, and Evelyn Glenholmes, daughter of late Short Strand IRA veteran Dickie Glenholmes, who was at the centre of a dramatic extradition row in 1986 over her alleged involvement in an IRA bombing campaign in London, wasTHE BROKEN ELBOW
A View of the World from New York and Belfast (Public PGP Key:210D6F47)
WHO’S WHO OF WP SPLIT EMERGES; GERRY ADAMS’ BROTHER-IN-LAW The ‘PLC Machine’ is a fancy way of referring to the Workers Party’s portfolio of bars and businesses, some as far away as San Francisco, that were built up over the years courtesy of scams like building site tax rackets, as well as drink licence permits discretely arranged by the Northern Ireland Office in the days when OIRA was regarded by HMG as an acceptable alternative to the Provos.UNCATEGORIZED
Posts about Uncategorized written by The Broken Elbow. A View of the World from New York and Belfast (Public PGP Key: 210D6F47) ‘AT LEAST THREE PROVO INFORMERS HELPED LOYALISTS/BRITISH A son of the late Provisional IRA icon Larry Marley – the Ardoyne republican who masterminded the 1983 mass escape from the Maze prison, Long Kesh – has posted a claim on the internet that ‘at least three IRA informers.and possibly more’, helped set up his father for assassination in 1987 at the behest of British intelligence agencies. US MEDIA’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH BIDEN This is a very good piece in The Hill of all places, about the US media's disgracefully uncritical coverage of the Biden presidency, contrasting the hardball handling of the Trump White House with the embarrassingly oleaginous coverage of Trump's successor. This bit jumped out at me, bringing back memories of the Belfast media'sunctuous coverage
BONO’S OFFSHORE TAX SHELTER INVESTMENTS REVEALED A number of international publications have begun publishing the contents of the so-called Paradise papers, secret records of offshore, i.e. tax-free investments made by the super-rich and hidden out of reach and sight of their fellow countrymen and women and governments. This cache was unearthed by researchers from the International Consortium of Journalists and theTHE BROKEN ELBOW
The ten Ballymurphy victims. On Tuesday 11 May 2021, when Coroner, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan presented her findings of the inquest into the death of ten people killed in Ballymurphy, Belfast between 9-11 August 1971, it was almost a half century since news first emerged of theshootings.
EOGHAN HARRIS BY VINCENT BROWNE Eoghan Harris The sacked Sunday Indo columnist has an interesting past, which Vincent Browne chronicled in Magill magazine: THE OFFICIAL IRA AND WORKERS PARTY IN THE WAKE OF THE DE The Official IRA and Workers Party In The Wake Of The De Rossa Split. I received the piece below as a comment on an article I wrote on the recent split in what remains of the Workers Party and Official IRA. ‘Helmut Oberlander’ is the undoubtedly fictitious byline that came with the article but knowing a little about the organization BRITISH ARMY TRAINING ZONES DURING THE TROUBLES By Ed Moloney and Bob Mitchell During the Troubles the British Army constructed or used already erected mock towns/streets to replicate the urban environment that their troops would experience during tours of Northern Ireland. Below is a selection of photos of the sites and some training exercises. Only one, at the Ballykinlar camp in Co ‘THE IRA STILL EXISTS & “OVERSEES”* SF’, PSNI TELLS In the seemingly endless debate about whether or not the Provisional IRA still exists and whether or not it controls Sinn Fein – questions that loom like Banquo’s ghost over negotiations about the formation of a new government in Dublin – little attention has been paid to a PSNI assessment made as recently as last November that the IRA did at that time exist and that it controlled Sinn Fein. MEET SAS COMMANDER JULIAN ‘TONY’ BALL, ROBERT NAIRAC’S Meet SAS Commander Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, Robert Nairac’s Comrade-in-Arms. If Robert Nairac was involved in the Miami Showband massacre, the man who would have known more than most about his role was Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, a legendary former commander of a secret SAS unit based in Co. Armagh in the mid-1970’s, a squad that Nairacliaised
BONO’S OFFSHORE TAX SHELTER INVESTMENTS REVEALED A number of international publications have begun publishing the contents of the so-called Paradise papers, secret records of offshore, i.e. tax-free investments made by the super-rich and hidden out of reach and sight of their fellow countrymen and women and governments. This cache was unearthed by researchers from the International Consortium of Journalists and the SOME FINAL THOUGHTS ABOUT THE IRA’S ‘HUMAN BOMB’ TACTIC A couple of thoughts on the 'Human Bomb' tactic which the IRA employed in 1990. The first is that its use, in three places (Derry, Newry and Omagh), in three different counties (Derry, Down and Tyrone) on the same day (October 24th, 1990) is consistent with the tactic being ordered and co-ordinated at a leadership WHAT DOES ‘OGLACH’ AS IN ‘OGLACH MARTIN MCGUINNESS’ MEAN So what does 'Oglach' mean? In my experience IRA members use it, when they use Irish, to mean 'Volunteer', i.e. a rank and file member of the IRA. But there are other meanings, as Focloir Gaelige-Bearia (O Donaill 1971) makes clear. Nonetheless the military essence dominates: óglach, m. (gs. & npl. FRIENDS OF SINN FEIN NOW DONATING TO US POLITICIANS Friends of Sinn Féin, the party’s US-based fundraising arm, raised more than $102,000 (€86,000) from donors in the six months to the end of the October, new filings show. The figures, disclosed in financial returns submitted to the US Department of Justice, show that the New York-based group spent $117,000 during the period between May1st
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The ten Ballymurphy victims. On Tuesday 11 May 2021, when Coroner, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan presented her findings of the inquest into the death of ten people killed in Ballymurphy, Belfast between 9-11 August 1971, it was almost a half century since news first emerged of theshootings.
EOGHAN HARRIS BY VINCENT BROWNE Eoghan Harris The sacked Sunday Indo columnist has an interesting past, which Vincent Browne chronicled in Magill magazine: THE OFFICIAL IRA AND WORKERS PARTY IN THE WAKE OF THE DE The Official IRA and Workers Party In The Wake Of The De Rossa Split. I received the piece below as a comment on an article I wrote on the recent split in what remains of the Workers Party and Official IRA. ‘Helmut Oberlander’ is the undoubtedly fictitious byline that came with the article but knowing a little about the organization BRITISH ARMY TRAINING ZONES DURING THE TROUBLES By Ed Moloney and Bob Mitchell During the Troubles the British Army constructed or used already erected mock towns/streets to replicate the urban environment that their troops would experience during tours of Northern Ireland. Below is a selection of photos of the sites and some training exercises. Only one, at the Ballykinlar camp in Co ‘THE IRA STILL EXISTS & “OVERSEES”* SF’, PSNI TELLS In the seemingly endless debate about whether or not the Provisional IRA still exists and whether or not it controls Sinn Fein – questions that loom like Banquo’s ghost over negotiations about the formation of a new government in Dublin – little attention has been paid to a PSNI assessment made as recently as last November that the IRA did at that time exist and that it controlled Sinn Fein. MEET SAS COMMANDER JULIAN ‘TONY’ BALL, ROBERT NAIRAC’S Meet SAS Commander Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, Robert Nairac’s Comrade-in-Arms. If Robert Nairac was involved in the Miami Showband massacre, the man who would have known more than most about his role was Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, a legendary former commander of a secret SAS unit based in Co. Armagh in the mid-1970’s, a squad that Nairacliaised
BONO’S OFFSHORE TAX SHELTER INVESTMENTS REVEALED A number of international publications have begun publishing the contents of the so-called Paradise papers, secret records of offshore, i.e. tax-free investments made by the super-rich and hidden out of reach and sight of their fellow countrymen and women and governments. This cache was unearthed by researchers from the International Consortium of Journalists and the SOME FINAL THOUGHTS ABOUT THE IRA’S ‘HUMAN BOMB’ TACTIC A couple of thoughts on the 'Human Bomb' tactic which the IRA employed in 1990. The first is that its use, in three places (Derry, Newry and Omagh), in three different counties (Derry, Down and Tyrone) on the same day (October 24th, 1990) is consistent with the tactic being ordered and co-ordinated at a leadership WHAT DOES ‘OGLACH’ AS IN ‘OGLACH MARTIN MCGUINNESS’ MEAN So what does 'Oglach' mean? In my experience IRA members use it, when they use Irish, to mean 'Volunteer', i.e. a rank and file member of the IRA. But there are other meanings, as Focloir Gaelige-Bearia (O Donaill 1971) makes clear. Nonetheless the military essence dominates: óglach, m. (gs. & npl. FRIENDS OF SINN FEIN NOW DONATING TO US POLITICIANS Friends of Sinn Féin, the party’s US-based fundraising arm, raised more than $102,000 (€86,000) from donors in the six months to the end of the October, new filings show. The figures, disclosed in financial returns submitted to the US Department of Justice, show that the New York-based group spent $117,000 during the period between May1st
THE WORM IS TURNING ON ISRAEL IN BIDEN’S DEMOCRATS…. At least in New York, where Democrat Senate leader, Chuck Shumer may face a primary challenge for his Senate seat, writes Mondoweiss founder Philip Weiss, from AOC who has called Israel ‘an apartheid state’, reflecting a growing grassroots anger ETA, THE PROVOS AND AN ARMS DEAL POST THE GOOD FRIDAY The above photo of James Monaghan, one-time IRA Director of Engineering and a central figure in the alleged 2001 plot by the IRA to train the Columbian FARC guerrillas, and Evelyn Glenholmes, daughter of late Short Strand IRA veteran Dickie Glenholmes, who was at the centre of a dramatic extradition row in 1986 over her alleged involvement in an IRA bombing campaign in London, was EKSUND | THE BROKEN ELBOW Posts about Eksund written by The Broken Elbow. In fact we now know that the British had known about the Libyan smuggling operation for some time, tipped off at a senior level within the IRA and had been following the Eksund almost from the moment it left Tripoli harbor. The cover story was concocted – and likely the rudder sabotaged – to protect the British source inside the IRA.THE BROKEN ELBOW
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WHO’S WHO OF WP SPLIT EMERGES; GERRY ADAMS’ BROTHER-IN-LAW The splitters, called the NI Business Committee, are 60/70 year old veterans, part of the Workers Party’s so-called ‘PLC machine’ whose careers with the WP go back to the early 1970’s. The ‘PLC Machine’ is run by a well known activist, with something of a fearsome reputation, by the name of Seamus Harrison. The ‘PLCMachine’ is
‘AT LEAST THREE PROVO INFORMERS HELPED LOYALISTS/BRITISH A son of the late Provisional IRA icon Larry Marley – the Ardoyne republican who masterminded the 1983 mass escape from the Maze prison, Long Kesh – has posted a claim on the internet that ‘at least three IRA informers.and possibly more’, helped set up his father for assassination in 1987 at the behest of British intelligence agencies. THE IRA AND PROTESTANT LOYALISTS DURING THE TAN WAR IN CO The IRA And Protestant Loyalists During The Tan War In Co Cork. Few controversies from the Anglo-Irish war of 1919-1921 have raged with as much vigour, resilience and fury as the late Peter Hart’s 1998 claim that the IRA in Co Cork, especially West Cork, conducted a sectarian murder campaign against Protestants disguised as a war against THE PATSY GILLESPIE SLAYING The Patsy Gillespie Slaying – The Intriguing Aftermath & A McGuinness Connection. A final word on Martin McGuinness with this piece on the aftermath of the death of Derry man Patsy Gillespie, killed in the first of the IRA’s human bomb attacks in October 1990. Thanks to ‘J’ for bringing the following articles to my attention. FRIENDS OF SINN FEIN NOW DONATING TO US POLITICIANS Friends of Sinn Féin, the party’s US-based fundraising arm, raised more than $102,000 (€86,000) from donors in the six months to the end of the October, new filings show. The figures, disclosed in financial returns submitted to the US Department of Justice, show that the New York-based group spent $117,000 during the period between May1st
RUPERT MURDOCH AND RONALD REAGAN A fascinating story of Cold War skulduggery and the fashioning of a secret alliance between Ronald Reagan and News International supremo, Rupert Murdoch unearthed by Robert Parry, on the always interesting Consortiumnews.com website. Murdoch had already forged a relationship with the Thatcher government in Britain, which had paid handsome business dividends for his media group,THE BROKEN ELBOW
The ten Ballymurphy victims. On Tuesday 11 May 2021, when Coroner, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan presented her findings of the inquest into the death of ten people killed in Ballymurphy, Belfast between 9-11 August 1971, it was almost a half century since news first emerged of theshootings.
EOGHAN HARRIS BY VINCENT BROWNE Eoghan Harris The sacked Sunday Indo columnist has an interesting past, which Vincent Browne chronicled in Magill magazine: THE OFFICIAL IRA AND WORKERS PARTY IN THE WAKE OF THE DEREPUBLICAN PARTY WAKE COUNTYTHE OFFICIAL IRA SONGOFFICIAL IRA VS PROVISIONAL IRAIRA IRISH ARMYWAS THE IRA CATHOLIC OR PROTESTANTWHO WERE THE IRA The Official IRA and Workers Party In The Wake Of The De Rossa Split. I received the piece below as a comment on an article I wrote on the recent split in what remains of the Workers Party and Official IRA. ‘Helmut Oberlander’ is the undoubtedly fictitious byline that came with the article but knowing a little about the organization BRITISH ARMY TRAINING ZONES DURING THE TROUBLES By Ed Moloney and Bob Mitchell During the Troubles the British Army constructed or used already erected mock towns/streets to replicate the urban environment that their troops would experience during tours of Northern Ireland. Below is a selection of photos of the sites and some training exercises. Only one, at the Ballykinlar camp in Co ‘THE IRA STILL EXISTS & “OVERSEES”* SF’, PSNI TELLS In the seemingly endless debate about whether or not the Provisional IRA still exists and whether or not it controls Sinn Fein – questions that loom like Banquo’s ghost over negotiations about the formation of a new government in Dublin – little attention has been paid to a PSNI assessment made as recently as last November that the IRA did at that time exist and that it controlled Sinn Fein. MEET SAS COMMANDER JULIAN ‘TONY’ BALL, ROBERT NAIRAC’S Meet SAS Commander Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, Robert Nairac’s Comrade-in-Arms. If Robert Nairac was involved in the Miami Showband massacre, the man who would have known more than most about his role was Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, a legendary former commander of a secret SAS unit based in Co. Armagh in the mid-1970’s, a squad that Nairacliaised
BONO’S OFFSHORE TAX SHELTER INVESTMENTS REVEALED A number of international publications have begun publishing the contents of the so-called Paradise papers, secret records of offshore, i.e. tax-free investments made by the super-rich and hidden out of reach and sight of their fellow countrymen and women and governments. This cache was unearthed by researchers from the International Consortium of Journalists and the SOME FINAL THOUGHTS ABOUT THE IRA’S ‘HUMAN BOMB’ TACTIC A couple of thoughts on the 'Human Bomb' tactic which the IRA employed in 1990. The first is that its use, in three places (Derry, Newry and Omagh), in three different counties (Derry, Down and Tyrone) on the same day (October 24th, 1990) is consistent with the tactic being ordered and co-ordinated at a leadership WHAT DOES ‘OGLACH’ AS IN ‘OGLACH MARTIN MCGUINNESS’ MEAN So what does 'Oglach' mean? In my experience IRA members use it, when they use Irish, to mean 'Volunteer', i.e. a rank and file member of the IRA. But there are other meanings, as Focloir Gaelige-Bearia (O Donaill 1971) makes clear. Nonetheless the military essence dominates: óglach, m. (gs. & npl. FRIENDS OF SINN FEIN NOW DONATING TO US POLITICIANS Friends of Sinn Féin, the party’s US-based fundraising arm, raised more than $102,000 (€86,000) from donors in the six months to the end of the October, new filings show. The figures, disclosed in financial returns submitted to the US Department of Justice, show that the New York-based group spent $117,000 during the period between May1st
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The ten Ballymurphy victims. On Tuesday 11 May 2021, when Coroner, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan presented her findings of the inquest into the death of ten people killed in Ballymurphy, Belfast between 9-11 August 1971, it was almost a half century since news first emerged of theshootings.
EOGHAN HARRIS BY VINCENT BROWNE Eoghan Harris The sacked Sunday Indo columnist has an interesting past, which Vincent Browne chronicled in Magill magazine: THE OFFICIAL IRA AND WORKERS PARTY IN THE WAKE OF THE DEREPUBLICAN PARTY WAKE COUNTYTHE OFFICIAL IRA SONGOFFICIAL IRA VS PROVISIONAL IRAIRA IRISH ARMYWAS THE IRA CATHOLIC OR PROTESTANTWHO WERE THE IRA The Official IRA and Workers Party In The Wake Of The De Rossa Split. I received the piece below as a comment on an article I wrote on the recent split in what remains of the Workers Party and Official IRA. ‘Helmut Oberlander’ is the undoubtedly fictitious byline that came with the article but knowing a little about the organization BRITISH ARMY TRAINING ZONES DURING THE TROUBLES By Ed Moloney and Bob Mitchell During the Troubles the British Army constructed or used already erected mock towns/streets to replicate the urban environment that their troops would experience during tours of Northern Ireland. Below is a selection of photos of the sites and some training exercises. Only one, at the Ballykinlar camp in Co ‘THE IRA STILL EXISTS & “OVERSEES”* SF’, PSNI TELLS In the seemingly endless debate about whether or not the Provisional IRA still exists and whether or not it controls Sinn Fein – questions that loom like Banquo’s ghost over negotiations about the formation of a new government in Dublin – little attention has been paid to a PSNI assessment made as recently as last November that the IRA did at that time exist and that it controlled Sinn Fein. MEET SAS COMMANDER JULIAN ‘TONY’ BALL, ROBERT NAIRAC’S Meet SAS Commander Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, Robert Nairac’s Comrade-in-Arms. If Robert Nairac was involved in the Miami Showband massacre, the man who would have known more than most about his role was Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, a legendary former commander of a secret SAS unit based in Co. Armagh in the mid-1970’s, a squad that Nairacliaised
BONO’S OFFSHORE TAX SHELTER INVESTMENTS REVEALED A number of international publications have begun publishing the contents of the so-called Paradise papers, secret records of offshore, i.e. tax-free investments made by the super-rich and hidden out of reach and sight of their fellow countrymen and women and governments. This cache was unearthed by researchers from the International Consortium of Journalists and the SOME FINAL THOUGHTS ABOUT THE IRA’S ‘HUMAN BOMB’ TACTIC A couple of thoughts on the 'Human Bomb' tactic which the IRA employed in 1990. The first is that its use, in three places (Derry, Newry and Omagh), in three different counties (Derry, Down and Tyrone) on the same day (October 24th, 1990) is consistent with the tactic being ordered and co-ordinated at a leadership WHAT DOES ‘OGLACH’ AS IN ‘OGLACH MARTIN MCGUINNESS’ MEAN So what does 'Oglach' mean? In my experience IRA members use it, when they use Irish, to mean 'Volunteer', i.e. a rank and file member of the IRA. But there are other meanings, as Focloir Gaelige-Bearia (O Donaill 1971) makes clear. Nonetheless the military essence dominates: óglach, m. (gs. & npl. FRIENDS OF SINN FEIN NOW DONATING TO US POLITICIANS Friends of Sinn Féin, the party’s US-based fundraising arm, raised more than $102,000 (€86,000) from donors in the six months to the end of the October, new filings show. The figures, disclosed in financial returns submitted to the US Department of Justice, show that the New York-based group spent $117,000 during the period between May1st
THE WORM IS TURNING ON ISRAEL IN BIDEN’S DEMOCRATS…. At least in New York, where Democrat Senate leader, Chuck Shumer may face a primary challenge for his Senate seat, writes Mondoweiss founder Philip Weiss, from AOC who has called Israel ‘an apartheid state’, reflecting a growing grassroots anger EKSUND | THE BROKEN ELBOW Posts about Eksund written by The Broken Elbow. In fact we now know that the British had known about the Libyan smuggling operation for some time, tipped off at a senior level within the IRA and had been following the Eksund almost from the moment it left Tripoli harbor. The cover story was concocted – and likely the rudder sabotaged – to protect the British source inside the IRA. ETA, THE PROVOS AND AN ARMS DEAL POST THE GOOD FRIDAY The above photo of James Monaghan, one-time IRA Director of Engineering and a central figure in the alleged 2001 plot by the IRA to train the Columbian FARC guerrillas, and Evelyn Glenholmes, daughter of late Short Strand IRA veteran Dickie Glenholmes, who was at the centre of a dramatic extradition row in 1986 over her alleged involvement in an IRA bombing campaign in London, wasTHE BROKEN ELBOW
A View of the World from New York and Belfast (Public PGP Key:210D6F47)
WHO’S WHO OF WP SPLIT EMERGES; GERRY ADAMS’ BROTHER-IN-LAW The splitters, called the NI Business Committee, are 60/70 year old veterans, part of the Workers Party’s so-called ‘PLC machine’ whose careers with the WP go back to the early 1970’s. The ‘PLC Machine’ is run by a well known activist, with something of a fearsome reputation, by the name of Seamus Harrison. The ‘PLCMachine’ is
‘AT LEAST THREE PROVO INFORMERS HELPED LOYALISTS/BRITISH A son of the late Provisional IRA icon Larry Marley – the Ardoyne republican who masterminded the 1983 mass escape from the Maze prison, Long Kesh – has posted a claim on the internet that ‘at least three IRA informers.and possibly more’, helped set up his father for assassination in 1987 at the behest of British intelligence agencies. THE IRA AND PROTESTANT LOYALISTS DURING THE TAN WAR IN CO The IRA And Protestant Loyalists During The Tan War In Co Cork. Few controversies from the Anglo-Irish war of 1919-1921 have raged with as much vigour, resilience and fury as the late Peter Hart’s 1998 claim that the IRA in Co Cork, especially West Cork, conducted a sectarian murder campaign against Protestants disguised as a war against THE PATSY GILLESPIE SLAYING The Patsy Gillespie Slaying – The Intriguing Aftermath & A McGuinness Connection. A final word on Martin McGuinness with this piece on the aftermath of the death of Derry man Patsy Gillespie, killed in the first of the IRA’s human bomb attacks in October 1990. Thanks to ‘J’ for bringing the following articles to my attention. FRIENDS OF SINN FEIN NOW DONATING TO US POLITICIANS Friends of Sinn Féin, the party’s US-based fundraising arm, raised more than $102,000 (€86,000) from donors in the six months to the end of the October, new filings show. The figures, disclosed in financial returns submitted to the US Department of Justice, show that the New York-based group spent $117,000 during the period between May1st
RUPERT MURDOCH AND RONALD REAGAN A fascinating story of Cold War skulduggery and the fashioning of a secret alliance between Ronald Reagan and News International supremo, Rupert Murdoch unearthed by Robert Parry, on the always interesting Consortiumnews.com website. Murdoch had already forged a relationship with the Thatcher government in Britain, which had paid handsome business dividends for his media group,THE BROKEN ELBOW
The ten Ballymurphy victims. On Tuesday 11 May 2021, when Coroner, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan presented her findings of the inquest into the death of ten people killed in Ballymurphy, Belfast between 9-11 August 1971, it was almost a half century since news first emerged of theshootings.
EOGHAN HARRIS BY VINCENT BROWNE Eoghan Harris The sacked Sunday Indo columnist has an interesting past, which Vincent Browne chronicled in Magill magazine: THE OFFICIAL IRA AND WORKERS PARTY IN THE WAKE OF THE DEREPUBLICAN PARTY WAKE COUNTYTHE OFFICIAL IRA SONGOFFICIAL IRA VS PROVISIONAL IRAIRA IRISH ARMYWAS THE IRA CATHOLIC OR PROTESTANTWHO WERE THE IRA The Official IRA and Workers Party In The Wake Of The De Rossa Split. I received the piece below as a comment on an article I wrote on the recent split in what remains of the Workers Party and Official IRA. ‘Helmut Oberlander’ is the undoubtedly fictitious byline that came with the article but knowing a little about the organization BRITISH ARMY TRAINING ZONES DURING THE TROUBLES By Ed Moloney and Bob Mitchell During the Troubles the British Army constructed or used already erected mock towns/streets to replicate the urban environment that their troops would experience during tours of Northern Ireland. Below is a selection of photos of the sites and some training exercises. Only one, at the Ballykinlar camp in Co ‘THE IRA STILL EXISTS & “OVERSEES”* SF’, PSNI TELLS In the seemingly endless debate about whether or not the Provisional IRA still exists and whether or not it controls Sinn Fein – questions that loom like Banquo’s ghost over negotiations about the formation of a new government in Dublin – little attention has been paid to a PSNI assessment made as recently as last November that the IRA did at that time exist and that it controlled Sinn Fein. MEET SAS COMMANDER JULIAN ‘TONY’ BALL, ROBERT NAIRAC’S Meet SAS Commander Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, Robert Nairac’s Comrade-in-Arms. If Robert Nairac was involved in the Miami Showband massacre, the man who would have known more than most about his role was Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, a legendary former commander of a secret SAS unit based in Co. Armagh in the mid-1970’s, a squad that Nairacliaised
BONO’S OFFSHORE TAX SHELTER INVESTMENTS REVEALED A number of international publications have begun publishing the contents of the so-called Paradise papers, secret records of offshore, i.e. tax-free investments made by the super-rich and hidden out of reach and sight of their fellow countrymen and women and governments. This cache was unearthed by researchers from the International Consortium of Journalists and the SOME FINAL THOUGHTS ABOUT THE IRA’S ‘HUMAN BOMB’ TACTIC A couple of thoughts on the 'Human Bomb' tactic which the IRA employed in 1990. The first is that its use, in three places (Derry, Newry and Omagh), in three different counties (Derry, Down and Tyrone) on the same day (October 24th, 1990) is consistent with the tactic being ordered and co-ordinated at a leadership WHAT DOES ‘OGLACH’ AS IN ‘OGLACH MARTIN MCGUINNESS’ MEAN So what does 'Oglach' mean? In my experience IRA members use it, when they use Irish, to mean 'Volunteer', i.e. a rank and file member of the IRA. But there are other meanings, as Focloir Gaelige-Bearia (O Donaill 1971) makes clear. Nonetheless the military essence dominates: óglach, m. (gs. & npl. FRIENDS OF SINN FEIN NOW DONATING TO US POLITICIANS Friends of Sinn Féin, the party’s US-based fundraising arm, raised more than $102,000 (€86,000) from donors in the six months to the end of the October, new filings show. The figures, disclosed in financial returns submitted to the US Department of Justice, show that the New York-based group spent $117,000 during the period between May1st
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The ten Ballymurphy victims. On Tuesday 11 May 2021, when Coroner, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan presented her findings of the inquest into the death of ten people killed in Ballymurphy, Belfast between 9-11 August 1971, it was almost a half century since news first emerged of theshootings.
EOGHAN HARRIS BY VINCENT BROWNE Eoghan Harris The sacked Sunday Indo columnist has an interesting past, which Vincent Browne chronicled in Magill magazine: THE OFFICIAL IRA AND WORKERS PARTY IN THE WAKE OF THE DEREPUBLICAN PARTY WAKE COUNTYTHE OFFICIAL IRA SONGOFFICIAL IRA VS PROVISIONAL IRAIRA IRISH ARMYWAS THE IRA CATHOLIC OR PROTESTANTWHO WERE THE IRA The Official IRA and Workers Party In The Wake Of The De Rossa Split. I received the piece below as a comment on an article I wrote on the recent split in what remains of the Workers Party and Official IRA. ‘Helmut Oberlander’ is the undoubtedly fictitious byline that came with the article but knowing a little about the organization BRITISH ARMY TRAINING ZONES DURING THE TROUBLES By Ed Moloney and Bob Mitchell During the Troubles the British Army constructed or used already erected mock towns/streets to replicate the urban environment that their troops would experience during tours of Northern Ireland. Below is a selection of photos of the sites and some training exercises. Only one, at the Ballykinlar camp in Co ‘THE IRA STILL EXISTS & “OVERSEES”* SF’, PSNI TELLS In the seemingly endless debate about whether or not the Provisional IRA still exists and whether or not it controls Sinn Fein – questions that loom like Banquo’s ghost over negotiations about the formation of a new government in Dublin – little attention has been paid to a PSNI assessment made as recently as last November that the IRA did at that time exist and that it controlled Sinn Fein. MEET SAS COMMANDER JULIAN ‘TONY’ BALL, ROBERT NAIRAC’S Meet SAS Commander Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, Robert Nairac’s Comrade-in-Arms. If Robert Nairac was involved in the Miami Showband massacre, the man who would have known more than most about his role was Julian ‘Tony’ Ball, a legendary former commander of a secret SAS unit based in Co. Armagh in the mid-1970’s, a squad that Nairacliaised
BONO’S OFFSHORE TAX SHELTER INVESTMENTS REVEALED A number of international publications have begun publishing the contents of the so-called Paradise papers, secret records of offshore, i.e. tax-free investments made by the super-rich and hidden out of reach and sight of their fellow countrymen and women and governments. This cache was unearthed by researchers from the International Consortium of Journalists and the SOME FINAL THOUGHTS ABOUT THE IRA’S ‘HUMAN BOMB’ TACTIC A couple of thoughts on the 'Human Bomb' tactic which the IRA employed in 1990. The first is that its use, in three places (Derry, Newry and Omagh), in three different counties (Derry, Down and Tyrone) on the same day (October 24th, 1990) is consistent with the tactic being ordered and co-ordinated at a leadership WHAT DOES ‘OGLACH’ AS IN ‘OGLACH MARTIN MCGUINNESS’ MEAN So what does 'Oglach' mean? In my experience IRA members use it, when they use Irish, to mean 'Volunteer', i.e. a rank and file member of the IRA. But there are other meanings, as Focloir Gaelige-Bearia (O Donaill 1971) makes clear. Nonetheless the military essence dominates: óglach, m. (gs. & npl. FRIENDS OF SINN FEIN NOW DONATING TO US POLITICIANS Friends of Sinn Féin, the party’s US-based fundraising arm, raised more than $102,000 (€86,000) from donors in the six months to the end of the October, new filings show. The figures, disclosed in financial returns submitted to the US Department of Justice, show that the New York-based group spent $117,000 during the period between May1st
THE WORM IS TURNING ON ISRAEL IN BIDEN’S DEMOCRATS…. At least in New York, where Democrat Senate leader, Chuck Shumer may face a primary challenge for his Senate seat, writes Mondoweiss founder Philip Weiss, from AOC who has called Israel ‘an apartheid state’, reflecting a growing grassroots anger EKSUND | THE BROKEN ELBOW Posts about Eksund written by The Broken Elbow. In fact we now know that the British had known about the Libyan smuggling operation for some time, tipped off at a senior level within the IRA and had been following the Eksund almost from the moment it left Tripoli harbor. The cover story was concocted – and likely the rudder sabotaged – to protect the British source inside the IRA. ETA, THE PROVOS AND AN ARMS DEAL POST THE GOOD FRIDAY The above photo of James Monaghan, one-time IRA Director of Engineering and a central figure in the alleged 2001 plot by the IRA to train the Columbian FARC guerrillas, and Evelyn Glenholmes, daughter of late Short Strand IRA veteran Dickie Glenholmes, who was at the centre of a dramatic extradition row in 1986 over her alleged involvement in an IRA bombing campaign in London, wasTHE BROKEN ELBOW
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WHO’S WHO OF WP SPLIT EMERGES; GERRY ADAMS’ BROTHER-IN-LAW The splitters, called the NI Business Committee, are 60/70 year old veterans, part of the Workers Party’s so-called ‘PLC machine’ whose careers with the WP go back to the early 1970’s. The ‘PLC Machine’ is run by a well known activist, with something of a fearsome reputation, by the name of Seamus Harrison. The ‘PLCMachine’ is
‘AT LEAST THREE PROVO INFORMERS HELPED LOYALISTS/BRITISH A son of the late Provisional IRA icon Larry Marley – the Ardoyne republican who masterminded the 1983 mass escape from the Maze prison, Long Kesh – has posted a claim on the internet that ‘at least three IRA informers.and possibly more’, helped set up his father for assassination in 1987 at the behest of British intelligence agencies. THE IRA AND PROTESTANT LOYALISTS DURING THE TAN WAR IN CO The IRA And Protestant Loyalists During The Tan War In Co Cork. Few controversies from the Anglo-Irish war of 1919-1921 have raged with as much vigour, resilience and fury as the late Peter Hart’s 1998 claim that the IRA in Co Cork, especially West Cork, conducted a sectarian murder campaign against Protestants disguised as a war against THE PATSY GILLESPIE SLAYING The Patsy Gillespie Slaying – The Intriguing Aftermath & A McGuinness Connection. A final word on Martin McGuinness with this piece on the aftermath of the death of Derry man Patsy Gillespie, killed in the first of the IRA’s human bomb attacks in October 1990. Thanks to ‘J’ for bringing the following articles to my attention. FRIENDS OF SINN FEIN NOW DONATING TO US POLITICIANS Friends of Sinn Féin, the party’s US-based fundraising arm, raised more than $102,000 (€86,000) from donors in the six months to the end of the October, new filings show. The figures, disclosed in financial returns submitted to the US Department of Justice, show that the New York-based group spent $117,000 during the period between May1st
RUPERT MURDOCH AND RONALD REAGAN A fascinating story of Cold War skulduggery and the fashioning of a secret alliance between Ronald Reagan and News International supremo, Rupert Murdoch unearthed by Robert Parry, on the always interesting Consortiumnews.com website. Murdoch had already forged a relationship with the Thatcher government in Britain, which had paid handsome business dividends for his media group,THE BROKEN ELBOW
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WHO WAS THE MYSTERIOUS ISRAELI WHO DIRECTED & CO-WROTE BOWYER BELL’SIRA FILM?
Posted on October 30, 2019| 1 comment
So who told British intelligence about Bowyer Bell’s documentary film, ‘_The Secret Army_‘ and the incriminating scenes of a young Martin McGuinness helping to assemble a car bomb and handling a revolver and bullets? Ever since the BBC Spotlight ‘_Secret History_‘ team reported that, according to Leo Gildin, the budget director for the film and executive producer, a section of British intelligence – whether MI5 or MI6 is not clear – had viewed the film, which then failed to make a single sale, guesswork has centred on Bowyer Bell, who is said to have had CIA associations. Equally torrid has been the speculation that British intelligence then used the scenes to blackmail McGuinness into working for them, which if true would mean that the British had a spy at the very top of the IRA for much of the Troubles. McGuinness was Chief of Staff between 1978 and 1982, and Northern Commander from the mid-1980’s to almost the end of the IRA’s campaign in the early 1990’s. If he was a spy, then he was in an ideal place to keep the British abreast of political and military developments inside the organisation. But Bowyer Bell was not the only member of the production team who had links to the murky world of espionage and agent handling. The film’s director and co-writer was an Israeli journalist who had been a member of an armed Jewish group in the years leading up to the establishment of the Israeli state which then formed the core of Mossad, Israel’s legendary spy agency. Zwy Herbert Aldouby was also under FBI surveillance in the 1960’s when he was working in the United States, allegedly researching a documentary film on the so-called ‘_St Louis’_ incident in 1939, when 900 Jewish refugees were denied entry to the US. They were forced to return to Germany where most of them perished at the hands of theNazis.
The FBI report, compiled in March 1961 and marked ‘Confidential’, was put together by agent Willard Wharton from the El Paso, Texas office who described the ‘character’ of the report as ‘Internal Security – Israel’. A section of the FBI report on Zwy Aldouby, director and co-writer of ‘The Secret Army’ The report, which was declassified in 2005 with the approval of the CIA, consists of an five-page long interview with an elderly Jewish lady who was herself interviewed by Aldouby about the ‘St Louis’ incident. Why the FBI would go to such trouble tracking an Israeli writer is not clear, unless they suspected this was a cover for morenefarious activity.
Aldouby also wrote or co-wrote two books dealing with Israeli intelligence operations. One told the story of Eli Cohen, the Syrian-born Mossad spy who infiltrated the higher echelons of the Syrian political establishment before a Soviet technical operation detected his radio signals. He was then publicly hanged in central Damascus by the Syrian regime and his body left on the scaffold in a public display for six hours. Netflix recently screened a film drama of the Eli Cohen story called ‘_The Spy_‘, starring Sacha Baron Cohen as the doomed agent. Aldouby’s other book, written along with two other authors, told the story of Mossad’s success in tracking down Adolf Eichmann to Argentina and bringing him back to Israel for trial and execution. Eichmann was the key architect of ‘_The Final Solution_‘ which saw six million Jews, gypsies and disabled people exterminated in deathcamps.
The book was first published by Viking Press in New York in 1960 and a press release issued by Viking had this to say about Aldouby and his co-author Ephraim Katz: > (They) are two Israeli journalists who have served as foreign > correspondents throughout Europe. Aldouby speaks eight languages, > Katz five. Both speak Arabic, which made their services invaluable > during Israel’s struggle for independence, when they served in the > underground, in the Palmach (commandos) and later in the Israel > Defense Forces as officers. The Palmach (which translates as ‘storm troops’) had a conflicting role in the birth of the Israeli state. In the early days of its existence it co-operated and fought alongside British forces in what was then Palestine against German attempts to destabilise the MiddleEast.
It was created by the Hagganah, the underground army of the Jewish community in Palestine but once the German threat receded and the Second World War ended, the Palmach soon joined other Jewish groups in militarily opposing the British Mandate in Palestine. Military commanders of the Palmach during this time included future Israeli prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin and the legendary military leader, Moshe Dayan. But the Palmach are better known for undertaking daring intelligence operations on behalf of the fledgling Israeli state. Known to have in its ranks Jews who had been born in Arab countries and who, like Zwy Aldouby, were fluent in Arabic, the Palmach sent a team to Beirut to spy for Israel not long after the creation of the Jewish state. They were members of what was known as ‘the Arab Section’ which had been conceived and jointly created by British military intelligence and the Palmach in an effort to counter Nazi infiltration of Arab communities during the war. But once the war ended the ‘Arab Section’ became an arm of Palmach intelligence. According to Matti Friedman in his recently published book ‘_Spies of No Country – Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel_‘: > …these men went undercover in Beirut, where they spent the next > two years operating out of a newsstand, collecting intelligence and > sending messages back to Israel via a radio whose antenna was > disguised as a clothesline. Of the dozen spies in the Arab Section > at the war’s outbreak, five were caught and executed. But in the > end, the Arab Section would emerge as the nucleus of the Mossad, > Israel’s vaunted intelligence agency. So, Zwy Aldouby, short, swarthy and fluent in Arabic, was a member of a Jewish armed group which sent spies into Arab countries and which later formed the basis for the Mossad. We don’t know, however, whether he was in the Arab Section or if he worked secretly in Beirut. If he did, perhaps that is why FBI agent Willard Wharton was assigned to track his movements in the United States. But what possible interest could Israeli intelligence have in the conflict in Northern Ireland? The film, _‘A Secret Army’_ was made in 1972 and that was the year, according to this unusually frank and detailed 2005 account published in the Sinn Fein paper, _An Phoblacht-Republican News_, when Joe Cahill and a senior IRA colleague first met Libyan leader, Col Muammar Gaddafi to negotiate the first of many arms shipments. If Israeli intelligence had got wind of that meeting then the Mossad would certainly have been interested in helping the British undermine and recruit people like Martin McGuinness while frustrating Gaddafi’s ambitions in the region. Whether Martin McGuinness was an agent is a different matter, however. He was Chief of Staff between February 1978 and July 1982, which were particularly violent years. And to keep him in place, their most prized agent in the IRA, British intelligence would have had to ignore warnings about certain operations for fear of blowing his cover. There is no doubt that the British might well have allowed their own soldiers to be killed, even the eighteen paratroopers wiped out at Warrenpoint in August 1979, although that would be a terribly heavy blow to absorb. Imperial powers, though, have done worse to their own. But what about the other deaths on that bloody day, off the Sligo coast when the Queen’s cousin, the heir to the throne’s uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten was, along with family members and friends, blown to eternity by an IRA then led by their secret agent? Would MI5 have allowed that to happen? And if the British didn’t use the incriminating scenes to blackmail Martin McGuinness what on earth did they use the information for?1 Comment
Posted in Uncategorized E-MAIL CORRESPONDENCE WITH IRISH TIMES’ EDITOR PAUL O’NEILL REBOSTON TAPES TRIAL
Posted on October 30, 2019| 2 comments
As promised, here is the email exchange between myself and _Irish Times_‘ editor, Paul O’Neill following his decision to spike a commissioned article from myself dealing with the outcome of the recent Ivor Bell trial. The e-mails are mostly self explanatory: > From: Ed Moloney > Sent: 24 October 2019 19:39 > To: Paul O’Neill > Subject: replyDear Paul > As you may remember, a few days ago I rang your office asking for a > right to reply to the various articles that had appeared in the > times about the boston tapes trial.>
> I did so because the main writer Gerry Moriarty had never once > reached out to talk to me for my viewpoint and the only contact I > had with your staff was a late night call from a reporter who seemed > to know very little about what is a complex case.>
> The response to my call to you was a message saying that I should > write a piece and liaise with John McManus. This i did and we > discussed the piece I planned to write which was based partly on the > contrast between the Boston federal judge who had read the entire > 201 interviews in the archive and was full of praise for it, and the > belfast judge who had read a few paragraphs in two interviews and > made a sweeping negative judgement.>
> John seemed to have no problem with this but now he tells me that > the article has been spiked because it too closely resembled a piece > which was in the Sunday Business Post. I attach both articles for > you below and you can see they are as different as chalk and > cheese. (see below)>
> So why has my piece really been spiked?>
> I ask you to reverse this decision. I am a former Northern Editor of > this paper and I do have, I believe, residual rights to a certain > level of courtesy.>
> best regards
>
> Ed Moloney
> On Oct 25, 2019, at 08:02, Paul O’Neill wrote:> Ed,
> We seem to be at cross purposes.Gerry Moriarty – in his role as > Northern Editor – reported accurately, fairly and fully on the > Ivor Bell case. As you may have seen, the account published on > irishtimes.com on October 17th ran to many > thousands of words in order to reflect proceedings that had spanned > two weeks. Gerry was present throughout and, to my knowledge, you > have no issue with the content of his reporting. Your grievance is > with the conclusions of the trial judge. Your position in that > regard was reflected on the front page of The Irish Times (and on > irishtimes.com ) on October 18th as follows:>
> “Mr Moloney said he ‘refutes absolutely’ any bias on the part > of the project and that it would in time be regarded as “a very > important body of work”.>
> “I’m sorry, but these people have not read the entire > archive,” he said. > “The judges haven’t – they’ve read one or two interviews > from a vast hoard of what Ivor Bell did and made these sweeping > generalisations. It’s absurd, it’s nonsense, they can’t do > that.”As you know, The Irish Times covers thousands of court > cases. Interested parties often disagree with the presiding judge. > There is no “right of reply” in such cases – and certainly not > an automatic or guaranteed one. Court proceedings stand on their > merits and our duty is to report them accurately irrespective of> their outcome.
>
> Conscious of the public interest in this case, however, you were > invited to liaise with John McManus as Opinion Editor. As I > understand it, when you contacted my office you were unaware that > you had been quoted on page 1. There was no commitment to publish > anything from you. Nor would there be in advance of assessing the > content of an article. You did not mention that you were writing an > opinion piece for the Sunday Business Post.>
> So notwithstanding the fact that we had carried remarks by you on > the front page last Friday and on irishtimes.com > , and that you had expanded on those remarks > in the Business Post, John McManus was happy to engage with you > earlier this week.>
> The article you submitted to John overlaps with what we already > reported you as saying and with the content of your article in the > Business Post. That’s inevitable. The more significant issue from > my perspective is that the Business Post piece was simply better. By > pitching it at a high level, dealing with the limitations and merits > of an oral history project and the potential value in helping to > address legacy issues in Northern Ireland, you set out your position > in a manner that was easily readable (particularly for an audience > not familiar with the Boston tapes).>
> In contrast, much of the article submitted to us is consumed by > detail of your dissatisfaction with named figures in Boston College > and your recollections of your exchanges with them. I have no idea > how either of the individuals would respond and, as I understand it, > one of them would be unable to do so because of ill-health. On top > of that, such detail is likely to be lost on all readers other than > those with knowledge of the Boston Tapes.>
> So in essence, my position is this: although we had no obligation to > provide you with a forum to respond to the outcome of the Bell > proceedings, we were open to doing so on the basis of your distinct > perspective and interest. But unfortunately – and I’m sure > unintentionally on your part – the Business Post ended up with a > more pertinent, clearly argued and reader-friendly piece (in my> opinion).
>
> So what now? I think the moment has passed from an OpEd perspective, > all the more so when you have pursued that avenue with the Business > Post. If you want to submit a letter for publication, I’m very > happy to consider it but I would encourage you to deal with the > bigger picture (and the word count would be limited to a max of > about 400). For the record, I have no issue with you criticising the > conclusions of the trial judge. But the minutiae of your > arrangements with Boston College and your exchanges with individuals > there is best avoided.>
> I’m sure also that we’ll be likely to come back to the Boston > Tapes at some stage.>
> I should also mention for the record that The Irish Times was among > the media organisations which repeatedly challenged the reporting > restrictions imposed in the Bell case.>
> Regards,
>
> Paul
> From: Ed Moloney > Sent: 25 October 2019 13:45 > To: Paul O’Neill > Subject: Re: replyPaul > So, if I have understood you correctly, what you say can be boiled > down to this: other people can say critical and damaging things > about my work, both inside and outside the courtroom, but I cannot > respond in anything resembling the same detail. As you say, Gerry > Moriarty wrote several thousand words on this court case. My quote > in your paper amounted to seventy words. And that’s okay?> That’s fair?
>
> As for Bob O’Neill not being able to respond to the allegations > concerning his part in this affair, the fact is he did, before his > medical state deteriorated. He admitted to the respected US magazine > ‘The Chronicle of Higher Education’ in 2014 that he had not > submitted the crucial donor contract to the college attorney for > approval, as he told me he would and had. He admitted this openly > and in print. We in Ireland were hoodwinked by someone we believed > we could trust and the seeds were sown for the court case that > happened two weeks ago. Yet you could not find space to tell your > readers this crucial detail.>
> Nor can you find space to tell your readers that the key witness > upon whose views the judge heavily relied had read only one > interview out of the 201 archived interviews and had been barred by > me from reading any more. He admitted in his testimony that he had > been ‘frozen out’ after that episode but did not say why. I > ‘froze’ him out because I feared his hostility to the project > could cost my interviewer his life. But you cannot find space for> this?
>
> The difference between this material and what I wrote for the Sunday > Business Post are evident to any dispassionate reader. I believe > that you are hiding behind the SBP piece and using it as an excuse > to avoid publishing my response to the coverage of the Ivor Bell> trial.
>
> Yours,
> Ed Moloney
> FROM: Paul O’Neill > DATE: October 25, 2019 at 10:08:30 EDT > TO: ‘Ed Moloney’ > SUBJECT: RE: REPLY> Ed,
>
> The Irish Times is not responsible for anything said by others about > you. Our only responsibility was to report on the Bell proceedings > fairly and comprehensively. I am satisfied that we did so.>
> I have set out my position. I understand that you are angry about > the outcome of the case but it is not our role to re-litigate or to > provide a platform for one side in any dispute. I note you saw no > need to reference named individuals when you wrote in the Business> Post.
>
> You continue to have the opportunity to set out for readers of The > Irish Times the short-comings you see in the Bell prosecution and > the importance of the project you were involved in. I will leave the > offer of a letter with you.>
> Regards,
>
> Paul
> From: Me
> Re: reply
> To: Paul O’Neill > Oct 25, 2019 at 10:41>
> Paul,
> I have never suggested that your paper is or was responsible for > what was said about me by others. That would be an absurd thing to > say. But you do have a responsibility to fully inform your readers > of all the available facts associated with a story, especially when > they conflict with the existing narrative. By censoring my article > – and that is what you have done – I believe you have failed in > that rersponsibility.>
> best regards
>
> Ed Moloney
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Posted in Uncategorized HOW THE IRISH TIMES BANNED MY RESPONSE TO THE BOSTON TAPES CASE Posted on October 27, 2019| Leave a comment
Last week, I phoned the editor’s office at _The Irish Times_ to complain about their coverage of the Boston Tapes court case. The paper had featured a ‘Long Piece’ written by their long serving Northern Editor, Gerry Moriarty detailing the evidence given at the two-week long trial – which was held _in camera_ in accordance with a judicial gagging order. He also penned several additional pieces including one that chronicled the judge’s criticism of the way the Boston project had worked. His articles amounted to several thousand words altogether. As the former Director of the Boston College project, I expected to be contacted and asked to comment in some detail. I did get a call – from a junior reporter, I gathered – but it didn’t come until 9 p.m. Irish time and it had all the appearances of an afterthought rather than something that had been planned.n The article in the _Times_ that followed included a grand total of seventy-two of my words. So I decided to phone _The Irish Times _and ask the editor, Paul O’Neill for the right of reply. He was not in the office, or at least did not come to the phone, but an assistant told me that I would be allowed to reply and to liaise with the Opinion editor, JohnMcManus.
The following is the article that I wrote and submitted to _The Irish Times_. The editor Paul O’Neill has refused to publish it, despite having commissioned it, offering me instead ‘a letter to the editor’ spot strictly limited to 400 words. As a former Northern Editor of the paper I had expected that the editor would offer me sufficient space to put my side of the story, both as a courtesy and in recognition of past service. But as they say in Ireland, eaten bread is soon forgotten. What he offered me is an insult and a disgrace. Tomorrow I shall publish our email correspondence. In the meantime here is the article that has been banned by _The Irish Times_:> Boston Tapes
> From Ed Moloney > FAO John McManus>
> Just over a week ago, a Belfast court heard swingeing criticism of > the Boston College oral history project when the trial of Ivor Bell > on charges connected to the disappearance of Jean McConville> collapsed.
>
> After hearing testimony from a Boston College history teacher, Kevin > O’Neill, the Belfast judge, John O’Hara criticised the project > researcher, Anthony McIntyre saying he was not “in any way a > professional or neutral interviewer” and that he was “out to get> Gerry Adams”.
>
> He also took aim at myself, saying the taped Bell admission was > unreliable as “a direct result of the circumstances in which it > was improperly and dishonestly induced by Mr McIntyre working under > the auspices of project director Mr Moloney”.>
> John O’Hara is not the only judge to have pronounced on the > quality of the Boston tapes. Seven years ago in Boston, US Federal > judge William Young agreed that the tapes relevant to the McConville > case in the archive should be handed over to the PSNI, but added:>
> “This was a bona fide academic exercise of considerable > intellectual merit….. are of interest – valid > academic interests. They’re of interest to the historian, > sociologist, the student of religion, the student of youth > movements, academics who are interested in insurgency and > counter-insurgency, in terrorism and counter-terrorism. They’re of > interest to those who study the history of religions.”>
> So how could two men, both learned in the law, come to such wildly > differing judgements about the same body of work?>
> Well one answer may be that the judge in Belfast read only fragments > of two interviews by Ivor Bell, whereas Judge Young read every > single one of the 201 interviews, given by 26 interviewees, that > make up the republican part of the archive.>
> When, in late 2012, Boston College officials could not identify > interviews relevant to the PSNI subpoenas, Judge Young had taken the > entire archive home and read the interviews from cover to cover over > the Christmas vacation.>
> As for Kevin O’Neill, I had barred him at the very outset from any > further access to the tapes when, in my hearing, he repeated > criticism of myself, whose recently published book, ‘A Secret > History of the IRA’ had provoked Sinn Fein outrage.>
> My principal concern was for the safety of Anthony McIntyre, whose > life would be in danger had his work become known in Belfast. I do > not think Kevin would have said or done anything to harm McIntyre, > but an incautious word in the wrong place could have had bad> consequences.
>
> Until the trial, Kevin had read only one very early interview which > I had asked Boston College to review so as to assess McIntyre’s > interviewing skills. By definition it fell below required standard.>
> As for anti-Adams’ bias let me say this. The Sinn Fein leader had > by then been denying for many years that he had ever been in the > IRA. I knew from my own interactions with him that this was not true > but I am a journalist not an activist. It was important to discover > from former comrades what their view was.>
> Even so, of the twenty-six Republicans interviewed, whose number > included Official IRA and INLA veterans, only three spoke in depth > about Gerry Adams and they had all been very close to him, > especially in the Troubles’ early years. They were Brendan Hughes, > Dolours Price and Ivor Bell, all admirers of Adams’, his close > friend, and fans of his tactical skills before they turned against> him.
>
> Common sense demanded that they be interviewed about their former > friend. There was no obsession with Gerry Adams, merely good> practice.
>
> On the issue of confidentiality, it took many years before we > discovered what had happened. It had been clear for some time > following the serving of subpoenas that the guarantee was deficient, > but how was this possible?>
> Our point of contact had always been Bob O’Neill, the college > librarian who was in charge of a multi-million dollar budget and had > amassed an impressive collection of Irish art, photos, diaries and> memoirs.
>
> To myself and McIntyre he said that the library would refuse to take > in interviews if there were any ‘legal repercussions’ for the > participants. To the UVF/Red Hand Commando interviewer, Wilson > McArthur he gave ‘an ironclad’ guarantee of legal protection for > the interviews. (O’Neill now suffers from memory loss and could > not give evidence at the Bell trial)>
> To be sure, my own contract gave protection ‘to the extent that > American law allows’ but O’Neill, who was, it should be > remembered, speaking on behalf of one of America’s leading > universities, kept assuring us that in the land of the First > Amendment and a Bill of Rights the interviews would, under American> law, be safe.
>
> Hindsight, they say, is twenty-twenty vision and I should have > checked out his assurances but at the time I can honestly say that > none of us could have imagined or foretold what then happened.>
> The truth of what really happened was ferreted out by the US > magazine The Chronicle of Higher Education (CHE) in late 2014.>
> The test would come when the individual donor contracts were > prepared. These would set out the conditions of the interview for > the participants, that the tapes and transcripts would remain the > property of the interviewees but would stay at the college until > death, when ownership reverted to BC.>
> I showed the CHE the email I had sent O’Neill, which asked him to > submit the draft to the university’s legal counsel for approval. > That would be the real acid test. If there was a limit to the > guarantee the counsel would insist it be inserted.>
> He emailed back: ‘I am working on the contract to be signed by the > interviewee and I’ll run this by…..university counsel’.>
> He later told me that the lawyer had given the thumbs up and we were> in business.
>
> But, years later, he admitted to The Chronicle of Higher Education, > that he had never gone near the college lawyer.>
> We had embarked on the project on the basis of a lie.>
> (ends)
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Posted in Uncategorized ‘THE IRISHMAN’ PANNED Posted on October 26, 2019| Leave a
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When every reviewer with access to a computer praises a movie, take that as a warning sign, and a signal that the various writers have decided their careers can only be damaged if they don’t join thegalloping herd.
So when a single reviewer has the courage, temerity or stupidity to buck the trend it’s worth paying attention to. That’s why I recommend people read this article in Slate magazine by Bill Tonelli. He knows something about which he writes, which is more than can be said for most reviewers.Here it is:
https://slate.com/culture/2019/08/the-irishman-scorsese-netflix-movie-true-story-lies.htmlLeave a comment
Posted in Uncategorized THE IVOR BELL HEARING – THE MOST POLITICAL TRIAL OF THE TROUBLES? Posted on October 26, 2019| 2 comments
This is the first of several articles I plan to devote to the Ivor Bell trial and its aftermath in the coming days. This article revolves around one question, from which others proliferate: why was Ivor Bell acquitted? The given reason for the ‘not guilty’ verdict can be found in the criticism of the Boston oral history archive made by the judge, which was that either the interviewer, Anthony McIntyre was less than professional in his questioning or that the guarantee of confidentiality that I negotiated was at fault. I will deal in much greater detail with the issue of confidentiality in a later posting but first a word or two in explanation about Anthony McIntyre’s interviewing technique. Conventional oral history projects involve professional interviewers with little or no connection to their subjects sitting down and asking questions of their subjects. The key here is that interviewer and interviewee would in most cases be strangers to each other, bound together only for the few hours the interview took to complete. That is the ideal version of oral history. It was not possible to replicate that for this project for the simple reason that former members of the Provisional and Official IRA’s, the INLA, the UVF and Red Hand Commandos would not reveal their innermost thoughts, recollections and secrets to a stranger. The reason for that is obvious – the absence of trust. They would only do so to one of their own, or someone who was as close to one of their own as made no difference. This is the feature that defined the Boston College project and made it different and special from normal oral history ventures. In that respect what we put together was far from being a conventional oral history research. And so Anthony McIntyre, a former IRA prisoner with a First Class Honours degree in politics and a PhD in the same subject – based on a thesis dealing with the IRA – and Wilson McArthur, another Honours graduate in politics with family ties to the Loyalist paramilitary world, were chosen as interviewers. They were academically qualified and likely to evoke trust in the people they talked to. What followed from that was a level of intimacy, familiarity and conversational informality that would be out of bounds in any other oral history project – but the consequence was that interviewees felt freer to speak more fully and honestly about their paramilitarylives.
Unlike the judge or the ‘expert’ witness on whose testimony he so heavily relied, I have read all of Ivor Bell’s interviews. they stretch back to the involvement of the Belfast IRA in the 1956-62 campaign, the 1969 split, the creation of the Provisional IRA, the early campaign of violence, internment, the importance of Adams’ influence, the takeover of the IRA by Northerners, the re-organisation of the IRA, the post-hunger strike IRA and finally his break with Adams as the organisation began the journey to the peace process. It is a story told in unprecedented detail, a document of immeasurable historical value and none of it would have been possible without McIntyre’s unconventional approach. That defining difference was never understood nor appreciated by the court – nor even explained as far as I can tell – but it allowed the judge, guided by a hostile witness (hostile to myself and McIntyre), to deem the interviewing technique unprofessional andbiased.
What was never factored into all this was that Anthony McIntyre was interviewing people who were friends, former colleagues and even comrades – that made for a very different interviewing style. Purists, and Judge John O’Hara, chose to condemn the technique and that led directly to the acquittal of Ivor Bell. But we knew it could happen no other way. Ivor Bell’s acquittal meant that Gerry Adams was off the hook. Had Bell been convicted then, by extension, Adams would also be deemed guilty; demands for his arrest from Unionists would have quickly followed (and possibly from Jean McConville’s family) and, at a time of Brexit-induced crisis, the republican part of the peace process would have been pitched into potentially fatal calamity. So to save Adams and the peace process, Ivor Bell had to be acquitted. And so he was. But in the process other reputations needed to betrashed.
A couple of puzzling questions remain unanswered out of all this (questions unasked by the media). What was the purpose of the gagging order? Why was it necessary to keep the trial a secret from the world not just as it happened but in the weeks leading up to it? One consequence was that media coverage concentrated on the final day when the judge took complete control of proceedings? But were there other reasons? Finally, the most intriguing, unanswered question of all. Why did the judge take the final decision away from the jury, dismiss them and deliver his verdict and judgement without their assistance? What, one wonders, would a jury have thought of the evidence? We may just have witnessed one of the most political, no-jury trialsof the Troubles.
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Posted in Uncategorized WHAT ON EARTH DOES ‘BLOWING BUBBLES’ MEAN? Posted on October 24, 2019| 7 comments
Many thanks to DE for alerting me to this: https://quiscustodietipsoscustodesblog.wordpress.com/2017/02/05/the-curious-case-of-the-rat-the-pig-and-the-weasel/amp/7 Comments
Posted in Uncategorized IVOR BELL ‘EXPERT’ WITNESS KEVIN O’NEILL READ JUSTONE INTERVIEW.
Posted on October 18, 2019| 2 comments
The defence witness Kevin O’Neill, whose testimony was cited by the presiding judge at the Belfast trial of Ivor Bell as evidence of a lack of professionalism in the compiling of interviews for the Boston College oral history archive, based his opinion on his reading of just one interview conducted by Anthony McIntyre at the very start of theproject.
The archive in total contained over 200 interviews in the republican section while about half that number was devoted to Loyalists. The Ivor Bell section of the archive alone contained over forty interviews which stretched back to the 1956-62 IRA campaign all the way through to Bell’s court martial in the mid-1980’s, following an unsuccessful putsch he had led against Gerry Adams by organising an IRA Convention intended to displace the Adams’ leadership. He was found guilty of treason and was sentenced to death; the sentence was subsequently suspended although never removed. A teacher in the history department, O’Neill was one of a number of Boston College academics who had been asked by senior staff to critique Anthony McIntyre’s interviewing technique not long after the project had begun. This was McIntyre’s first foray into oral history, there were rough edges that needed to be smoothed out and the exercise was designed to help improve his performance. In his testimony to Bell’s trial, conducted via video link from Boston, O’Neill claimed McIntyre’s interviews were ‘a model of how not to do oral history’, but he failed to make it clear that his exposure to the archive and to interviews by McIntyre was limited to a single interview conducted at the very start of the project when McIntyre was learning the ropes. He had never read any of Bell’s interviews for instance and until the trial was completely unaware of what had been revealed and alleged by Bell. Meanwhile his antipathy to the Republican part of the project was so well known to other staff members at the college that this writer avoided his company when visiting Boston College. In short, he was no expert witness.2 Comments
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