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38March 2022externally. This was deemed to be incompatible with the EU directive. It was also found the requirement to “cooperate, as required” with an investigation into wrongdoing should be removed, as there could be valid reasons for not cooperating with such an investigation. This recommendation was taken on board.• That the new bill/Act should be […]
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March/April 2022 35IntroductionCounty Armagh, 1982. In just over a month six men, one only 17-years-old, were killed in controversial circumstances by a RUC Headquarters Mobile Support Unit (HMSU). On 11 November, Sean Burns, Eugene Toman and Gervaise McKerr, all members of the Provisional IRA (PIRA) were killed after allegedly driving through an RUC roadblock in […]
March/April 2022 33THE BAN against naming Soldier F, one of the Bloody Sunday murderers, by his real name, remains in force, but only in the UK. Last July, Colum Eastwood, leader of the SDLP, got around the prohibition by naming him under privilege in the House of Commons. War criminal‘Soldier F’ shot a number of […]
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March/April 2022 31Infamous Death-Squad Killer Diesserious shooting incidents, but he has escaped justice once and for all. He goes to his grave with many of the UK’s secrets regarding its dirty war in Ireland.That suits the British government and its armed forces but leaves victims and survivors bereft of truth and justice.Clive Graham Williams (British […]
March/April 2022 29Recently, the Irish Times(of 22 January) reported the entry of a major American company called ‘Maximus’ into the Irish market ostensibly to “get the country back to work”. The report stated: “A large US government contractor has made moves to expand to Ireland and is understood to be considering bidding to run State […]
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28March/April 2022EnRight, twicelanguage”. Content andtone. And also found that “Mr Enright did not act in good faith”.Nevertheless by 30 in favour and 1 abstention [Councillor Pat Barden] the Councillors voted to “note [SIPO’s] Report and to take no further action in the matter”. Director of Services Eamonn Hore then made a statement on behalf of […]
24March/April 2022ON 7 April 2009, the Minister for Finance, the late Fianna Fáil TD Brian Lenihan, introduced the National Assets Management Agency, a “bad bank”.In response to the Ministerial announce–ment, Bank of Ireland assembled an internal ‘Specialist Property Group’ with the task of identify–ing what they could sell to Nama.By that September, this Group collated […]
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March/April 2022 23Ifrst reported in Villagethat Leo Varadkar had improperly passed a draft contract to a friend Maitiú O Tuathail. The article was published on 31 October 2020.The story was headlined “Leo always delivers’, the cover was ‘Leo Law Breaker’. The cover of the following edition was ‘It’s a Crime’. Under cover of Dáil privilege […]