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    Infamous Death-Squad Killer Dies

    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 […]

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    Maximus, Maximum profits, Minimal benefits

    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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    Wrong,Twice

    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 […]

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    (Almost) nobody could read the accounts properly

    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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    Garda investigation of Leo Varadkar

    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 […]

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    Sinn Féin is democratically centralised

    March/April 2022 21Kerrane replied that “Despite attempts to endow a rather mundane committee with wide-ranging powers, the reality is that this is an administrative sub-committee, with no policy role and subject to the Ard Comhairle on all matters”.In fact most real power doeslie with the Coiste Seasta of eight. Five are Northern based. Only Assembly […]

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