Get Gerry Adams focus of Feds new subpoena of Boston College records

One man and one group will benefit most from this whole episode. Lord Gerry and SF. The art form of applying the impression the brits are still being relentless in persuit of Gerry and a few others in the leadership has become boring. Boring because republicans in Ireland are now content in the knowledge that every time Gerry ,Marty and the party are feeling the pinch from grassroots its the brits who come to the rescue. Common practice too when ever questions arose as to the direction of the Armies leadership during the PRM war. But i bet they`ll be booking them even more expensive tickets to have dinner whilst being told lies from Gerry in the USA.

!st day of spring today Dan 22deg.cent.Remember Dan without Sinn Fein and the IRA we would still have an oppressive regime in the six counties

Seano, you need to get out of that hot Aussie sun before it fries your brain completely, cobber.…being against an indiscriminate IRA bombing campaign does not make one pro-British, just as being against the Nazi holocaust does not make one pro-Israel.

Dan Dan the orange card man.Dan Lynch should leave the cupboard and have the mettle to say "I am pro British"

Maireadinmelb - The IRA SF were quite entitled to follow any political persuasion of their choice…my main point was that to portray them as peaceniks, when they were blowing up bars in NI and UK in an unsuccessful attempt to get the Brit government to pull out of the north, was a bit of a stretch.

Banal Comments Do Elude Facing Grim History of Ireland. ‘Just Keep Lying’ Means No Other Poster Quite Realises Seano Types Unerringly Vacuous Waffle. Xenophobic Yokel Zealot!!

Oh Dan really?? You must be kidding, Republicans were as marxist as Thatcher was democratic!! Yes there was an element of socialism in republican thought but after years of oppression and centuries of economic oppression who could blame them. Recent history has shown many faults in Democracy!!! ie Uk USA and israel even Australia!!!

Dan is limited to words that begin with "A". "B" to "Z" Somehow escapes him,one might be forgiven for thinking he uses the english language "Abstemiously".He probably drinks "Absinthe" so as not to overtax his limited vocabulary.Maybe that's why his comments are "Assinine"

cheers pilib04

Dano.I know alot of the IRA were against Sunningdale.There were other problems too.The nationalists were politically naive at the table.I agree the British couldn't just up and run,though they did just‘cut and run’leaving most countries to civil unrest.Nothing was going to be simple.But NI is a problem,and the British needed to face up to their responsibilities in finding a solution.They didn't do that and dragged their feet all the way through and including the peace process.

Seano’s archaic Antipodean Anglophobic analysis appeases assassination always.

dan has always been an apologist trying to walk a middle road when all he is doing is dancing to a lambegh drum and unfortunately he is oblivious to the fact. he reminds me of the "kings new clothes".

@JamesDempsey – you’re right to say there is something very dark at the heart of extreme loyalism, which carries across to the West of Scotland – Glasgow Rangers fringe. I don’t think they have too much support in the wider unionist community

Sirpete, My argument isn’t that PIRA ran NI, although they did run many local fiefdoms within it, dispensing their own version of ‘justice’ in the process; To claim that the UWC strike was the only obstacle to peace in 1974 is at best a half truth ( I do not dispute any of your facts over that btw). PIRA and most republicans in the 1970’s were hostile to any ‘Sunningdale’ type settlement. They thought they could ‘persuade’ successive Brit governments to ‘cut and run’, leaving them free to deal with the unionist/loyalist groups on their own terms. It took many years of pain for them to realise that no democratic government could leave any of their citizens to such an uncertain fate…and if they had succeeded in NI, imagine what was in store for the south? It suits many people to airbrush the past, and forget the Marxist element of 1970’s Republicanism. To portray these guys as a positive force for peace at that time is ‘Kim Il-sung’ school of modern history stuff.

Boston College should be ashamed of themselves for having participated in this anti-Sinn Fein project in the first place. Those participating have openly opposed the Good Friday Peace Agreement. Those participating oppose the participation of Sinn Fein on the Policing Boards and in the coalition government in the Northern Ireland. Those participating in Boston College project only serve to promote continued British interference in Irish affairs. BC should be boycotted in much the same way as Captain Boycott was!