IRA interviews must be handed over to Feds and British, top US court rules

Dear seanomelb, dear, dear boy, I'm glad to rewrite history after the abominable lies delivered by the republican fraternity over the years. Someone has to tell the truth and I know, through experience, that the republicans subvert information to conform to their own dastardly requirements. What I have written I have witnessed and experienced first hand over the years. It should be obvious that narrow mindedness is a property of truth, dissembling is used, as you do, to mask the truth and aid your propaganda against the Brits. Maybe I'm being hard on you. Maybe yor dissembling is due to your limited grasp of the English language, I don't know. Maybe the words, horrible English words, are not familiar to you. Perhaps your schooling has been by Christian Brothers who brainwashed you at a young age to dispise the Brits. Again, I don't know. But take it from me, the Irish are their own worst enemy. Oh, and by the way, I'm Irish and I've lived in the North since 1970. Not a Yankee jerk as you cleverly deduced.

Schon I love the way you rewrite the history books to suit your narrow mindedness .Think you owe Mairead an apology for you arrogant self centred opening line.I suppose it's typical of a Yankee jerk such as you.

What a weak reply I'm disappointed Dano.

SEANO - Better a goose than a Stool Pigeon?

maireadinmelb - evidence is evidence, and unless privileged, which this is not, any investigator has a duty to try and secure...how else can we know the weight of evidence in any particular case?

I know who the goose is Dano would you like some sauce.

Hi seamus60, errata re my comment re Cardinal Cahal Daly. At the time he was a priest, not a bishop as I stated.

Dear maireadinmelb, you most innocent of innocents. Perhaps you aren't aware that at the time of the Bloody Sunday shootings, the residents of Bogside and Craggen in Londonderry weren't actually friendly with the RUC. Not only were they not friendly but refused to provide any British representative with evidence that substantiated their cl;aims. Much of what was claimed then and now has been anecdotal with no substantiating evidence. This reticence may have been due to their republican political stance (or maybe because James Martin Pacelli McGuinness might have sent the boys 'round with electric drills or worse). Anyway, the main reason the casualties of the action have been deemed to be without fault, is that their bodies were recovered by the paras and that in doing so, any forensic evidence was compromised... the soldiers recovering the bodies may have had residue from firing weapons on their uniforms which would then have been transferred to the clothing and skin of the casualties... hence the reports that no gunshot residue had been found. As usual, the Brits without wishing to cause offense to the families of those killed and injured, sanitised their reports stating that there was NO CONCLUSIVE PROOF that any of those shot had fired weapons. This, unfortunately was taken by the public in general ignorance, and scheming politicians, terrorists and lawyers with gusto, to infer that none of the casualties fired weapons. In short, if there is no evidence or that evidence is withheld, then the investigating officers would not be able to make a case IN LAW. While your 'investigative reporter' can spout whatever he is told and infer truth, the cop on the beat and the prosecuting body needs evidence that will stand up in a court of law. Unfortunately, the republicans refused to cooperate with the civil authorities so if anyone is to blame for the lack of an investigation being made, it was the republicans, not the civil authorities.

Hi seamus60, The RA have already admitted murdering Jean and they said that they had tortured her. The reason for the murder was basically because she was a protestant, though she had converted to Roman Catholicism on marriage, and also to scare local Catholics from informing. Just wait 'til the transcript from Brendan Hughes and Delores Price is released. Then you'll see. Also to be divulged will be the policy dictated by the Army Council to cause deaths in the republican community and get the Brits and proddies charged. The republican dissembling appears to have fooled the dweebs in Westminster (cf Bloody Sunday investigation) when, in fact, both Official and Provision IRA were actively engaged in the shooting. (Re Interview with Cardinal (then Bishop) Daily reporting that he and others remonstrated with a civilian gunman telling him to stop shooting as he was drawing fire from the paras on himself and others tending a wounded male. - BBC interview circa 1978.) At the time, of Bloody Sunday, the deputy First Minister was IC of the Londonderry Brigade PIRA. I have family connections with members of INLA who claim to have been privy to the action and subsequent events. I hope you enjoy reading Brendan and Delores words when they are released.

The ruc did not investigate the events of bloody sunday and it was left to the people to pressure the government for a judicial review! Why should researchers do teh job of the RUC. they need to legally find their own evidence. I would laugh if what they want is not contained in the interviews though~

Dano there is a difference between open findings in a public investigation and the freedom of speech associated with a confidential discussion. Interview is not a public document saville inquiry is!

Schon. RAPED and murdered. Can you in any way back that up ?

Youngpike is in the realms of

NYNighthawk. Your ignorance of the people interviewed knows no bounds.

Youngpike. They did wipe the IRA out, the smart way. As for who dispises anyone else, where do you get those figures ???????