Long-awaited report on 1989 murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane expected next week

CurtisJ ignores the fact that unionists have lived in NI far longer than most Irish-Americans have lived in their adopted homeland…terms like ‘baying squatter crowds’ demonstrate his disdain for this group… and swallowing the myth that the IRA fought an honourable war is just one of many in his twisted view…

To paraphrase Roger Garland, one time leader of Ireland's Green Party: "Fine words butter no parsnips!" ie eloquence doesn't put food on the table. Apologies are rarely worth the paper they should have been written on, or bring people back to life. Actions speak louder than words. "National (sic) security". The crux of the problem since that papal bull Laudibiliter. I repeat my dialectical formulae for the hard of hearing: British imperialism was the cause - republican paramilitarism the reaction - loyalist paramiliatarism the counterreaction - and Christian atonement and forebearance is the cure.

Realist. The IRA after finally admitting responsability for the dissapeared have said the executions were carried out against informers. Unlike loyalist groups who have openly admitted a policy of killing any inocent Catholic in order to pressurise republican violence to and end. They claim this is what brought republicans to the table.

Justice delayed is justice denied!

curtisjohnson: "The IRA didn't coordinate the kidnapping and ritual torture of non-combatants"? Lol....I think you need to read a little more about Jean McConville and the other "Disappeared" my friend. By the way, please clarify who precisely are the "indigenous population" in Northern Ireland (and while you're at it, who, pray tell, are the 'non-indigenous population'). I would be keen to read your explainations of these terms.

Keep dreaming Dano. The IRA didn't coordinate the kidnapping and ritual torture of non-combatants before baying squatter crowds. The indignous population didn't engage in pogroms. Typical of the british terror state to hide behind some facade of legal legitimacy with their show trials while at the same time colluding in/coordinating the murders of anyone undertaking to represent the indigenous population at which the justice system is directed.

Many Catholics prospered in NI, and many Protestants suffered at the hands of their neighbours…still, let’s not worry over their plight, and ruin a good story, eh?

Imagine for a moment what it must have been like for an Irish-Catholic living in an oppressive statelet where Protestant sectarian police and government colludes with British loyalist terrorists in the murder of Catholics. And some people actually wonder why the IRA's political wing Sinn Fein enjoys such popular support in the Six county dependancy.

Another whitewash. Until there is an independent review of this murder, the Finucanes will not receive justics

A stage managed manipulation/alteration/destructions of evidence by the british terror state to exculpate itself. Of course, irrespective of the outcome, the Finucane family will never receive any type of reparations from the terror state (not that any of their victims ever have or ever will).