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Real IRA issue revenge threat at paramilitary funeral for murdered leader

Dissident Republicans in public show of strength

PATRICK COUNIHAN,

IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Sunday, September 9, 2012, 7:27 AM

Updated Sunday, September 9, 2012, 7:27 AM

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Alan Ryan, a member of the Real IRA who was killed in Dublin, was buried with a full paramilitary funeral.

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The Real IRA has taken to the streets of Dublin and vowed to avenge the death of its leader Alan Ryan.

The dissident Republican was buried with a full paramilitary funeral after his murder last week.

A color party of Real IRA men accompanied the coffin outside the Church of the Holy Trinity in Donaghmede as armed officers and riot police looked on.

Ryan’s coffin, draped in the Tricolor and topped with paramilitary gloves and black beret, was flanked by six members of a Real IRA color party.

The funeral was attended by hundreds of mourners including dissident Republican Colin Duffy who had traveled from the North.

Reports in the Irish media say that as the Real IRA buried Ryan, their leaders warned his killers they are out for revenge.

Police also set up checkpoints after it was reported that shots were fired over the coffin at Ryan’s family home.

The father of one was given a paramilitary style funeral as men dressed in traditional Republican white shirts and black ties helped carry the coffin at the church.

The Irish Sun reports that Real IRA leaders have now turned their attention to Ryan’s killers who are believed to have fled Dublin after the killing.

One Real IRA boss told the paper: “It won’t be the police dealing with this, it will be us. Now the funeral’s over it is payback time.

“Everyone who was involved in the plot to murder Ryan is dead no matter how long this takes.”

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seamus60 | Sep 19, 2012, 07:30 PM EDT

Lorcank, thank you for your words of comfort on the issue of what my and many others real Nationality is. Although people can be forgiven for their ignorance in view of how our so called Republican representation has turned out. What was once recognised by them as only an imaginary line on a map is indeed now deemed an actual Border. Ruling by fooling and no shortage of fools.

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DanOLoingsigh | Sep 14, 2012, 03:56 AM EDT

ancavker...accepted; Mayo was right in the eye of a Republican storm, including the Frank Stagg controversy, but it's barely mentioned these days...

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ancavker | Sep 13, 2012, 01:47 PM EDT

Dan Actually I apologize, I read your comment out of content, and made a wrong connection. Mea culpa.

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ancavker | Sep 13, 2012, 01:44 PM EDT

Yeah Dan. Sure. Compare Michael Gaughan in 1976 to this Ryan Gangster 36 years later. Yeah, um sure.

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seanomelb | Sep 11, 2012, 07:15 PM EDT

If you're such an expert Gordon what hardworking people did Ryan steal from??? Your posts have always had a pro British stance. You are typical of that class of faux Irish who denigrate anything of a nationalist slant. Maybe you spend to much time been an apologist for the west Brit set!!

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DanOLoingsigh | Sep 11, 2012, 12:15 PM EDT

Woundedknee is right with his’ road to nowhere’ post…for the record, Michael Gaughan’s 1976 funeral in Mayo is reputed to have been attended by 50,000 mourners…

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lorcank | Sep 11, 2012, 10:49 AM EDT

Gordon catch yerself on! There was over 1000 people at his funeral and was well respected in the area and further afield. I wouldn't have liked to study your version of Irish History. It'd be like a member of the KKK teaching about Martin Luther King. I wonder would all those in the 6 with Irish passports agree with you on the fact that it's a "foreign" country. I certainly don't! As for your general maxwell comment, you as an Irish History teacher should know that those who deny their past can't understand their present and certainly not their future!

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Gordan Duggan | Sep 11, 2012, 10:26 AM EDT

I mean exactly what I said in my previous post, Ryan was truly a nasty piece of work and and his loss will not be mourned by too many people, he destroyed too many lives for that, the rule of law in the Irish Republic should be strictly applied in future. The sight of of people openly wearing paramilitary uniforms and pathetically playing soldiers and setting up their own road blocks, many of them would have been from Northern Ireland(and therefore foreign) should not be tolerated again. Why not let them try to riot as the only thing these idiots respect is violence. I doubt any of them could stand up the Garda riot squad, army and Emergency Response Unit if same got stuck in and cracked some heads. But it is quite possible that a confrontation with the Gardai is exactly what the people in combat gear and the gunmen wanted. You don't blast gunfire and ponce about in bogus military gear to honour the dead, you do it to terrorise the living,so the Gardai were probably right in their decision. SeanOMelb: If I am a racist bigot, you don't know what real racism is. That comment says more about yourself. IrelandNorth: I taught Irish History for 30 years,so don't lecture me on it, what has General Maxwell got to do with modern Ireland. Boys the past is the past and if you can't face the truth about Alan Ryan then it's your problem. The past is another country and most of us will not be bound by it.

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lorcank | Sep 10, 2012, 01:28 PM EDT

Woundedknee, that was my post and it was the biggest Republican funeral in the 26 since Sean South's. I don't know why the post was posted as Irelandnorth and the word Republican taken out. My comment was directed at the article which claimed hundreds of mourners attended when the number was over 1000.

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lorcank | Sep 10, 2012, 01:26 PM EDT

the post IrelandNorth | Sep 10, 2012, 01:50 AM EDT is actually my post. Don't know why it came up as someone elses!

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WoundedKnee | Sep 10, 2012, 07:28 AM EDT

The post erroneously attributed to IrelandNorth states that this was "the biggest funeral seen in the 26 counties since that of Sean South". This is nonsense. I am sure we could think of dozens of funerals which have been larger--I really don't want to get into the macabre business of drawing up a list of "greatest funerals" of the past 50 years in Ireland. In any case any movement that measures progress in terms of size of funerals is on a road to nowhere.

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IrelandNorth | Sep 10, 2012, 06:49 AM EDT

IrishCentral: 01:50 AM EDT post not mine. Please fix IT glitch.

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IrelandNorth | Sep 10, 2012, 06:46 AM EDT

PhlutiePhan! The problem is more complex than you give it credit for. Gordon Duggan! Apropos 'the rule of law', senior British Army officer Gen Maxwell, (sent over to supress the 1916 Rising), was reputed to have said: "Without [Carson's] Ulster Volunteers, there would have been no IRA." State terror precedes all others. Cure the disease and the symptoms will be eradictated. The 26 county state was born in violence. Should it not then be returned to the lawful usurpers? All violence leads to annihilation. Someone has to seize the initiative.

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lorcank | Sep 10, 2012, 01:50 AM EDT

"The funeral was attended by hundreds of mourners" I was there and I'd say there was at least 1000 people there, And that's not counting the residents of the area who came out to show their respects lining the roads as the funeral passed. Nothing about the riot squad who awaited us in the graveyard? Or that this was the biggest funeral seen in the 26 counties since that of Sean South? Gordon you don't even merit an answer to the bile and lies you wrote. Krisdaly, there is a famous saying "Ireland unfree will never be at peace". It is as relevant today as it was when those words were spoken in 1915.

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seanomelb | Sep 09, 2012, 08:47 PM EDT

Krisdaly may wish to council his own government on putting the sword to rest.Pilib04 don't worry about Gordon he's just another racist bigot who deserves to be ignored.

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