US sent guns and spy gear to discredited Northern Irish police despite ban

AS AN IRISHMAN LIVING IN IRELAND I TOTALLY AGREE THAT ALL AMERICANS SHOULD KEEP OUT OF IRISH AFFAIRS .. THEY HAVE CAUSED ENOUGH WARS AND MAYHEM ALL OVER THE WORLD AND ANY INTERFEREANCE FROM THEM IS N O T WELCOME HERE IN MY COUNTRY..

AS AN IRISHMAN LIVING IN IRELAND I TOTALLY AGREE THAT ALL AMERICANS SHOULD KEEP OUT OF IRISH AFFAIRS .. THEY HAVE CAUSED ENOUGH WARS AND MAYHEM ALL OVER THE WORLD AND ANY INTERFEREANCE FROM THEM IS NOW WELCOME HERE IN MY COUNTRY..

Proudcanadian ie proudcoward.

A little secret Joycean the IRA ceased to exist with the GFA nd Sinn Fein recieves a major proportion of its finances from the USA. BTW Joeboy1 Hizb'Allah chased the marines out of Beirut not Iran.

9,000 rugers? A thousand for every county of Ulster! Subsequently reduced to 6,000. A thousand for every country of Northern Ireland. It's a wonder poor old Ronnie didn't choke on that pint of the devil's buttermilk he was drinking in Ballinspittal, when statues were breakdancing in a churhyard up the road. Jeez. What a world we live in.

Rebel force, three RUC name was not decommissioned it was incorporated into the current title deeds if three PSNI, the FBI routinely conduct joint training services with the RUC, PSNI and various other UK police forces and agencies

This was the wrong thing to do, but it is not hard to understand. The starry plough was viewed the same as the hammer and sickle, and at the height of the cold war, the last thing either country wanted was a potential Warsaw Pact ally (read: Cuba) on Britain's back doorstep. International politics is all about who needs who more. The US needed Britian's support against the Soviet Union, and this was included in the price Britain demanded. Sadly, this decision was made at the expense of the Irish people against whom these weapons and technology were used, which is why it was wrong.

occassio, As far as I am aware, Dublin has no jurisdiction over Washington or London.

Perhaps this is an opportunity for the Irish government to supboena Presidential records?

I've read Irish thought it very clever to say that "9/11 was the best thing that ever happened to Ireland," because Irish-Americans stopped sending IRA money for terrorism. So efforts by sympathizers in this country led to further hatred of Americans in Ireland and for desire by RUC for weapons to fight terrorism in NI.

I don't understand what "ProudCanadian" means by Mommy ran the country-nor does he. Reagan was a reactionary, white-male supremacist who plunged the US into unproductive debt-the 1st 3yrs of his Admin doubled the cummulative debt of all prior Presidents. He went on to raise taxes on middle income earners on 10 diff occaisons. He and his fellow US republican mysogynists and racists layed the groundwork for the acceptable rise of right-wing lunacy culminating with the Tea Party. Nancy was a side show. She was no Betty Ford; much less an Eleanor Roosevelt or Hillary Clinton. Reagan and Thatcher were all about consolidation of power in the wealthiest institutions of the private sector. No surprise that the industrial output, @ the time, in NI was deemed as threatened. Don't forget Churchill said fire at will at Irish Republicans

Now why does this not surprise me, seeing the Americans for a buck would send guns to anywhere and anyone to start a war. They have sold missles and everything else. Reagan was a waste of skin let a lone a good President. Mommy ran the country.

I always knew that if Thatcher said squat he would. Never a friend of Ireland.

That's what friends are for - I always knew the connection that was and is. The propaganda that is so thick that Jews and Italians would be as bold as you please - confront Irish me, asking me what I contributed. A manager no less, in number 1 company, with brazen ridicule, telling me of the half a million (a measly sum) that was shipped to the Irish boyos in that one particular year of the freedom seekers efforts trying to fix the apartheid statelet that such souls were in. How dare they, was his tone.

The Iron Lady and "a well" Reagan were up each others kirster but sheep unable to connect dots rave about such nothings.