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New IRA group a bad joke but no one is laughing - Delusion of grandeur that they can end peace process

Posted on Saturday, July 28, 2012 at 08:17 AM

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A new IRA group wants to threaten the peace process.

Yesterday the widely respected Guardian newspaper led with a story that an organization calling itself the IRA, composed of different factions of dissidents, has come together and is intent on threatening the Irish peace process.

The group is a sick joke.

The new grouping, which simply calls themselves the IRA, came together in Derry and told a Guardian journalist that a new and combined campaign against British rule would begin.

To which I say horse droppings.

For over a decade various dissident groups have tried to reignite war in Northern Ireland and failed spectacularly.

The war is over, the troubles are part of history, the new political order has the overwhelming support of the majority of all the people of Ireland.

Clearly some of the dissident groups have developed delusions of grandeur that they can change all the facts on the ground.

Maybe these new Desperate Dans need reality checks, or should try Viagra to prove their manhood if they need to threaten to kill fellow nationalists as well as unionists to prove their macho muscle.

Someone needs to tell the new and disimproved version of the IRA that they are fighting a lost war, that the train left the station some time around 1998 with the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.

The GFA is an attempt to find an agreed Ireland where every group and party can find access to power and be part of.

The power sharing government of Northern Ireland has smany problems but when you consder the alternative – IE this new “IRA” then you realize we have a lot to be thankful for.

Gerry Kelly former IRA leader and now a Northern Ireland Minister puts it best.

“This is further evidence that they have no strategy and their aims are as clear as mud. RAAD, for example, have claimed to be an anti-drugs group who have now joined a larger ‘dissident’ group with different aims. This move appears to be more to do with egos and personal fiefdoms than anything else.

“That is not to say that they cannot be dangerous,” Gerry Kelly cautioned.

“They have in the past killed people, the majority of whom have been from the nationalist community. However, these actions can take us nowhere.

"Meanwhile, they are happy to risk the lives and liberty of young, impressionable people to achieve nothing.

“There is no community support for these groups. They need to desist and they need to realise that they cannot achieve a united Ireland in this way

Amen to all that.

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seamus60 | Jul 29, 2012, 02:41 PM EDT

Johnny Mac12. Have you any figures on all this ethnic cleansing of the Protestant population along the imaginary line (border to you). Perhaps the only statistic you have is the unionist vote being down. SF say they now have a substantial Protestant vote (but no way of confirming same). Regardless, neither is proof of ethnic cleansing. You have also dabbled on the subject of the disgracefull outcome to the Omagh bomb, yet no mention of the various groups now in the picture of the victims families for not stopping the bomb on various occassions whilst on route to Omagh. I am in no way trying to justify what happened on the day but would also like to know why and who allowed it to go through and their reasons. After all Patsy Gillespie (the human bomb at Coshquinn) RIP was said to be a change in tactic by the provo`s so that the people would turn on them, giving them the excuse to go down the peace process road with ease.

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seamus60 | Jul 29, 2012, 02:12 PM EDT

Bob Mc Bride. Surely the Republicans of 1798 & 1916 had a wish that should they not succeed future generations of Irishmen would carry their flag until their aspiration bore fruit. If you can`t grasp the clothing atire required for rebels to retain their liberty in the modern day get satalite television.

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seamus60 | Jul 29, 2012, 01:51 PM EDT

@silling. Marian price and Martin Corey and Gerry Mc Goeough are but 3 republicans interned. We have Gerrymandering in North Belfast (Girwood ring a bell) Conor Murphy (SF) recently found guilty by A Fair employment agency tribunial of religious discrimination.

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seamus60 | Jul 29, 2012, 01:17 PM EDT

Tom mo. Gerry Adams admitted allowing his brother to move freely all over Ireland and the USA. Even endorsing him within the party and allowing him to write an article on the subject of him uncovering a peadophile ring in Co,Louth. Granted Gerry was pressurised into admission, on the news of his niece going to the press. Where have you been ?

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citizen69 | Jul 29, 2012, 10:52 AM EDT

@Silling: Yes, what happened after Collins signed the agreement? The IRA continued the violence and put Ireland into a civil war. @Seamus60: Where do we have Internment, Gerrymandering & religious discrimination?

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maryanna | Jul 29, 2012, 09:58 AM EDT

The trouble with Stormont MLAs fat cats is that they are not real po£iticans just bully boys taken of the streets out of the ditches and given power to control victims of lost lives! The state is guilty as sin-lock up all the gangsters in Armani suits....

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maryanna | Jul 29, 2012, 09:51 AM EDT

Gerry Kelly and his kkk can't open their mouths look at themselves their dirty war.... No never in my name.... PIRA scared the nation to almost to death for jobs power greed egos- keeps them busy now and content that the brits would give them anything for the name of peace-not a peace process-a blackmail process.

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Realist | Jul 29, 2012, 08:24 AM EDT

Silling: "There can be no creativity without secrecy"? I suggest you tell that to the families of Stephen Carroll, Ronan Kerr, and the 29 people killed in the 1998 Omagh bombing.

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Silling | Jul 29, 2012, 04:49 AM EDT

Michael Collins signed an agreement almost a hundred years ago and what became of that? And regarding the ski mask reference! Albert Camus said " There can be no creativity without secrecy ".

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bob mcbride | Jul 29, 2012, 12:36 AM EDT

I'm sure the rebels of 1798 and 1916 would ask who are these fools with their ski masks on? Why don't you man up and take your ski mask off and show us who u are? Don't be such a coward! After that drown yourself and your hatred in your toilet! You are a public nuisance to all of Ireland and it's people!

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Tom Mo | Jul 28, 2012, 11:14 PM EDT

Seamus 60 Nobody admits stuff like that, not even a Catholic Democrat. Where have you been?

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seamus60 | Jul 28, 2012, 11:05 PM EDT

Tom Mo Don`t recall any of them admitting that they sheltered a peadophile, a peado they then gave endorsement to within the party and turned a blind eye to their continued employment with children. But thats differant too because of the peace process. lol

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seamus60 | Jul 28, 2012, 10:58 PM EDT

Niall. Its sad when you believe Gerry Kelly stealing John Humes exact words from the early seventies is BEST. We should have listened to john and saved thousands of lives. Even all the Nationalist ones, the bulk taken by the RA. When acusing others, one should be careful.

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Tom Mo | Jul 28, 2012, 10:50 PM EDT

Niall I agree with you 100%. Ireland does not need any more crap from the drug runners and whoremasters of the country.

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seamus60 | Jul 28, 2012, 10:46 PM EDT

Seano. regardless of who likes or dislikes amalgimations like this. The on the ground facts can not be bluffed away anymore. I am no fan of anymore violence against anyone as I now know the past violence achieved nothing but more corupt politicians. We can get ten to a dime without killing one and other. Unfortunately the inadequecies of our self praising, powersharing so called gov seldom get their deserved publicity due to fear of upsetting the peace process. See how the DUP and SF almost jumped out of their skin at patersons mention of proper gov with a proper opposition. God forbid we would ever have the likes of that, with people in a position to ask the real questions.

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