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Slugger O’Toole, a blog about Northern Ireland politics and culture, quotes the Now Show on BBC Radio Four “Frankly it’s been a rather depressing week, I can’t decide which 1980s celebrities I want back less: Michael Jackson or the IRA. At least Michael Jackson’s fans want him to come back. In Northern Ireland even the [...] From Socialist Democracy in Ireland The main reason for the growth of republican groups is the increasingly obvious failure Sinn Fein to make any advances on even the most minimal nationalist demands never mind a republican agenda. If republican groups have any form of strategy it is to provoke more a repressive response from the [...] “We are tonight staring into the abyss and I would appeal to people to pull back,” said Dolores Kelly, a member of Northern Ireland’s policing board, and a member of the nationalist SDLP party. (first published on Marxmail listserv) A political crisis has been created in the space of 48 hours in the North of Ireland. First two British soldiers were shot dead outside their base just outside Belfast on Saturday night, with a further two injured along with two civilians, while tonight (Monday, local time) a policeman has [...] Two of those injured were pizza delivery men who the Real IRA said, while foaming at the mouth with rabies spittle, were “collaborators with British rule”. No, they quite probably were just a couple of blokes trying to put food on the table for their families. Liam Mac Uaid The dissidents’ real target is Sinn [...] The recent attack on a British army base in Antrim by, it appears, so-called republican dissidents, will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with politics in the six counties of Ireland or who’s spent even a small amount of time there. What has always seemed clear is that the peace process in Northern [...] Two are dead. |  | ||||
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