IRA Escape Justice Again
Two IRA terrorists who shot their way out of Brixton prison in London in 1991 while awaiting trial on conspiracy charges have evaded justice one final time.
The BBC jovially describes the loveable rogues as “two men” who were “jail escapers”. The word “terrorist”, a bête noire of the BBC, creeps in once, but only when quoting the CPS talking about a wider category of people. Luckily they weren’t Muslim too or the BBC typewriter would have gone into spontaneous meltdown.
The Crown Prosecution Service said there was “no realistic prospect” of convicting Pearse McAuley and Nessan Quinlivan who, before their escape, were being held for conspiracy to murder the brewer Sir Charles Tidbury and conspiracy to cause explosions.
Attempts to return them to England for trial stretch back to the mid-1990s.
McAuley was released on Wednesday from Castlerea prison where he had served a sentence for killing Detective Garda Jerry McCabe during an armed raid on a post office van in County Limerick, in 1996. Andrew Martin, wanted on bomb making offences and conspiracy to cause explosions, and Anthony Duncan, wanted for questioning over bombs attached to bicycles in Brighton and Bognor Regis in 1994, remain at large and will now stay free.
The CPS said one of the probable defence arguments it considered was “statements made by ministers in respect of terrorists on the run.” If allowed (which you can bet it would have been) then politicians would never be able to venture an opinion on anything again – even on terrorist suspects who shoot their way out of prisons.
Having reviewed the cases, the CPS decided there was no longer a realistic prospect of conviction.
Sinn Fein have unsurprisingly welcomed the move, but Jim Allister of Traditional Unionist Voice described it as “nothing short of outrageous”.
Words of politicians to one side…these men are now free to walk the streets when by rights they should be behind the securest of bars.
Up the RA! One island one Ireland
TIOCHAIGH AR LA
Bless you. Nasty cold you’ve got there…
How come I didn’t notice you leave this comment before? Bit late to tell you to fuck off now I guess.
Two questions for “The All Seeing Eye”
If Germany had won the battle of Britain, do you think there would be a reactionary force such has the IRA etc ?
How do you view the French resistance ?
IRA all the way how would you feel if somebody started occupying your lands.When we asked them to leave peacefully the executed.pur only means are that of force.”One nation ruled and governed by its selected leaders,our culture,our history,our lands:Eamonn De Valera 1918
Bloody hell, is this the zombie thread that just won’t die?
Bugger off.
I am Irish and I don’t agree at all with the Bellends who have posted. Anyone who kills Mothers/daughters/Sons/Fathers for their agenda is scum..that also goes for loyalists..Up the BBC.
you should be abit more carefull with your words, or somebody might just pluck that all seeing eye out of yer head
Fucking hell, this thread is turning into a cunt magnet.
i think that the IRA cause is rightful, to expell the brits from their lands and be independent again, just like medieval times, when the irish had their kingdom and thing
(long live to this thread!)
Long live Brian Boru, eh? Now there’s a battle cry not heard for 996 years.
And it’ll be more than another 1000 years before the good people of Ulster are conquered by the South.
get out of r land and take ur planters with u.the brits have bn fuckin up conutrys 4 yrs.1 shot paddy
One shot paddy? If the Paras use even one shot on your sorry carcass then they should bill your family for the round.
Ireland=85% Christian
England=33% Christian the rest are Atheist and agnostic
One of the reasons Ireland is Better
And Btw I am Russian
The all seeing eye, a refrence to the devil.
Slightly unsure where you that bollocks from, sunshine.
The Eye of Providence is the symbol of the Eye of God watching over Mankind.
It’s also the Seal of the University of Chile but we’ll gloss over that incarnation as irrelevant.
Care to provide a reference for both those figures..which compares like for like?
I am not a Russian. That is probably not helpful, but no more or less relevant than your declaration of nationality is relevant.