Re: The return of the dissident IRA
Originally Posted by
OldFogey
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News to me - I don't recall defending the killers of the journalist.
She wasn't the first person in the Six Counties to be "totally innocent, not armed and incapable of defending herself" either:
https://www.gov.uk/government/public...sunday-inquiry
But I hope she is the last.
It was only the prompt action by a Sin Fein activist, now a well known and much praised "legitimate" politician, who spirited two handguns away double quick time that left the Paras as the villains of the peace.
It could never be proved of course, but nevertheless it was witnessed by
people who were in the Fenian mob and of course typical of their kind were bragging about it quick time.
I was working in Ulster at the time on attachment to Shorts and remember the graffiti on walls, particularly around Carrickfergus, "Paras fourteen, IRA nil!"