@influenya@hertribevibe So must I expect the DR testing me for dialysis should also have gone through it, or the heart surgeon to have had a heart attack? What about a lady Dr doing a prostate examination, what would the waiting list be if all women waited for female Drs only
@AlexAlston14@JessicaRosvy Oh balls man, nobody has a duty to pass there hard earned money onto someone else. It's a choice most of us do but don't call it a duty, it's not
The Curious Case of the Barrister, the Bomb, the Museum and MI5
This story raises more questions the deeper you look.
A 25 year old trainee barrister spends two years in war-torn Syria, comes home, then is allegedly caught transporting a Semtex car bomb complete with a detonator and timer.
We’re told she didn’t know what she was carrying.
She gets bail.
We’re also told MI5 and Special Branch knew about the alleged bomb plot for two months. If that’s true, why was a live device allowed to be collected in Phoenix Park and transported up the N2 through public roads before the car was finally stopped at a petrol station in Carrickmacross?
Then there’s the second arrest.
Simon O’Donovan appears before Ireland’s three-judge, non-jury Special Criminal Court and is refused bail. Prosecutors allege explosives were stored at Collins Barracks……a government-owned museum where he worked.
So which is it?
Was this such a serious national security threat that it required the Special Criminal Court or was is something worthy of granting bail?
The official line is that the intended target was a police officer in Derry.
Maybe it was.
But given the current political tensions, the growing split within republicanism and the fact that intelligence agencies reportedly knew about the operation well in advance, it’s understandable that people are asking whether the public is being told the full story.
Questioning an official narrative isn’t extremism. It’s what people do when the facts presented raise more questions than they answer.