Irish Republican volunteers testing an improvised Mk 15 mortar fitted to a Ford tractor, the unit was commonly known as the 'Barrack Buster'
South Armagh (Early 1990s)
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Vindication for Eugene Reevey. The UK state was always as guilty as hell. £400,000 and an apology. Read his astounding book. You will likely be shocked. But when will the victims of the sickening MI5-UVF Dublin-Monaghan bombings receive justice? See also: https://t.co/tIjr6FN8Ii
A decision on a strategy is made with incomplete information and substantial risk, and only a decade or even two later can it be determined if it was correct. In this case after many of the decision makers were killed in action.
I was burned out of my home with my family as a boy in 1969. No-one who has not experienced it has the first clue of what it does to a child. I'm still figuring it out all these years on.
So the British far right cheering on unionist racism is a helluva tough watch, I gotta say.
Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli says Palestinian prisoners he represents beg him not to visit because they're raped each time he is due to meet them.
This is a scene from Al Jazeera's shocking new documentary on Israel's systematic use of rape.
"Ireland is in the front line of the resistance of the Third World, with all the responsabilities that go with that role of glory".
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh at the 1977 Sinn Féin Ardfheis.
Some "one and done" ingenious delivery methods for IEDs utilised by the Irish Republican Army.
Gill, P. (2017). Tactical innovation and the provisional Irish Republican Army. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 40(7), 573-585.
Hay small world Caolan the enterprising reporter worked with Tommy Robinson as media person. He has now apparently distanced himself from that phase. Another Ukraine hand CHIS informant IRA bomb making assistant Peter Keeley aka Kevin Fulton has recently been working on media with Tommy R. Then he went to Ukraine to teach the skills he learned at the feet of the master IRA/Real IRA bomb master. Keeley was passing on bomb and IED making skills he used to mortor police officers, kill British Army soldiers and beat up local targets in Sth Down. MI6 are the employment agency for NI vets who want to go to help out.
Two years today since I lost my comrade, friend Óglach, Dr Ella O'Dwyer
Not a day passes that I don't think of her, wonder what she'd make of events, or draw strength from her example
Ella endured prison & dedicated her life to Irish republicanism
Ní bheidh a leithéid ann arís
This video explains another big question: why Chinese high-speed railways are not profitable, yet China still keeps building them.
That’s because of the long-term calculation of overall social interests by the central government, "The HSR drives the flow of people, traffic and info and all social flows… The incentives on the economy are immeasurable. We always calculate the whole economic impact. It’s about overall social interests."
Óglach Michael Gaughan's funeral procession in England. He was brought from Parkhurst prison on the Isle of Wight to Kilburn in North London for a requiem mass as hundreds came out to pay their respects. (June 1974)