Truth & Reconciliation Commission for Ireland and Britain

Pat Sheehan, Republican (former IRA) ex-prisoner, gives testimony at the 2009 Belfast meeting of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Ireland and Britain. This was set up in 2006 as an independent academic and grass roots initative undertaken by the International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy. It met in Anglesey in 2006, Dublin in 2007, and in Belfast, 2009 was attended by representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ), Coiste na n-Iarchimí (umbrella organisation for Republican (former IRA) ex-prisoners), officers from local government, the Irish Times and the British Irish Intergovernmental Secretariat. The proceedings were filmed, and tape recorded and independent reports were assembled from gathered testimony.

In the wake of the Saville Inquiry there has been mention of the possibility of setting up a TRC for Ireland, however the fact that one already HAS been set up and is running, independently of all government influence or assistance, needs to become more widespread common knowledge.

The purpose of the Commission is to create a forum for the reconciliation through examination of historic wrongs that different communities within Britain and Ireland feel were committed during the period of history in Ireland known as the 'time of Troubles'. The TRCIB includes Britain as well as Ireland because we are concerned about a long term analysis and solution of the Northern Irish conflict in its widest framework - and this involves policy framed in Britain as much as in Ireland. We are concerned to review and examine evidence on all sides in the historic disputes involving Northern Ireland, and between republican and unionist traditions. We believe this affects all of the peoples of both islands and are concerned about the cultural and religious dimensions of this conflict - for example, the historic split between Catholic and Protestant and the role of other minority religious traditions in both Britain and Ireland.

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[IIPSGP1]

thanks for your opinion on that... but he stopped being a terrorist a very long time

ago and has served time for it...

[animegalc4]

@IIPSGP1 He was never a terrorist to begin with.

[william2447]

your nothing but a terrorist nothing to be proud of you wernt a poitical prisoner by your own admission your a criminal