Inside Story - N.Ireland's return to violence - 11 March 09

The fear that the recent killings in Northern Ireland could spark a return to sectarian bloodshed between the province's Protestants and Catholics has leaders worried not just in Belfast, London and Dublin. Inside Story asks: Is the nightmare which Britain and Northern Ireland thought was over, making a return? Can the attacks be viewed in isolation? Or are they in fact a real threat to the North's power-sharing deal?

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[Kkardemumma]

Is the news anchor a Kiwi?

He sounds a bit like one.

[borledx]

@borledx "In 2004, gang-member McCaughey spoke of the planned retaliation and said that the UVF leadership also feared the potential IRA response"

[borledx]

@oz1641 "In 2001 an unidentified Glenanne gang-member revealed that the gang had planned to kill at least 30 RC schoolchildren as revenge for Kingsmill. Plans 2 attack St Lawrence O'Toole Primary School in the SA village of Belleeks were aborted on orders of the UVF leadership; the gang-member who suggested the attack was a UDR soldier; later shot dead by the IRA. The UVF suspected that he was working for Military Intelligence who were seeking 2 provoke a civil war."

[borledx]

@oz1641 Im aware the "Glenanne gang" is a press term, they were the mid-ulster brig UVF & a Brit army intelligence proxy unit, with that scum Nairac as the go-between man. I've read a good bit about them. They murdered over 200 people, almost exclusively civilians. They tried it in SA with the McCreevy/MacDowd family slaughter & local Reps responded the next day with the Kingsmill massacre "to put the nonense out of the prods" & they kept out of SA after that 2 brave warriors they were

[oz1641]

@borledx You are such a deluded fool it is unreal. You didn't even know who the Glenanne gang were, now you're lecturing me on the veracity of their existence. As for the qoute from the govenor of Long Kesh, it is not hard to pull qoutes out of your arse.

[borledx]

@oz1641 BTW, The free state army did defeat the IRA in less than 12 months, thats a historical fact disputed by no1. You can draw whatever conclusions you like from that fact. If it makes you laugh, so be it, but it happened,

[borledx]

@oz1641 Most loyalists para's r criminals, whats news there. Even the Govener of the Maze said when asked the difference between the prisoners, that 90% of the loyalists would be here anyway while 90% of the Reps wouldn't. Thats why loyalist paras were such ineffective scum. The only time they were ever effective was when Brit intelligence ran 1 of their units, which they did regularly over the course of 25 yrs. i.e. "Glenanne gang" who were not mythical, there members are all well known

[borledx]

@oz1641 1. proven liar?, how exactly?

2. My contention is loyalists have a tiny fraction of the int support Reps have & that is fact

3.We had nothing when the Brits pulled out of the 26 Co's & today we're 1 of the richest countries in the world(banking crisis r no)

4. It not racism its fact, if i moved to Engl tomorrow, i will be irish til the day i die, just like a somali.

5. Limerick has a much higher murder rate than peacetime belfast, it has the highest rate in W.Europe over the last decade

[borledx]

@oz1641 I dont where to start with that juvenile outbdurst. But il start at the end, 1st soveriegn default is a very real possibility. Iceland have already & Greece look like they will soon. There'll be no invasions, you child. If Ireland reaches the stage where it can no longer afford 2 repay its loans, it will default & indeed some economists expect that in the next 2-3 yrs. We stay in the EU because it benefits us. If we decide it doesn't anymore we can leave, simple as that.

[oz1641]

@borledx When you're leader of this new all island socialist gaelic republic are you going to withdraw from the EU?!? Lmfbo,, I can see the headlines now-- " Greater Irish Gaelic & Socialist Workers & Farmers Republic withdraws from European Union, President for life & Commander in Chief says no EU loans will be repaid" ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. What about the money the UK has lent your joke of a country? Because if you don't repay that, we'll invade your Potato Republic ;)