http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/scots-gang-leader-faces-jail-2924388

Scots gang leader faces jail for mocking killings of two Manchester policewomen on Facebook.


A GANG leader faces jail for a sick Facebook message gloating about the gun deaths of PCs Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone.

Sick Chris McCann tried to blame a mystery friend for posting that the two officers’ deaths were “karma” for the removal of a cross honouring a Real IRA leader killed weeks earlier.

The posting mocked the tragedy with the words “ha ha ha boom” – referring to the grenade thrown by killer Dale Cregan.

Cregan had led the officers into a trap with a fake 999 call before unleashing his gun and grenade attack.

Yesterday, McCann, 30, pled guilty to a charge of breach of the peace at Glasgow Sheriff Court.

He admitted he had allowed the offensive message to appear and remain on his Facebook page the day after Fiona, who grew up in Moray, and Nicola were killed in Manchester last September.



Sheriff Ian Miller deferred sentence for reports but told him: “Custody is very much in my mind.”

The court was told the message on father-of-two McCann’s Facebook page read: “F*** your GMP (Greater Manchester Police) only 2 of yous should have been 22 of yous.

“Thats karma coming back to bite yous ratbags for removing the cross monument honouring the late great Alan Ryan. Hope more of yous get took out watch out for they housebreakings ha ha ha boom TAL32.”

Alan Ryan was a Real IRA leader shot dead in Dublin two weeks earlier.

Harry Findlay, prosecuting, said TAL stood for an Irish phrase meaning “our day will come” and the figure 32 referred to the number of Irish counties.

McCann, from the Gorbals, Glasgow, told police he had given another person access to his Facebook page. He added he knew the message was there but did not authorise it.

Had McCann gone to trial, he would have lodged a special defence of incrimination blaming a mystery friend. Des Finnieston, defending, told the court McCann was "completely stunned" by the message and agreed it was “despicable”.

In 2007, McCann was said to be a ringleader of a gang called Young xCross Cumbie.

Four members were jailed for eight years after young dad William Smith was battered to death near his home in the Gorbals.

A video of the killers during a court appearance was put on YouTube titled: “The troops in the high court fur murder”. It was posted by someone with the username chrismccann1888.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/irish-republican-voice-led-james-2971554

Dissident group responsible for September protests threatens chaos in 2014

30 Dec 2013 06:00
Irish Republican Voice has been recruiting over the past six months.

A dissident group blamed for grinding Dublin to a halt in September has threatened a series of large-scale disruptions next year.

Irish Republican Voice was formed in the summer when ex-associates of murdered Real IRA chief Alan Ryan came together to start a new splinter group.

The republicans have been recruiting over the past six months and its leader has outlined their plans for a series of protests.

James McDonagh, 35, said: “IRV is a political pressure group and civil disobedience is the No1 priority for IRV – but in a peaceful manner.

“IRV is there now and it’s there to fight austerity and British rule and it will be carrying out national protests in relation to austerity.

“We hope there will be similar events to what happened on O’Connell Bridge in September.

“We want to see a 24-hour national strike where we will bring this Government down once and for all.”

IRV is the political wing of a new armed group calling itself Saoirse na hEireann.

The organisation elected an army council recently and vowed to carry out an armed campaign.

A series of shootings in Coolock, North Dublin, has been linked to the mob.

O'Connell Bridge in Dublin was ground to a halt in September because of the protest
McDonagh denied any association with the group but added it is the only legitimate armed body.

He said: “We don’t recognise the PSNI, Stormont or Leinster House. We don’t recognise the gardai, the courts system. The only army we recognise is Saoirse na hEireann.”

McDonagh was a close pal of RIRA chief Ryan and was regularly seen by his side at 32 County Sovereignty Movement protests.

Ryan was linked to a series of murders in Dublin and chopped off the fingers of a criminal rival.

Despite this McDonagh claims the 32-year-old was a “kind gentle person”.

He said: “Following the murder of Alan Ryan, things evaporated within the 32 CSM.

“Alan was a personal friend of mine. He was a true republican. Alan Ryan is held in very high regard within the republican movement.”

The leadership of the 32CSM said they booted McDonagh and others out of the group but he claims he left of his own volition.

But he said: “The membership of IRV resigned from other organisations, they weren’t expelled. I did not get kicked out from any other organisation.

“I resigned from the 32 CSM back in April.”

In September IRV took to the streets during an anti-austerity march in Dublin city centre.

The group protested at the Dail and then staged a sit-down protest on O’Connell Bridge – grinding traffic to a halt for up to three hours.

McDonagh, a settled Traveller, is no stranger to protests and has fought a legal battle to return his daughter to a speacial needs school attended.

cathal.mcmahon@irishmirror.ie

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/crime-desk/dissidents-in-disarray

Dissidents in disarray.

DISSIDENT terror groups in the Republic were divided and in disarray in 2013, with infighting and arrests leaving them significantly weakened.

The death of Dublin terror boss Alan Ryan in 2012 led to a major split in the New IRA – the group formed out of an amalgamation of the Real IRA and two other terror factions earlier that year.

This year saw yet another new dissident faction emerge due to the serious problems within the New IRA in Dublin.

Irish Republican Voice (IRV) was set up by Ryan’s former pal James McDonagh after he fell out with the new leadership in Dublin.

At the beginning of the year it was already obvious that Ryan’s death had caused serious problems for the New IRA.

In January 2013 senior dissidents told the Sunday World they were carrying out a “root and branch” review of the organisation, saying it had become tarnished by criminality.

Punishment shootings followed, including an attack on Ryan’s pal ‘Fat Deccy’ Smith.

In March, former Real IRA member Peter Butterly was shot in the car park of the Huntsman Inn at Gormanstown, Co. Meath and several dissidents were arrested.

They included Dean Evans, from Raheny, Eddie McGrath (32), from Tallaght, David Cullen (29) and Sharif Kelly (43), both from Balbriggan.

The group was to suffer a further blow when eight men were arrested in Clondalkin as part of an investigation into dissident activity on Good Friday.

Kevin Braney (38), Des Christie (49), Hubert Duffy (45) and John Brock (40) were among those charged with IRA membership.

Eamon McNamee, from Lucan, was also charged. McNamee was arrested in the wake of the shooting of ‘Fat Deccy’ Smith.

His links to republicans raised eyebrows due to his serious convictions for drug dealing.

There were a number of other shooting punishment attacks throughout the year.

The infighting and arrests led to an emergency meeting of leaders of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement – the political wing of the New IRA – in June.

In July, gardai arrested eight people and uncovered a massive haul of the plastic explosive Semtex as well as a machine gun, at least four handguns, a couple of shotguns, a hand grenade, and a huge amount of assorted ammunition after two raids in Dublin.

Around this time a veteran republican suspected of involvement in the murder of three British soldiers lashed out at the leadership of the New IRA in Dublin.

Roisin Kane, whose son, Ronan McLoughlin, was shot dead by gardai during a RIRA raid in Wicklow in 1998, said under the new leadership the New IRA is “a gangster-ridden movement that only fosters fear into those who do not carry out their totally unjust orders”.

During the year James McDonagh set up Irish Republican Voice after falling out with the New IRA leadership.

Members of the group were pepper sprayed at a protest outside the Dáil in September.

In October, Alan Ryan’s brother Vinny (22) and his pal Daragh Evans (23), were acquitted of firearms possession on the day gangster Micka Kelly was shot dead in 2011.

They have kept low profiles since their release.

Meanwhile, the IRV and their military wing, Saoirse na héireann, were intent on building their profile, carrying out minor non-fatal shootings on low-level criminals in Coolock and surrounding areas.

While small in numbers, they have recruited former New IRA and Continuity IRA members into their ranks and gardai are closely monitoring their activities.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday...t-29862021.html

BY CIARAN BARNES – 23 DECEMBER 2013

Leading dissident republican Colin Duffy's arrest on IRA membership charges came after months of surveillance by a specialist police team investigating a DOZEN murders.

The Colin Duffy squad: Dedicated police surveillance unit monitored Lurgan dissident.

Sunday Life can reveal that the unit was set up in the wake of the November 2012 killing of prison officer David Black by the New IRA which Duffy, 46, was arrested and questioned about.

Since the horror M1 motorway shooting the Lurgan-based republican has been under 24-hour watch from the PSNI and MI5.

And at least 12 Provo murders, some of which Duffy has previously been publicly connected to, are currently being re-examined by cops.

These include the 1998 IRA abduction and killing of cigarette smuggler Kevin Conway in Aghalee.

Last Wednesday Gary Marshall, 45, appeared in Craigavon Magistrates' Court charged with murdering Conway.

The dad of four was shot dead because he tried to muscle-in on an IRA illegal cigarette racket in Lurgan's Kilwilkie estate.

Marshall — the man charged with the ruthless execution — is a close pal of Duffy, who was with his brother Sam Marshall when he was murdered by loyalists in 1990.

Before freeing Gary Marshall on bail totalling £6,000 the court heard there was “new forensic evidence” linking him to the case.

The specialist PSNI unit which has been monitoring Colin Duffy is still investigating him for the Conway murder.

Experienced detectives drafted into the team have spent the past 12 months reviewing the original exhibits and forensic evidence.

The fresh probe was sparked after Sunday Life exclusively revealed last year that Duffy's name was all over Special Branch intelligence files that identified him as one of Conway's killers.

The documents were made public during the inquiry into the 1999 murder of solicitor Rosemary Nelson by the LVF. The high-profile lawyer acted on behalf of Colin Duffy until she lost her life in a brutal car-bomb.

One intelligence document written by detectives in 1998 about the Kevin Conway murder states: “Colin Duffy organised and participated in the abduction and murder”.

Another reveals: “Conway was working for PIRA in the importation/distribution of cigarettes. He recently crossed Duffy over profits gained from these ventures.”

Small-time criminal Conway was babysitting his 14-week-old son when he was taken from his home in Lurgan's fiercely republican Kilwilkie estate in February 1998.

He was brought to a derelict building near Aghalee and blasted in the head.

Because the horrific execution took place two months before the signing of the Good Friday Agreement anyone convicted of it will have to serve just two years in prison. A dozen other IRA murders that occurred between 1989 and

1997 are being re-examined by specialist cops who are also investigating Colin Duffy.

They all took place in the greater Lurgan area and include:

l The killings of gun-store owner Roy Metcalfe, and UDR men Colin McCullough and Iain Warnock;

l The 1990 Lough Neagh duck-hunting atrocity in which four friends, two of whom were off-duty cops, were gunned down;

l The murder the same year of RUC reservist Wilfred Wethers;

l The fatal 1997 attack on policemen John Graham and David Johnston in Lurgan;

l The killings of Catholics Denis Headley and Ian Lyons in the town;

A security source with knowledge of the Duffy surveillance team said: “He had become a creature of habit over the past number of months.

“Sometimes he would stay overnight at addresses in the Ardoyne area and other times he would drive back to Lurgan.

“Surveillance teams from MI5 and the Army’s Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRS) were watching his every move.”

Our source explained how Colin Duffy would regularly use a park to meet with his closest friends.

The insider added: “As a result, the PSNI, MI5 and SRS decided they needed to hear what he was talking about.

“Up to a dozen high-powered listening devices were secretly planted overnight in the park.

“They were strategically placed at various points around the park so they could listen in on his conversation. “Everything he talked about was picked up on the microphones, recorded and transcribed.’’

As well as mounting an unprecedented surveillance operation on Colin Duffy the specialist PSNI team probing his activities has also been looking at his friends.

Among this group are former IRA blanket-man Alex McCrory, 52, and 45-year-old republican Harry Fitzsimmons.

McCrory is often seen by Duffy's side and was photographed with him during a parade protest in Ardoyne last year. Riots broke out later that evening.

He was also pictured with him during the summer at the funeral of Republican Sinn Fein and Continuity IRA chief Ruairi O'Bradaigh.

Last Tuesday McCrory and Fitzsimmons appeared in the dock of Belfast Magistrates' Court charged with attempting to murder members of the PSNI in a gun attack on the city's Crumlin Road earlier this month.

They are also accused of possession of a with intent to endanger life.

Along with Duffy, shaven-headed McCrory and Fitzsimmons are charged with conspiracy to possess firearms and explosives with intent to endanger life, conspiracy to murder and IRA membership.

All three refused to stand-up during proceedings at Belfast Magistrates' Court and were remanded in custody.

New IRA have assault rifles

A new IRA assault rifle recovered by cops after a failed murder bid in north Belfast earlier this month was one of six smuggled into Northern Ireland by the republican gang.

Sunday Life can reveal that leaders of the dissident group recently purchased six ‘clean’ Kalashnikov-style weapons to use in a fresh terror campaign.

The first time a gun from the batch was used was in Ardoyne on December 5 when a New IRA member opened fire on a police patrol travelling up the Crumlin Road.

In his panic to escape he dropped the prized machine-gun which was later recovered by police.

This newspaper understands that a second Kalashnikov hidden in a house nearby was also discovered during follow-up searches.

A security source said: “Intelligence indicates that the New IRA has recently acquired a batch of high-powered rifles to use in a new campaign.

“Two have been recovered, but a further four are believed to be out there.”

Belfast republicans Alex McCrory, 52, and Harry Fitzsimmons, 45, appeared in court last Tuesday charged with possessing the gun used in the December 5 Ardoyne attack.

They were remanded in custody along with Lurgan dissident Colin Duffy, 46, who is accused of IRA membership and conspiracy to murder members of the security forces.

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/northern-ireland/ex-hunger-strikers-role-for-new-real-ira

Dope head who'll front dissident council fight.

This is the pot smoking ex-hunger striker recruited by the leaders of dissident republican outfit the New Real IRA.



Veteran republican Gerard Hodgins has been drafted in by the terror group’s leadership to oversee council election campaigns with hand picked runners standing under the banner of Independent Republicans

He will team up with cancer stricken dissident chief Tony ‘TC’ Catney to promote the push for district council seats.

The Sunday World can reveal the die hard republican is now a prominent member of the so called Independent Republicans which are under the control of the Collective Leadership consisting of Alex McCrory, Collie Duffy, Brian Arthurs and Frankie Quinn.

His selection however has been strategic as the CL, Brian Arthurs and Frankie Quinn in particular, have had their reputations damaged by their close association to criminals such as tiger kidnapper Brain Conway.

Bringing in someone of Hodgins’ calibre was designed to quieten the discontent among the ranks and to give an air of credibility to the dissident leaders and the Independent Republican candidates.

However the Sunday World can reveal that Hodgins himself is connected to criminal circles and uses his associates to feed his drug habit.

And as our exclusive pictures reveal Hodgins is more than happy to enjoy the perks of the criminal underworld he inhabits.

Hodgins allied himself to the NRIRA after a falling out with the Continuity IRA in which he held the prominent position as finance officer.

The gang was headed up by Christopher ‘Cricky’ Notarantonio who is currently serving a jail sentence for blackmail.

During his time with the CIRA criminal gang Hodgins received large amounts of cannabis which had been stolen in raids carried out by CIRA members including Notarantonio.

This was given to him for his own personal use.

All involved took large amounts for themselves, the rest was passed on to be sold to raise money for the CIRA.

Such incidents include a substantial amount of cannabis being taken from a house in Ballymurphy.

In another raid 20 black bin liners full of cannabis was taken from a storage unit in Springbank Industrial Estate in Poleglass and in another raid on a warehouse in Antrim Industrial Estate £18,000 in cash and a another substantial amount of cannabis was also taken by the paramilitary group.

Hodgins fell foul of the CIRA after he claimed that a large amount of cash he was holding for the CIRA, raised from drug dealing, kidnapping and extortion, was stolen from his flat in Lenadoon during a robbery.

The west Belfast man claimed that the flat was broken into while he was out and the money in question was taken.

So desperate to have his ‘story’ backed up he gave a media interview claiming that his house had been broken into and personal items were taken.

The CIRA did not believe his claims. Members were dispatched to search his home and Hodgins began to seek protection from other dissident groups.

The Sunday World can reveal Hodgins was suspected by the dissident group of stealing the money to enable him to travel to Amsterdam along with a close friend who has an extensive criminal past.

Said one dissident source: “It’s hard to understand the rationale behind the leadership’s decision to hang our hat on Gerard Hodgins.

“Everyone and their granny know Hodgies is into drugs big style, he makes no bones about it, in fact he promotes the use of drugs on his Facebook.

“How do we justify killing Kevin Kearney, yet promote Gerard Hodgies as a sound republican?” he said.

“As for his mates, they’re pure scum and have terrorised the very community we claim to be acting on behalf of. It’s inexcusable, just because Hodgies has a history with the Ra and says the right things – let’s all turn a blind eye to his drug dealing? I don’t think so.”

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/c...-out-of-control

Turf war threatens to spiral out of control.

These chilling messages sprayed on the walls of a housing estate are intended for a brave garda who was the subject of a recent death threat case.

Graffiti in the Hazelwood estate in Bray, Co. Wicklow, tells courageous Detective Garda John O’Reilly “Suck rats c**s stitch up scum” while in nearby Ashlawn the message addressed to him reads “I’m watching you dirty pig”.

The messages mark a sinister escalation in the activity of drug gangs as the first anniversary of 33-year-old murder victim Philip O’Toole approaches.

The latest incidents read like an episode of Love/Hate: A 40-year-old woman missing… a family abducted from their home in the middle of the night… a young man driven up the mountains and forced to kneel as the barrel of a gun is shoved in his mouth… houses full of children riddled with bullets… and now gardaí under threat of death.

Fear and intimidation have become petrifyingly real for the residents of the seaside town and other picturesque villages dotted all over the Garden County as two drug tribes go to war.

‘Philly’ O’Toole had almost 40 convictions when he was shot and dumped in a ravine in Trooperstown, near Laragh, after disappearing on January 7 last year.

His murder remains unsolved, but all hell has broken loose as rival drug gangs have gone to war from within and without ever since.

O’Toole, the dad of a seven-month-old baby, had refused to work for the Puck Ugly gang controlling the drugs scene in Bray, headed by ‘the Gutter Man’ Brendan Kinlan, prior to his jailing in the UK in 2012.

The Pucks have close ties with ‘Fat’ Freddy Thompson’s mob and their drugs are delivered wholesale to the town once a month in a Transit van – the underworld’s terrifying take on operating a professional business.

For attempting to go solo in Arklow, O’Toole became a marked man and in August 2011 an attempt was made to kill him. But the hit failed and he found out exactly who wanted him dead because the gunman told him when he was pulling the trigger: “This is from [named three Puck Ugly kingpins]. Take it like a man”.

After surviving the botched attempt to kill him, O’Toole formed an allegiance with his enemies’ main rival, ‘Mr Big’ – a notorious Wicklow dissident and pimp.

Mr Big has been taking over the drugs supply all along the east coast and he recently bought into a legitimate business, which was firebombed by the Pucks earlier this year.

The paranoid Pucks’ determination to kill O’Toole then went into overdrive, in case he got his revenge strike in first.

The file on the murder has now gone to the DPP. It suggests that for all the enemies he had, Philly O’Toole was in fact shot dead by a trusted friend.

The veteran drug dealer pal – who was associated with the Pucks, but who had known Philly for years – was the only one the slain mobster had been confiding in about his movements.

Detectives believe the murder may have been ordered by Mr Big, the Continuity IRA thug double-crossing O’Toole.

Since the slaying, all hell has been breaking loose. Mr Big has taken over Philly’s patch in Arklow and the Pucks have gone head-to-head with Mr Big – firebombing his business after he attempted to impose a tax on the gang for selling their drugs in Bray.

Another arson attempt on the home of a close relation was never even reported to gardaí.

The Pucks have been asserting their dominance within the gang too.

When a rumour went around that one of their own runners – who is in his twenties – was building contacts of his own with a drugs gang in Tallaght, west Dublin, he was told to collect a €20,000 consignment of cocaine from under a hedge on the Ballywaltrim Road.

But when he got there the stash was gone, and he was blamed for selling it and pocketing the profits.

The man was told he now owed the gang €30,000 – the extra €10,000 was added on as an interest charge.

After he was driven into the mountains and given a warning – a gun was put in his mouth – he was told in no uncertain terms to pay up or he’d be killed.

Members of his family borrowed amounts of €2,000 to pay the debt.

The shooting of a 15-year-old in the foot in Fassaroe in recent weeks is also believed to have been carried out by one of the Pucks. The fear of what the gangsters are capable of is now so overwhelming that several men have been forced out of their homes.

And in April, 40-year-old Jacqueline Smith – who is understood to have lived in terror of the gang – disappeared and was last seen in Carlow.

Meanwhile, the Pucks are also increasingly involved in recruiting new blood.

Gardai have also investigated the links between the abduction of a woman and her two sons from a housing estate in Arklow and those responsible for the murder of Philip O’Toole.

love this thread by the way. saw an article about a russian mob in Belfast cornering several rackets there (http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/northern-ireland/gangsters-running-drug-and-vice-rackets)

But I was wondering, the chief o' irish police say ireland has 25 organized crime mobs operating in ireland, 5 of which have international connections. Anyone know who these mobs are? or have an educated guess with links? TY

Belfast is in Northern Ireland, not 'Ireland'....

He's full of shit.

im well aware of where belfast is and the chief described them as 'gangs' but i assume they are more than petty street thugs.

and in the article, 'the russians' in Belfast report to their bosses in Dublin.

There is 25 big time gangs in Ireland, and a lot of the gangs are in this United Criminal Alliance group up to 15 of them i seen in a report.

http://www.herald.ie/news/fifteen-gangsters-behind-ryan-murder-29548324.html

I never did hear of Russian bosses in Dublin, i don't think there is much Russian crime in Ireland to small for them, prostitution you may get the odd one doing that as Irish Top criminals keep away from prostitution.

I see you put Ireland in your post two times so where is Belfast.

United Criminal Alliance group would cover most of the 25 up to 15 gangs.

for now. Tiocfaidh ár lá!

http://www.herald.ie/news/ryan-case-suspect-fighting-extradition-over-murder-fear-29911875.html

Ryan case suspect fighting extradition over murder fear.

FIONA DILLON – 13 JANUARY 2014 02:30 PM

A MAN who fled the country after being charged in relation to the murder of RIRA boss Alan Ryan is challenging his extradition.

Ryan (32), a paramilitary leader, was shot dead in north Dublin in September 2012. He was killed as he walked through Clongriffin with two friends.

Unemployed Robert Carroll (27), of Clonee, Co Meath, disappeared last April. He was charged in October 2012 with withholding information aboutRyan's murder.

He was granted bail and disappeared after gardai told him they had information that his life was under threat.

A bench warrant was issued for Carroll's arrest after he failed to turn up for a hearing at Dublin District Court last April.

Garda intelligence subsequently tracked him to Wales, where he was arrested on suspicion of using false travel documents. He is being held on remand in England pending an extradition hearing.

CHALLENGING

However, Carroll is claiming that he had no choice but to jump bail and did so only to protect himself.

It is understood he is challenging his extradition on the grounds that he will be murdered by the IRA if he is returned to Dublin.

During his first court appearance, he was subjected to abuse and taunts from associates of Ryan during a tense hearing.

An organised crime gang is said to have killed Ryan. However, there are suspicions that they were helped by dissident republicans who regarded him as a maverick.

The fenian scum surrendered yet again

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http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/commun...-ways-1-5788288

Parades in Limerick call for ‘return to Republican ways’

RENEWED calls have been made for a return to republican traditions at two commemorations in Limerick city over the weekend.

There was a strong turnout at commemorative marches honouring Garryowen man, Sean South, who lost his life during a raid on an RUC barracks in Fermanagh in 1957.

The marches, organised by Republican Sinn Fein (RSF) and Sinn Fein respectively, got under way an hour apart from Bedford Row on Sunday, and went to the Republican plot in Mount St Lawrence cemetery, Mulgrave Street.

Sinn Fein’s parade - the second to leave the city - welcomed Liadh Ní Ríada, a daughter of the late Irish composer Sean O’Ríada.

She will stand for the party in this May’s European elections, and is also their Irish language officer.

A colour party drawn from all over the 32 counties led the RSF parade, which also saw attendance from the Irish Republican Voice Movement.

Those marching were backed by a bagpipe player, which fell silent as it progressed past Limerick Prison, where some republican prisoners are serving sentences.

Banners demanded the release of “republican prisoners of war”, while wreaths were laid at South’s grave by a number of groups, including Cumanns from Tyrone and Fermanagh.

RSF president and historian Seamus O’Suilleabhain described Mr South as an “icon of the Republican movement”.

He urged all Republicans to get involved in the 2016 centenary commemorations, saying: “It cannot be left to that government there at the minute who have every intention of turning 2016 into a British commemoration.”

Limerick man Joe Lynch, RSF’s national spokesman, said it is hoped that an anti-Good Friday agreement rally will take place in the city in that year.

“We hope to have all republicans, and non-republicans to join with us. We want anyone who is proud of their country to join us for one anti-Good Friday agreement commemoration,” he said.

RSF vice-president Sean Mac an Ghirr added: “We must renounce British symbols, whether they be poppies, flags, crowns, or cities designated as UK capitals of British culture. Many in this island mistakenly believe they are free while they are happy to regurgitate a West Brit culture while seeing nothing wrong in the partition of our land.”

I used to provoke a British guy I knew by saying England should surrender Northern Ireland to Ireland and move the border between England and Scotland to the Roman wall for aesthetic reasons

The fenians have never won a battle, a war, and go crying if someone shoots back at them.

They are finished , HaHa!

"British is best...."

haha are fucking kidding me with that signature?? yeah ive been to Britain once it sucked, it rained the whole time i was there, and for the country that supposedly spawned the English language, no one over there seems to know how to fucking speak it!!

Bullshit, that's why the Brits flew Chinooks over South Armagh during the majority of the troubles is it? EVen your scumbag Special forces couldn't infiltrate South Armagh. Fact!

Quick history lesson...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DO71o2LrjY

Tell me about it! Bunch of fags and I never met one who could fight his way out of a paper bag!

Is that why the British governed a large part of the world at one time or another, is that why us British fought European papists over hundreds of years and were never defeated..


The day is get history lessons of some yank plastic paddys is the day the fenians win a military conflict,,, never!

The fenians planted bombs and ran away, of course they abused children as well...


You will never beat us British and Ulster will ALWAYS remain British

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW31yYLSmoc




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Is that why we saved your sorry ass in World War I and II? Limey cocksucker. Assume the position douchebag

Child abuse? The fuck you talking about? The most celebrated British gangsters of all time were the Krays, both fags and Ronnie a well known child abuser so don't come to me with that crap buddy, the fuck were you in Vietnam?

My Uncle lost his life fighting the Cold War the fuck you do Limey? Kiss my Irish American ass that's all you Brits seem to ever do

And that's the final time I'll bite on this piece of bait. So fish away I ain't chomping no more. Said my piece.

The Brits never took South Armagh and were too cowardly to fight it out, flying over on chinooks. Even the top brass admits that the Brits were outfought in South Armagh it is all here in black and white douche....

Educate yourself... Read it and weep Limey...

'Enemy Respect For The Provisional IRA in South Armagh'

"Even Harnden's sources within the British security forces, admit they feared and grudgingly respected the South Armagh Provisional IRA's ingenuity and ruthless determination".

http://irishistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/bandit-country-by-toby-harnden-review.html

Plastic paddy twat!

Cut it out, you two!

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gan...d-29931178.html

Gangland murder linked to pub shooting in which three innocent women were injured.

THE gangland murder of Michael Devoy is believed to have been a revenge attack for a near fatal shooting outside a Dublin pub late last year.

The shooting occurred outside Hanlon's pub in the north of Dublin city.

The target of the shooting was a drug dealer who sustained a number of injuries in the assassination bid but survived.

Three innocent women who happened to be standing in the area were also injured in the incident.

Michael Devoy (42), originally from Balbutcher Lane, Ballymun, was wearing a bulletproof vest when he was shot in the head on Saturday night.

Less than a week before his murder, an explosive device was placed under his car.

The eighth murder investigation of the year was under way today following Devoy's murder.

He was released from prison just over 24 hours before being shot on Saturday night.

His murder means that eight people have suffered violent deaths in the first 18 days of the year. At the same stage in 2013 there were no murders.

Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore yesterday expressed his shock at the spike in killings, describing it as "horrific" and criticising such "savagery". "These killings have no place in our country. We have to support the gardai in trying to identify those responsible and bring them to justice. As a society we have to work harder to eliminate violence," Mr Gilmore told the Irish Independent.

Devoy, from Balbutcher Lane in Poppintree, Ballymun, north Dublin, was a notorious criminal who had more than 60 convictions.

His body was discovered on a secluded roadway in south Co Dublin by gardai while on patrol late on Saturday.

It is believed that his killers were trying to dispose of his remains over a 30ft wall when they were disturbed by gardai on routine patrol in the area.

Officers noticed two men standing at the rear of a silver hatchback car on the isolated Foxhill Road, near the Bohernabreena Road in Tallaght.

The two men fled the scene when approached and a car chase ensued -- but the suspects were able to make their escape over the narrow and winding country roads.

Gardai then returned to the scene expecting to find dumped drugs but were shocked to find Devoy's body. He had sustained gunshot wounds from a handgun to the head and neck as well as other injuries.

Gardai attempted resuscitation but he was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after the discovery.

Devoy -- who was released on the orders of a court -- knew that his life was under threat and was wearing a bullet-proof vest at the time of his killing.

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A sophisticated explosive device was placed under his car only last week in another sinister attack. Sources said he had been linked to the failed assassination attempt on drug dealer Greg Lynch outside Hanlon's Pub in Dublin last October, though it is unclear if he actually fired any shots in the attack.

Lynch miraculously survived that attempt on his life despite suffering serious injuries after one of the bullets lodged in his head. In 2006, Devoy was jailed for four years for threatening to gouge out a neighbour's eyeballs and slash his face after a row over their bins.

The first killing of the year came on January 1. Dale Creighton (20) died after an assault in Tallaght. Eight people have been charged in connection with the incident.

Hours later, Wayne McQuillian (30) was found stabbed in the neck outside his home in Drogheda. Gardai rushed him to hospital but he didn't survive.

On January 6, Thomas Horan (63) was found dead at his sheltered accommodation in Ringsend, Dublin. Kenneth Cummins (26) and his sister Sabrina Cummins (36) were charged with murder.

A day later, father-of-six Christy Daly (47) was found dead in an Offaly drain.

Michael O'Dwyer (25) was fatally stabbed at a house in Waterford on January 7. A 32-year-old man, Tadhg Butler, has been charged with his murder.

The next murder was at an apartment in Finglas on January 11. A series of people have been quizzed by gardai Vincent Maher's death, including a 23-year-old woman.

And journalist Tom O'Gorman was killed at his home in Castleknock on January 12. His Italian lodger, Saverio Bellante (34), was charged with murder.

Sam Griffin and Tom Brady.