Celebrity Deaths - 2020, Fungi(e) missing, presumed dead

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There was massive nationalist distrust of the RUC, all all levels of the community. The new policing board was formed. The SDLP joined it. SF adopted what they called a “wait and see” policy, to try and gauge whether there had been genuine change in the police force before they committed to it.

All of this was massively controversial. The PSNI was on trial in the nationalist community in its early period. The media response was to praise the SDLP to the hilt for the bravery etc and attack SF very hard.

The mood in the nationalist community was much more ambiguous. These were the people who had been under attack by the police for decades. There was also resentment towards the media for not adequately representing what their experiences had been over the past few decades and in some instances dismissing those experiences completely. You’ve seen with the George Floyd incident what a difference camera phones have made towards race relations in the USA. RTE filming the North had made enormous differences and instigated change but camera phones would have made a similar difference up north.

Anyway with all this going on the loyalist feud in Belfast got out of hand. It was over drugs money if I understand properly. Locals were saying that it had done more damage than the IRA had.The PSNI eventually just gave up and decided to let one side burn the other side out to end the feud. This happened in broad daylight, with film crews and PSNI officers standing watching.

You have to remember that at the outbreak of the troubles RUC men had watched catholic families being burned out by loyalists.

There was no response from the SDLP or the Southern media whatsoever. It was a complete cop out. SF were considered vindicated, the SDLP were considered disgraced. SF went on to eclipse the SDLP during the period that it stayed outside of the policing board.

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Thank you. In what year did this happen (I want to read more)

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It was the feud ‘Mad Dog’ and his cronies were all caught up in I think …

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Can’t remember but I’ll find out.

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I’d say around 2000-2002.

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That’s a start

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From Wikipedia for background

The nature of the LVF, which was founded by Billy Wright when he, along with the Portadown unit of the UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade, was stood down by the UVF leadership on 2 August 1996 for breaking the ceasefire[14] led to frequent battles between the two movements. This had come about when Wright’s unit killed a Catholic taxi-driver during the Drumcree standoff. Although Wright had been expelled from the UVF, threatened with execution and an order to leave Northern Ireland, which he defied, the feud was largely contained during his life and the two major eruptions came after his death.

1999–2001Edit

Simmering tensions boiled over in a December 1999 incident involving LVF members and UVF Mid-Ulster brigadier Richard Jameson and his men at the Portadown F.C. social club in which the LVF supporters were severely beaten. The LVF members swore revenge and on 10 January 2000 they took it by shooting Jameson dead on the outskirts of Portadown.[15] The UVF retaliated by killing two Protestant teenagers suspected of LVF membership and involvement in Jameson’s death. As it turned out, the victims, Andrew Robb and David McIlwaine, were not part of any loyalist paramilitary organisation. The UDA’s Johnny Adair supported the LVF and used the feud to stoke up the troubles that eventually flared in his feud with the UVF later that year.[16] Meanwhile, the UVF attempted to kill the hitman responsible for Jameson, unsuccessfully, before the LVF struck again on 26 May, killing PUP man Martin Taylor in Ballysillan.[17] The LVF then linked up with Johnny Adair’s C Company for a time as their feud with the UVF took centre stage.

However, the UVF saw fit to continue the battle in 2001, using its satellite group the Red Hand Commando to kill two of the LVF’s leading figures, Adrian Porter and Stephen Warnock. Adair, however, convinced the LVF that the latter killing was the work of one of his rivals in the UDA, Jim Gray, who the LVF then unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate.[18]

2005Edit

In July 2005 the feud came to a conclusion as the UVF made a final move against its rival organisation. The resulting activity led to the deaths of at least four people, all associated with the LVF. As a result of these attacks on 30 October 2005 the LVF announced that its units had been ordered to cease their activity and that it was disbanding.[19] In February 2006, the Independent Monitoring Commission reported that this feud had come to an end.

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We’re all good bro :kissing_heart:

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The funeral to be strictly in adherence with pandemic health restrictions and social distancing guidelines.

The family of the late John Hume have asked that people who cannot attend the funeral due to social distancing guidelines to take part in a “celebration of light for peace” to honour his memory.

The family have said they are “very grateful” to the public for the reaction to the news of Mr Hume’s death yesterday.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner died aged 83.

Father Paul Farren, Administrator of the Cathedral of Saint Eugene in Derry outlined the family’s wishes.

"The family are anxious that a public gathering for John`s funeral might inadvertently put someone’s health at risk in the context of the current Covid-19 pandemic, and are asking that people express their grief by staying at home and joining with the Hume family in a ‘celebration of light for peace,’” he said.

“Instead of lining roads and streets to show respect to John, it is the wish of the Hume family that we remain at home and, at 9pm, light a candle and join with the family to pray the Prayer for Peace of Saint Francis of Assisi in the presence of John`s body in the Cathedral," Fr Farren added.

"This ‘celebration of light for peace’ is a fitting tribute to a much loved and distinguished Irishman.”

Mr Hume’s coffin will leave Moville across the border at 7.30pm on Tuesday and is expected to arrive at the cathedral at around 8.30pm.

His family added: “We know that he would have prioritised public health and the safety and health of our communities. We’re asking people to follow that guidance – please do not put yourself or others at risk. Instead, we would ask that people light a candle for peace at 9pm in their homes or at their door.”

Mr Hume, a former MP, Stormont Assembly member and MEP, was a founding member of the party he went on to lead for 22 years.

He was a key figure in the civil rights campaigns of the late 1960s and also played a leading role in the formation of the credit union movement.

Throughout his political career he remained steadfast in his commitment to non-violence.

His participation in secret talks with then Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams in the late 1980s and early 1990s was a key catalyst for the nascent peace process.

The SDLP leader faced intense criticism, including some from within his own party, when his dialogue with Mr Adams became public in 1993.

Despite threats to his life, he persisted with his efforts to engage with the republican movement and to convince the IRA to end its campaign of violence.

Mr Hume, as well as David Trimble of the UUP, were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the peace process in the North.

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Good to know.
Thanks

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Hume, Hunger Strike

John Hume on a two day hunger strike outside of Westminster with Bernadette Devlin MP, Paddy O’Hanlon and Austin Currie in 1971 protesting against the introduction of internment.

Hume, Magilligan

John Hume at the anti internment rally at Magilligan in January 1972 at which he was the keynote speaker.

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The Dunph had Eamonn McCann on for a half an hour today about John Hume.

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McCann is a great orator

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ben cross has gone though the great finishing in the sky, whether or not it was to a vangelis soundtrack remains to be seen

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https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2020/0822/1160651-red-hot-chili-peppers/

R.I.P. Jack Sherman

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Chadwick Boseman

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He’d cancer for the last 4 years apparently and filmed black panther etc while getting treatment and never announced it to the World. May he RIP

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Jesus, that’s rough

  1. 43!

That’s insane. He played Thurgood Marshall Jackie Robinson, James Brown and the Black Panther. Some iconic roles.

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Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman dies aged 43 https://jrnl.ie/5189744

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Very sad. Get On Up is a patchy enough movie but his turn as Brown is tremendous.

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