It's grim up North

Mac · January 7, 2012, 8:58pm

http://www.independe…er-2982183.html

Blunder may have led to murder bid on soldier

By Adrian Rutherford
Saturday January 07 2012
SENIOR police officers in the North are furious after a military security blunder led to a dissident republican murder bid on a British soldier.
The soldier escaped unhurt after spotting the device, which had been left by the dissident IRA group Oglaigh na hEireann, underneath the driver’s seat of his car in north Belfast.
A stolen Irish Army grenade was placed inside his car. The device was linked to a seatbelt buckle. The idea was when the soldier pulled the belt he would trigger the grenade.
It is understood he may have alerted the terror group to his whereabouts after driving around the area and telling local people that he was a soldier.
The soldier, who is in his early 20s and from Scotland, is likely to be interviewed about his personal security arrangements once he returns to his regiment. He could also face disciplinary action.
One security source said senior PSNI figures were “very concerned and unhappy” about the incident.
An MoD spokesman declined to comment, adding that security in Northern Ireland is a matter for the PSNI.
The soldier was staying with his 24-year-old girlfriend at Blackdam Court in the Ligoniel area when the device was planted inside the red Vauxhall Astra. It was discovered as the couple went to collect a two-and-a-half-year-old girl.
It is understood the soldier, who has since returned to Scotland, saw the device as he pushed the driver’s seat forward to create more room for a baby chair.

Adrian Rutherford

Two things here…do British Army personnel routinely walk around the north telling lads their in ‘the forces’? :lol:
Is there any chance the Irish Defence Forces could tighten up things, a stolen grenade ffs, would it not be a tad enbarrassing for the army if one of their grenades was used to kill people in the north and destabilise the political situation up there? Should be a full miiitary police investigation into the origin of that grenade, where it went missing and how it ended in dissident hands.

Deary me :rolleyes:

SHANNONSIDER · January 7, 2012, 9:08pm

I meant to say there, Mac. Please accept my apologies.

Rudi · January 7, 2012, 9:27pm

Mac · January 7, 2012, 9:32pm

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I meant to say there, Mac. Please accept my apologies.[/quote]

No Trinity scholar would make such an elementary error. I’m beginning to doubt your credentials.

Rudi · January 7, 2012, 9:36pm

Is Shannonsider being sarcastic in that last post or has he made matters worse?

:strokechin:

SHANNONSIDER · January 7, 2012, 9:48pm

Theirs no need for that, of course I wasn’t being sarcastic.

Rudi · January 7, 2012, 10:05pm

It’s they’re, mate.

Sidney · January 7, 2012, 10:10pm

Nicely recovered.

SHANNONSIDER · January 7, 2012, 10:19pm

Thanks there, mate.

Rudi · January 7, 2012, 10:24pm

SHANNONSIDER · January 10, 2012, 3:22pm

Teen beaten and left for dead in wheelie bin on film set

By Matthew Symington
Tuesday January 10 2012

A CATHOLIC teenager was left for dead after he was beaten by sectarian thugs as he left a film set in Belfast.
James Turley, 18, was working as an extra for the movie when he was attacked and dumped semi-conscious into a wheelie bin as he heard one of the attackers declare: “That’s enough. I think he’s dead.”
The teenager was confronted by a mob in the loyalist Village area of the city where a production team had just finished filming a scene for a movie, The Good Man, starring Love/Hate star Aidan Gillen.
Four other friends who were with him had also been taking part in the film.
A gang surrounded their car, pulling off a wing mirror and smashing a window. They then made a run for it, but James, a trainee chef from the Catholic Short Strand area on the far side of the city, was caught. At one stage he tried to hide in a nearby house, calling on the family: “Please help me. They’re going to kill me.”
James told the Irish News newspaper he could hear one of the chasing gang shouting: “There’s a Taig in there.”
He added: “They all just came in and started beating me.”
He said. "They stamped on my head and everywhere. The woman (the householder) said: ‘Get him out of my garden’ and they dragged me out into the alley.
"They just started beating me again. They put me in a bin and were pushing me somewhere. I didn’t know where I was going … when I got put in the bin I thought that was it.
“I think they realised they couldn’t beat me when I was in the bin. They kicked or pushed it over and dragged me out of it.”
The teenager said at one point he was knocked out, but “I started to come around and then I heard them saying: ‘That’s enough. I think he’s dead’.”
Later he managed to flag down a passing motorist who drove him to Royal Victoria Hospital, less than a mile away. His mother Donna, whose husband Frank was murdered in 1998, said she thought her son had been killed. She went to her son’s bedside last Friday.
She said: “It’s like deja vu. I can’t remember getting to the hospital. I just kept thinking: ‘Please, please, just let him hang on for me’.”

Matthew Symington

Thrawneen · January 10, 2012, 5:50pm

What a Good Samaritan

SHANNONSIDER · January 10, 2012, 6:07pm

Those prods are very proud of their garden gnomes and other such tat they have in their gardens.

myboyblue · January 10, 2012, 6:10pm

What with this and that gobshite farmer who objected to Rihannas baps lets hope this will be the end of the Norn Iron film industry and they come back down to the free state.

KIB_man · January 10, 2012, 10:33pm

Any chance the Nordies making a bid to wean themselves off the tit of Mother England like the Scots seem to be doing?

SHANNONSIDER · January 10, 2012, 11:22pm

The United Kingdom of Little Britain and Northern Ireland is as strong as ever. As long as they keep drawing the £8 Billion a year off Westminster is the main thing. The island as a whole must be bringing in about €40 Billion a year less than it’s spending :lol:

Rudi · January 10, 2012, 11:24pm

Why do squatty Protestant men always grow facial hair, particularly moustaches and wear loads of rings and a black leather jacket. Amazing the amount of these characters you meet when visiting loyalist strongholds, they usually wear a square pair of glasses as well.

SHANNONSIDER · January 10, 2012, 11:38pm

Well in Jonny Adair’s case it’s because he’s as bent as a penny but surely they’re not all steamers.

Rudi · January 10, 2012, 11:40pm

I should have said I was referring to the older category of Prods (40+). Everytime you visit one of Belfast’s main travel terminals, be it port or airport, it is polluted with these chaps.

SHANNONSIDER · January 10, 2012, 11:54pm

To be honest they remind me of Billy Connolly’s ‘tattoo’d fuckwit’ sketch…tatts, bulldog/alsation, shaved head, rings and earrings, shit for brains. Basically human trash.