I’ve heard some nonsense around the topic chatted on barstools. There’s a generation of children growing up in NI now, from both sides who are completely puzzled as to the logic of why both sides never got on.
That ignorance is the gold. That is where the winning lies.
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Ah here. Shur portadown is the perfect place for racism, hate and division
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Attended this today in Dungarvan
Hunger strike memorial
Very emotional speech by Kevin Lynchs brother
Great attendance including a colour party
And pipers
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Kevin Lynch stood in the 1981 General Election in the Waterford constituency. He polled very well but didn’t get elected. However his transfers ensured that Paddy Gallagher of SFWP got elected.
Six years previously there had been an assassination attempt on Seamus Costello of the IRSP in Lismore Park about 100 yards from Paddy Gallaghers house.
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Pet Rabbitte was implicated in latter event one time
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Never heard that. I was living in Lismore Lawn at the time and was awoken by the sound of the shots.
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I was there at Kevin Lynchs house in Dungiven when he was brought home !
Sad sight,
My ex was a family friend and a member of the RAC at the time,
We were actually way otw home from long kesh visit( (H blocks) with my bro in law,
Vv sad times in the 6 counties then
Not sure if it was the same man but I met a brother of Kevin Lynch’s in the UK at a Celtic supporters do and he was a complete gent. Living in Bedford if I recall correctly
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That’s one of them speaking
AGS the cunts had a drone hovering 10 / 15 ft above
No savvy whatsoever
From Gript.ie……
The planned upgrade to the A5 motorway has been thwarted. It had been in the works since 2007 and was set to cost £1.7 billion . That’s 18 long years: and in that time 57 people have been killed on the main Dublin to Derry route. But this week, a Belfast High Court judge ruled that the upgrade could not go ahead because of climate action concerns.
> Speaking in Court today, Mr Justice McAlinden said the road project would not be proceeding because the plans did not comply with climate change targets agreed by Stormont – with the judge saying that there was an “inadequacy of information” from the Department for Infrastructure’s plans.
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> Mr Justice McAlinden said that the road scheme had not been mentioned in Stormont’s draft Climate Action Plan, which was published just last week. Quashing the ministerial decision to go ahead with the project, he said that it breached section 52 of the Climate Change Act as well as Article 8 human rights issues identified by the Planning Appeals Commission (PAC).
Further, RTÉ reported that the judge said “that Northern Ireland might already experience difficulty staying within its first carbon budget, which had just been set in the plan.”
> He said the environmental impact of the new road had not been properly assessed or scrutinised. “There was an inadequacy of information for the purpose of lawful decision making and therefore this is yet another reason based in public law for concluding that the decision made in this case cannot stand.”
It was likely that the families of those who had already been killed on the 94km stretch of treacherous road took cold comfort from the judge’s acknowledgement that his decision “will bring significant, fresh anguish to the doors of those who have been injured and maimed and those who have lost loved ones as a result of road traffic accidents on the existing A5 road”.
In fact, Justice McAlinden also recognised that ‘one of the primary justifications for the construction of the new road was that it would be “much safer” than the existing road, and that over time, “many lives will be saved and many serious injuries prevented and many families will be spared the utter heartbreak of the sudden and shocking loss of a loved one”.’ In addition, he said that delay in the road upgrade will lead to further deaths.
> “It is likely that delays in the progression of this scheme will coincide with the occurrence of further loss of life and serious injury on the existing road,” the judge said. However, he added that the decision to proceed with the scheme “must be taken in accordance with the law and the principle of the rule of law cannot be subverted, even if the motivation for doing so is to achieve what is deemed to constitute a clear societal benefit.”
That’s pretty extraordinary isn’t it? Even when a judge recognises that delays to upgrading a “killer road” will end up in further deaths of innocent people, climate targets are more important.
Nothing, it seems, even saving lives in the immediate future, trumps the unachievable and mostly hysterical climate goals that almost every politician on this island cleaves to as sacred gospel while China is merrily burning coal and laughing at our folly. The people of Tyrone and Derry can just losing loved ones on this killer road then, and to heck with the actual human cost.
It’s worth pointing out that the judge cannot be faulted for ruling according to the law. And its also worth pointing out that the Climate Change Act was enthusiastically supported by Sinn Féin, the SDLP, the Alliance Party, and People Before Profit in addition to the Greens. Even the DUP eventually got on board after its proposal to set less challenging targets was obviously not going to pass muster and so the legally binding target and the pretence that net-zero emissions by 2050 became law, and now the A5 will be delayed again and people will die.
It might not be what any political party wants on its manifesto – Vote for Us and We’ll Keep the Killer Roads – but its the cold, hard reality, isn’t it, of making climate the consideration that rules all else. Given that Germany’s headlong, insistence embrace of green energy is effectively de-industrialising the manufacturing heart of Europe, it seems that these are goals that will be pursued at all cost.
You couldn’t make this shit up. “Climate targets” more important than saving lives on a death trap of a road. A fucking disgrace.
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Good volunteer dead
Cancers a bastard
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0709/1522628-bonfire-tyrone/
Is it a currach?
makes a change from Catholics