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Imagine not finding rape fun? Astonishing.
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Surely MBB announcing that he’s a rapist is enough for banning, and maybe a call to the guard’s with his IP address.
I would really hope the admins, who i’m sure have sisters, wives, girlfriends or mothers would be horrified by this, and will act appropriately.
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Its not been a good tine of late for you on the internet. Dont for one moment believe I’m not enjoying your recent output.
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The Sinn Fein President and Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister have rejected accusations that they knew in advance about the Northern Bank robbery in 2004.
Allegations published on the Wikileaks whistle-blowing website claim former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern suspected Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness had information about the IRA raid in December 2004.
The cables state that the Irish Government had evidence that both men were members of the IRA military command and would have had a deep knowledge of its operations.
Speaking on RTÉ Radio’s Morning Ireland, Mr Adams said both he and Mr McGuinness have denied this before and they were doing so again this morning.
He said Mr Ahern made the allegation, but did not stand it up.
Mr Adams blamed Fianna Fáil’s electoral ambition for what he described as a smear.
Gerry Adams, who is due to stand in the Louth constituency in the next General Election, said he would leave it to the ‘good sense’ of the electorate to make up their minds.
Meanwhile, a cable from then US ambassador James Kenny from Dublin also reveals that British security service MI5 offered to hand over secret files on the murder of Catholic solicitor Pat Finucane who was shot by loyalist gunmen in Belfast in 1989.
The new revelations comes ahead of today’s meeting of the British-Irish Council in the Isle of Man.
There’s a British-Irish Isle of Man council :blink:
Adams straight on the offensive
“The assertion that MI5 were prepared to disclose files on Pat Finucane is a more pertinent story,” Adams told BBC Radio’s Good Morning Ulster as he dismissed separate claims in the US embassy cables about his alleged links with the IRA.
“I do not speak for the family but if there is any credibility in the report from the MI5 chiefs that they are prepared to disclose files this is proof that they have files and those files should of course be disclosed, as the family have been campaigning for a long time.”
Adams was speaking after Finucane’s supporters welcomed the revelation of the MI5 offer as “highly significant”. They believe it could help pave the way for a fresh inquiry that would be acceptable to the family.
The Adams story is hardly news. A US ambassador reveals that the Irish government suspected that Sinn Féin knew about the robbery. Sure McDowell was nearly shouting that from the rooftops at the time. Doesn’t make the story any more or less true. Bertie will be delighted to be in the news though.
None of the above are any particular surprise really.
Panorama about to do a hatchet job on Juile Assange/wikileaks by the looks of it on BBC 1 now
poor effort, a bit of hearsay and nothing more…The biggest scoop they could uncover was that Assange has a bit of a ego :rolleyes:
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What a load of shite that was.
The bit that took the biscuit was when he was talking to the Swedish lawyer on the laptop and asked him was he on the pay roll of the CIA as if he was going to say anything other than no :blink:
Poor old Julian lost his extradition case today. He’s off to Sweden once his appeal fails and then to America where he’s guaranteed a fair trial.
Confirmation at last that Mary Hanafin is an American agent. Her clandestine briefing of the CIA regarding coursing and stag hunting in this country, while accurate, was despicable. Can this Quisling be tried for treason?
[size=“5”]WikiLeaks: How the USA got access to Ireland’s secrets[/size]
By Shane Phelan, Investigative Correspondent
Tuesday May 31 2011
The United States is routinely given access to sensitive information by the highest levels of the Irish government through an extensive network of official – but highly confidential – contacts.
American officials count government ministers, senior civil servants and top diplomats among “confidential” sources, leaked US embassy cables reveal.
Their activities are disclosed in the Ireland Cables – a tranche of over 1,900 classified documents exclusively obtained by the Irish Independent from the whistleblowing organisation WikiLeaks.
Today – in the first of a series of daily extracts from the Ireland Cables – the Irish Independent takes you behind the veil of international diplomacy and into the secret world of Ireland’s foreign policy and domestic affairs.
One leaked cable reveals how former minister and current Fianna Fail vice-president Mary Hanafin briefed the American Embassy on tense ongoing coalition negotiations.
The word “PROTECT” appears beside her name in the cable, meaning her identity and/or her comments were not to be made public.
Ms Hanafin last night confirmed she gave the briefing at the behest of US Ambassador Dan Rooney.
According to the dispatch, Ms Hanafin made a number of derogatory comments about her Green Party coalition partners.
“She said she had the impression that, if some of the Greens had their way, the Programme for Government would emphasize ‘hares, stags and badgers while everyone else in the country is drowning in this economy’,” Ambassador Rooney told Washington in the cable.
Ms Hanafin refused to say last night if she stood over the remarks attributed to her. She described the meeting as “a frank update on the state of politics in the country at that time”.
Other cables reveal the ease of access the US has to the top levels of successive Irish governments – often being briefed on matters of huge public interest prior to the Opposition or the Irish people.
Much of this information was shared with US officials via high-ranking Irish civil servants and diplomats. And stringent efforts were made to keep the identities of these contacts under wraps.
The Ireland Cables, which date from 1985 to early 2010, reflect the ease of access the US had to sensitive information at the highest levels of government.
Only in tomorrow’s Irish Independent: What the US really thought of our politicians
- Shane Phelan, Investigative Correspondent
Not sure what the problem is there SS. I appreciate her contempt for the folly and lunacy that is coursing etc, while also managing to belittle the greens at the same time.
She has gone up in my estimation.
These leaks seem to be fairly lame overall. The Indo guy isn’t doing much of a job to sell them on Vinny Browne’s show tonight anyway. Even though his paper are making it out to be a week long exposé. I imagine they would have published anything truly revelatory on day 1 anyway.