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Thread: Spotlight: The role of the Irish state in the Troubles

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    Spotlight: The role of the Irish state in the Troubles

    Anyone watching Spotlight on BBC 1 now discussing alleged collusion between Ireland and the Provos?

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    Yes, we're currently being told that terrorists dipping in and out of different jurisdictions to evade authorities in said jurisdictions is a unikely Irish affair.
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    Cripes, a scene from the comedy film 'The Guard' is significant.
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    Quote Originally Posted by meriwether View Post
    Cripes, a scene from the comedy film 'The Guard' is significant.
    Yep they just used a movie to imply collusion, oh look it;s kevin myers
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    Watching it,but it is funny.showed a clip from The Guard
    "You think thats bad,theres one lunatic that posts on there 40-50 times a day..He's alone..in bad company!

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    Quote Originally Posted by meriwether View Post
    Cripes, a scene from the comedy film 'The Guard' is significant.
    Tragic. Journalistic standards in this programme has been truly shocking. Abysmal rubbish.

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    why did they show a clip from the guard ? totally undermines the whole point of the programme and to be honest i thought it was very short, it created more questions than answers, perhaps this was the point of it.
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    The predictable 'whataboutery' from nationalists of unionist claims
    Choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil

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    To date, the programme has presented allegations that a Garda collaborated in the murder of the RUC officers. These allegations may have evidence behind them.

    The programme then moved onto Unionist politicial allegations regarding murders in the hundreds.

    Zero evidence was oresented for these allegations. Jeffrey Donaldson repeated his allegation, and Danny Kennedy pointed out that the South Armagh IRA killed a lot of people. He made a dossier. Then he demanded an apology for Irish government collusion.

    At what point are we to be presented with the evidence the Unionist politicians have, instead of just allegations?

    Surely, if there are hundreds of suspected victims of IRA/Southern authority collusion, wecould have touched on some of them, aside from the two RUC officers, the murders of which the Irish government has already instituted an enquiry?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roaring Meg View Post
    The predictable 'whataboutery' from nationalists of unionist claims
    I'm struggling to apportion anything else to Jeffrey and Danny Kennedy.

    Why were two these people not given a platform by spotlight to present the evidence for their allegations?
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