Two excellent documentaries from TG4. One of the foremost nationalist political figures of the Troubles Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey.
Bernadette
And from the series Mna an IRA, SF executive member and former IRA activist Martina Anderson discusses her life in the IRA.
Martina Anderson
Pat Rabbitte: "The Government don't have a plan. We don't know what we're doing"...vote NO
Lucinda Creighton could learn a thing or two.
Was Bernadette in SF?
No, she was briefly in the IRSP but left after a disagreement with Seamus CostelloOriginally Posted by Con Gallagher
It has been a rough period for a lot of people. No doubt the usual middle class Fine Gael yahoos will be on soon to talk about terrorists etc. (whilst at the same time applauding uprisings in the middle east).
The fact is that 40 years ago Ireland was a different country. The mindset and the trials of those days simply can't be understood by the likes of Lucinda.
I saw that young McGlinchey is calling for an investigation into his mother's murder years ago in front of him when he was a child. His other brother witnessed his father's killing, and his sister died when she was a year and a half old from menningitis. Frankly, that is more grief than a family, or indeed a person, can bear.
No doubt, some will blame all this on republicans. It wasn't republicans who partitioned the country, denied votes to catholics, batoned civil rights marchers off the streets or discrimininated in terms of jobs or housing.
But...we are at peace now. I am thankful for that, but I am long in the tooth enough to know that it may well kick off again, most likely because of overconfidence on behalf of those who don't understand the issues in the first place.
D
op never said she was
"If we VOTE YES there will be no more austere budgets. Fact " Hammer, mayday 12'
The unionists or the Tory's would be more to a FGer's beliefs.
Leinster European champions 2012. Roll on Lansdowne Road 2013 for the three in a row !!!!!!
Great ladies. Fair play to Martina for getting elected and continuing to work for her people.
Its very easy to see why Bernadette Devlin and Martina Anderson got involved in the various campaigns.
Devlin started off well but she eventually lost her way completely and allowed herself to be roped in with the gangster IRSP/INLA
Anyone who called Dominic McGlinchey "the finest republican of them all" is not acceptingthe reality of that sectarian murderers acts.
Anderson is just one of Adams gang who are keeping the DUP in power indefinetely
The other way around surely, Lucinda knows what it takes to get elected in this country. Devlin tried and failed to get elected on two occasions
The Mahon Tribunal found Olivia Mitchell to have received an inappropriate payment from Frank Dunlop at the time of the 1992 Election. F.G. Gael has taken no action against her.
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