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Unquiet graves RTE 1 tonight.....9.30pm

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    Between this and 24 hour covid news bombardment I think it's time for a few cans and some fart porn


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,947 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Chilling stuff

    Allegations that British military intelligence were proposing through proxies to attack a catholic primary school and kill children and teachers so as to ignite a full on civil war.


  • Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Jesus

    So,much concrete evidence about.....its irrefutable now


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    Its a repeat,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭skinny90


    Suprised there is no thread on this, Did anyone watch it on RTÉ tonight?
    This had me stuck to my seat.
    For anyone who doesn’t fully understand the level of British governments and police involvement with these gang members it will be a walk up call


    If you havnt I’d recommend

    A NEW film which tells the story of the British state directed killings and its role in the murder of more than 120 civilians in counties Armagh and Tyrone will be broadcast on RTÉ One tonight.

    Unquiet Graves: The story of the Glenanne Gang, details how institutions of the British state, including British military intelligence used proxy forces like the RUC and UDR in the murder of the innocent civilians and political opponents during the conflict in the six counties.

    The main focus of the programme is the role of the British controlled and run loyalist gang and their operations in the so-called "murder triangle" area.

    The documentary claims state direction to facilitat the actions of known sectarian murderers in the killings of farmers, shopkeepers, publicans and other civilians in a campaign that was aimed at terrorising the most vulnerable in society.

    Premiered last year at the Belfast Film Festival, the film's screening tonight on RTÉ One will be the first time it is screened on a mainstream TV channel, following RTÉ's decision to pull it from a planned broadcast in July 2019.

    At the time, Seán Murray said the postponement was due to "minor broadcast issues", which led to criticism of RTÉ on social media, including from viewers whop accused the broadcaster of "censorship".


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    It should come as no surprise. Look at the murder of Patrick Finucane one of the most high profile cases. There were also strong links in the Dublin Monaghan bombings.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 116 ✭✭Solli


    The story does not end there. Drew Harris was appointed by FG as Garda Commissioner. He was also involved, see below.

    “In 2010, then Assistant Chief Constable Drew Harris wrote a letter to the legal representatives of UVF victims telling them that they would not get an investigation into the wider questions raised by the activities of the Glenanne gang. The most significant wider question was the extent of state involvement in the gang and its murderous activities, including the deaths of at least 89 people.

    In writing this letter, Drew Harris, who is now Deputy Chief Constable, was subverting a decade of assurance that the UK government had given to the Committee of Minister of the Council of Europe that investigations into state killings would be carried out independently and would examine patterns, links to reveal systematic violations by the state of the right to life enshrined in Article 2 of the European Convention of Human Rights.“

    Source
    https://www.relativesforjustice.com/drew-harris-must-resign-in-light-of-glenanne-judgment/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 860 ✭✭✭UDAWINNER


    Watched it myself, truly chilling that none of the fcuckers will ever be charged, planning to kill a load of children and they have their apologists. Another reason that rat Harris should never have been appointed to the gardai. The same rat that tried to influence the vote with BS remarks about SF.


  • Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It's a pity the UK media won't be showing this. Time was the BBC had a tiny bit of independence, ITV made proper content and proper investigatory piece but now they're just soaps and reality TV and "hard-hitting" drama while Channel 4 show people watching TV and getting diseased parts of their bodies out for the cameras.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    Surprised that there wasn't already a thread started on this documentary which was aired on RTE1 last night.

    I was already aware of the collusion that had taken place between loyalist paramilitaries, State Security forces, and the British Govt, but to watch scenes reconstructed where innocent people were shot dead simply because they were Catholic, with RUC members (the equivalent of our Gardai) not only present, but actively partaking in the murders, dressed in uniform, and driving police cars and sometimes the murderers within them - away from the scene.


    Have to admit, even though much of what took place happened before I was born (80s child) - it was still quite chilling to watch.

    Considering they (the Catholics murdered) had the British Government, top civil servants, members of the security forces including the locally recruited and seriously compromised army regiment the UDR, and the states police force, colluding with, and in many instances actually operating alongside loyalist paramilitaries, they didn't really stand a chance.

    Who else watched it, and what was your opinion?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭dundalkfc10


    McMurphy wrote: »
    Surprised that there wasn't already a thread started on this documentary which was aired on RTE1 last night.

    I was already aware of the collusion that had taken place between loyalist paramilitaries, State Security forces, and the British Govt, but to watch scenes reconstructed where innocent people were shot dead simply because they were Catholic, with RUC members (the equivalent of our Gardai) not only present, but actively partaking in the murders, dressed in uniform, and driving police cars and sometimes the murderers within them - away from the scene.


    Have to admit, even though much of what took place happened before I was born (80s child) - it was still quite chilling to watch.

    Considering they (the Catholics murdered) had the British Government, top civil servants, members of the security forces including the locally recruited and seriously compromised army regiment the UDR, and the states police force, colluding with, and in many instances actually operating alongside loyalist paramilitaries, they didn't really stand a chance.

    Who else watched it, and what was your opinion?

    Mr Drew Harris will be hiding away for a few days aswell (He needs to be gone)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 230 ✭✭bocaman


    Why are people so astonished. Everyone knew there was collusion between the RUC and various loyalist death squads. It was classic counter insurgency tactics by the British government. As stated in the documentary they used they same tactics in Africa as tehir empire collapsed post WW2.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,212 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Across social media those quick to the tweet or boards.ie moral high grounding about non state players responsibilities are curiously quiet.

    Worth reposting this.

    https://villagemagazine.ie/a-recent-bbc-spotlight-programme-reinforced-the-inconvenient-truth-that-there-was-widespread-collusion-across-the-loyalist-spectrum-from-the-dup-to-the-uvf-to-mi5/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    Mr Justice Tracey accused Drew Harris of "extreme" abuse of power in closing down the investigation into collusion. Does this ring alarm bells for people?

    https://twitter.com/CiaranShevlin/status/1306485844224684032?s=09


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,211 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    I watched parts of it ..right after finding out how much the brits are ****ing with the GFA .....

    I cried ....the kids!

    It was ....I mean there HAS to be a better way to live than this.


    It feels like we have no control ...like we are rowing as hard as we can against the tide ....but its no good.

    Like we are doing all we can WE are obeying all the rules ..trying to be diplomatic ..i mean you could say our politicians are even OVERLY politely to unionists.

    But its no good ....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 729 ✭✭✭Granadino


    Needs to be shown in England. Waste of time preaching to the converted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,211 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Granadino wrote: »
    Needs to be shown in England. Waste of time preaching to the converted.
    Yes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭tdf7187


    Credit to RTE for this. The Irish media, including RTE, usually only focus on republican 'atrocities' while pretending the other sides' never happened.

    You see the results in the West Brit tendency right here boards.ie, who would make you believe the Provos were literally worse than the Nazis.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭tdf7187


    Granadino wrote: »
    Needs to be shown in England. Waste of time preaching to the converted.

    Disagree, many Irish people are in complete ignorance, due to the 'Irish' media being for the most part - particularly but not limited to the Independent group - aggressively anti-nationalist, partitionist, and pro-Loyalist.


  • Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    In a previous job,our garda commissioner ordered all inquiries into this closed down...inspite of what seems over whelming evidence



    150 innocent people,with no paramilitary connections killed for simply being catholic.......serious qs need answering


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,174 ✭✭✭piplip87


    I've said it all along the Brits where just as bad as the IRA. Same scum different uniforms.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,748 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    bocaman wrote: »
    Why are people so astonished. Everyone knew there was collusion between the RUC and various loyalist death squads. It was classic counter insurgency tactics by the British government. As stated in the documentary they used they same tactics in Africa as tehir empire collapsed post WW2.

    nationalists in the north have been saying it for years and were being told a government wouldnt do such things.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    piplip87 wrote: »
    I've said it all along the Brits where just as bad as the IRA. Same scum different uniforms.

    'the Brits' were supposed to be the state sanctioned legal and law abiding element.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    Kylta wrote: »
    Its a repeat,

    It wasn't actually shown last year as it got pulled the day before it was meant to air.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    This is unbelievable to me really and the sore fact is the main reason the terrorist gang refuse request to do this was that they wouldn't because of fear of retaliation of the IRA. The lack of action of the Irish government is criminal.

    https://twitter.com/StevenMcD13/status/1306354438106472453?s=19


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,174 ✭✭✭piplip87


    Bowie wrote: »
    'the Brits' were supposed to be the state sanctioned legal and law abiding element.

    In the eyes of the IRA at the time they where the official army of the state founded in 1919. So same scum different uniforms..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭Sunny Disposition


    It was very good, if you look back it’s amazing how little we in the South heard about the plight of Catholics at the time. Basically the whole thing was blamed on the IRA by most of the Southern media. Now the IRA did awful things and deserved to be condemned but the North was clearly toxic when the police were planting bombs hoping to kill civilians.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,748 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    It was very good, if you look back it’s amazing how little we in the South heard about the plight of Catholics at the time. Basically the whole thing was blamed on the IRA by most of the Southern media. Now the IRA did awful things and deserved to be condemned but the North was clearly toxic when the police were planting bombs hoping to kill civilians.

    for some reason, some on this forum think its some form of competition of who was the worse. The simple point is, you cant blame a people for arming themselves and fighting back when its somewhere like the north. started with civil rights and ended up with bombing, shooting, maiming and killing. nobody wanted that, but its what happens when you try to control a part of the population because of their nationality.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭tdf7187


    It was very good, if you look back it’s amazing how little we in the South heard about the plight of Catholics at the time. Basically the whole thing was blamed on the IRA by most of the Southern media. Now the IRA did awful things and deserved to be condemned but the North was clearly toxic when the police were planting bombs hoping to kill civilians.

    We did hear about at at the time. But there has been a whitewashing of the British state's crimes in Ireland by much of the 'Irish' media over the last few decades. Look into Eoghan Harris's repression of pro-nationalist sentiment on RTE during the 1980s, for example, the broadcasting ban and so on. Credit to RTE for getting its fingers out of its you-know-where on this occasion.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 357 ✭✭Normal One


    It's quite telling that FFG have zero comment to make.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,212 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Normal One wrote: »
    It's quite telling that FFG have zero comment to make.

    If you want to know why the British got away with all they did as layers in the conflict/war you could do worse than look at the silence from the power swap parties and partitionists in general today.

    A people abandoned to their fate since partition.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,911 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    The silence in the broadcast media has been deafening or have i missed something? Been on holidays so kind of switched off :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,211 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Honestly ....the Irish state needs to come up with a plan of what it IS to do if this happens again.

    If they don't ...history will repeat and paramilitaries will take control.

    I don't mean military action because that would be ridic ...but something.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    Honestly ....the Irish state needs to come up with a plan of what it IS to do if this happens again.

    If they don't ...history will repeat and paramilitaries will take control.

    I don't mean military action because that would be ridic ...but something.

    We're primed for this to happen again. Dominic Raab proudly saying he hadn't read the GFA days ago despite it being 35 pages long. Brexit turning nastier by the day. Don't worry tho I'm sure if there's loyalist attacks in Ireland Drew Harris will get right on it.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    It was very good, if you look back it’s amazing how little we in the South heard about the plight of Catholics at the time. Basically the whole thing was blamed on the IRA by most of the Southern media. Now the IRA did awful things and deserved to be condemned but the North was clearly toxic when the police were planting bombs hoping to kill civilians.

    Maybe if you had listened to news reports and read newspapers you would have heard. I dont believe that there was one killing that was not reported. "Most of the Irish media"!
    I cant remember the media blaming the IRA for Bloody Sunday, Shankill Butchers, the Reavey and O Dowd killings. Peddling lies doesnt help the situation


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    Edgware wrote: »
    Maybe if you had listened to news reports and read newspapers you would have heard. I dont believe that there was one killing that was not reported. "Most of the Irish media"!
    I cant remember the media blaming the IRA for Bloody Sunday, Shankill Butchers, the Reavey and O Dowd killings. Peddling lies doesnt help the situation

    Was there calls for LV to come clean during the election about the Dublin and Monaghan bombings? For his Garda commissioner to give us the details of the murders?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,212 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Edgware wrote: »
    Maybe if you had listened to news reports and read newspapers you would have heard. I dont believe that there was one killing that was not reported. "Most of the Irish media"!
    I cant remember the media blaming the IRA for Bloody Sunday, Shankill Butchers, the Reavey and O Dowd killings. Peddling lies doesnt help the situation

    The media here certainly did buy into the Widgery whitewash of Bloody Sunday, which claimed that the those killed on Bloody Sunday were subversives.
    The deaths were also certainly reported but did our journalists EVER look at the wider picture?
    SF were shouting for years about collusion and dirty tricks and they were ridiculed by the media here and censored and banned from our airwaves.

    The truth is that our media was as complicit in the silence as our successive governments were.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    The media here certainly did buy into the Widgery whitewash of Bloody Sunday, which claimed that the those killed on Bloody Sunday were subversives.
    The deaths were also certainly reported but did our journalists EVER look at the wider picture?
    SF were shouting for years about collusion and dirty tricks and they were ridiculed by the media here and censored and banned from our airwaves.

    The truth is that our media was as complicit in the silence as our successive governments were.

    SF should have been given airtime to show their justification for the slaughter of youngsters on a night out in Birmingham. I doubt that even the psychopath Daithi O Conaill could justify that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    smurgen wrote: »
    Was there calls for LV to come clean during the election about the Dublin and Monaghan bombings? For his Garda commissioner to give us the details of the murders?

    DEFLECT DEFLECT INCOMING!

    You inferred that the media did not report on certain killings when if you check back the various media outlets you will find that every killing was reported as well as instances where people "disappeared" Dont deflect by hitting on the Dublin Monaghan issue


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,212 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Edgware wrote: »
    SF should have been given airtime to show their justification for the slaughter of youngsters on a night out in Birmingham. I doubt that even the psychopath Daithi O Conaill could justify that

    But Edgware, you miss the point. The British were given all the airtime they wanted to sit on the higher moral ground, point the finger and not one of our darling media or indeed our political class challenged them even though many many people were saying what was happening.

    SF could have been challenged, questioned and maligned but it was totally wrong that they were silenced (when they had an obvious democratic mandate) and it only allowed the British to act with impunity - my original point.
    Our media is sadly not independent even to this day and it has cost us dearly as an island.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    The media here certainly did buy into the Widgery whitewash of Bloody Sunday, which claimed that the those killed on Bloody Sunday were subversives.
    The deaths were also certainly reported but did our journalists EVER look at the wider picture?
    SF were shouting for years about collusion and dirty tricks and they were ridiculed by the media here and censored and banned from our airwaves.

    The truth is that our media was as complicit in the silence as our successive governments were.

    Widgery walked in to the Bloody Sunday enquiry the first day wearing his military medals.
    A number of journalists commented on it and his report was discredited immediately on issue. I cannot recall one journalist or politician in the Republic ever laying the blame at the marchers or labelling them terrorists. If you have evidence of that throw it up or else get off the pot


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    But Edgware, you miss the point. The British were given all the airtime they wanted to sit on the higher moral ground, point the finger and not one of our darling media or indeed our political class challenged them even though many many people were saying what was happening.

    SF could have been challenged, questioned and maligned but it was totally wrong that they were silenced (when they had an obvious democratic mandate) and it only allowed the British to act with impunity - my original point.
    Our media is sadly not independent even to this day and it has cost us dearly as an island.

    What democratic mandate had SF got in 1970 to 1982 ?

    Also check out the many articles published by Tim Pat Coogan (The Irish Press) John. Mulcahy (Hibernia) Nell McCafferty, Raymond Smith, Fr Denis Faul which constantly raised British excesses. What you want is a one way attack on the British/Loyalist atrocities and ignore or justify the Provo/Officials/INLA atrocities


  • Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The silence in the broadcast media has been deafening or have i missed something? Been on holidays so kind of switched off :confused:

    Its astonishing....garda commissionor helped cover up blantent murder by the RUC,an ocean of evidence available and not an iota or 2nd taught given to it by media or government here




    What other country carries on like this


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,212 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Edgware wrote: »
    Widgery walked in to the Bloody Sunday enquiry the first day wearing his military medals.
    A number of journalists commented on it and his report was discredited immediately on issue. I cannot recall one journalist or politician in the Republic ever laying the blame at the marchers or labelling them terrorists. If you have evidence of that throw it up or else get off the pot

    You are misquoting me. They bought into the Widgery report by not exposing what actually happened even though there were many saying clearly what happened.

    Read any account of the victims and the difficulty they had getting the media here to take up their case. If you had watched Unquiet Graves you would have heard the victims there saying the exact same thing about getting the Irish government and media interested in their cases.
    Like Widgery you are engaging in a defensive whitewash Edgware - no surprises there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,911 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    But Edgware, you miss the point. The British were given all the airtime they wanted to sit on the higher moral ground, point the finger and not one of our darling media or indeed our political class challenged them even though many many people were saying what was happening.

    SF could have been challenged, questioned and maligned but it was totally wrong that they were silenced (when they had an obvious democratic mandate) and it only allowed the British to act with impunity - my original point.
    Our media is sadly not independent even to this day and it has cost us dearly as an island.

    They had miniscule electoral support prior to the ban being removed so not sure what you mean by a 'mandate'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    You are misquoting me. They bought into the Widgery report by not exposing what actually happened even though there were many saying clearly what happened.

    Read any account of the victims and the difficulty they had getting the media here to take up their case. If you had watched Unquiet Graves you would have heard the victims there saying the exact same thing about getting the Irish government and media interested in their cases.
    Like Widgery you are engaging in a defensive whitewash Edgware - no surprises there.

    No. Its you that are engaging in a whitewash having already being brainwashed. Changing the argument mid stream to suit your agenda fools no one


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Its astonishing....garda commissionor helped cover up blantent murder by the RUC,an ocean of evidence available and not an iota or 2nd taught given to it by media or government here




    What other country carries on like this
    blantent?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,748 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    Edgware wrote: »
    blantent?

    another security forces apologist


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,212 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    They had miniscule electoral support prior to the ban being removed so not sure what you mean by a 'mandate'

    Minuscule is still a mandate.
    Try silencing any party on the same level of support and you will get told the same thing.

    Edgeware and yourself and anyone having doubts about the argument should ask themselves how familiar they are with the names of the victims highlighted in Unquiet Graves, then look at how familiar you are with the selected victims of the media here...the Jean McConville's, Gerry McCabe's, etc etc.
    Those names are on the tips of the tongues of a certain set and the reason they are, while others have been long ignored (until their shouts cannot be ignored any longer) says everything you need to know in fairness.


  • Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    maccored wrote: »
    another security forces apologist

    All concerned about ira killings....but anyone dare qs why garda commissioner shut down inquiries into 150 murders or point out media/government silence in face of a wave of evidence.....and your met with white noise and obstrusion




    Pure and utter joke of a country we have


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