blanch152 wrote: » PIRA has not been disbanded, it has just ceased terrorist activity. The central leadership structures remain in place and the localised groups have evolved into criminal gangs, maintaining the same level of criminality.
jm08 wrote: » Link please.
jh79 wrote: » *Janice Boylan is 1st cousin to Cancer.
jm08 wrote: » And how is Sinn Fein benefitting from this new arrangement? Are they filling Sinn Fein coffers, or are they just ordinary crims spending their money on fast cars and cocaine?
jm08 wrote: » You can't choose your relatives. And its pretty **** of you to broadcast that she is related to Kinahan which could make her a target from other gangs. She is an elected Councillor and you should show some respect for that fact.
jm08 wrote: » I find it hard to actually follow what gangster is actually saying. Would I be right in interpreting that some Provos/former Provos have got a taste for the high life and the diesel laundering isn't keeping them in the style (18 year olds* owning their own house and driving BMWers) and are now interested into getting into the drugs game? *PIRA was disbanded when by the time they were born!
IAMAMORON wrote: » Are you a Sinn Féin supporter?
jm08 wrote: » No. I'm a floating voter. Sinn Fein got a second preference vote from me in the last election. First time I have ever voted for them.
blanch152 wrote: » There is a lot of that around. Francie only voted for them for the first time in the last election too. I think Bowie was as well another first-time voter.
jh79 wrote: » The allegation by the Hutch side is that MTK are allowed operate up North now because they donate to the cause with abolishing the Special Criminal Court being beneficial to both groups.
However, as McDonald noted in Tuesday’s debate, the 2020 manifesto does not call for the court to be wound up. She said: I accept that we need mechanisms and special powers. What we have been calling for for the last four years is for a review led by a High Court judge to ensure that the courts, the gardaí the DPP’s office have the full resources that they need to keep people safe. The Sinn Féin leader went further on Virgin Media News last night, saying she does not want the court abolished.
Commenting on the court in November 2018, the UN’s counter-terrorism expert, professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, said: The island of Ireland, more so than many parts of the world, has experienced emergency law, emergency practice and the seepage of the exceptional into the ordinary in ways that has not served the rule of law nor the protection of human rights well
Who else is against it? Several organisations including the United Nations, Amnesty and the Irish Council on Civil Liberties (ICCL) have long-standing opposition to the court. The UN first said it was “not justified” in 1993 and it has repeated that stance several times in the decades since.
jh79 wrote: » The 18 year old parents were / are in the IRA. Unfortunately the apple doesn't fall far from the tree and they are continuing the family tradition of criminality. Basically, they have the IRA's blessing to operate up North now since Jock was killed. In return Brady's lot had witnesses intimidated by MTK aligned Dublin gangsters.
dundalkfc10 wrote: » That's some allegation with no proof at all Taking criminals word on things now are we?
jh79 wrote: » Also, it was the Hutch account on Twitter that highlighted these links to SF. The gangs already know who she is.
jm08 wrote: » Why does the IRA's blessing matter. Have they got the PSNI's blessing as well? Basically, these are just criminals.
IAMAMORON wrote: » Would you support them if you knew that they supported heroin dealers?
jh79 wrote: » They are all criminals and lets face it a drug dealer is gonna be more afraid of the likes of Jock and Storey than the PSNI.
jm08 wrote: » And that must be very scary for her as she would obviously be a target. Fair play to her for trying to make a positive contribution to her local community despite who she is related to and could have gone down the crime route. She deserves our admiration for her bravery to stick her head above the parapet. Whats wrong with you that you can't see that?
jm08 wrote: » What, they are afraid of a dead man? |From what I have seen about those gangs are that they are a vicious lot and afraid of no one.
JohnnyFlash wrote: » Is she a sister of Lynn Boylan - SF senator and wife of Eoin ‘Harry Potter’ O’Broin?
jm08 wrote: » But they don't, do they?
jh79 wrote: » The problem here is that MTK have gotten the VIP treatment up North while MLD is saying the same people are the scourge of inner city communities down South.
Obviously it could be pure coincidence but since the Hutches made these claims on Twitter the Finucances have gone on to represent two MTK aligned people one being the leader of the Crumlin side of the Crumlin / Drimnagh feud in which 25 were killed. And MTK gang members have been arrested for witness intimidation in the Brady trial, a man who happens to be part of a criminal gang consisting of well known Republicans.
IAMAMORON wrote: » Do you think the Kinahan Cartel are heroin dealers?
jm08 wrote: » Yes. I don't see the connection to Sinn Fein or Finucane.
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