Defamation Cases - does the jury decide the amount of award, or is it the judge?

Thanks to the BBC he has another 100,000 to replenish those pockets.

I’ve no interest in speculation. For every theory you can find an opposite one.

I don’t have any answers to those questions. Nobody does. Plenty of theories and scant proof. Which explains why he hasn’t been found guilty.
I struggle, like many, to care whether he was in the IRA or not. It isn’t going to undo the conflict/war tragedy.

I want what many want, a full truth recovery process where ALL combatants are open and transparent about what was done. One-sided truth recovery is pointless .

It's Ian Phoenix. There was only one Chinook, and it crashed on its outward journey. Mistakes like these do your credibility no favours.

Files in Dublin Castle?. What year/period/century are you 'researching' again?

How many tours have you done (apart from the Peace Walls one, obviously)?

I'm not a fan of Jarry, but I dislike bullshit.

I now realise that both you and Supa, while passionate about your opinion are rather under-researched and kneejerky as a result. You can have a jury in a NI case if the court so decides. It's there in the legislation you quoted but clearly didn't read.

Because it was possible to have a jury in NI, I included it. Hence the perfectly factual option I offered you - 'jury/judge', the stroke meaning 'or'.

When you get your head around actual facts and stop distracting yourself thinking about your next edgy insult, get back to me.

Seems Jean McConville's daughter thinks the judicial system and her chance's are the same in NI as in Dublin. You clearly disagree with this as you have stated that Dublin juries are the most pliable - yes?

Well I am trying to remember from over 30 years ago. Guess I am going to have to dig out the books on "Phoenix Policing the Shadows" Jack Holland & Susan Phoenix.

You do know that if you believe what you read in certain types of books that you are typically the one who is having their strings pulled?

You obviously know next to nothing about the Arms Crisis.

It's Colonel Michael Hefferon, not 'Col James Heffernon'.

Captain James Kelly was not AWOL (a ludicrous thing to claim!). He reported to his superior (Hefferon) and to the Minister of Defence (Jim Gibbons), both of whom were aware of his activities and approved of them.

And who the hell is Colonel Pat Collins, never mind the Col O'Connell you mistook for this Col Collins?

Between this, the Chinook crash, and the files in Dublin Castle, I'm afraid your credibility is low.

You just said now Col Pat Collins was who you meant when you said 'Col O'Connell first.

Now Pat Collins has morphed into Tim Collins? I can't keep up, and itr seems neither can you.

I have no intention of trying to educate you further on the Arms Crisis. There are a number of good books on the subject. It seems you haven't even read the Wikipedia article, which would have given you a modicum of knowledge on the subject.

Capt Kelly resigned by the way.

Icing on the cake- Gerry Adams was never First Minister...