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77 year old man arrested in connection with mcconville murder

  • 18-03-2014 04:05PM
    #1
    cruais
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭


    Just proves you are never too old to escape justice.

    Www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/psni-police-arrest-elderly-man-in-mcconville-murder-case-625370.html

    *not too sure why link isnt working.


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  • #2
    sillyoulfool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 587 ✭✭✭sillyoulfool


    cruais wrote: »
    Just proves you are never too old to escape justice.

    Www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/psni-police-arrest-elderly-man-in-mcconville-murder-case-625370.html

    *not too sure why link isnt working.

    Jesús, I didn't realise Gerry Adams was that age!


  • #3
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    He probably has a letter anyway, all the oul hands seem to have them.


  • #4
    Red Kev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    I can only hope that he sings like a canary and has a few more of the guilty ones convicted.

    Over 3,000 murders and with all respect to the others it still goes down as one of the more horrific acts of savagery that happened during the conflict.


  • #5
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    cruais wrote: »
    Just proves you are never too old to escape justice.

    Www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/psni-police-arrest-elderly-man-in-mcconville-murder-case-625370.html

    *not too sure why link isnt working.

    Personally, I'd wait until they've been found guilty /charged. Jumping the gun?


  • #6
    celticcrash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 851 ✭✭✭celticcrash


    sillyoulfool wrote: »
    Jesús, I didn't realise Gerry Adams was that age!

    Are you Enda Kenny?


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  • #7
    131spanner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭131spanner


    Whether the man played a part in it or not, hopefully the arrest is the first step towards finding the answers that the family have had to wait 40 years for.


  • #8
    urabell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭urabell


    If she was a single man passing information on about the IRA then nobody would care

    /unpopularopinion


  • #9
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    urabell wrote: »
    If she was a single man passing information on about the IRA then nobody would care

    /unpopularopinion

    Those of us that despise the IRA and their political wing would care.


  • #10
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    will he have immunity from actual prosecution?


  • #11
    Fred Swanson
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    This post has been deleted.


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  • #12
    keeponhurling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,267 ✭✭✭keeponhurling


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    will he have immunity from actual prosecution?

    I would assume so as it was provo authorised, and they have complied with the good friday agreement?
    not entirely sure though.


  • #13
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    urabell wrote: »
    If she was a single man passing information on about the IRA then nobody would care

    /unpopularopinion
    "Nobody" would care? Speak for yourself.


  • #14
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Probably hoping that busting the monkey takes attention from the organ grinder.


  • #15
    urabell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭urabell


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    "Nobody" would care? Speak for yourself.

    It just absolutely would not be given the same level of public attention and coverage in the media 40 years later


  • #16
    maguic24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭maguic24


    cruais wrote: »
    Just proves you are never too old to escape justice.

    Www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/psni-police-arrest-elderly-man-in-mcconville-murder-case-625370.html

    *not too sure why link isnt working.

    Justice in Ireland, any more jokes?


  • #17
    cruais
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭cruais


    maguic24 wrote: »
    Justice in Ireland, any more jokes?

    I wont be giving up my day job anytime soon ;)


  • #18
    goose2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    urabell wrote: »
    If she was a single man passing information on about the IRA then nobody would care

    /unpopularopinion

    she wasn't passing on information.

    However, it's a bit hypocritical all this outrage considering that in a few weeks we'll be honouring the brave Volunteers of 1916-22, who were certainly not averse to shooting anyone on the slightest suspicion that they were passing on information to the British. How many other Jean McConvilles were there in the good old days?


  • #19
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    goose2005 wrote: »
    she wasn't passing on information.

    How do you know? Be specific.
    However, it's a bit hypocritical all this outrage considering that in a few weeks we'll be honouring the brave Volunteers of 1916-22, who were certainly not averse to shooting anyone on the slightest suspicion that they were passing on information to the British.

    What's hypocritical is the condemning of the Volunteers while ignoring the inherent violence of the British Empire.


  • #20
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    No chance of a conviction in my opinion.
    There is no forensic evidence linking him to the crime and I reckon he was arrested on the foot of some info passed to police by an unofficial source.
    That or some 40 year old circumstantial evidence.
    If the old codger does not confess there will not be enough to try him, never mind convict him.


  • #21
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    urabell wrote: »
    It just absolutely would not be given the same level of public attention and coverage in the media 40 years later
    And that's your main gripe. Stay classeh.

    If she was a widowed father who then left behind orphaned kids there would be the same attention and coverage.


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  • #22
    newbie2013
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭newbie2013


    Who honestly gives a ****! I know I don't. First of all, she was a tout in one of the worst periods in our countries history. Secondly, it was a long long time ago and the book on that case should be closed! This murder is just getting used for political gain all these years after it, even Stevie wonder could see this. Wake up and put the past behind us because it's the only way this country can move forward IMO


  • #23
    newbie2013
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭newbie2013


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    And that's your main gripe. Stay classeh.

    If she was a widowed father who then left behind orphaned kids there would be the same attention and coverage.

    NO CHANCE!


  • #24
    Joan Burtons Sexy Knickers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25 ✭Joan Burtons Sexy Knickers


    Didn't take the 'RA supporters long to come out from under their rocks to defend the indefensible.


  • #25
    mrsbyrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,228 ✭✭✭mrsbyrne


    newbie2013 wrote: »
    Who honestly gives a ****! I know I don't. First of all, she was a tout in one of the worst periods in our countries history. Secondly, it was a long long time ago and the book on that case should be closed! This murder is just getting used for political gain all these years after it, even Stevie wonder could see this. Wake up and put the past behind us because it's the only way this country can move forward IMO

    Nuala O'Loan says she wasn't a tout.
    I'd like to see you say that to Mrs McConvilles 9 surviving children.


  • #26
    jane82
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,590 ✭✭✭jane82


    If this chap is the ira man people seem to believe he will sit staring at the wall until they have to let him go.
    Unless he confesses he walks.
    I highly doubt any justice will be done here as much as it saddens me to say so.
    For all we know he was seen in the vicinity by some other 77 year old.


  • #27
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    No chance of a conviction in my opinion.
    There is no forensic evidence linking him to the crime and I reckon he was arrested on the foot of some info passed to police by an unofficial source.
    That or some 40 year old circumstantial evidence.
    If the old codger does not confess there will not be enough to try him, never mind convict him.

    who wants a conviction? its coming up to election time, so the jean mcconville case needs to be trotted out again, same way the hyde park arrest fiasco was trotted out to bury the haas proposals.


  • #28
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    will he have immunity from actual prosecution?

    If he doesn't, the most he'll face is two years.


  • #29
    newbie2013
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭newbie2013


    mrsbyrne wrote: »
    Nuala O'Loan says she wasn't a tout.
    I'd like to see you say that to Mrs McConvilles 9 surviving children.

    So you tell me why she was killed then.


  • #30
    mrsbyrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,228 ✭✭✭mrsbyrne


    newbie2013 wrote: »
    So you tell me why she was killed then.

    First of all Mrs O'Loan says she was not a tout.
    http://www.policeombudsman.org/modules/investigation_reports/index.cfm/reportId/164
    And if you don't mind, I'll take her word over that of the cowardly brain dead scumbags who abducted her. Almost 20 thugs men and women,a drunken lynch mob, frothing at the mouth.
    What were they afraid of ? That the 6 year old twins would kick them in the shins?
    Mrs McConville committed the ultimate crime of being a blow in, and a Protestant blow in at that in the cesspit of gossip and idle chit chat that was Divis Flats.
    I hope she has haunted them all, in the dead of night, especially as they grow old and vulnerable, and that they close their eyes at night and see her miserable hungry frightened children's faces as they hauled their mother down the stairs.
    I hope that they and their supporters rot in hell.


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  • #31
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    newbie2013 wrote: »
    Who honestly gives a ****! I know I don't.
    To answer your question, loads of people do. And you not giving a **** doesn't change that.
    it was a long long time ago and the book on that case should be closed!... Wake up and put the past behind us because it's the only way this country can move forward IMO
    Would you say the same about Bloody Sunday? I hope not.
    newbie2013 wrote: »
    NO CHANCE!
    Why? "Because I think so" isn't an answer.


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