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Gerry Conlon has died

  • 21-06-2014 11:57AM
    #1
    Tipsy McSwagger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,072 ✭✭✭


    http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0621/625499-gerry-conlon/

    Gerry Conlon, the Belfast man who was wrongly jailed for an IRA bombing, has died.

    Mr Conlan, who was 60, had been ill for some time.

    He died this morning at his home off the Falls Road in west Belfast.


    The Guildford Four - Gerry Conlon, Paul Hill, Carole Richardson and Paddy Armstrong - were jailed for life in 1975 for an IRA bombing campaign that killed five people and injured 65.

    Gerry's father, Giuseppe, was jailed later that year. He had one lung, and emphysema and had just undergone chemotherapy. He died in prison five years later.

    The Guildford Four were freed in 1989.

    Finally, 16 years after their release, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair apologised for the miscarriage of justice.



    RIP


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  • #2
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    R.I.P.

    Poor Gerry never really settled after 15 years of his life were stolen from him.


  • #3
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    R.I.P.


  • #4
    Fiolina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 623 ✭✭✭Fiolina


    A brave man who kept fighting for the injustices of others. Rest in Peace Gerry.


  • #5
    on the river
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,528 ✭✭✭on the river


    Gone but not forgotten. Rest in peace jerry conlon


  • #6
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Very sad life story, his whole familys lives were devastated by the lies and deceit of the police.
    Shamefully no one was ever convicted for the crime of jailing the guilford 4 or maguire 7.


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  • #7
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    Shamefully no one was ever convicted for the crime of jailing the guilford 4 or maguire 7.

    And shamefully no one was ever rightly convicted for the Guildford bombing despite the admission by the IRA.


  • #8
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Robbed of some of the best years of his life by a corrupt British judiciary, police force & establishment, shower of bastards.

    May he (finally) Rest in Peace.


  • #9
    FWVT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 922 ✭✭✭FWVT


    There's no smoke without fire


  • #10
    neamhspleachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 345 ✭✭neamhspleachi


    Imithe le Dia, scíth i síocháin


  • #11
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    FWVT wrote: »
    There's no smoke without fire

    This didn't take long.

    DO NOT FEED.


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  • #12
    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭Wishiwasa Littlebitaller


    FWVT wrote: »
    There's no smoke without fire

    There was no 'smoke'.



    RIP.


  • #13
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.


  • #14
    guttenberg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 959 ✭✭✭guttenberg


    R.I.P Even after all these years, watching clips of his release still manages to give me the shivers. Can't imagine what he went through.


  • #15
    Hellrazer
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hellrazer


    FWVT wrote: »
    There's no smoke without fire

    Whats that supposed to mean.

    He was wrongly jailed for 15 years.Found innocent and apologised to by the UK government.


    End of.

    RIP Gerry.


  • #16
    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭Wishiwasa Littlebitaller


    Giuseppe Gerry is dead man..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EalRRJp9hOQ


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    FWVT wrote: »
    There's no smoke without fire

    The only smoke was the corruption and deceit of a ****e police force.


  • #18
    on the river
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,528 ✭✭✭on the river


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    **** off!

    Please show some respect for the dead man.thank you


  • #19
    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    FWVT wrote: »
    There's no smoke without fire

    A comenta, inventa ( Spanish Proverb )


  • #20
    egghead.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭egghead.


    Lapin wrote: »
    And shamefully no one was ever rightly convicted for the Guildford bombing despite the admission by the IRA.

    Is this thread about ira atrocities?

    Never pass up the opportunity.


  • #21
    Paulzx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭Paulzx


    FWVT wrote: »
    There's no smoke without fire


    There wasn't even any fire.......................end arguement


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  • #22
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    RIP.


  • #23
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Don't feed the troll. Report post and ignore.


  • #24
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,440 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    FWVT wrote: »
    There's no smoke without fire

    Don't post in this thread again.


  • #25
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    RIP


  • #26
    pO1Neil
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 354 ✭✭pO1Neil


    So sad he was such a nice guy & didn't seem bitter at all to me which is pretty amazing considering what happened to him & his father.

    Seriously the people who prosecuted the Guildford four & Maguire seven must have been on cloud cuckoo land. "Evill Aunt Annie makes bombs in her bomb factory all day long with her children one of whom is a 13yr old kid" Unbelievably fu*ked up.


  • #27
    pO1Neil
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 354 ✭✭pO1Neil


    Lapin wrote: »
    And shamefully no one was ever rightly convicted for the Guildford bombing despite the admission by the IRA.

    The Balcombe Street gang admitted it was the first bombing they did.


  • #28
    gold_bricker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 14 ✭gold_bricker


    FWVT wrote: »
    There's no smoke without fire

    we have an intellectual giant among us


  • #29
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,421 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    El Guapo! wrote: »
    Don't post in this thread again.

    Is the guy not entitled to an opinion misguided or not.The place is full of different viewpoints.


  • #30
    gold_bricker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 14 ✭gold_bricker


    Deleted User wrote: »
    The only smoke was the corruption and deceit of a ****e police force.

    true but lets not pretend that our own police force don,t ( at times ) stand back while innocent people are convicted of crimes


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  • #31
    Merkin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Merkin


    Poor man, he's with Giuseppe now.

    In the Name of the Father is such a moving film, never fails to make me shed a tear.


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