Only honest actors like Iran, Russia and Hezbollah should negotiate on the one side and NATO, with its alphabet soup of intelligence agencies and their front media groups, should be got to negotiate, for their first time ever, in good faith. This.
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MAY 5th 1981 was one of the most defining days in Irish history. It was the day that Bobby Sands, the 27-year-old Member of Parliament for Fermanagh/South Tyrone, died on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh as part of the republican prisoners’ campaign for the restoration of political status.
Bobby was the first of ten hunger strikers to give their lives in 1981 in the centuries-old struggle against Britain’s attempted criminalisation of the struggle for freedom in its first and nearest colony.
He was elected on April 9th 1981 in the by-election to fill the seat held by the late Independent MP, Frank Maguire, who had died just five days after Bobby had begun his hunger strike on March 1st.
New book claims IRA ordered senior member be shot for running brothel with loyalists Agents of Influence: Britain s Secret Intelligence War Against the IRA is published by Merrion Press 13 April, 2021 01:00
Dr Aaron Edwards
THE IRA ordered that a senior member who later emerged as a suspected informer be shot for running a brothel with loyalists in the 1970s, a new book claims.
Former British soldier John Joe Magee went on to be a leading figure in the IRA s internal security unit, known as the nutting squad .
Its role was to root out and interrogate informers and agents - many of whom were later shot dead.
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