Comments on The Pensive Quill: No Sundays

Tomás, I think you are right. He will refuse to st...

2010-01-01T19:08:31.843Z

Tomás, I think you are right. He will refuse to stand down. The party lacks all moral courage. Its silence has been disgraceful. Trust me, if he rather than Liam were the rapist the party would carry on regardless, spluttering and muttering about the need to maintain the peace process. It has abandoned everything else so why would it stop at abandoning children? If the leadership was to initiate an anti-Gay policy or promote racism the party would still say nothing.

The media have displayed enormous failings. Irish Times, the paper of record, has been appalling.

None of that means he will stay on forever as he clearly wishes to do. Credibility slipping by the month, an almost universal belief that he would do anything to anybody to secure and retain power, an equally pervasive conviction that he cannot be believed on anything - all things that militate against any real progress for the party while he leads it. The problem for him is that the party functionaries will sense that a different goose will be needed if golden eggs are to continue to be laid, and that the electorate might just punish the party for the sins of the leader.

Ultimately, he would prefer the party to go down in ignominy rather than loosen his grip and let it breathe. But he might not just have it all is own way.

I genuinely believe that Adams will refuse to stan...

2010-01-01T13:29:55.168Z

I genuinely believe that Adams will refuse to stand down as party leader in the wake of this. Nor do I believe that there will be sufficient pressure from within PSF to force him to do so. This paints a vivid picture of the Sinn Fein party morality.

Around a year ago an ex-prisoner told me about Liam having raped Aine and being shifted about by Gerry. I was a bit cynical about his story (given all the bad feeling that floats amongst ex-prisoners about the results of the conflict) yet it turned out to be accurate information. Which for me indicates that this affair was fairly well known, amongst Republicans in Belfast at least, so why this 'circling of the wagons' by the faithful?

Where is the moral line that cannot be crossed? If being found guilty of concealing a child rapist is not enough to be publicly castigated by your party then what is?

Adh mor ortsa mackers keep up writing good stuff

2009-12-31T13:19:24.796Z

Adh mor ortsa mackers keep up writing good stuff

AM, Suzanne Breen, Liam Clarke, Malachi O'Dohe...

2009-12-31T05:11:26.921Z

AM, Suzanne Breen, Liam Clarke, Malachi O'Doherty (via FB he set up a fine comment thread a week ago) and all who continue to press this case forward: courage. So, keep up the struggle against Adams towards justice for Áine now: 'dá bhrí sin, lean oraibh an dúshlán Adams a thabhairt chuig ceart ar son Áine anois'.

The H-Blocks were an education and a safe and admi...

2009-12-30T23:44:47.260Z

The H-Blocks were an education and a safe and admirable environment that was created by the heroism and courage of the blanket men+ mixed wing veterans who forced the pace on segregation. The smallest and weakest and even the ocassionally obnoxious were all safe and protected there. But the education 'rangs' were designed to create plastic yes-men and unquestioning door mats, not revolutionaries or dedicated activists. That and the 1987 declaration of an unwinable war by SF were the tell tale signs for those politically aware enough to read them. Gibneys speach at Bodenstown in 1992 [the we're ready to act imaginatively speech] was the end-game.
I'm just glad Adams+co. havent got away with the great deception and my grandkids will NOT be reading of him as some O'Connel figure. But hopefully as the rat and long term facilitator of the Unionist/British agenda and Ego tripper that he is. Very subtle and well worked.
If there's anyone still out there then hopefully when the humiliation that deserves to come from all this is over, it will be the Irish who will bring final closure to the sorry mess.

apart from everything else that has been said ,Ada...

2009-12-30T23:15:06.066Z

apart from everything else that has been said ,Adams held secret talks with Hume ,and we know the outcome of that,now today we learn that Hume wanted to reintroduce internment,surely that in itself speaks volumes about Adams leadership. Marty f

I said this before but it still makes me giggle, ...

2009-12-30T22:09:07.997Z

I said this before but it still makes me giggle, disney are gonna do a follow up on the lion king, and this time Gerry and Martin, Connor and the gang are to star in it, yip true I tell ya ,its called the LYING BASTARDS. Marty f

Its all a bit much to take in but to most reasonab...

2009-12-30T19:42:05.647Z

Its all a bit much to take in but to most reasonable people the type of lies that Gerry is now telling us even we find it hard to cope with , in his defence his brother Liam has never been found guilty of any crime of a sexual nature and herein is another problem, according to the real victim Aine she reported the crime to the then RUC so what has happened to that knowledge, its seems that Gerry Adams has told so many lies over this past 40years he now has no idea when he says something whether its truth or lies, my heart goes out for Aine maybe the party faithful will for once take of the blinkers and do the right thing.

Dear Gerry i know you look at this site,or at leas...

2009-12-30T17:32:42.294Z

Dear Gerry
i know you look at this site,or at least some of your brown nose gfa enforcers do on your behalf so i would like to say to you as a member of the public FUCKING RESIGN now you horrible lying bastard

As a matter of interest I wonder what Conor Murphy...

2009-12-30T15:59:38.913Z

As a matter of interest I wonder what Conor Murphy is thinking, not to mention his friends and backers where he's from. Be great if some seasoned REPUBLICAN veterans turned up at Stormont in the public gallery to eyeball those gobshites in the present climate.

No need to stoop to diplock court level here. Evid...

2009-12-30T11:08:16.670Z

No need to stoop to diplock court level here. Evidence as blinding as it's depressing. What's even more depressing is the security questions left hanging in the Tribune articles about the Adams brothers. But sure if they'd ended up in S Armagh in times gone by to be 'interogated' Scapatichi would have been waiting for them lol aye and Donaldson and Mc Guinness pulling strings too on their behalf.
Like I said previously..soap opera never had this quality material. One comentator on the Tribune articles floated the idea..'The biggest ever counter subversive operation in history' I contend the GFA to be its manifestation.
I'll be buying your book in a fortnight Mackers before the revised edition comes out lol.

excuse me again Anthony,I was just thinking(a rare...

2009-12-30T10:28:01.618Z

excuse me again Anthony,I was just thinking(a rare event) the reason that Gerry Adams might want to hang on tn his position of S/F president,is that old rep saying i.e. be carefull of who you step upon on the way up, you will have to meet them on they way down again, and I dont think Gerry would like that Marty.f

Hey Anthony do you think all this will affect the...

2009-12-30T10:18:49.440Z

Hey Anthony do you think all this will affect the big lads ambition of becoming Mary Mc,s successor,I mean if he jacks in the s/f president for life job then the only way is up baby CUCKOO CUCKOO Marty f

Gerry Adams has never responded positively to a ch...

2009-12-30T10:05:28.940Z

Gerry Adams has never responded positively to a child protection query or approach.

It is interesting the way Patricia Lewsley, NIHRC, C. Ruane & etc. are being a bit shy of asking Al Hutchinson to review the PSNI's vetting record.

( our fake vetting system)

Of course why bother? Al is from Canada, they don't do child protection there. It is likely he doesn't have the toolkit of precedence to get his head around the issue.

Now if Gerry had been a bishop...