Comments on The Pensive Quill: Death in Derry

Viritas, thank you. This was a sad case. A Boyne ...

2013-03-31T17:16:20.508+01:00

Viritas,

thank you. This was a sad case. A Boyne Rover said the woman was someone's daughter.

You will find thimgs on this site you will not like and things you will. It is the same for me. No saints here but for the most part ordinary people, neither faultless nor flawless, who try to think about things and who may often be as wrong as we are right.

And we commit the same errors that you make and get pulled up for it in turn. What you get screamed at for today I or somebody else will get it another time.

Well written, i feel its a good insight for me who...

2013-03-31T16:42:56.058+01:00

Well written, i feel its a good insight for me who knows little about you but it has blown apart my misconception of i thought you thought or may have thought if that makes sense at all.

Thanks to all for their comments on this piece

2013-03-06T08:44:44.544Z

Thanks to all for their comments on this piece

I seen this today in the Derry Journal about a death in Derry on Valentines Day 1979. The upshot is this..

The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) is examining the possibility of bringing charges against the RUC men who elicited a murder confession from four Creggan teenagers in 1979.

The confessions followed the murder of a British Soldier, 34 years ago. Twenty two year old Lt. Stephen Andrew Kirby, of the Royal Welch Fusiliers was shot through the heart on Wapping Lane on Valentine’s Day 1979, he died instantly. The Derry Four, namely Michael Toner, Stephen Crumlish, Gerard Kelly and Gerry McGowan, then all teens, were arrested and charged for his murder.

When they refused to accept a plea bargain they were advised to skip bail and go on the run. The Creggan boys became fugitives.
Though never arrested or questioned by the authorities in the South, they were cut off from family and social circles, with no support network.

Good post Mackers, when we gloat at death we lose ...

2013-02-14T23:00:19.863Z

Good post Mackers, when we gloat at death we lose our humanity.

Many times I've passed through that junction over the years at that hour of the night, whether it was returning from the airport with my family or returning from the hospital following an emergency. It could have been anyone killed. That it was a young member of the PSNI makes no difference.

I agree, the PSNI are a state police force, not a police service; the state being the British statelet of NI. That statelet is governed on behalf of the Brits by the DUP and SF - they stand together against Republicanism.

However I believe that no one can justify taking life for the sake of claiming that the war is continuing. It isn't continuing. In fact I believe it is the greatest obstacle in the regrowth of Republicanism.

My first thoughts when I started to read the artic...

2013-02-14T13:28:16.048Z

My first thoughts when I started to read the article was “this is someone’s little girl “. A well written post AM a lot of compassion were a lot is needed for her poor parents

Philippa? I haven't ever heard that name eithe...

2013-02-14T00:20:13.716Z

Philippa? I haven't ever heard that name either. Her father was an ex RUC man named Mervyn. There are definitely some strange names in the unionist community.

Good post a cara your humanity shines through,you ...

2013-02-13T22:39:08.124Z

Good post a cara your humanity shines through,you have learned well from your past,I looked at that womans needless death as something that it could have been anyones wife ,mother ,child that those thugs in their act of sheer madness snuffed out in a frozen moment,they didnt know they were smashing into a cop car from what I can see as it was unmarked, therefore it could well have been a family car full of children for all they cared and that makes me angry.

Am- This post "Death in Derry" is getti...

2013-02-13T22:12:25.469Z

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This post "Death in Derry" is getting about-NIviews and Paul Clarke of UTV have just retweeted this Article on Twitter-

Death comes to us all some day-but its not easy watching the youth die first-