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Rally To Highlight The Internment Of Marian Price....

2012-04-03T15:08:35.105+01:00

Rally To Highlight The Internment Of Marian Price....
Assemble Free Derry Corner
2.30pm-22nd April2012
Procession to Guildhall Square
Speakers include..
Monsignor Raymond Murray(former Armagh gaol chaplain)
Pat Ramsey mla..
Kate Nash(Bloody Sunday Justice Campaigner)

Concerns Expressed by the ICLVR

From Ed Moloney: The former head of the Northern...

2012-04-01T19:11:18.905+01:00

From Ed Moloney:

The former head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service and one of the peace process Victims Commissioners has expressed his opposition to high-level prosecutions of the sort sought by the PSNI, assisted by Attorney-General Eric Holder, in the Boston College subpoenas case. In an interview with the Irish News in Belfast, he said that a "line" should be drawn under historical prosecutions, he said: "I have a mantra - we've had all these deaths because of division so let's not cause further division....There are other things you could and should do - story telling for instance." Story telling is, of course, what the Boston College oral history archive was about.

Helen, good piece. If you look at how Eirigi acti...

2012-04-01T09:27:17.894+01:00

Helen,

good piece. If you look at how Eirigi activists are now being harassed by the British PSNI you can see that it is an assault on republican activism in general and not just armed republican activism. A reformed police force is better than a non-reformed one but even within the reformist framework what gains were made are being steadily eroded.