tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post9123763827223378480..comments2008-10-26T15:40:22.814ZAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-49941214057548869302008-10-26T15:40:00.000Z2008-10-26T15:40:00.000Zaricaiwdjts, <BR/><BR/>Jimmy McMullan is the name but I thought he got out later than 84. Republicans long attacked the church for its role in defending establishment interests. The more Catholic element within republicans were not altogether happy with some of the criticisms made against the church.AMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-69843870614014884972008-10-20T01:51:00.000+01:002008-10-20T01:51:00.000+01:00A great piece here Tony.......Back in 84 I was been taken around ,by an ex prisoner "tea-pot"..(.my memory fails me on his full.name I do remember he had only one ear as the other had been shot off by the brits),the Divis Flats...I was on a fact finding mission as a member of the Troops Out Movement...as we were walking around on the upper tiers of Divis...he says two things that truely made me understand the nature of the larger struggle 1) as I saw a patrol of young Brits below Teapot turned to me and stated that he actually felt some sympathy towards the brits below as they were really only working class pawns being used by Thatcher and her cronies and that they rarely had any inkling or understanding of their role and 2)looking across the West Belfast landscape he asked if I knew who the true enemies of his people were ,the ones who kept his people from true freedom.....I was expecting.him to say the Brits or the Loyalists...instead he turned and pointed to a church steeple and enlightened me to the way religion has affected the people of Ireland...this piece of yours reminds me of that....thank youaricaiwdjtshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09088849716713203934noreply@blogger.com