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Irish Political Review, September 2004 IRISH ISSN 0790-7672 September 2004 Biological Politics POLITICAL (Senator Mansergh and others) Says Collins To De Valera . Volume 19 No 9 Story Of ILDA REVIEW (back page: Labour Comment) Incorporating Volume 18 Number 9 The Northern Star Workers' Weekly ISSN 0954-5891 Contents: See Page Two The Northern Ireland Secret Cult Of . Statecraft The Irish Times When Gerry Adams suggested the disbanding of the IRA in order to deprive the In the July 2004 issue of the Irish Unionists of an excuse for not working the Agreement, Peter Robinson responded by Political Review I revealed that Article 50 confirming that the existence of the IRA was only an excuse. The Irish News headline of the 1974 Articles of Association of The on 11th August was Robinson: End To IRA Not Enough: Irish Times Ltd required all Directors to “The DUP, he said, simply will not sign up to go back to the kind of political institutions swear an oath. The relevant article and that exist in the Good Friday Agreement just because the IRA does what it should have oath ran to three pages and included a done years ago”. paragraph on secrecy and a requirement not to be active in politics or to be a Disbanding the IRA is a necessary precondition to the negotiation of further clergyman. concessions by the nationalist side which would lead to the re-establishment of devolved institutions. The disbanding would have to be done in public: “Unionists want to weigh At the time I wrote my review of the the decommissioned semtex”. 1974 Articles I was aware that such an oath had been in force for at least five Robinson did not spell out the further concessions in this statement, but it has various years after 1974. But I assumed that Article other ways in mind of humiliating the republican movement. But, more important, the 50 had been deleted some time in the DUP statement of its strategic position following its electoral victory over Trimble’s 1980s. I couldn’t believe that any self party made it clear that its object was a form of devolution which operated by majority respecting Director who was not a member rule, with the Ministers of the various departments acting under the authority of the of the Freemasons or some other secret Assembly. organisation could swear such an oath year after year without kicking up about This means that its rejection of the Agreement in 1998, before the IRA had the it. opportunity of disbanding under it, still holds. It will not agree to the restoration of continued on page 2 Also a lot has happened since 1974. The first Catholic, Conor Brady, was appointed Editor and Director in Decem- ber 1985. He was succeeded by another Catholic, Geraldine Kennedy, the current Editor. I can’t remember whether swearing such secret oaths was a venial or mortal sin but I know that it was generally frowned upon by the Catholic Religion. But maybe in these “enlightened” times such obscur- antism is perfectly acceptable. (Incident- ally, the oath requires Directors to affirm Christian values, which sits strangely in this modern multi-cultural era.) The other reason why I had assumed that it had been deleted was that around 2001 the affairs of The Irish Times came continued on page 4 purpose was not to prosecute crime but C O N T E N T S exert political pressure. Then, in a bizarre Page turn of events, the alleged victim of the Statecraft. Editorial 1 alleged kidnapping was arrested and The Secret Cult Of The Irish Times. John Martin 1 charged with murderous intent. It was A "Get Ó Caoimh" Campaign. Criostóir de Baróid (Unpublished Letter) 3 generally understood that he was being punished for failing to substantiate the Moral Outrage. Pat Muldowney (Unpublished Letter) 3 allegation of kidnapping—an allegation The Irish Times Declaration Of Commitment. The Oath sworn by the Editor et al 5 over which the Minister for Justice in Michael Smith And The Indian Mutiny. Archon 6 Dublin and the leader of the Opposition waxed eloquent. The Bobby Tohill case Planning Gone Mad. Jack Lane (report) 7 was very much in the news for a while. It An Cor Tuathail: The Contest Of Oisín And Patrick. Part Two 8 was taken up by the Independent Monitor- (Compiled by Pat Muldowney) ing Commission, a subservient group Said Collins To De Valera. Joe Keenan 9 consisting of Lord Alderdice and a few other time-servers, which tried to confuse Old Habits. Seán McGouran 12 itself in the public mind with General de Was Elizabeth Bowen Irish?. Ivor Kenna 13 Chasterlaine’s really independent Biological Politics, On Martin Mansergh And Others. Brendan Clifford 14 International Monitoring Commission (which has its status under the Belfast News In Brief. (Capt. Kelly: Petty Vindictiveness; D-Day; Munster Joinery) 17 Agreement). On 20th August the charges Israel: Time To Act On EU Association Agreement. Report 18 against Tohill were withdrawn without Censorship. Seán McGouran 18 explanation, but the fact hardly registered in the news. Such is public life in Belfast Labour Comment, edited by Pat Maloney: under the suspended Agreement. Off The Rails: ILDA Brian Feeney, who is by far the best devolved institutions under the Drumcree ten years ago. political commentator writing for the press in Ireland, suggests that Adams, in his Agreement, regardless of what the IRA Adams has said that the transfer of does. remarks about disbanding the IRA, is not police powers to a devolved government primarily concerned about depriving the Trimble appears to be a spent force. is a condition of further progress. Robinson Unionists of an excuse. (And it has been We described his position from the start as is in favour of the transfer of policing in our opinion ever since Trimble’s first post- that of saboteur of the Agreement from the long run, which means after majority- Agreement press conference that one within, and we see no reason to revise that rule devolution has been regained. excuse would be followed by another in opinion. He signed the Agreement under an infinite series.) He says in the Irish duress. Blair cornered him personally and IRA Show No Signs Of Going Away News of 25th August: “If the IRA has to Says Orde. Orde is the Chief constable of threatened that the alternative for Union- stand down the DUP may provide a useful ism would be worse if he did not sign. So the RUC in its new guise. He is quoted as excuse but the real reason is to be found in he signed. And within minutes he gave a follows: Dublin”. press conference which was essentially an “There is nothing to say currently anti-Agreement speech. And so he that the Provisional IRA have done Sinn Fein now has eggs in two baskets. anything to shut up shop” (Irish News, continued for four years. And then, with And it is the only party in Ireland engaged 24th August). the Agreement reduced to shreds, and in what might be called statecraft. Blair preoccupied with the destruction of The IRA is of course a legal body since Iraq, the way was open for a straight- 1998, and the 1998 conditions under which forward Unionist rejection of the it undertook to fade away were not met. Aspects Of Agreement. British Propaganda During Orde made his statement after Gerry The War Of Independence In truth, the Unionist electorate never Kelly and his colleagues had stood between agreed to the Agreement. It was bam- his policemen and nationalists who were A talk by boozled and manoeuvred into voting for it attacking them in Ardoyne on the famous by Tom Kelly, who was recruited from the 11th Night, the night before July 12th. BBC by Blair to be his Dr. Goebbels. “Thank heavens they were there”, said Dr. Brian Murphy OSB Having gained the spurious assent of the the Chief Constable, after Kelly had on Unionists to the Agreement, Tom Kelly incurred injuries from police (a broken wrist) and from nationalists (bruises) while was promoted to Downing Street where th protecting the coercive apparatus of the Friday, October 15 , 8pm he deployed his black arts against Dr. at Kelly, who had blurted out the truth about State. The Teachers Club, Blair and Iraqi w.m.d. to Andrew Gilligan. Orde has become a very political policeman. At the end of last year he 36 Parnell Square, Dublin Trimble sacrificed his party to the cause fuelled a particular anti-Sinn Fein of fundamentalist Unionism. The cause campaign with a statement that the IRA All welcome has now been taken up by the partner with had engaged in kidnapping in central Sponsored by Athol Books whom he danced the Orange jig at Belfast. No prosecutions followed. The 2 · Biteback · Biteback· Biteback· Biteback· Biteback· Biteback· Biteback· Biteback The following letters failed to receive He would have learnt that there were quite Moral Outrage publication in the Irish Times a number of good reasons pertinent to Cuív’s job why he had to stay in Farmleigh. The nation is in the grip of moral A "Get Ó Caoimh" Campaign ? Only editorial limitation on column space outrage. I never cease to wonder how the “Irish prevents me from detailing these at length Because it was recently revealed that Times”, which preens itself on its self- – although Mr.Wall has, of course, direct the Irish government participated in a proclaimed journalistic standards, can access to that information. public ceremony to honour a Co. Mayo condone the kind of spin-journalism The additional cost to the taxpayer for recruit to the Waffen SS who was awarded practised by some of its columnists.
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