well isnt this strange. the one main reason for many people including myself joining this site taken away and turned into a corporation.This will be my last post.

It was retorts like that, that caused the trouble on sunday

Contradiction?

One other thing, it is you southerns with your freedom that are burying your head in the sand.

It plays into everybodys hands.....Including the british govt. Now they can tell bush that we are nothing but "organised criminals" and try and get him in to this....Which if any1 has been reading what G.W.Bush said about the IRA stoppin the disarment you will find that it will lead to this

Maybe....but that is not what history has shown.

I think that we have a much better chance of getting a united Ireland without it. I dnt want to say why

Who is this tom?

How can you talk with knowledge and true information about the going ons in Ireland if you are neither Republican or Loyalist

Everyone hear that the IRA has said that they will not disarm. Hopefully this is the start of a better era for us.

Thursday February 3, 04:37 PM

Deadlock as IRA pulls weapons offer
By Alex Richardson


BELFAST (Reuters) - Hopes for a lasting political settlement between Northern Ireland's feuding communities have faded after the IRA withdrew a conditional offer to scrap its weapons.

But police chiefs do not believe the group is preparing to plunge the province back into the violence which plagued it for 30 years.



An angry statement from the IRA underlined the bleak outlook for Anglo-Irish efforts to return the running of Northern Ireland to its divided Protestant and Catholic communities. It did not explicitly threaten to end its 1997 ceasefire.

"We know they have the capability, we know they have the capacity, (but) we do not think they intend to return to what they would call the war," Chief Constable Hugh Orde told reporters in Belfast on Thursday.



The statement, signed with the IRA's traditional pseudonym "P O'Neill", came as London and Dublin leaders accused the group of blocking political progress after it was widely blamed for a massive Belfast bank heist.

"This is the IRA taking its ball home (sulking) because it has been accused of a bank robbery," said Eamon Phoenix, politics lecturer at Stranmillis College, Belfast.

The IRA, which killed around 1,800 people during a three-decade campaign, had offered in December to disarm as part of a wider deal to revive a provincial parliament in which Protestant and Catholic parties shared power.

That assembly, set up as part of the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement, which largely ended the violence, collapsed more than two years ago amid recriminations over alleged IRA activity.

Negotiations to revive it failed because Protestant unionists said IRA disarmament must be accompanied by photographic proof -- a demand rejected by the IRA as an unacceptable humiliation.

Hopes of completing the deal have since been dashed by police allegations -- supported by London and Dublin but denied by the IRA -- that the republican group carried out December's 26.5 million pound bank robbery in Belfast.

DISARMAMENT DEAL OFF

"We do not intend to remain quiescent within this unacceptable and unstable situation," said the IRA statement. "It has tried our patience to the limit. Consequently ... we are taking all our proposals off the table."

The IRA has indicated its displeasure with events in a similar manner during previous crises in the peace process.

"I don't read the IRA statement in a negative fashion, quite frankly," Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said.

"I think they are saying what is a fact -- that the negotiations have broken down, everything is off the table and that's the normal course of negotiations."

Political analysts were already predicting little movement on reviving the assembly before May's expected London election, which will be rancorously contested in the province. Now many are predicting a longer political freeze.

"The prospect ... is that the stalemate will continue indefinitely," said an editorial in Thursday's Belfast Telegraph



from www.yahoo.ie

Lets say for one second that the IRA did do it...Wheres the problem. As i see it, we can now use the money to replace the old weapons that where put out of action due to the GFA.

We can also use the money to try and bring in new recruits.

And many more...

To be honest, i think the IRA either did it or was involved.....The loyalists are only kickin up a fuss because if it was the IRA they know their really fucked just like the BA.

na ye's caught on, its on the 4th of march......but thanks neways

what you mean removing them.....they r still here

Happy christmas everyone

Yeh kid, happy birthday........nuff said.Charlotte said it not gona repeat it

well ive never heard of a feminine word for Warrior in English, so if ther isnt one in english there isnt one in irish its jus the same

Life in fermanagh has been peaceful now for quite some time.....The huns have sorta bin stayin outa our way...a lot of them are wanted people, even by there own so its great at the moment........All we've got left to do is drink and im happy about that one :)

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thanks christophe yeh im fine, thought id come back and check up on ye's

He didnt say that we irish were terrorists.... He started this "war on terror" the british are trying to bring new laws in "against terror" once this is brought into northern Ireland......................................(you get the picture)

On the other side of that, he is tryin to change the attitude of the americans to view the people fighting for freedom as terrorists...
And as charlotte said, hes a brainless b*stard

why do you like bush though? Look how he has changed the views of the irish struggle......he has effectivily branded us as terrorists.

Bush is a *@%$

Aye i thought this would happen...Yeh i knew charlotte could look after ye's anyways, sure shes bin here longer than i have...I see you's have a lot of new members? any good ones?

happy birthday lad.....

well lads/ladys....seems the site has went downhill someit awful now......Ive bin readin all da shit lol........
Anyways hows urselves?

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