Pól Ó Lorcáin
Paul Larkin
Chroniclers are privileged to enter where they
list, to come and go through keyholes, to ride
upon the wind, to overcome in their soarings up
and down, all obstacles of distance, time and
place.
Charles Dickens - Barnaby Rudge,
Chapter The Ninth
Update: Henry McDonald writes a good article on collusion and the Guardian pulls it
Cic Saor readers are well aware that I've been a fierce critic of the
Guardian's Ireland correspondent Henry McDonald over the last few years, but its only fair that he should be praised and defended when he gets it right, which he did do with a strong piece he wrote yesterday on the book
Lethal Allies (see yesterday's blog).
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State collusion with pro British death squads – Irish journalism also stands in the dock
Lethal Allies - provides proof of systematic collusion
It seems that with Anne Cadwallader’s new and widely publicised book
Lethal Allies, the dam walls of silence and censorship that have been built around the collusion story have finally been burst asunder. The decades long part played by the British state (acting in concert with the worst and most sectarian elements of loyalism in Ireland) is now accepted as an appalling fact. It is the fact, in my opinion, that the highest officers of the British state aligned themselves with rabidly sectarian murder gangs that made it a
British Jihad.
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Why hasn't Rupert Murdoch’s kingmaker in Ireland been investigated in Ireland?
Former News Int. Exec. and alleged hacker Alex Marunchak
Alex Marunchak is a Ukrainian national who rose to the top of Rupert Murdoch’s News International media organisation from the 1980s through to 2006. (He was also vetted by MI5, subject to the Official Secrets Act and employed by London’s Metropolitan police as a translator/interpreter for whom he worked for nearly 20 years).
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