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With anti-Republican sentiment running high in the wake of the Enniskillen massacre and the O’Grady kidnapping, and with the first wave of joint RUC-Ga...
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Gaddafi's Blood Money. Victims of the IRA bomb campaign which was funded by Gaddafi are to seek compensation from frozen Libyan accounts in UK banks. Meanwhile Boris Johnson and his government feast off the interest accruing.
Kingsberry case The High Court in Belfast granted permission in early July for the family of a former member of the UDA, William Kingsberry – shot dead in 1991, to sue Libya for supplying the assault rifle used by the IRA unit that killed him. New approach The Kingsberry case, which is civil not criminal, is a new approach to gaining compensation for those killed or injured by Libyan-supplied matériel – and will be the first of many. Kevin Winters of KRW Law is bringing a number of civil cases against the Libyan State to gain compensation for victims. The PSNI initially refused to conf...
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Former RUC chief believed united Ireland was "inevitable"
Addthis A former RUC chief constable who served during some of the most violent years of the Troubles believed that a united Ireland was inevitable, according to a new book. Sir Jack Hermon, who served as Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) between 1980 and 1989, was strongly against any further integration of Northern Ireland into the United Kingdom, according to a posthumous memoir by senior British diplomat David Goodall. "The Making of the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985" details a meeting with Hermon in January 1984, when the then-RUC chief revealed his thoughts on a u...
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Jim Gamble: 'Some of those who pontificate in NI today about human rights and wrongs would be blushing if the things they said or did were exposed'
Q. Your father, James, and mother, Lillie, were in the RAF, and as a boy you travelled extensively as they moved to different postings. A. We lived around the UK and, for three years, lived in Singapore where I’d a dingo, an Australian dog, and a spider monkey called Suki. When I was nine, my dad was sent back to Bishopscourt in Northern Ireland and we lived in Newcastle. From there we moved to Wales. Q. You’ve never spoken publicly about getting a juvenile caution... what happened? A. I don’t know whether I should be quoted about this... okay, I got into a bit of trouble with the law i...
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Jim Gamble: I've seen man's inhumanity to man, what terrorists will do to innocent civilians, but nothing could prepare me for images of child abuse
Q. Your father, James, and mother, Lillie, were in the RAF, and as a boy you travelled extensively as they moved to different postings.
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