“It is vital that in marking these events, we do so in a way that respects the backgrounds & cultures of everyone who share these neighborhoods,” Chief Constable Jon Boutcher said in a statement. “There is no place for hate or intimidation — only space for celebration that welcomes & celebrates not divides.”
Lol, and this is why news outlets don't jump in and say things like "That Elon is high on drugs, isn't he?"
The freedom of being a nobody...
It has been suggested that the bombings were intended to wreck the Sunningdale Agreement and to make both the Irish and British governments take a stronger line against the IRA. The Sunningdale Agreement envisaged a role for the Irish government in the administration of Northern Ireland. The British government actively obstructed an investigation by Mr Justice Henry Barron, an Irish judge, into the bombings in 2003. 2/2
2025 book twenty-eight: Patrick Radden Keefe: Say Nothing 
️️️️️ #nonfiction #books #bookstodon #books2025 #ebooks #history #nonfiction #PatrickRaddenKeefe #thetroubles
"10 April 1998" teableau for 04/10/25
On this day, 28 years ago, the Good Friday Agreement was signed in Belfast.
#TheTroubles from #Ireland are here in the #US. Sign says "#GoodTrouble #NecessaryTrouble"
On the bottom right is someone demonstrates with #Trump #GoldenSneakers
KNEECAP on British colonialism, far-right riots and talking on the establishment
https://youtu.be/_V-YS0DbEHQ
On 5th October 1968 a non-sectarian civil-rights march took place in Derry. The demands of the marchers included an end to gerrymandering and discrimination in housing and the right to vote. The Royal Ulster Constabulary attempted to violently disperse the crowd by baton-charging the crowd and leaving many people injured including a number of MPs. The march marked the start of the Troubles.
The Maze Prison escape took place on 25 September 1983. HM Prison Maze (also known as Long Kesh/An Cheis Fhada) was a maximum security prison considered to be one of the most escape-proof prisons in Europe. In the biggest prison escape in British history, 38 IRA prisoners escaped from H-Block 7 of the prison. One prison officer died of a heart attack during the escape and twenty others were injured.
#Tufty poster from #1970s #NorthernIreland (I vaguely remember also seeing it around train stations in #London around the same time) #UK #TheTroubles
(Normally Tufty the squirrel and his friends just told you to be safe when crossing the road or playing outside)
"‘Anything moving out there is considered IRA’ – Former paratrooper" 
https://sluggerotoole.com/2024/08/21/anything-moving-out-there-is-considered-ira-former-paratrooper/
The British army was first deployed on the streets in the North of Ireland on 14th August 1969, marking the beginning of ‘Operation Banner'. It lasted until 31 July 2007 and was the longest continuous deployment in British military history. At the peak of the operation in the 1970s, about 21,000 British troops were deployed. 1,441 serving British military personnel died in Operation Banner.
Due to faulty and out-of-date intelligence, many were no longer involved in republican militancy or never had links with the IRA.
The operation was directed exclusively at the Catholic community. Although the UVF and other violent Loyalist satellite organisations had been conducting campaigns of killing and bombing not a single person on that side of the community was arrested or detained. 2/2
Operation Demetrius began on 9th August 1971. It was a British Army operation in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. It involved the mass arrest and internment of people without trial. Armed soldiers launched dawn raids throughout Northern Ireland and arrested 342 in the initial sweep, sparking four days of violence in which 20 civilians, two IRA members and two British soldiers were killed. 1/2
The podcast is based on original research by the Belfast writer and Journalist Pádraig Ó Meiscil. His substack is available here:
The Troubles Legacy Act was designed to cover up crimes by British soldiers including those documented in this podcast.
It is to his credit that Starmer has undertaken to revoke the Act in his King's Speech.
I have just finished listening to Fin Dwyer's brilliant three part podcast on the siege of the Falls Road by the British Army in 1970. I remember it from my childhood, and I spent time as a child with family in Free Derry so the Troubles were very part of my life growing up, but revisiting the brutality of the British army against the Catholic population is shocking.
>> #FalseEquivalency. "ICC prosecutor compares Hamas to the IRA"
There's #FalseEquivalence, but even #SimonHarris, #Irish PM, compared #Hamas to #IRA.
Most significant difference between them is that one is #eliminationist while the other was not.
#TheTroubles were a conflict between #Catholics and #Protestants on whether to separate from #UK or remain.
That's not what Hamas is trying to do. Its charter calls NOT for a separate state from #Israel but Israel's destruction
The British government actively obstructed an investigation by Mr Justice Henry Barron, an Irish judge, into the bombings in 2003. 3/3
