This British 'Sir' took control of a pro-British militia in Ireland and worked with them to obtain ten's of thousands of rifles and millions of rounds of ammunition for those weapons.
His political bosses in Westminster voiced concern (perhaps afraid he would use that by-now well-armed militia against them...) and they attempted to make a move against their 'Sir' and his gang, but backed-off when British Army officers mutined in objection...
Turncoats ; these Irish 'men of the Cloth' actually had a bounty put on their heads by the British but, after they reached an agreement of sorts with the bounty payers, they themselves put a 'religious bounty' on the heads of their fellow Irish men and women...
Ireland, July 1957 : a Sinn Féin meeting was taking place in Wicklow Street, in Dublin, when Éamon de Valera's Fianna Fáil Free State administration decided to implement a British weapon which had been used, by the British, on them. The State 'Special Branch' busted their way into the Wicklow Street building...
From 2002 - 'The law exists to protect us but, as with the moral law of the Church, those who devote their lives to it should be under its closest scrutiny, precisely because they are more empowered by it than anyone else in our society...'
From 1987 - "The Catholic Church Establishment has been called in to prop up a tottering colonialism in the Six Counties. They have certainly over-reached themselves in their efforts to outpace the various Protestant Churches in condemnations of republicans and in invoking sanctions against them..."
Thanks for the visit - and please check back with us again on Wednesday, 9th August 2023.
See ye all then!
Sharon and the team.
