Off course it wasn't worth it not one life is , but the Irish people in the North had no choice but fight against what was happening to them in their own country. The blame is with the British state for all wars in Ireland 🇮🇪.
It brought World attention to the genocide British occupation had in the North of Ireland. It made us more proficient killers. We lacked empathy, emotion when we gunned and bombed who represented British rule on my Island. I would do it all over again.
facts only reason you got help from spain and france in the war 1776 if not the usa would have lost ,800 years the brits have been in Ireland way before the usa was born the riches of india at the same time was more appealing to the brits than a bunch of colonies 1812 was a british victory they kicked the yanks out of Canada and burnt Washington dc to the ground and the white house truth hurts you I see ha ha
Respect for what, starving themselves for nothing. They are all forgot about now, nobody remembers them for anything except murdering terrorists. Child killers.
@DML1888 And you know for fact that Loyalists only pumped iron and took drugs??? Maybe, just maybe like me they got degrees in politics, irish language and a few other subjects as well. It will never be a "free" Ireland. Economically wise the South could never afford to take over the North.
Gerry acting like he knew bobby better than his family, and then saying them using bobbys name is just sad, theyre his family, sinn fein shouldn't be using his name or image
Could you go a chicken super Bobby sands,,could you go a chicken super Bobby sands,,could you go a chicken super,,ya dirty bead rattling fucker,,could you go a chicken super Bobby sands,,,,get it up you ya fenian cow...no surrender 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@meansteve3602 wrapped in their blankets. The offer was there for them. That’s how in hell they were going to do it. No one forced them to plaster their walls with excrement.
@@user-yv4qx7pw7g Whereas political thinkers like Gusty Spence, Hugh Smyth, Billy Hutchinson and David Ervine saw republican politicisation during the prison protests as a positive force that would eventually muzzle their violence, others, like Wright, King and Curry, saw it as a posing an even greater threat to the Protestant community. For the remainder of their lives they would continue to advocate physical force as the only real option for removing this threat. With the absence of a political vehicle to channel this kind of fear, hatred and commitment to violence, politics and militarism would continue to remain dialectical concepts in militant loyalism. It was to take loyalists another generation before they realised that the real cutting edge of the Provisional movement was its political project. Only then did they move to exchange force for political activism.
Staring death in the face for 50+ days your body going through different stages from going blind to constant vomiting and bed sores and not breaking for something they believe in they will for ever go down in Irish history
@@gerardnolan2556 Don`t blame the ordinary working class Englishman Gerard. Most of us ,are with you. Thatcher was a horrible,heartless,bastard who hated,working class people. You are right,the men who starved themselves to death, for what they believed,will never be forgotten and their likes,will never be beaten by Bully Boy Tactics. From a Scouser,with Irish Blood in His Veins.
Stephen Smith The Scouscers are as Irish as the Irish themselves, great connection. They hated Thatcher as much, she tried to destroy the City. Utd supporter 🤣🤣🤣, but congratulations on winning the Title this yr. Amazing heart in your team.
@@patrickallen8005 Scousers are English not even a little irish. If your born and bred in England then your english...doh. You know nothing about Ulster.
Respect for what? For the murder and mayhem that he and his criminal murdering friends caused to ordinary decent living innocent men women and children......?
There have also been many hunger strikes by members of pro British Loyalist paramilitaries but they tended to be announced loudly but would then fizzle out very quickly, many of them ended after just a few days of fasting which speaks volumes on how much they believed in their cause when it came to personal sacrifice. It used to be noted that whilst Republican prisoners tried to better themselves intellectually by learning languages and studying and trying to pass academic exams, the Loyalist prisoners would spend all their time either in the gym lifting weights or getting tattoo's .
@@Anon54387 Yeah that came after gangs of prison officers assaulted the prisoners when they slopped out. 2 prisoners a week went into the infirmary from the beatings they received. At least they had conviction of their beliefs, whilst Loyalist hunger strikes barely lasted a few days.
My sister and her husband moved from the top of Springfield park to middle ,she has fond memories of it as I do as a young boy , I would often stay there , she told me that they often slept on the floor as there was so much gun fire outside .
I was aware of the Northern Ireland conflict but now watching this newscast I was taken back by the magnitude of devastation and the degree of bloodshed in this religious and political conflict
sas suffer from PTSD not so much the blanket men.. if you are right then you're right.. farther faul. no mention of the political vatican pedarast coverup . the strikers were. christlike. faul playéd and enjoyed the limelight. you cant hide the twinkle in ye eye ye proxy RC, play god without missing a is this my good side 667 away the church. I've no love for adáms a latter day dev' bit belivehu
Maggie will be judge one day by the only things that matters. God is who she will answer to... Like she siad herself... MURDER IS MURDER IS MURDER... SHE A MASS MURDERER AND DOESN'T CARE BOUT REMORSE OF THE FAMILIES.. THE LAKE OF FIRE AWAITS MAGGIE. 🇮🇪🔥🔥
I'm English so my opinion means fuck all on the situation in the North. But I can sort of understand Brendan Hughes comments. People died or dedicated their lives to fighting for a united Ireland, they never fought for a peace deal. Obviously I don't agree with the violence and atrocities committed by any party in this conflict and I think the GFA was brilliant. But it's easy for me to say, I never had to live in either community. ✌️
I don’t know why they would want their children and grandchildren to grow up in the conflict they did try need to be able to have a voice and this was the first step in that process. It was never gonny happen overnight
How can Adams make that comment when he said Sinn Fein will not accept their doings,it's their choice as individuals,"Sinn Fein will not support their acts"
Adams has fooled so many people for so many years and continues to do so. Look , folks at the end of the day he's (Adams) is still standing! He got to live his life while burying so many others. He claims his hands are clean but, are they?
Makes u wonder. But lets face it, when Martin acknowledged the (q)ueen, Republicanism was fucked. U cannot change a system. It reluctantly accepts u, and then it takes the sting out of u. One day the Republican movement will not compromise, but not in the last several chapters 😢
@Gar Army paper says IRA not defeated Army concedes for first time it did not win the battle against the IRA An internal British army document examining 37 years of deployment in Northern Ireland contains the claim by one expert that it failed to defeat the IRA. The admission is contained in a discussion document released by the Ministry of Defence after a request under the Freedom of Information Act. The 100 page document analyses in detail the army's role over 37 years. It focuses on specific operations and gives an overview of its performance. The six-month study, covering the period 1968-2005, was prepared under the direction of the then chief of general staff, General Sir Mike Jackson.
@Gar Not quite as straightforward as you suggest …. "Although when the retiring Oatley passed on the mantle to an MI5 officer, he had the support of the MI5 Co-ordinator of Intelligence in Northern Ireland, John Deverell, the process faced near-collapse following the death of Deverell in a helicopter crash. MI5 Director-General Stella Rimington was a hardliner who briefed Prime Minister John Major that McGuinness and Adams were IRA members and could not be trusted. *Privately, senior MI6 officers accused their MI5 counterparts of being 'a bunch of idiots' whose efforts had sabotaged the process*."
@Gar A quote from Stella Rimington's (head of MI5) book 'Open Secret' …" Her own assessment of the effect of investigating terrorists is revealing: above all, she writes, it helped foster 'a new style of MI5 officer, quite different from those who had been around when I first entered the service. The modern version was younger, travelled regularly, spoke foreign languages... the new breed was comfortable in Whitehall, sitting on committees and discussing issues with ministers.' *Suave, non-sexist, good at presentation. But not very effective at preventing murderous atrocities*.
They died for nothing . The six counties are still British and always will be . The UVF and UFF along with British intelligence freed Ulster from the IRA. No surrender
@@moggie not they targeted and killed the Ira , sinn fejn and their families . This showed the IRA they couldn’t win and ultimately lead to the IRA surrender.! Combined with the loyalist paramilitaries and British intelligence, the IRA WERE DEFEATED . The six counties are still British and we DON’T have a United Ireland
@@bammy1690 Loyalist paramilitaries were no more than a bunch of unhighly trained cowards wearing balaclavas going out into the street, picking out catholics, and gunning them down infront of their family and friends. They went to the point where a school shooting was planned on a Catholic primary school. Loyalists proceeded to then plant a Pipe bomb [which was thankfully defused] near the entrance of a primary school. Chlorane. Cappagh. Sean McConville. Belturbet. Monaghan. Dublin. The list goes on. They were no more than low scum.
@Diarmaid O'Riordan don't be bitter.. the English have made northern Ireland there own..and doe a bloody good job.. it's time to move on and accept the peacce deal Tony Blair gave you. You got a good deal under the good Friday agreement as most of the IRA was released
Maggie . ..also supported Pinochet who murdered non combatants and was never elected. She insisted he should not be charged with his crimes. She was a truly evil woman
John Toner Sun 31 Dec 2023 at 07:00 Ex-UDA kingpin Johnny Adair believes the IRA were the most effective “guerrilla army” of all time and admitted he wouldn’t have the courage of the Hunger Strikers. Convicted terror chief Adair (60) has also fondly remembered narrowly escaping jail with his nipples intact after a prison officer attempted to remove his jewellery with a hacksaw. Speaking to career criminal and anti-Islam hate preacher Tommy Robinson on his podcast, Adair was full of praise for his deadly enemies of the past and revealed he would have refused to go on hunger strike for his cause. Robinson says: “I’ve seen the IRA described as the best guerrilla warfare army there has ever been”, to which Adair says: “And they were, that’s a fact and I’m not scared to say that, I’ll not tell a lie, of course they were. “Their bombmaking technology was a step ahead of the British Army, the army tried to keep ahead of them and the IRA was always in front. “Even the Hunger Strikers, I grudgingly respect them men too, they starved themselves to death for a political cause, dedication at the highest level. “Now I’m dedicated, and I knew one day I could lose my life and the IRA would get me, and I accepted that because I didn’t know what day it would be. “These hunger strikers, death was staring themmuns in the face for 60-odd days. If I was asked to give my life on hunger strike? No I wouldn’t do it, I wouldn’t have been as brave to do that. “I was willing to accept that the IRA might kill me but I couldn’t see it coming, they’re sneaking up behind me or riddling my car, it’s unexpected. “But these men knew what they were doing
They won long term as their demands were met after 5 months. Also it led to Sinn Fein going from strength to strength. Just look at them now. All of that can be put down to BSs and the hunger strikes as prior to that they were a political non entity.
Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair John Toner Sun 31 Dec 2023 at 07:00 Ex-UDA kingpin Johnny Adair believes the IRA were the most effective “guerrilla army” of all time and admitted he wouldn’t have the courage of the Hunger Strikers. Convicted terror chief Adair (60) has also fondly remembered narrowly escaping jail with his nipples intact after a prison officer attempted to remove his jewellery with a hacksaw. Speaking to career criminal and anti-Islam hate preacher Tommy Robinson on his podcast, Adair was full of praise for his deadly enemies of the past and revealed he would have refused to go on hunger strike for his cause. Robinson says: “I’ve seen the IRA described as the best guerrilla warfare army there has ever been”, to which Adair says: “And they were, that’s a fact and I’m not scared to say that, I’ll not tell a lie, of course they were. “Their bombmaking technology was a step ahead of the British Army, the army tried to keep ahead of them and the IRA was always in front. “Even the Hunger Strikers, I grudgingly respect them men too, they starved themselves to death for a political cause, dedication at the highest level. “Now I’m dedicated, and I knew one day I could lose my life and the IRA would get me, and I accepted that because I didn’t know what day it would be. “These hunger strikers, death was staring themmuns in the face for 60-odd days. If I was asked to give my life on hunger strike? No I wouldn’t do it, I wouldn’t have been as brave to do that. “I was willing to accept that the IRA might kill me but I couldn’t see it coming, they’re sneaking up behind me or riddling my car, it’s unexpected. “But these men knew what they were doing
40 years on RIP Bobby Sands and the other nine strikers ❤🇮🇪☘
Sands
Hughes
Lynch
McCreesh
McElwey
Hurson
OHara
O'Doherty
MacDonnell
Devine
Off course it wasn't worth it not one life is , but the Irish people in the North had no choice but fight against what was happening to them in their own country. The blame is with the British state for all wars in Ireland 🇮🇪.
Impossible to not respect these men for their dedication and sacrifice for their cause.
It brought World attention to the genocide British occupation had in the North of Ireland. It made us more proficient killers. We lacked empathy, emotion when we gunned and bombed who represented British rule on my Island. I would do it all over again.
THE PRIDE I FEEL FOR THESE MEN WHO DIED FOR US, FOR IRELAND.
The pride I feel for the British Army who killed IRA filth
@magicae 37 Problem with US marines and ex us marine they have little dicks and even smaller brains
facts only reason you got help from spain and france in the war 1776 if not the usa would have lost ,800 years the brits have been in Ireland way before the usa was born the riches of india at the same time was more appealing to the brits than a bunch of colonies 1812 was a british victory they kicked the yanks out of Canada and burnt Washington dc to the ground and the white house truth hurts you I see ha ha
They died for nothing
They died for nothing, Britain still rule you
Even as a loyalist you have to respect these men who gave there own lifes for the cause they believed
Respect for what, starving themselves for nothing. They are all forgot about now, nobody remembers them for anything except murdering terrorists. Child killers.
@DML1888 No. I am positive. It's only fools and idiots that think they remember them.
@DML1888 And you know for fact that Loyalists only pumped iron and took drugs??? Maybe, just maybe like me they got degrees in politics, irish language and a few other subjects as well. It will never be a "free" Ireland. Economically wise the South could never afford to take over the North.
British never surrender
G you need to shut the fuck up mate. you’re defo a conservative 😂
Gerry acting like he knew bobby better than his family, and then saying them using bobbys name is just sad, theyre his family, sinn fein shouldn't be using his name or image
May there deaths be not in vain!! Ireland will be free and hunger strikers of 81 will play a significant part in her freedom🇨🇮💚🏴💚🇨🇮💚🏴
Could you go a chicken super Bobby sands,,could you go a chicken super Bobby sands,,could you go a chicken super,,ya dirty bead rattling fucker,,could you go a chicken super Bobby sands,,,,get it up you ya fenian cow...no surrender 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Sarah Miller your a disgrace to our Scottish cause your ignorant woman shut up when you no nothing and stop embarrassing the rest of us Scots 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
British never surrender🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
God bless you is Scotland of are Celtic blood 🇮🇪🏴
The shit on the wall was because the Screws would not empty their chamber pots. It does not take much effort to get this correct
Wrong. It’s down to the inmates to empty their own chamber pots. You need to get your facts right before you comment.
@@user-yv4qx7pw7g they couldn't leave their cells w/o a prison uniform. How in jn the name of sweet Jesus were they going to do that?
@@meansteve3602 wrapped in their blankets. The offer was there for them. That’s how in hell they were going to do it. No one forced them to plaster their walls with excrement.
@@user-yv4qx7pw7g Whereas political thinkers like Gusty Spence, Hugh Smyth, Billy Hutchinson and David Ervine saw republican politicisation during the prison protests as a positive force that would eventually muzzle their violence, others, like Wright, King and Curry, saw it as a posing an even greater threat to the Protestant community. For the remainder of their lives they would continue to advocate physical force as the only real option for removing this threat.
With the absence of a political vehicle to channel this kind of fear, hatred and commitment to violence, politics and militarism would continue to remain dialectical concepts in militant loyalism.
It was to take loyalists another generation before they realised that the real cutting edge of the Provisional movement was its political project. Only then did they move to exchange force for political activism.
Staring death in the face for 50+ days your body going through different stages from going blind to constant vomiting and bed sores and not breaking for something they believe in they will for ever go down in Irish history
I could not die of hunger! This is history! Bobby sands! Has my respect!
@@gerardnolan2556 Don`t blame the ordinary working class Englishman Gerard. Most of us ,are with you. Thatcher was a horrible,heartless,bastard who hated,working class people. You are right,the men who starved themselves to death, for what they believed,will never be forgotten and their likes,will never be beaten by Bully Boy Tactics. From a Scouser,with Irish Blood in His Veins.
Stephen Smith
The Scouscers are as Irish as the Irish themselves, great connection.
They hated Thatcher as much, she tried to destroy the City.
Utd supporter 🤣🤣🤣, but congratulations on winning the Title this yr.
Amazing heart in your team.
@@patrickallen8005 Nice one Mate. My missus is from Belfast and the number of Utd and Liverpool supporters over there is amazing.
@@patrickallen8005 Scousers are English not even a little irish. If your born and bred in England then your english...doh. You know nothing about Ulster.
Respect for what? For the murder and mayhem that he and his criminal murdering friends caused to ordinary decent living innocent men women and children......?
Shame after all the sacrifice and loss ,that the royal family can visit and trample all over there memory .💚
Awake now talking of Royal family and visits who had tea and biscuits with HM the queen???????!!
Blessed now god bless you mam long may you reign over use 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@alanmarchini3760 lol
There have also been many hunger strikes by members of pro British Loyalist paramilitaries but they tended to be announced loudly but would then fizzle out very quickly, many of them ended after just a few days of fasting which speaks volumes on how much they believed in their cause when it came to personal sacrifice. It used to be noted that whilst Republican prisoners tried to better themselves intellectually by learning languages and studying and trying to pass academic exams, the Loyalist prisoners would spend all their time either in the gym lifting weights or getting tattoo's .
Please. The Republicans were refusing to shower, brush their teeth, spreading human waste on the walls.
@@Anon54387 Yeah that came after gangs of prison officers assaulted the prisoners when they slopped out. 2 prisoners a week went into the infirmary from the beatings they received. At least they had conviction of their beliefs, whilst Loyalist hunger strikes barely lasted a few days.
10:20 the man reading out the results looks sick and when he said "30.000." More people voted for Bobby than they did Thatcher
True Republican's R.i.p
Brendan Hughes is right. Rhauri Obradaigh called it years ago
Thank you so much for this!
As Padraig Pearse said "Ireland unfree, shall never be at peace"......sin a bhfuil imo
Mate,the south don’t want anything to do with the wild north..
There was thousands of the IRA and inla in the south fact I should know I know hundreds and those that took it futher Dublin Ireland
Thousands ove supporters down south
@@paulritchie5868 what about the continuity ira
afk because the north is riddled with informers and traitors. They are not fit be be part of a republic.
I couldn't see Gerry Adams going on hunger strike
He had'nt got the balls to do it coward
He got young, working class men to do his dirty work
My sister and her husband moved from the top of Springfield park to middle ,she has fond memories of it as I do as a young boy , I would often stay there , she told me that they often slept on the floor as there was so much gun fire outside .
Thank you for ur scarifice, for Ireland. RIP
Rip Bobby sands from America
Johnny Adair even said on the james English podcast that he said they were brave men
@@ogrebattle22763 very true
@DML1888 A sectarian loyalist scumbag....
I was aware of the Northern Ireland conflict but now watching this newscast I was taken back by the magnitude of devastation and the degree of bloodshed in this religious and political conflict
sas suffer from PTSD not so much the blanket men.. if you are right then you're right.. farther faul. no mention of the political vatican pedarast coverup . the strikers were. christlike. faul playéd and enjoyed the limelight. you cant hide the twinkle in ye eye ye proxy RC, play god without missing a is this my good side 667
away the church. I've no love for adáms a latter day dev' bit belivehu
à meal
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24:36 Martin was because the only way forward wasn't the bullets or the bombs it was politics
GREAT DOCOMENTRY BEST I HAVE SEEN IN LONG TIME
EVEN THOUGH ITS WHAT 20 ODD TEARS AGO
Watch The Enemy Within by Peter Taylor
40 years ago.
Maggie will be judge one day by the only things that matters. God is who she will answer to... Like she siad herself... MURDER IS MURDER IS MURDER... SHE A MASS MURDERER AND DOESN'T CARE BOUT REMORSE OF THE FAMILIES.. THE LAKE OF FIRE AWAITS MAGGIE. 🇮🇪🔥🔥
I'm English so my opinion means fuck all on the situation in the North. But I can sort of understand Brendan Hughes comments. People died or dedicated their lives to fighting for a united Ireland, they never fought for a peace deal. Obviously I don't agree with the violence and atrocities committed by any party in this conflict and I think the GFA was brilliant. But it's easy for me to say, I never had to live in either community. ✌️
The bravest of the brave ✊🏻🇮🇪💚
Does anyone know the name of the blanketman at the very start who is saying "we are political prisoners, we want political status"?
u r hero.. i love you Pat Sheehan for free dom palestine
I don’t know why they would want their children and grandchildren to grow up in the conflict they did try need to be able to have a voice and this was the first step in that process. It was never gonny happen overnight
R.i.p men may your courage and fame be widely known brave sons of Eire. 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
British never surrender🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Scumbags
Courage??? It was stupidity, they commented suicide for nothing.
@@user-yv4qx7pw7g Where did they 'commented' suicide ?
@@jacquiewalton1355 spelling error…..COMMITED
THE NORTH OF IRELAND..... DID YOU SEE WHAT I DONE THERE YOU KNOW ITS RIGHT.... TAL
god bless bobby sands and all the falling
Sing Zing frailing
How can Adams make that comment when he said Sinn Fein will not accept their doings,it's their choice as individuals,"Sinn Fein will not support their acts"
god plz bless bobby sands a true patriot
TAL
15:36.., she sent troops to die in The Falklands over 6 tonnes of scrap metal, the woman was a Demon!
Those were UK citizens living in the Falklands, should she just have abandoned them to live under a military dictatorship?
@@Anon54387 Oh ye of little brains.., Bless.
@@Anon54387 Bless your brainless children.
15:10
Support the dissidents the gfa isnt what these men died for look up saoradh on Facebook
Gg Ff sold out by their so called SF
FUCK OFF WHIT YOUR FALSE NEWS, HUN PROPAGANDA
james daly you go fuck yourself you twat 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
hunger strike? should that not be an eating strike!
Adams has fooled so many people for so many years and continues to do so. Look , folks at the end of the day he's (Adams) is still standing! He got to live his life while burying so many others. He claims his hands are clean but, are they?
Of course theyre not clean.
Hes never said theyre clean.
Is he supposed to say theyre dirty ?
Hes in politics now, not war
07:02 = bigot
victory to all who seek a united Ireland.Tiocfaidh Ar La.10/81/16/32
I wonder could Dulux create that colour for me!
Makes u wonder. But lets face it, when Martin acknowledged the (q)ueen, Republicanism was fucked. U cannot change a system. It reluctantly accepts u, and then it takes the sting out of u. One day the Republican movement will not compromise, but not in the last several chapters 😢
Martyrs..
yous wanna act your age proud of our men you lot could never do what our men did your not billy boys your silly boys
The start of slimmers world........
Vive Irelanda siempre. Thatcher bassuro
Not enough of them done it. “We will never forget you Jimmy Sands” thanks for the overtime in the 80,s. Cheers 👍
Upa Ra 🇮🇪
Aindréas 1916 fuck the Ira 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Fuck you IRA 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@Frankie Flannery fuck the backwards brainwashed death cult people with weak minds join that weird cult
This is my wee country Northern Ireland I love it never b an all Ireland were our freedom in northern ireland
Awful shame the Brighton bomb missed Battleaxe Thatcher!
I don’t mind stealing bread from the mouth of decadence
DEFEAT DEFEAT DEFEAT.....the fenian way! No Surrender Ever! WATP!
@Gar ANOTHER Mick Roach clone ! ...How many now micky ?
Pablo Escobar imposed lol lol lol lol Christ they would run over you to be first in dole so nothing imposed there lol lol lol
@Gar Army paper says IRA not defeated
Army concedes for first time it did not win the battle against the IRA
An internal British army document examining 37 years of deployment in Northern Ireland contains the claim by one expert that it failed to defeat the IRA.
The admission is contained in a discussion document released by the Ministry of Defence after a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
The 100 page document analyses in detail the army's role over 37 years.
It focuses on specific operations and gives an overview of its performance.
The six-month study, covering the period 1968-2005, was prepared under the direction of the then chief of general staff, General Sir Mike Jackson.
@Gar Not quite as straightforward as you suggest …. "Although when the retiring Oatley passed on the mantle to an MI5 officer, he had the support of the MI5 Co-ordinator of Intelligence in Northern Ireland, John Deverell, the process faced near-collapse following the death of Deverell in a helicopter crash. MI5 Director-General Stella Rimington was a hardliner who briefed Prime Minister John Major that McGuinness and Adams were IRA members and could not be trusted. *Privately, senior MI6 officers accused their MI5 counterparts of being 'a bunch of idiots' whose efforts had sabotaged the process*."
@Gar A quote from Stella Rimington's (head of MI5) book 'Open Secret'
…"
Her own assessment of the effect of investigating terrorists is revealing: above all, she writes, it helped foster 'a new style of MI5 officer, quite different from those who had been around when I first entered the service. The modern version was younger, travelled regularly, spoke foreign languages... the new breed was comfortable in Whitehall, sitting on committees and discussing issues with ministers.' *Suave, non-sexist, good at presentation. But not very effective at preventing murderous atrocities*.
Doesn’t that snake Adams make your skin crawl. He’s one slippery self centred RAT.
The Iron Lady wouldn’t back down💪
I'm not getting 8nto an argument with you . You have you4 views I have mine let's just leave it there .
WIPE UR HOLE WITH THAT BUTCHERS APRON
British🇬🇧🇬🇧
Gerard Nolan we cant even wipe our arse with bog roll a month ago thanks to that Tory prick Johnson 😂
Up the RA!
F
They died for nothing . The six counties are still British and always will be . The UVF and UFF along with British intelligence freed Ulster from the IRA. No surrender
Idiot,
@@moggie who ??
@@bammy1690 You are calling state funded bigoted murderers, "freedom fighters". The UVF and UFF did nothing more than kill innocent Catholics.
@@moggie not they targeted and killed the Ira , sinn fejn and their families . This showed the IRA they couldn’t win and ultimately lead to the IRA surrender.! Combined with the loyalist paramilitaries and British intelligence, the IRA WERE DEFEATED . The six counties are still British and we DON’T have a United Ireland
@@bammy1690 Loyalist paramilitaries were no more than a bunch of unhighly trained cowards wearing balaclavas going out into the street, picking out catholics, and gunning them down infront of their family and friends. They went to the point where a school shooting was planned on a Catholic primary school. Loyalists proceeded to then plant a Pipe bomb [which was thankfully defused] near the entrance of a primary school. Chlorane. Cappagh. Sean McConville. Belturbet. Monaghan. Dublin. The list goes on. They were no more than low scum.
💀☠️💀☠️💀☠️💀☠️💀☠️
Turns out they were collaborators ...
What a waste
You have to admire Maggie for standing her ground they were criminals not political prisoners
@Diarmaid O'Riordan don't be bitter.. the English have made northern Ireland there own..and doe a bloody good job.. it's time to move on and accept the peacce deal Tony Blair gave you. You got a good deal under the good Friday agreement as most of the IRA was released
@BemusedBarfly yes but with a loss of 10 lives was it worth it.
Maggie . ..also supported Pinochet who murdered non combatants and was never elected. She insisted he should not be charged with his crimes. She was a truly evil woman
@BemusedBarfly including one of my own. Was it worth it. Yes because northern Ireland is still a part of the UK and will always remain so..
Gerry's no traitor,balloon,
Danny Mckeown bloody right he is fucking laughing at you lot lol
Baroness Thatcher came, she saw, she conquered what a woman 😍
AND she negotiated with the IRA
Hahahahahahahahagaha✋
Sein fein money grabbing liarers
bernard mc grail great isn’t it lol lol lol 😂😂😂😂😂
would u like to try a cheese burger Bobby sands 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Tremendous joke wayne
@@MartySonofaCowardthanks🇬🇧
20 years on ??? Yeah, they’re still dead 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Not to many of us. I'm not even irish and I remember and respect their sacrifice. Will anyone care 20 years after your death?
@@jenjen.rutherford8559 lol lol lol idiot comment
John Toner
Sun 31 Dec 2023 at 07:00
Ex-UDA kingpin Johnny Adair believes the IRA were the most effective “guerrilla army” of all time and admitted he wouldn’t have the courage of the Hunger Strikers.
Convicted terror chief Adair (60) has also fondly remembered narrowly escaping jail with his nipples intact after a prison officer attempted to remove his jewellery with a hacksaw.
Speaking to career criminal and anti-Islam hate preacher Tommy Robinson on his podcast, Adair was full of praise for his deadly enemies of the past and revealed he would have refused to go on hunger strike for his cause.
Robinson says: “I’ve seen the IRA described as the best guerrilla warfare army there has ever been”, to which Adair says: “And they were, that’s a fact and I’m not scared to say that, I’ll not tell a lie, of course they were.
“Their bombmaking technology was a step ahead of the British Army, the army tried to keep ahead of them and the IRA was always in front.
“Even the Hunger Strikers, I grudgingly respect them men too, they starved themselves to death for a political cause, dedication at the highest level.
“Now I’m dedicated, and I knew one day I could lose my life and the IRA would get me, and I accepted that because I didn’t know what day it would be.
“These hunger strikers, death was staring themmuns in the face for 60-odd days. If I was asked to give my life on hunger strike? No I wouldn’t do it, I wouldn’t have been as brave to do that.
“I was willing to accept that the IRA might kill me but I couldn’t see it coming, they’re sneaking up behind me or riddling my car, it’s unexpected.
“But these men knew what they were doing
They all got 10000 pounds in compensation. I think it was in food vouchers.
God Bless you Margaret Thatcher
They won long term as their demands were met after 5 months. Also it led to Sinn Fein going from strength to strength. Just look at them now. All of that can be put down to BSs and the hunger strikes as prior to that they were a political non entity.
Anyone fancy a nandos??
Thank you for ur scarifice, for Ireland. RIP
Tomas Mc Cool for wat
Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair
John Toner
Sun 31 Dec 2023 at 07:00
Ex-UDA kingpin Johnny Adair believes the IRA were the most effective “guerrilla army” of all time and admitted he wouldn’t have the courage of the Hunger Strikers.
Convicted terror chief Adair (60) has also fondly remembered narrowly escaping jail with his nipples intact after a prison officer attempted to remove his jewellery with a hacksaw.
Speaking to career criminal and anti-Islam hate preacher Tommy Robinson on his podcast, Adair was full of praise for his deadly enemies of the past and revealed he would have refused to go on hunger strike for his cause.
Robinson says: “I’ve seen the IRA described as the best guerrilla warfare army there has ever been”, to which Adair says: “And they were, that’s a fact and I’m not scared to say that, I’ll not tell a lie, of course they were.
“Their bombmaking technology was a step ahead of the British Army, the army tried to keep ahead of them and the IRA was always in front.
“Even the Hunger Strikers, I grudgingly respect them men too, they starved themselves to death for a political cause, dedication at the highest level.
“Now I’m dedicated, and I knew one day I could lose my life and the IRA would get me, and I accepted that because I didn’t know what day it would be.
“These hunger strikers, death was staring themmuns in the face for 60-odd days. If I was asked to give my life on hunger strike? No I wouldn’t do it, I wouldn’t have been as brave to do that.
“I was willing to accept that the IRA might kill me but I couldn’t see it coming, they’re sneaking up behind me or riddling my car, it’s unexpected.
“But these men knew what they were doing