picture perfect?

Willie Frazer and his cronies are up in arms (pardon the pun!!) over a photograph showing Martin Mc Guinness with a Luger gun. the photo wasn't taken yesterday or even last week, it was taken in 1972 at an IRA arms dump in Derry. so what! the man admits he was an IRA commander during the troubles so why are people so appalled at this photograph!!!??

if people want to criticize the deputy first minister over an old photograph, then they should also criticise the first minister, Peter Robinson. there is a photograph of him taken in Israel in 1986 holding a AK-47. around that time Robinson co-founded the Ulster Resistance, a military style loyalist group who, funnily enough funded their activities mainly from a loot of money they stole from the northern bank in 1987!

so listen up all you law abiding loyalists, take a look at yer own past before you judge others!

18 years later arrests have been made in the Fullerton murder case

Eddie Fullerton was a respected and hard working Donegal sinn fein councillor. he was shot dead by masked men who broke into his house in Buncrana in 1991. no one was ever arrested for his murder...until now.

a 41 year old Derry man and 45 year old antrim man were arrested recently on the request of the gardai but later released without charge.

the murder of Eddie Fullerton was claimed by the UFF, but suspicion has arose in recent years that British authorities aswel as the gardai were somewhat involved. the reason behind this theory lies in the fact that Fullerton knew of links between the Gardai, British authorities, loyalist gangs and their links to a gaming machine cartel in Donegal, and Fullerton was about to blow the whole thing open.

CENTENARY OF NA FIANNA EIREANN

founded in august 1909 in a hall on Camden street in Dublin by Bulmer Hobson and countess Markievicz, Na Fianna Eireann was founded as an alternative to Baden-Powell's boy scouts and this year it celebrates its centenary.

many notable republicans were once Na Fianna scouts including Gerry Adams and Brendan Behan and Sean lemass. the youth wing of the IRA has since declined as we are now in more peaceful days but at the height of the war against English suppression, Na Fianna were there. expect many events to be organised in the coming months to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Fianna Eireann.

THE IRISH CONFEDERATE BOY

Willie Mitchel was the son of Irish patriot John Mitchell. he lies in an unmarked grave in Gettysburg where he fell during Pickets ill fated charge. Willie had joined the confederate cause, a cause his father had supported at the out brake of the civil war. Private Willie Mitchell was struck down in a hail of bullets as he carried the flag of his regiment. his bullet riddled body was later found and wrapped in a blanket and before it was buried in an unmarked grave a note was attached to it which read - "private willie Mitchell, son of Irish patriot'

John Mitchell had paid dearly for his support of the southern cause,but the death of his son did not deter him from being a southern sympathiser. Mitchell wrote that the confederacy was like Ireland- 'two agricultural economies tied up in an unjust union.' Mitchell returned to Ireland shortly after the end of the civil war where he died.

VOTE FOR IRELAND'S HARDEST WORKING BAND!

the Wolfetones have been going since the dawn of time and now they are in the running for best Irish folk group in the Irish Music Awards ( the IMA'S )

get onto www.irelandsmusicawards.com/ and vote for the 'tones as irelands best folk group!

ANOTHER ROAD TO RIP THROUGH OUR HISTORY

on the main Cork to Kilarney road there lies a monument dedicated to an IRA ambush which took place there during the Tan war. the national roads authority want to build a dual carriageway through this historic area called Coolnachaheragh. on February 21st 1921 the local IRA wiped out 28 black and tans at this ambush and it proved to be a moral boost to a then lagging IRA in the south.

the ambush site is located on the tourist route just outside the gaeltacht villages of Ballymakeera and Ballyvourney (the locations for the 2006 film The Wind that shakes the barley). the monument will be removed permanently and all traces of the beauty of this scenic drive through Corks gealthact will vanish to make way for a needless dual carriageway.

like Tara in Co.Meath, Cork too will suffer a loss in the name of greed.

SIMPLE SAMMY STRIKES AGAIN!

blocking an ad campaign to raise awareness on climate change is a bit over top.

Sammy Wilson doesn't believe climate change is man made and therefore thinks everyone else shouldn't believe so also.

do you know who else thinks climate change isn't man made? Sarah palin.

enough said!