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Outrageous Comments from McGuinness on IRA Terror

Admin —  November 7, 2013

Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:

“McGuinness’s comments on the IRA campaign in Oxford will have been grossly offensive to countless victims across Northern Ireland and indeed the whole of the UK.
“To claim that civilians murdered by the IRA were mistakes in operations which went wrong is grotesque nonsense. How was the death of Mary Travers, shot in the back as she made her way home from Mass, a mistake? How were the deaths of nine innocent people in the Shankill bombing anything other than deliberate – particularly when one remembers it had an eleven second fuse? Continue Reading…
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Provo Letter Bombs Were Wrong Too

Admin —  October 29, 2013

Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:

“Martin McGuinness tells us that the letter bomb attacks of recent days were the “product of bitter, twisted little minds”. Does the same apply to the PIRA letter bomb which exploded at the London stock exchange on 24th August 1973 or the one which exploded at the Bank of England the following day, both of which resulted in injuries? Or the IRA letter bombs which injured two people in the run up to Christmas that year?

“These bomb attacks are following the Provo template and it was as wrong in the 1970s as it is today. It is the height of hypocrisy for McGuinness to condemn what has happened in the last few days when just a short time ago his party colleague Gerry Kelly was commemorating the Shankill Bomber.”

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TUV calls for recovery of profits from Gerry Kelly on Maze book

Admin —  October 22, 2013

Statement by TUV leader, Jim Allister:-

“Under the Proceeds of Crime Act it is possible to prevent profiting from crime and recovery of resulting assets.

“Gerry Kelly’s book, “The Escape” is patently an attempt to profit from the crime that was the Maze escape in 1983. Already the profits have been designated to assist an alleged terrorist facing trial in GB. Continue Reading…

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What has Changed in the GAA in Four Months?

Admin —  October 18, 2013

Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:

“Peter Robinson’s address to the GAA last night illustrates just how far the DUP have departed from many ordinary Unionists. I think Jim Wells was probably more in tune with the mood on the ground when, in September 2010, he said Unionists where “being made to feel isolated and under siege in their own homes” because of the display of GAA regalia throughout Co Down. What a shift there has been even since June of this year when DUP MEP Diane Dodds described the award of the EU’s European Citizens’ Prize to the GAA as “premature” because “many in Northern Ireland see the GAA as a political organisation as much as a sporting one.” Continue Reading…

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Claudy

Admin —  October 14, 2013

Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-

“Considering the Police Ombudsman made a finding of state and church cover-up in relation to the notorious Claudy bombing, it is astounding and utterly unacceptable that the police investigation has been abandoned.

“Such only adds to the unease resulting from the cover-up finding.

“This was a bombing involving the Provo priest whom McGuinness denied even knowing; then it turned out he had visited him. What else is McGuinness and other IRA leaders hiding over this wicked bombing. Now, it seems the PSNI isn’t even trying to find out. How many key republican figures have they interviewed? Having already been caught out lying over Father Chesney, has the PSNI ever bothered to quiz him about what he knows. I doubt it.

“Their haste to move on and forget about Claudy is symptomatic of a reluctance to investigate anything capable of disturbing ‘the peace process’.”

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Speaker Rejects Matter of the Day on Shankill Bomber Commemoration

Admin —  October 8, 2013

Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:

“I am disappointed that the Speaker today refused my request to raise the proposed public celebration of the Shankill bomber, Thomas Begley, as a matter of the day. The plan of Republicans to commemorate this multiple murderer has caused great hurt to innocent victims and the issue should, in my view, be discussed on the floor of the Assembly.”

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Republican celebration of mass murder obscene

Admin —  October 7, 2013

Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:

“News that a plaque is to unveiled to commemorate Shankill bomber Thomas Begley will disgust people across Northern Ireland. Once again the innocent victims of IRA terrorism are being insulted by Republican insensitivity. Continue Reading…

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SEUPB Decision on Maze Welcomed

Admin —  October 4, 2013

Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:

“Ever since Peter Robinson was forced into his U-Turn on the Maze Conflict Centre I have consistently made the argument that the EU funding earmarked for the project should be redistributed to deserving projects as soon as possible. Continue Reading…

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Allister Tables Motion on Victims’ Commissioner

Admin —  October 3, 2013

TUV leader Jim Allister has tabled a motion in the Assembly calling on the Victims’ Commissioner to consider her position after she avoided giving a straight answer when asked if the IRA and UVF were terrorists. Continue Reading…

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Nothing Great About the IRA

Admin —  September 25, 2013

Responding to Gerry Kelly who tweeted “Happy 30th anniversary of the Great Escape 1983 from Long Kesh H Blocks to all those involved” TUV leader Jim Allister said: Continue Reading…

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