With the Dublin Parliament already having debated the fall-out from the Smithwick Report, the TUV leader Jim Allister has called for a full debate on Smithwick in Stormont. Continue Reading…
Archives For Victims
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:
“Gerry Adams’s claim that Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Supt Bob Buchanan died because of a “laissez faire disregard for their own security” is utterly sickening.
“The Officers were murdered because bloodthirsty terrorists went out to gun them down. They were murdered because the Garda in Dundalk who they had been meeting tipped those terrorists off.
“Adams compounded the hurt and insult he inflicted when he told the Dail that the officers were “doing their duty as they saw it in the same way as IRA volunteers were doing their duty as they saw it”.
“There is NO parallel between the officers who went out that day to try and combat terror and the criminals who went out to murder the two officers who were betrayed by the Garda.”
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…
The following is a speech delivered by TUV leader Jim Allister during yesterday’s debate on terrorism in the Castlederg area:
“Last night, through our television screens, we had the opportunity to glimpse something of the pain and horror that attended the entire episode of the disappeared. Tonight, this House focuses, quite properly, on the very concentrated pain of the small town of Castlederg. It was visited, probably above all others, with the horrendous, vicious, vile, wicked, terrorism of the IRA, which was not some accidental fallout from some perception that someone somewhere was being discriminated against, but the calculated, deliberate and preconceived implementation of a terrorist campaign. Continue Reading…
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:
“This morning I attempted to table a Matter of the Day on the Disappeared following last night’s harrowing BBC documentary. I had not received notice of whether or not it had been accepted before entering the Assembly chamber.
“Assembly Standing Orders state: Continue Reading…
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…
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’.”
Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister:-
“Having already written to the Chief Constable about the police handling of Gerry Adams’ concealment of his brother’s confession and expressed the view that “the approach to date smacks as something driven more by political considerations than law enforcement considerations”, I trust that the Attorney General’s review will be exhaustive and satisfactory. Continue Reading…
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.”
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…
