Today, Berthie Ahern came out and fully blamed the IRA for the bank robbery, and the Sinn Fein leadership for knowing about it. Furthermore, he blames Sinn Fein for wrecking the recent peace talks; while we thought the tricky issue was about those damn photographs, Berthie says (plaintively) that after working hard all year long only two issues remained: "One was the transparency issue over decommissioning of IRA weapons and the other was IRA criminality".
Where the fuck did this criminality one come from?
Berthie goes o to say the Sinn Fein leadership could not agree over the wording concerning IRA criminality and that he must conclude it was because they knew "these kind of events were going on."
Couple this with mass murderer bLIAR's statement that said "Unionists were entirely justified in refusing to share power with republicans in the light of the robbery" and what do we have left?
nothing, nada, nilch, nil. a redux of pre-1990s. fuck them.
bLIAR and yellow pants Berthie set out to discredit Sinn Fein and prevent them becoming part of a government; they are making considerabble progress. and fuck them again.
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2005/0109/breaking20.htmAhern says IRA was involved in Belfast bank robbery
Last updated: 09-01-05, 17:05
The Taoiseach today blamed the Provisional IRA for the Belfast bank robbery which was carried out in December.
Speaking on RTE's This Week programme, Mr Ahern said: "The Provisional IRA was involved. This was an IRA job...this was a job that was known to the political leadership."
Mr Ahern said he was upset that the crime was being planned when the Government was taking part in crucial talks over reaching a comprehensive agreement to restore the power-sharing executive.
"In a period of intensive talks, my information is now that people in very senior positions would have known what was going on."
"We had finalised some very, very difficult issues during last year and we spent the entire of 2004 working to get to the 8th of December and at the end we had essentially been left with two outstanding issues which had to be resolved. One was the transparency issue over decommissioning of IRA weapons and the other was IRA criminality".
Mr Ahern said the Sinn Fein leadership could not agree over the wording concerning the issue of IRA criminality and that he must conclude it was because they knew "these kind of events were going on."
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The Sinn Fein TD Mr Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin said it was a disgrace that the Government had accepted without question the opinion of PSNI Chief Constable Hugh Orde on the robbery. He said Mr Orde "has produced not a scintilla of evidence to back his allegations".
Mr Ó Caoláin also said: "It is clear now that the DUP were unwilling to share power with republicans at this time".
The British Prime Minister has said Unionists were "entirely justified" in refusing to share power with republicans in the light of the robbery.
Unionists called on London to exclude Sinn Fein and press ahead with efforts to restore devolution without them.
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