MacCool

The Prince and the Grovellers

FOUR weapons handed over  up in Donegal. 
 The usual bombing of nationalist homes. Arrests of people in Kerry coming near election-time. Talk of whether Gerry’s bunch and the Fianna Fáil bunch might one day for a coalition.

Plans to seal an Irish weapon’s dump. Easter is close at hand and plans to honour Ireland’s dead are well advanced by those who have run to London to open offices.

The Special Free State courts have decided they will select which political parties may operate in this country. Following bail restrictions on men who appeared before that court it appears that like Mugabe in Zimbabwe the State here has decided to interpret the UN resolution after the September 11 bombings of New York (which asked that governments take measures against ‘terrorism’ within a specified period of time and report back) as an excuse to stamp out political and media opposition within their own country.

Charles Windsor arrived in Ireland to hand out medals to loyal subjects and pave the way for his mother to come over and set the scene for a return to “business as usual” within the Common-wealth. 

He apologised for any wrongs England may have done Ireland in the past. The Durkan/Adams-led Northern Alliance of “New Ireland Grovellers” ignored stating the obvious which is that a declaration of intent to leave our country and a promise to pay war reparations is the positive step which is really required to begin a new relationship between a united Ireland and Britain.

Up in Stormont the talk is all about excluding Adams’ boys from the private members bar and stopping all expense bonuses until more weapons are handed over. 

IT is reported by reliable sources that Martin McGuinness has threatened that if such a move takes place he will ask for the return of the Teddybear he gave David Trimble as a Christmas present. 

This has led in turn to speculation that a tit-for-tat exchange of threats between the Northern Alliance and the Brit Pups could lead to serious disagreement even possibly cancellation of a joint family holiday planned between a top nationalist politician and a “moderate” loyalist toilet cleaner who is based at Stormont in his official capacity. 

Just what this would mean for the future of the “peace process” is unclear but is described by political pundits as “very worrying indeed”.

Meanwhile as the bombs continue to explode in nationalist estates. As Brit inspired pressure is waged by loyalist gangs against the civilian population the Northern Alliance negotiates the hand-over of yet more weapons to the British government. 

It is this context that the lack of news reporting of incidents must be judged. It is in this context that we must understand why the media and the Durkan/Adams-led Northern Alliance would try to convince us all that it “all quiet on the northern front” (again and again and again).
 

- Mac Cool

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