en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/2563164 Comments by seamasbeag http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/adams-in-formal-complaint-to-police-30255630.html#IDComment827470114 I’m confused here. Gerry Adams worked for MI5. Gerry Adams killed Jean McConville. Does that mean MI5 killed her? Thu, 8 May 2014 07:04:15 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/adams-in-formal-complaint-to-police-30255630.html#IDComment827470114 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/unionists-clash-over-councils-carveup-as-battle-heats-up-30255103.html#IDComment827468980 Every circus has a clown. Thu, 8 May 2014 07:00:20 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/unionists-clash-over-councils-carveup-as-battle-heats-up-30255103.html#IDComment827468980 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/top-garda-derek-byrne-in-running-to-head-the-psni-30246010.html#IDComment827301492 Nil sasanach é. Tá fhios agam sin. Ni raibh mé ach ag magadh. Wed, 7 May 2014 21:11:08 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/top-garda-derek-byrne-in-running-to-head-the-psni-30246010.html#IDComment827301492 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/queens-university-students-to-debate-on-poppy-sale-ban-30250072.html#IDComment827296456 “It would seem that you sir are a hypocrite” I think you’ve been reading too much Jane Austin. Selling poppies supports British soldiers. I notice you didn’t address that, flowery language or otherwise. Wed, 7 May 2014 21:01:41 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/queens-university-students-to-debate-on-poppy-sale-ban-30250072.html#IDComment827296456 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/queens-university-students-to-debate-on-poppy-sale-ban-30250072.html#IDComment827231901 Let’s be very clear about the issue here. There is a difference between the buying of poppies and the selling of poppies. Poppies may very well be bought to remember fallen soldiers but they are sold for a very different reason. Poppies are sold to raise money for the Royal British Legion. The RBL supports former soldiers many of whom served and abused here. The Student Union is considering a ban on the sale of poppies, not the purchase of them or indeed the wearing of them. No-one is suggesting that students can’t wear poppies whilst in the Student Union, but raising funds for soldiers who murdered with impunity here is wrong. Wed, 7 May 2014 17:24:47 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/queens-university-students-to-debate-on-poppy-sale-ban-30250072.html#IDComment827231901 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/loyalists-to-stage-giro-ditalia-protest-30239602.html#IDComment826885031 He was indeed, but not before he and Menachem Begin blew up the King David Hotel and killed 96 British soldiers and civilians. Tue, 6 May 2014 21:02:31 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/loyalists-to-stage-giro-ditalia-protest-30239602.html#IDComment826885031 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/letters/our-socalled-unionist-parties-cant-be-trusted-30245351.html#IDComment826825225 Lyle, as a Sinn Fein supporter, I applaud your decision not to vote. The fewer people vote for the unionist parties the better I like it. Well done. Tue, 6 May 2014 17:34:30 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/letters/our-socalled-unionist-parties-cant-be-trusted-30245351.html#IDComment826825225 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/top-garda-derek-byrne-in-running-to-head-the-psni-30246010.html#IDComment826821481 More bloody foreigners coming over to take our jobs!! Tue, 6 May 2014 17:21:42 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/top-garda-derek-byrne-in-running-to-head-the-psni-30246010.html#IDComment826821481 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/loyalists-to-stage-giro-ditalia-protest-30239602.html#IDComment826388441 There are lots of examples, in countries all over the world of former freedom fighters/terrorists going on to form the government. The British Empire is full of them. At one stage Moshe Dayan was the most wanted man in the world! Mon, 5 May 2014 17:33:40 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/loyalists-to-stage-giro-ditalia-protest-30239602.html#IDComment826388441 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/editors-viewpoint/sinn-feins-reaction-to-adams-arrest-sending-wrong-message-30243398.html#IDComment826385867 “..they have conveniently forgotten the controversial pardons given to the "on-the-runs". There weren’t any pardons given to anyone and the editor knows that. What is he talking about? Sinn Fein supplied the government with a list of names. The police and the PPS reviewed the list and if there was no active investigation or outstanding charges the person received a letter telling them so. That’s not a pardon. If the police suspect Gerry Adams of a crime then they should arrest and interview him. That’s not the issue here. The information upon which the police made their decision was in their possession for months. Why wait until 2 weeks before an election to act upon it? It’s the timing that is suspect not the arrest itself. It also, very conveniently, took the public gaze away from the judge’s damning criticism of the PSNI handling of flag protests. Mon, 5 May 2014 17:25:45 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/editors-viewpoint/sinn-feins-reaction-to-adams-arrest-sending-wrong-message-30243398.html#IDComment826385867 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/loyalists-to-stage-giro-ditalia-protest-30239602.html#IDComment826265605 No other country would accept its own citizens taking decisions about their flag? You’re a bigot who won’t accept Catholics have a say in running their own City Hall. Mon, 5 May 2014 10:20:51 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/loyalists-to-stage-giro-ditalia-protest-30239602.html#IDComment826265605 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/loyalists-to-stage-giro-ditalia-protest-30239602.html#IDComment826084000 Heisenburg. You do have the right to fly your flag from the City Hall. The people exercised that right and decided to fly on designated days only. Sun, 4 May 2014 22:35:17 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/loyalists-to-stage-giro-ditalia-protest-30239602.html#IDComment826084000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/gerry-adams-arrest-police-granted-another-two-days-to-question-sinn-fein-president-over-jean-mcconvilles-murder-30239798.html#IDComment825750930 In your scenario who shot the mother, the government or terrorists? Sun, 4 May 2014 00:43:53 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/gerry-adams-arrest-police-granted-another-two-days-to-question-sinn-fein-president-over-jean-mcconvilles-murder-30239798.html#IDComment825750930 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/loyalists-to-stage-giro-ditalia-protest-30239602.html#IDComment825748644 Way to go RD! Comment of the month. Sun, 4 May 2014 00:35:01 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/loyalists-to-stage-giro-ditalia-protest-30239602.html#IDComment825748644 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/loyalists-to-stage-giro-ditalia-protest-30239602.html#IDComment825573717 Are you sure its Woodvale Road Chris and not Twaddell Avenue? You know the way you get them mixed up. Sat, 3 May 2014 13:58:02 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/loyalists-to-stage-giro-ditalia-protest-30239602.html#IDComment825573717 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/letters/focus-on-exam-grades-behind-lost-generation-30236338.html#IDComment825399169 We don’t have segregated education. That’s simply not true. That’s a lie. Supernatural made that up. We have an integrated state sector and we have a catholic sector for parents who want their children educated within a catholic ethos. No child is barred from either. Supernatural is a liar and an anti-catholic bigot who can’t thole the fact that catholic school children are out performing protestant children. That’s the top and bottom of it. Sat, 3 May 2014 02:32:28 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/letters/focus-on-exam-grades-behind-lost-generation-30236338.html#IDComment825399169 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/letters/catholic-church-should-listen-to-congregations-30236314.html#IDComment825390863 Reader. The Catholic church is a bit a of a slow learner. It will get there in the end. Keep the faith, in every sense of the phrase. There are enough good people who support you. Fair play to you. Good luck. Sat, 3 May 2014 01:57:30 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/letters/catholic-church-should-listen-to-congregations-30236314.html#IDComment825390863 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/letters/god-only-exists-in-ignorant-minds-30236312.html#IDComment825388681 Patrick. I’m an atheist. Like you I don’t believe in a god. People’s beliefs are their beliefs. They’re welcome to them so long as they don’t force them upon me. No need to mock them for having them. I know a lot of very genuine Christian people with a genuine faith. Fair play to them. Sat, 3 May 2014 01:49:28 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/letters/god-only-exists-in-ignorant-minds-30236312.html#IDComment825388681 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/new-gerry-adams-mural-is-painted-in-west-belfast-as-sinn-fein-president-remains-held-over-jean-mcconville-murder-30239341.html#IDComment825382078 Oh dear. Did I label you as a free stater? Was that presumptious? I mean I don’t even know, you right? But you know me well enough to label me as a Sinn Feiner. You’re as bad the Unionists. They can’t deal with an articulate Catholic without calling him a Republican either. What reasoned argument would you like me to make? British rule in Ireland is wrong. It’s evil. It was evil in 1916 and it’s evil in 2014. Dan Breen was right. He was justified in doing what he did. So was Bobby Sands. Lets discuss that, free stater. Sat, 3 May 2014 01:36:19 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/new-gerry-adams-mural-is-painted-in-west-belfast-as-sinn-fein-president-remains-held-over-jean-mcconville-murder-30239341.html#IDComment825382078 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/editors-viewpoint/nothing-underhand-in-gerry-adams-arrest-30237310.html#IDComment825346825 On Radio Ulster yesterday Jean McConville’s daughter said she knew who had went to her mothers house the night she was abducted and that she was going to tell the police. Why she had felt it better to talk to a radio journalist and not a policeman she didn’t explain. Were you in the house when these people came, she was asked. Oh no, she said but someone else told me who it was. Now I’m no lawyer but I’ve watched enough Rumpole to know that in court what someone else has told you is about as useful as Anne Frank’s drum kit. This arrest is about the European election and the recent damning judgement of the PSNI handling of flag protests. I wonder does Theresa Villiers think it is in the public interest. Fri, 2 May 2014 23:13:54 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/editors-viewpoint/nothing-underhand-in-gerry-adams-arrest-30237310.html#IDComment825346825