Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton said: "This attack was unbelievably reckless."
What? Like they hadn't considered someone getting hurt? If reckless is the strongest condemnation he has maybe he ought to get a press officer.
They could have had someone’s eye out with that!
I think they were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off.
A warning to,someone?
A warning to,someone?
To the Samaritans in Birmingham apparently
Maybe the current mob of Tories will remember what the GFA was for.
I'm sure they don't want another instance of exploding party conferences, and I assume that was the implicit warning.
They said the attack may have been carried out by dissident republican group the New IRA.
FFS how many versions are needed?
FFS how many versions are needed
The New IRA have decided to distance themselves from Corbyn and Abbot.
“This attack was unbelievably reckless.”
What? Like they hadn’t considered someone getting hurt? If reckless is the strongest condemnation he has maybe he ought to get a press officer.
I assume he is retaining some perspective from the days where people did get killed, and when bombers used to aim to make a point by getting the device in place and then telling you about it so you could clear out as they blew it up.
Wasn't the car bomb in DERRY?
I assume he is retaining some perspective from the days where people did get killed, and when bombers used to aim to make a point by getting the device in place and then telling you about it so you could clear out as they blew it up.
And then set off a second one just as the emergency services turned up, in order to maximise the carnage.
People’s front of IRA
Maybe the current mob of Tories will remember what the GFA was for.
I’m sure they don’t want another instance of exploding party conferences, and I assume that was the implicit warning.
Don’t forget the Mortars on 10 downing St, sheer luck they didn’t get John Major that day.
Don’t forget the Mortars on 10 downing St, sheer luck they didn’t get John Major that day.
There was a great story from Blair around the time of Martin McGuinness's death about the start of the peace talks, Blair was with Adams and McGuinness in number 10, the remarked this was where it all happened. Blair a little tense thought they meant the mortar attack, he was actually talking about the partition of Ireland and the decisions that lead to where we had got to then.
Doubt if it’s Brexit related thou, lots of factions and not everyone wanted peace so you get the odd err incident.
The republicans giving everyone a reminder that they’re still here, and still have Semtex? All while the bowler-hatred bigots of the DUP have the government by the short and curlies?
Who’d have thunk it?
Now Binners, there's literally no chance that a tory government would imperil peace in NI purely to keep themselves in power by allying with and being completely beholden to the NI unionists just so they can cling to power for one more minute. Again. That'd be unthinkable. Again
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Wasn’t the car bomb in DERRY?
I think we have a sleeper cell in our midst.....
Actually, funny story....... At the height of the troubles in mid 90's i was working at my Saturday job in belfast city centre. Tried to phone home to my folks on outskirts of Belfast and was put straight through to RUC Chief Inspector Ronnie Flanegan. Turns out i had dialled the wrong number. Transpires that my parents number and the head of the RUC's number were only 1 digit different!
Spent the next few months looking over my shoulder if truth be told!
😂
ohhh...... and the time (just after passing my driving test) that I drove down the wrong street in Lisburn. Ended up panicing and reversing at high speed away from a group of pissed off Squaddies who thought I was just about to drive a bomb into their barracks. (Thiepval Barracks as it now is.)
That PROPERLY put the shit up me.
Hope to **** that Brexit doesn't kick all that shit off again.
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ohhh…… and the time (just after passing my driving test) that I drove down the wrong street in Lisburn. Ended up panicing and reversing at high speed away from a group of pissed off Squaddies who thought I was just about to drive a bomb into their barracks.
Sounds like you were up to something explody with a username like yours..
Hope to **** that Brexit doesn’t kick all that shit off again.
canny see it. A few dissidents who think it's 1974 aren't going to start the war on any large scale again, brexit or not. You might get the odd thing like this, but it'll not go back to what it was.
Remember those two soldiers in the Passat that drove up a road in turned into a funeral procession by accident back in the 80's?
It was savage to watch it on tv. The mob dragged them off and executed them.
Spekkie...... Yup...... I was a handful of miles away from that when it happened. Watched it live in a friends house. Still remember his mum screaming at the TV egging on and cheering on the crowd. Makes me sick to think of it. Was a real turning point for me. Helped me realise that not everyone (friend or not) thinks the same way as you and wants peace.
For anyone interested, check out "Pop goes Northern Ireland" on iPlayer. Might give some context to those not old enough to remember.
Spent a lot of time in bandit country (South Armagh) and Derry (not *ing Londonderry!) at the height of ‘the troubles’.
The thing that’s appalled me about the whole Brexit process more than anything is the flippant, dismissive attitude of the Brexiteers to the Good Friday Agreement. They wouldn’t be so flippant and dismissive if they’d actually seen all that shit
And the DUP are just *s! You can’t constantly indulge idiots like that and expect to be taken seriously
Binners..... Completely agree. Theres a reason I live in Devon and not Belfast anymore.
As for Brexit - What many people forget is that Northern Ireland voted very clearly to Remain.
and yes..... DUP are complete shits and only represent a small minority of people in the North BUT and it's a BIG BIG BUT, they might just have enough clout to bring this whole Brexit farse to an end.
and don't get me started on Sammy ****in Wilson...... Makes me sick to say that he is a fellow teacher. A TEACHER! A ****IN TEACHER!!!!!
seosamh77
canny see it. A few dissidents who think it’s 1974 aren’t going to start the war on any large scale again, brexit or not...
That's how most things spark off. Just a few to start with. Then an over reaction from the authorities drive a few more into the dissident camp, repeat ad infinitum until chaos.
Nah, the "troubles" came out of something more than just a spark. The social conditions of the late 60s, early 70s are vastly different to what there is today.
Seosamh77........ Really?
Nah, the “troubles” came out of something more than just a spark. The social conditions of the late 60s, early 70s are vastly different to what there is today.
and where are we heading next? I don't see things getting better or tension reducing over there if brexit happens
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Seosamh77…….. Really?
Well for a start where are the loyalist pogroms burning people out of their homes? It's a vastly different place these days.
Like I say you'll see an increase in dissident activity, beyond that, don't see it. Car bombs are a throw back that the vast majority want no involvement in. Add to that these groups will get shut down much more easily these days if they get too uppity, and to me it adds up to toys out the pram.
Jesus....Where'd ye buy your crystal ball from? ----- Primark?
You tell us then, do you see the ranks of the 'New' IRA swelling due to brexit? come on tae buggery...
I have a feeling you haven't got a clue what you are talking about.
Good answer to my question. That's me telt...
It will be yet another group trying to garner power and influence and competing to be the one to join if you want an outlet. Unfortunately for them somebody must be helping the police with their enquiries seeing how fast suspects have been picked up ( or poor innocents harassed and to be beaten into confession depending on your take). The sooner the terrorist quartermasters realise the "rainy day" Semtex is a problem and dispose of it properly the better.
Republican groups were the most efficient killing and maiming machine in NI and Britain from the 70's, the stats can't really be argued with and they did it to their own as well as others. The effective ethnic cleansing in parts of NI by both sides leaves deep divisions that will take generations to heal.
The main terrorist groups from both sides stopped because of the realisation that they had achieved all they could with violence and that the UK security services had penetrated them from top to bottom and most importantly peace would bring money. The evil that persists is the paramilitary control of communities and a level of organised violence within them that should be pushing London knife crime off the news headlines.
The future will probably see a United Ireland, the demographics are moving that way, the modernization of the Irish state and civil institutions mean that NI is now the cultural outlier and then Dublin can have the problem and the costs. The only thing that will stop it is if NI politics become left-centre-right rather than about identity politics and which church your parents went to.
LOL @ a united ireland 🤣