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Robert McCartney

 

Carol Mallon • 17 March 2005


I have written before voicing my opinion on the brutal death of Robert McCartney.

I'm formerly from the Short Strand living in the States with my two little girls.

My huge family circle live in the Short Strand and surrounding country side.

I have always been a republican. I went to every protest to support the "blanket men," the hunger strikers, and any other protest to support justice.

My grandmother was a well respected woman, who supported the cause all her
life.

Gerry Adams always made his way to her house to shake her hand.

We have always been Sinn Fein supporters.

I'm totally horrified at the outcome of the investigation of Sinn Fein.

The dogs on the street are barking the names of ALL that were in that bar.

Sympathy is not lying with Paula McCartney and her sisters, instead the mentality of those in the Short Strand is laying with the IRA members who have been expelled....

The talk is now that "The McCartney's" have went too far, especially going to Washington; they as a family are being discredited: "They were never republicans," "They never showed their faces at one protest".

This is obviously the IRA at work.

Do people forget? These same "heroes" "who have now lost their jobs" danced
on Robert McCartney's head so much his eye came out??

Do they not feel the pain of a mother whose only remaining son was brutally kicked unconscious?

Do they not feel anything?

In my opinion I applaud the McCartney sisters. If it was my brother I would be standing in front of the doors of "the heroes" with a placard. And I don't give a fuck who it offends.

Shame on those who defend the poison that corrupts.

I feel if one of the so called "heros" had have met the same death as Robert McCartney, we would not be facing the middle finger the McCartneys are getting.

Thank God I DON'T live there.






 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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22 March 2005

Other Articles From This Issue:

A Must Read
Mick Hall

Green Paper on Irish Unity
32 CSM Press Release

The Advisocrats
Anthony McIntyre

Fig Leaf
Dr John Coulter

Democractic Killers
Fred A Wilcox

Commiserations
Eamon McCann

No Dodging the Moral Dilemma
David Adams

After St Patrick's Day, Where Goes the Peace Process?
Fr. Sean Mc Manus. INC

The Left Way Could be the Right Way for Sinn Fein
Eamon McCann

Robert McCartney
Carol Mallon

Don't Lose Perspective
Richard Wallace

Gloves
Anthony McIntyre

Is Spring Banging at the Doors of the Arab World?
Michael Youlton

The Letters page has been updated.


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Robinson Family, Derry

Power in the Pub
Anthony McIntyre

Why No Arrests? (Whose agenda are we working to)?
TR FitzSimons

McCartneys: how the personal became political
Brendan O'Neill

No Breakthrough
Michael Benson

Hope for Justice
Mick Hall

Provisional Thuggery in Strabane
Des Dalton

Basking in the Glory?
Dr John Coulter

This Is What Democracy Doesn't Look Like
Fred A. Wilcox

Way Beyond Orwell
Eoghan O'Suilleabhain

Aliyah and the Oligarchs
Mary La Rosa

 

 

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