To talk about right wing extremist violence is to construct an alternative reality to the one we actually inhabit.
“Everything we do know about Scappaticci since he was exposed confirms that he was a state agent”
Brendan McFarlane killed Irish people. That’s how he spent his adult years.
Also: Ceasefire in Gaza, Ministries for everyone, beds for nobody, and why Say Nothing says something.
“The truth was that McCafferty was the quintessence of the 1960s, in which shallow posturing was esteemed and holding fashionable lefty-opinions was not brave but obligatory.”
According to Europol data, the vast majority of terror arrests in Ireland over the last decade involved far-left Socialist dissidents and Jihadists – yet the media can’t stop talking about ‘the far-right’, who statistically pose a much smaller threat. Ben Scallan comments.
Sorry, was there overnight a constitutional coup that no-one told us about, ie, so that foreign policy decisions are now made in the Aras, and not Iveagh House?
Freddie Scappaticci
101 years ago
He made the point that Irish nationalists had no need of Marxists to whom nationalism is anathema, to educate them on anything.
“Everything we do know about Scappaticci since he was exposed confirms that he was a state agent”
Attack “highly likely.”