Sinn Fein? They have gone away, you know.

[Hardy]

[Main Street]

Sdlp view -

SDLP West Belfast MLA Alex Attwood criticised Sinn Féin for staging the rally and said people must stand in support of the McConville family.
He said some people were "on the wrong side of where the great majority of people are".
"It begs many, many questions that a rally was held this afternoon in the shadow of Divis, from the very place where Jean McConville was taken and then murdered," added Mr Attwood.
He continued,"How can any organisation think it appropriate to convene a rally around the arrest of a person in relation to Jean McConville's murder yards from where she was abducted?"
Mr Attwood said the rally was "another example of Sinn Féin displaying fundamentally bad judgment, at the very least, around the recent arrest".
"Martin McGuinness has raised questions about support for policing. The new beginning to policing was hard won and no one should casually undermine it.
"The comments of Mr McGuinness are a challenge to Irish democracy, that somehow one person is bigger than peace or politics. As before, Sinn Féin are on the wrong side of the people of Ireland. "

Have no time for Attwood at all but would agree with most of this. The placards they were holding earlier saying "Defend The Peace Process" were strange in my opinion. Do SF mean that people potentially involved in ordering these murders must be protected at all costs? The Disappeared are amongst the most divisive cases of the Troubles and aren't going away. Gerry getting sweated for a few days won't undermine the peace process, nor would him getting put inside if it is proved that he was involved. The detectives questioning him are probably sweating more than him!

Atwood is feeble minded, appeals to the feeble minded and that statement is a good example of that.

The disappeared are part of the casualties of war.

So dragging a mother from her 10 children and executing her was fair game, as long as it achieved a United Ireland (well thank god it did). Such a f**king statement, by your warped thinking Bloody Sunday was simply another act of war and the 3 unarmed men killed in Gibraltar were just a few dead soldiers. Should we just forget casualties like Finucane and Patsy Kelly, tell the Brits "no justice is needed because we were at war, it was a different time and lets not spill the Stormont gravy train".

You don't do too well at extrapolation trileacman. But possibly you trying to be the GAAboard version of Willie Frazer, then it might make sense, well perhaps that would give you purpose, not sense.

[All of a Sludden]

[Main Street]

Gerry has left the building.

[Line Ball]

If Catholics had pulled a stunt like that in Antrim this evening they would have been pulled and kicked off the road.  Pathetic

[Main Street]

That was some lynch mob outside the barracks, fully clad in loving regalia.

Probably will be served tea and biscuits at 9pm before being gently told to move along.

[Line Ball]

Lynch mob or tea makers, it was an unlawful protest and would have been dealt with differently if it had been Catholics doing it.

[SHEEDY]

Gerry got his letter then!

[Minder]

Very measured speech by Adams, albeit at odds with some of the other comment from SF members in the last few days.

[glens abu]

Another good election broadcast, should be worth a few more votes.The Dark side will never learn, they cannot stop the SF juggernaut,

[Main Street]

That loyalist  lynch mob outside the barracks is just a normal day to day event in Northern Ireland?
Hardly worth passing a comment about?
All that's needed  to complete the picture is Gregory Peck, his shotgun and white hoods over the heads over the baying mob.

And people comment about republicans' sense of victimhood

[Line Ball]

It wasn't a lynch mob.

It was a police station not a barracks.

It wasn't a normal day to day event in the North of Ireland.

Why the question mark?

[Nally Stand]

So does this mean the next time Gerry asks Enda a question about welfare reform or something during leaders questions, that Enda might have to actually answer the question now?

[Hereiam]

Its a pity our James retired from politics, it would have been nice to hear what he would say about the whole thing.
I see ole Willie isnt happy. They wouldnt let him in to bring tae & a heal of a loaf to Gerry.

[Hereiam]

So does this mean the next time Gerry asks Enda a question about welfare reform or something during leaders questions, that Enda might have to actually answer the question now?

read in the papers today how he made fun of a question asked by Ming on something about corruption in the drugs squad. Enda is no leader, the sooner people in the south get a grip the better