IRA Leader Brendan Hughes Remembered

[Seosamh]

Photos at:

http://seosamhsonar.blogspot.com/2010/06/ira-leader-brendan-hughes-remembered.html

With the magnificent Cooley Mountains as a backdrop, family, friends, old comrades from D Company, and prison comrades, of IRA leader Brendan Hughes, gathered at his grave for the second annual commemoration in honour of the republican leader from the lower Falls, Belfast.

[seafoid]

He was only 59 when he died. The surviving hunger strikers all seem to have health problems now. For all the commemorations and tricolours these were men from very poor backgrounds who were always going to get shafted
once normality came back and there was money to be made, regardless of religion.

[charlieTully]

A true hero. may he rest in peace.T.A.L

[neilhere]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONsDhyOkHrQ

[Evil Genius]

A true hero. may he rest in peace.T.A.L

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa4OcK6EUK4&feature=related
1 min. 15 secs in - "Bloody Friday": 22 bombs in Belfast in the space of an hour and a half, 9 people killed and over 130 injured, many maimed for life.

Bloody Friday: What happened

There have been many terrible events in the history of Northern Ireland's conflict, but few have seared the collective consciousness of its people as those on Friday, 21 July 1972, a day that became known as Bloody Friday.
By the end of the day, the IRA's Belfast brigade had detonated at least 20 bombs across the city.

In just 75 minutes of violence, nine people were dead and some 130 more were mutilated, injured and mentally scarred by what they had witnessed.

From the outset, the IRA's bombing of the city caused widespread chaos and stretched the security forces to the limit.
Such was the scale of the attack, witnesses at the time remember seeing people running in all directions, not knowing where the bombs were being detonated.

As one report at the time described the scene, "it was impossible for anyone to feel perfectly safe".

Car bombs

While the scale of the attack was huge, it was two car bombs that between them claimed the nine lives - one at the Oxford Street bus station in the city centre, the other outside shops in Cavehill Road in north Belfast.

At Oxford St, the busiest bus station in Northern Ireland, four Ulsterbus workers and two soldiers were killed.
When the emergency services reached the scene, they found that some of the victims had been literally blown to pieces, leading to initial estimates of a death toll of 11.

At the Cavehill Road bomb, the victims were two women and a 14-year-old schoolboy.

Of the 130 injured, 77 were women or children out shopping in the city centre. One police officer at the scene recalled the events for the BBC series Provos in 1997.

"You could hear people screaming, crying and moaning. The first thing that caught my eye was a torso of a human being lying in the middle of the street," he told the series.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/2132219.stm


By his own admission, Brendan Hughes helped plan and carry out this mighty blow for Freedom, Unity and Republicanism.

A "true hero", indeed.

[new devil]

A true hero. may he rest in peace.T.A.L

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa4OcK6EUK4&feature=related
1 min. 15 secs in - "Bloody Friday": 22 bombs in Belfast in the space of an hour and a half, 9 people killed and over 130 injured, many maimed for life.

Bloody Friday: What happened

There have been many terrible events in the history of Northern Ireland's conflict, but few have seared the collective consciousness of its people as those on Friday, 21 July 1972, a day that became known as Bloody Friday.
By the end of the day, the IRA's Belfast brigade had detonated at least 20 bombs across the city.

In just 75 minutes of violence, nine people were dead and some 130 more were mutilated, injured and mentally scarred by what they had witnessed.

From the outset, the IRA's bombing of the city caused widespread chaos and stretched the security forces to the limit.
Such was the scale of the attack, witnesses at the time remember seeing people running in all directions, not knowing where the bombs were being detonated.

As one report at the time described the scene, "it was impossible for anyone to feel perfectly safe".

Car bombs

While the scale of the attack was huge, it was two car bombs that between them claimed the nine lives - one at the Oxford Street bus station in the city centre, the other outside shops in Cavehill Road in north Belfast.

At Oxford St, the busiest bus station in Northern Ireland, four Ulsterbus workers and two soldiers were killed.
When the emergency services reached the scene, they found that some of the victims had been literally blown to pieces, leading to initial estimates of a death toll of 11.

At the Cavehill Road bomb, the victims were two women and a 14-year-old schoolboy.

Of the 130 injured, 77 were women or children out shopping in the city centre. One police officer at the scene recalled the events for the BBC series Provos in 1997.

"You could hear people screaming, crying and moaning. The first thing that caught my eye was a torso of a human being lying in the middle of the street," he told the series.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/2132219.stm


By his own admission, Brendan Hughes helped plan and carry out this mighty blow for Freedom, Unity and Republicanism.

A "true hero", indeed.

Hero and a legend!!

[charlieTully]

A true hero. may he rest in peace.T.A.L

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa4OcK6EUK4&feature=related
1 min. 15 secs in - "Bloody Friday": 22 bombs in Belfast in the space of an hour and a half, 9 people killed and over 130 injured, many maimed for life.

Bloody Friday: What happened

There have been many terrible events in the history of Northern Ireland's conflict, but few have seared the collective consciousness of its people as those on Friday, 21 July 1972, a day that became known as Bloody Friday.
By the end of the day, the IRA's Belfast brigade had detonated at least 20 bombs across the city.

In just 75 minutes of violence, nine people were dead and some 130 more were mutilated, injured and mentally scarred by what they had witnessed.

From the outset, the IRA's bombing of the city caused widespread chaos and stretched the security forces to the limit.
Such was the scale of the attack, witnesses at the time remember seeing people running in all directions, not knowing where the bombs were being detonated.

As one report at the time described the scene, "it was impossible for anyone to feel perfectly safe".

Car bombs

While the scale of the attack was huge, it was two car bombs that between them claimed the nine lives - one at the Oxford Street bus station in the city centre, the other outside shops in Cavehill Road in north Belfast.

At Oxford St, the busiest bus station in Northern Ireland, four Ulsterbus workers and two soldiers were killed.
When the emergency services reached the scene, they found that some of the victims had been literally blown to pieces, leading to initial estimates of a death toll of 11.

At the Cavehill Road bomb, the victims were two women and a 14-year-old schoolboy.

Of the 130 injured, 77 were women or children out shopping in the city centre. One police officer at the scene recalled the events for the BBC series Provos in 1997.

"You could hear people screaming, crying and moaning. The first thing that caught my eye was a torso of a human being lying in the middle of the street," he told the series.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/2132219.stm


By his own admission, Brendan Hughes helped plan and carry out this mighty blow for Freedom, Unity and Republicanism.

A "true hero", indeed.

terrible things happen in war. he was brave enough to stand up and fight the injustice and brutality inflicted on the nationalist people of the north. for that i commend him. btw well done to the RNU, and ONH for getting the tour of the north banned from ardoyne this year, the threat of phyiscal force republicanism still holds sway.

[longrunsthefox]

A true hero. may he rest in peace.T.A.L

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa4OcK6EUK4&feature=related
1 min. 15 secs in - "Bloody Friday": 22 bombs in Belfast in the space of an hour and a half, 9 people killed and over 130 injured, many maimed for life.

Bloody Friday: What happened

There have been many terrible events in the history of Northern Ireland's conflict, but few have seared the collective consciousness of its people as those on Friday, 21 July 1972, a day that became known as Bloody Friday.
By the end of the day, the IRA's Belfast brigade had detonated at least 20 bombs across the city.

In just 75 minutes of violence, nine people were dead and some 130 more were mutilated, injured and mentally scarred by what they had witnessed.

From the outset, the IRA's bombing of the city caused widespread chaos and stretched the security forces to the limit.
Such was the scale of the attack, witnesses at the time remember seeing people running in all directions, not knowing where the bombs were being detonated.

As one report at the time described the scene, "it was impossible for anyone to feel perfectly safe".

Car bombs

While the scale of the attack was huge, it was two car bombs that between them claimed the nine lives - one at the Oxford Street bus station in the city centre, the other outside shops in Cavehill Road in north Belfast.

At Oxford St, the busiest bus station in Northern Ireland, four Ulsterbus workers and two soldiers were killed.
When the emergency services reached the scene, they found that some of the victims had been literally blown to pieces, leading to initial estimates of a death toll of 11.

At the Cavehill Road bomb, the victims were two women and a 14-year-old schoolboy.

Of the 130 injured, 77 were women or children out shopping in the city centre. One police officer at the scene recalled the events for the BBC series Provos in 1997.

"You could hear people screaming, crying and moaning. The first thing that caught my eye was a torso of a human being lying in the middle of the street," he told the series.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/2132219.stm


By his own admission, Brendan Hughes helped plan and carry out this mighty blow for Freedom, Unity and Republicanism.

A "true hero", indeed.

terrible things happen in war. he was brave enough to stand up and fight the injustice and brutality inflicted on the nationalist people of the north. for that i commend him. btw well done to the RNU, and ONH for getting the tour of the north banned from ardoyne this year, the threat of phyiscal force republicanism still holds sway.

You mean war crimes?

[Evil Genius]

A true hero. may he rest in peace.T.A.L

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa4OcK6EUK4&feature=related
1 min. 15 secs in - "Bloody Friday": 22 bombs in Belfast in the space of an hour and a half, 9 people killed and over 130 injured, many maimed for life.

Bloody Friday: What happened

There have been many terrible events in the history of Northern Ireland's conflict, but few have seared the collective consciousness of its people as those on Friday, 21 July 1972, a day that became known as Bloody Friday.
By the end of the day, the IRA's Belfast brigade had detonated at least 20 bombs across the city.

In just 75 minutes of violence, nine people were dead and some 130 more were mutilated, injured and mentally scarred by what they had witnessed.

From the outset, the IRA's bombing of the city caused widespread chaos and stretched the security forces to the limit.
Such was the scale of the attack, witnesses at the time remember seeing people running in all directions, not knowing where the bombs were being detonated.

As one report at the time described the scene, "it was impossible for anyone to feel perfectly safe".

Car bombs

While the scale of the attack was huge, it was two car bombs that between them claimed the nine lives - one at the Oxford Street bus station in the city centre, the other outside shops in Cavehill Road in north Belfast.

At Oxford St, the busiest bus station in Northern Ireland, four Ulsterbus workers and two soldiers were killed.
When the emergency services reached the scene, they found that some of the victims had been literally blown to pieces, leading to initial estimates of a death toll of 11.

At the Cavehill Road bomb, the victims were two women and a 14-year-old schoolboy.

Of the 130 injured, 77 were women or children out shopping in the city centre. One police officer at the scene recalled the events for the BBC series Provos in 1997.

"You could hear people screaming, crying and moaning. The first thing that caught my eye was a torso of a human being lying in the middle of the street," he told the series.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/2132219.stm


By his own admission, Brendan Hughes helped plan and carry out this mighty blow for Freedom, Unity and Republicanism.

A "true hero", indeed.

terrible things happen in war. he was brave enough to stand up and fight the injustice and brutality inflicted on the nationalist people of the north. for that i commend him. btw well done to the RNU, and ONH for getting the tour of the north banned from ardoyne this year, the threat of phyiscal force republicanism still holds sway.

"Terrible things" do not just "happen", in war or elsewhere.

Rather, "terrible things" are committed by terrible people. And in that respect, as an architect of Bloody Friday, Hughes was one of the most evil, murderous c u n t s of the whole Troubles.

May he rot in Hell.

[Evil Genius]

A true hero. may he rest in peace.T.A.L

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa4OcK6EUK4&feature=related
1 min. 15 secs in - "Bloody Friday": 22 bombs in Belfast in the space of an hour and a half, 9 people killed and over 130 injured, many maimed for life.

Bloody Friday: What happened

There have been many terrible events in the history of Northern Ireland's conflict, but few have seared the collective consciousness of its people as those on Friday, 21 July 1972, a day that became known as Bloody Friday.
By the end of the day, the IRA's Belfast brigade had detonated at least 20 bombs across the city.

In just 75 minutes of violence, nine people were dead and some 130 more were mutilated, injured and mentally scarred by what they had witnessed.

From the outset, the IRA's bombing of the city caused widespread chaos and stretched the security forces to the limit.
Such was the scale of the attack, witnesses at the time remember seeing people running in all directions, not knowing where the bombs were being detonated.

As one report at the time described the scene, "it was impossible for anyone to feel perfectly safe".

Car bombs

While the scale of the attack was huge, it was two car bombs that between them claimed the nine lives - one at the Oxford Street bus station in the city centre, the other outside shops in Cavehill Road in north Belfast.

At Oxford St, the busiest bus station in Northern Ireland, four Ulsterbus workers and two soldiers were killed.
When the emergency services reached the scene, they found that some of the victims had been literally blown to pieces, leading to initial estimates of a death toll of 11.

At the Cavehill Road bomb, the victims were two women and a 14-year-old schoolboy.

Of the 130 injured, 77 were women or children out shopping in the city centre. One police officer at the scene recalled the events for the BBC series Provos in 1997.

"You could hear people screaming, crying and moaning. The first thing that caught my eye was a torso of a human being lying in the middle of the street," he told the series.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/2132219.stm


By his own admission, Brendan Hughes helped plan and carry out this mighty blow for Freedom, Unity and Republicanism.

A "true hero", indeed.

terrible things happen in war. he was brave enough to stand up and fight the injustice and brutality inflicted on the nationalist people of the north. for that i commend him. btw well done to the RNU, and ONH for getting the tour of the north banned from ardoyne this year, the threat of phyiscal force republicanism still holds sway.

You mean war crimes?

Aye, there's the rub, Fox.

You see, when the Paras ran amok on Bloody Sunday, that was a "war crime" according to people like Charlie (Utterly Nasty) Tully.

Yet when "soldiers" of another "army" commit similar atrocities in the pursuit of their "war", that is not a "war crime", it is just a necessary step in the "struggle for liberation".

The hypocrisy is sickening."

[The Forfeit Point]

A true hero. may he rest in peace.T.A.L

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa4OcK6EUK4&feature=related
1 min. 15 secs in - "Bloody Friday": 22 bombs in Belfast in the space of an hour and a half, 9 people killed and over 130 injured, many maimed for life.

Bloody Friday: What happened

There have been many terrible events in the history of Northern Ireland's conflict, but few have seared the collective consciousness of its people as those on Friday, 21 July 1972, a day that became known as Bloody Friday.
By the end of the day, the IRA's Belfast brigade had detonated at least 20 bombs across the city.

In just 75 minutes of violence, nine people were dead and some 130 more were mutilated, injured and mentally scarred by what they had witnessed.

From the outset, the IRA's bombing of the city caused widespread chaos and stretched the security forces to the limit.
Such was the scale of the attack, witnesses at the time remember seeing people running in all directions, not knowing where the bombs were being detonated.

As one report at the time described the scene, "it was impossible for anyone to feel perfectly safe".

Car bombs

While the scale of the attack was huge, it was two car bombs that between them claimed the nine lives - one at the Oxford Street bus station in the city centre, the other outside shops in Cavehill Road in north Belfast.

At Oxford St, the busiest bus station in Northern Ireland, four Ulsterbus workers and two soldiers were killed.
When the emergency services reached the scene, they found that some of the victims had been literally blown to pieces, leading to initial estimates of a death toll of 11.

At the Cavehill Road bomb, the victims were two women and a 14-year-old schoolboy.

Of the 130 injured, 77 were women or children out shopping in the city centre. One police officer at the scene recalled the events for the BBC series Provos in 1997.

"You could hear people screaming, crying and moaning. The first thing that caught my eye was a torso of a human being lying in the middle of the street," he told the series.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/2132219.stm


By his own admission, Brendan Hughes helped plan and carry out this mighty blow for Freedom, Unity and Republicanism.

A "true hero", indeed.

terrible things happen in war. he was brave enough to stand up and fight the injustice and brutality inflicted on the nationalist people of the north. for that i commend him. btw well done to the RNU, and ONH for getting the tour of the north banned from ardoyne this year, the threat of phyiscal force republicanism still holds sway.

You mean war crimes?

Aye, there's the rub, Fox.

You see, when the Paras ran amok on Bloody Sunday, that was a "war crime" according to people like Charlie (Utterly Nasty) Tully.

Yet when "soldiers" of another "army" commit similar atrocities in the pursuit of their "war", that is not a "war crime", it is just a necessary step in the "struggle for liberation".

The hypocrisy is sickening."

are you implying that it was not a war crime? 

[seafoid]

Given the circumstances in which he grew up I am not surprised he became a paramilitary. Society in NI broke down in 1969
mostly because of the conditions in which people like  Hughes grew up. Bobby Sands wanted an ordinary life and lost his job and his home because of loyalist intimidation. What is very clear now looking at it all is how much in common the catholic and the Protestant poor had.  Instead the field was cleared for the psychopaths to dictate terms.

Did Belfast really need the Shankill butchers ?  And what did all that death achieve? Not much. Sunningdale for slow learners.

[delboy]

Did Belfast really need the Shankill butchers ?  And what did all that death achieve? Not much. Sunningdale for slow learners.

Well said, all those deaths and for what nothing that couldn't have been acheived decades earlier.

[Aerlik]

What exactly is that an acknowledgement of, Delboy?  Be very specific.

[charlieTully]

A true hero. may he rest in peace.T.A.L

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa4OcK6EUK4&feature=related
1 min. 15 secs in - "Bloody Friday": 22 bombs in Belfast in the space of an hour and a half, 9 people killed and over 130 injured, many maimed for life.

Bloody Friday: What happened

There have been many terrible events in the history of Northern Ireland's conflict, but few have seared the collective consciousness of its people as those on Friday, 21 July 1972, a day that became known as Bloody Friday.
By the end of the day, the IRA's Belfast brigade had detonated at least 20 bombs across the city.

In just 75 minutes of violence, nine people were dead and some 130 more were mutilated, injured and mentally scarred by what they had witnessed.

From the outset, the IRA's bombing of the city caused widespread chaos and stretched the security forces to the limit.
Such was the scale of the attack, witnesses at the time remember seeing people running in all directions, not knowing where the bombs were being detonated.

As one report at the time described the scene, "it was impossible for anyone to feel perfectly safe".

Car bombs

While the scale of the attack was huge, it was two car bombs that between them claimed the nine lives - one at the Oxford Street bus station in the city centre, the other outside shops in Cavehill Road in north Belfast.

At Oxford St, the busiest bus station in Northern Ireland, four Ulsterbus workers and two soldiers were killed.
When the emergency services reached the scene, they found that some of the victims had been literally blown to pieces, leading to initial estimates of a death toll of 11.

At the Cavehill Road bomb, the victims were two women and a 14-year-old schoolboy.

Of the 130 injured, 77 were women or children out shopping in the city centre. One police officer at the scene recalled the events for the BBC series Provos in 1997.

"You could hear people screaming, crying and moaning. The first thing that caught my eye was a torso of a human being lying in the middle of the street," he told the series.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/2132219.stm


By his own admission, Brendan Hughes helped plan and carry out this mighty blow for Freedom, Unity and Republicanism.

A "true hero", indeed.

terrible things happen in war. he was brave enough to stand up and fight the injustice and brutality inflicted on the nationalist people of the north. for that i commend him. btw well done to the RNU, and ONH for getting the tour of the north banned from ardoyne this year, the threat of phyiscal force republicanism still holds sway.

"Terrible things" do not just "happen", in war or elsewhere.

Rather, "terrible things" are committed by terrible people. And in that respect, as an architect of Bloody Friday, Hughes was one of the most evil, murderous c u n t s of the whole Troubles.

May he rot in Hell.

good to see you have embraced the new era of peace and forgivness. does not take much for the huns to show their true colours. speaking of that, see the annual feast of intimidation and coat trailing has begun in earnest, this country will move towards proper peace when there are no union jacks etc, flying from every lamp post every summer. you lot contribute f**k all towards peace.