{"id":468,"date":"2012-05-04T15:47:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T14:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=468"},"modified":"2012-05-23T22:25:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T21:25:34","slug":"468","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"This week in the papers 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

THIS WEEK IN THE PAPERS 3 \u2013 29\/4\/12<\/p>\n

Some interesting stuff in the papers this week \u2013 from Johnny Evans to Denis Donaldson, Stephen Nolan to Martin McGuiness \u2013 all good stuff. There were a few stories that made me smile \u2013 I\u2019m sure you did as well \u2013 if you read them. Let me start with Stephen Nolan. Nolan\u2019s new weekly TV show started this week \u2013 in my opinion it wasn\u2019t a great start \u2013 the guy looks likes two guys and he seemed quite nervous. But it was Friday\u2019s Belfast Telegraph review by Joe Nawaz that had me smiling. Joe called Nolan \u2018the cake loving Mother Teresa of chat\u2019 \u2013 some would say this is a great description \u2013 and said he watched the show in \u2018extra wide-angled awe!\u2019 \u2013 Brilliant. Funny enough the result of a poll conducted by the show found that 57% of respondents agreed that punishment attacks were, sometimes, acceptable \u2013 quite a shock to Nolan \u2013 I think he\u2019s now searching for a different \u2018pulse of the people\u2019 \u2013 the one he thought he had has let him down.<\/p>\n

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My second \u2018cynical smile\u2019 of the week was when Peter Robinson in an UTV interview, was asked to comment about Ian Hurst\/Martin Ingram\u2019s input to the Smithwick hearing about Garda collusion in the murder of Harry Breen and Bob Buchanan. Ingram said that Martin McGuiness, as Northern Commander of the IRA would have sanctioned the double murder. Robinson\u2019s reply was that his mate Martin should go to the tribunal and give evidence \u2013 he said \u2018 if people have committed crimes then they\u2019re answerable, no matter what their position\u2019. My mind immediately dragged up sordid stories of infidelity, dodgy grants, land purchases and Clontibret \u2013 funny that. I also imagined the guaranteed \u2018righteous indignation\u2019 he would have demonstrated 10 years ago if this story had have been about. Times have changed.<\/p>\n

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On to Mister Johnny Evans. You have to admit that the \u2018big lad\u2019 has made a dramatic improvement since last season \u2013 he looks confident, assured and willing to shoulder responsibility. What he said in an interview, and returned the smile to my face, and was reported by the Belfast Telegraph was this \u2013\u2018people thought I had a bad season but, in my mind, it was only a period of games in which I didn\u2019t play too well\u2019. It\u2019s the sort of same thing Johnny, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

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Read this week that the family of Denis Donaldson are preparing to go to court because Donaldson\u2019s inquest had been adjourned again \u2013 for the ninth time!<\/p>\n

Surely this shouldn\u2019t be allowed to happen \u2013 the family deserve better but we all know this \u2018dirty war\u2019 is still going on \u2013 albeit on a different \u2018battlefield\u2019. Speaking of which \u2013 that well known \u2018humanist\u2019 and co-founder of \u2018HELP\u2019, Raymond McCord, has been in the news this week. HELP have been informed by the CRC that they are withdrawing \u00a356K of funding because HELP has not met criteria demanded by CRC. McCord son\u2019s inquest starts this week and he is hoping, after requesting an \u2018Article 2\u2019 inquest, that Policemen and so called UVF agents will attend. That will be fun Raymond!!<\/p>\n

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The dissident republicans seem to be stepping up their campaign. They planted a device under a car parked in the Ballygomartin Road area of Belfast. The intended target was a policeman who previously <\/strong>owned the car. Is there anything worse than a stupid terrorist group having access to bombs, weapons and bad or out of date intelligence? These morons also planted a 600lb. bomb near Newry \u2013 Martin, I suppose you know nothing about either?<\/p>\n

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