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emmie | 08:38 Fri 11th Apr 2014 | News

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will the families finally get justice, i sincerely hope so

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sandyRoe

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Of all the crimes here this seemed to me to be the worst. Not just because of the number of victims but because of when it happened. By then Republicans had realised that the dream of a united Ireland was lost and they made the best settlement they could. But the cretins who did this were happy to carry on spilling innocent blood. It would make you weep.

08:59 Fri 11th Apr 2014

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emmie

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sandyr, perhaps you have some thoughts on this news

sandyRoe

Of all the crimes here this seemed to me to be the worst. Not just because of the number of victims but because of when it happened. By then Republicans had realised that the dream of a united Ireland was lost and they made the best settlement they could.
But the cretins who did this were happy to carry on spilling innocent blood. It would make you weep.

douglas9401

"will the families finally get justice"

Unlikely, but Mr Daly can look forward to some extremely agreeable food in very posh surroundings at some time in the future if recent events are anything to go by.

Wheels within wheels.

emmie

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Douglas, i hope that you are wrong, the families have waited a very long time for someone to be held to account, a truly heinous crime

emmie

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sandyr, let us hope peace comes, its still struggling isn't it.

jennyjoan

I always hope that families get justice in all horrors - myself included since my little nephew of 15 was shot dead along with many in Sean Graham's bookies and his mother of 49 died 2 years later with a broken heart. Also nobody was ever accountable for my personal shooting of my left leg. So many people still living normal lives.

As far as I can see with all the deaths in Ireland justice and sentences was never meted out fairly. JJConnemara
B ds the lot of them.

sandyRoe

Working class communities are still segregated and fairly antagonistic towards each other. But, and this is a big 'but', they don't go into each others neighbourhoods to bomb and shoot.
There's still a rump of Republicanism and its had a few miserable successes in maiming a young police officer with an under car bomb, killing another, and shooting an off duty prison officer.
Loyalists, particularly the UVF in Belfast, have changed from self proclaimed defenders of their community into the scourge of it with their drug dealing.
It's far better here now than it was but there's still a way to go.

jennyjoan

I agree with you Sandy but to me there is always an underlying current of extreme animosity between the two factors which will never go away in my opinion. JJCon

jennyjoan

It does "turn" me of these extreme republicans who are now allegedly "good doers" - I am not convinced though. JJCon

emmie

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must have taken some deep breaths from her Majesty to shake hands with Martin McGuinness, not to mention seeing him all smiling and happy, whilst Mountbatten lays deep in his grave, and the little boy who was blown to pieces along side, that's without the other victims, almost 4 thousand or so i heard. Makes you wonder if Ireland will ever see peace, be united.