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Eamon McCann

Eamonn McCAnn, Belfast Telegraph

We do not need to be told the truth. We need truth to be told

Why Bloody Sunday? There have been bigger death tolls. Fifteen Catholics in McGurk’s Bar in the New Lodge in Belfast the previous month. Eighteen Paras at Warrenpoint in 1979.
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Inside Eamon McCann

They've got a deal! Oh no they haven't! It's panto time again

Thursday, 11 March 2010

Barack Obama was bouncing with excitement in the White House on Tuesday as word came in that Stormont had accepted the devolution of policing and justice.
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Why MI5 is free to operate here while Stormont can't do a thing

Thursday, 4 March 2010

At Stormont on Monday, Mark Durkan said that MI5 had "serious questions to answer" in relation to the killing of Kieran Doherty.
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Who gave this man the right to decide if a citizen lives or dies?

Thursday, 25 February 2010

George Bush was denounced around the world for allowing his intelligence agencies to install wiretaps without warrants from the courts.
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We've built sectarianism into the system. Now it's time to move on

Thursday, 18 February 2010

Gang using Fountain as a base, read the headline on page three of the Derry Journal last Friday. The story told that "a sectarian gang from the Fountain estate has been accused of terrorising pedestrians on the Abercorn Road". Residents had "called for robust police action to remove the aggressors from the streets".
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How the Minister is making a rail mess of the west's transport system

Thursday, 11 February 2010

If all the arguments against spending up to a billion pounds on a dual carriageway from Derry to Aughnacloy were laid out end to end, the Department of Regional Development would drive a bulldozer over them.
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Take a cue from amazing Grace and slap the cuffs on Tony Blair

Thursday, 4 February 2010

What a joy it is in these dour times to be able to exalt the name of Grace McCann. No relation, unfortunately.
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I got it wrong on Bloody Sunday but I don’t fear Saville’s findings

Thursday, 28 January 2010

A steady increase of acrimony over Bloody Sunday is underway as publication of the report of the Saville Tribunal approaches.
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Why Adams and police must both come clean on abuse allegations

Thursday, 21 January 2010

'Nobody is offering up their suffering for the cause any more. Why should they, when the cause has now been abandoned?

Why Sinn Fein is neither Left nor Right, but green all over

Thursday, 14 January 2010

The Derry Diocesan Catechism used to deal with one of the core concepts of Christianity in call-and-response form. We'd sing it out in Sister Xavier's class at St Eugene's Infants'.
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He may have left the building, but Elvis is always on my mind

Thursday, 7 January 2010

Elvis would have been 75 tomorrow. He played a big part in my upbringing.
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Our vigilante thugs make the Chinese courts look merciful

Thursday, 31 December 2009

The latest Army of Liberation come to free us from oppression will have spluttered with scorn at the efforts of Gordon Brown, David Miliband and assorted MPs to win a reprieve for Akmal Shaikh.
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Merry Christmas, war is over (unless you live in Bethlehem)

Thursday, 24 December 2009

You can start to relax now. It's almost over. But here's a few random thoughts to fill the desolate hours between waking up tomorrow morning and slumping into sleep by early afternoon.
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Protestors are streets ahead of governments on climate change

Thursday, 17 December 2009

Irish people of all persuasions will have little difficulty empathising with the up-all-night climate change negotiators in Copenhagen.
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Republicans have waited for this moment since 1916. It's not a bluff

Thursday, 10 December 2009

Martin McGuinness's suggestion that the Stormont institutions could collapse if a date isn't set very soon for the devolution of policing and justice has struck many - including supporters of Sinn Fein - as out of proportion to the issue involved.
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