"IRA apologizes for killing boy in 1973" Associated Press, February 25, 2012
DUBLIN - The outlawed Irish Republican Army apologized yesterday for its 1973 killing of a 9-year-old Northern Ireland boy who stumbled across an IRA bomb while playing in his backyard.
The declaration was a major shift, since for decades the group had blamed the boy’s death on the British Army.
The IRA made its admission and apology for killing Gordon Gallagher after the dead boy’s parents called publicly for Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, the former IRA commander in Londonderry, to tell them who planted a bomb in their children’s play area and why.
The IRA has issued similar admissions and apologies over the past 15 years for killings that it long denied committing and sometimes falsely attributed to the British Army....
Or maybe not.
Have you ever heard of the FRU, readers?
Related: Irish Are No Fools
No, they are not, nor are we any longer.
Gordon was running playing cowboys and Indians when he triggered a booby-trap bomb.
The victim’s father, Billy Gallagher, said the statement represented a major U-turn from the group’s 1973 position but wasn’t good enough....
The IRA killed nearly 1,800 people during its unsuccessful 1970-1997 campaign to force Northern Ireland out of the United Kingdom. It declared its cease-fire permanent in 2005, but small splinter groups continue to mount occasional attacks, particularly in Londonderry.
Yes, and we know which intelligence agencies are employing them, sigh.
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More apologies due:
"Ex-priest sentenced on child porn charge" February 01, 2012
LONDON - A defrocked Roman Catholic priest who admitted molesting more than 20 children in California has been sentenced to three years in prison in Ireland for possessing child pornography, court officials said yesterday....
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Ever notice we never get apologies from the war paper?
