They spent half their time killing Catholics and the other half killing each other in feuds. The stuff they did was mental, Lenny was a loon.
Aye pure mental. The Mexican Cartels would have a challenge replicating some of their depravity. How some of them still walk the streets will forever be one of life's mysteries
Aye, one was out watching a commemeration parade to the UVF centenary in East Belfast only a couple of months ago.
I'm pleased I don't live over there mate. It must have been horrendous in the early seventies, 498 deaths in 1972. Not good.
I read the book at around the same time that I read the novel Resurrection Man and saw the movie of the same name. The real events were more disturbing than the dramatisation.
Over here in England we only ever heard about the IRA, we rarely heard what the loyalists were getting up to. The thing which surprises me with the butchers is not only the brutality but the simplicity of the attacks......drive your taxi around at night looking for a victim, jump out and hit some poor unfortunate bugger with a wheel brace. You wouldn't be able to do that nowadays what with all the surveillance cameras and tracking devices.
I'm from London so I know the way it gets reported. It is understandable because it makes sense for British people to care about what is happening to them rather than what is happening over here. They shouldn't have been able to get away with it then. The RUC knew exactly who they were. The CID investigation was a heap of balls and that detective Nesbitt playing the honest broker was a pile of ****e. It stinks of collusion tbh.
Saying it stinks of it doesn't really cover it. There certainly was collusion and we know evidence of it was suppressed.
In fairness it makes you w/onder what the **** the IRA were doing in all this as it seemed they knew who Lenny was and what he was at but waited on a call from the UDA to take him out .... or so I'm led to believe
Why do the oirish still hate each other so much, this is 2013 not 1689 So much hate, when you can all love Medro
What's the situation like over there now fellas? It seems like there is relative peace although trouble is often bubbling away just under the surface...especially at this time of year! How is the power sharing doing? Are there still paramilitary groups operating? Are they still as powerful as they were twenty years ago? Or have they handed in their weapons? All interesting stuff
Jesus H dorty, I know certain protagonists on this thread would like to paint a picture of NI as 80s Beirut but the place is almost entirely the picture of normality. The paramilitaries have faded into organised crime akin to anything you will see on the streets of any city in the Isles. It's normal enough to the point where the priority for the Assembly is to sort out the licencing laws. They close the bars at 12.30 on a Sunday night
That's good Jacky and that's how it should be. It's amazing what can be done when everyone is giving equal rights and an equal say. Bad news about the pubs closing early on Sundays
