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Northern Ireland: Statements (15 Jul 2015)

Eamon Gilmore: .... It is difficult at this remove and for younger people to appreciate the horror and scale of the slaughter that was occurring in Northern Ireland at the time. I also remember the attempts by the IRA to blow up the rail line between Belfast and Dublin. I was involved in the peace train initiative to stand against this and promote travel, co-operation and relationships, North and South....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (18 Feb 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: ...Albert Reynolds, and members of her family, as well as former Tánaiste Dick Spring. My opening address reflected on the significance of the Declaration in paving the way for an eventual IRA ceasefire. I noted the long, intensive and difficult work undertaken by the governments led by John Major and Albert Reynolds. This work was continued and developed by John Bruton as...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (18 Dec 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: ...Taoiseach Albert Reynolds, and members of her family, as well as former Tánaiste Dick Spring. My opening address reflected on the significance of the Declaration in paving the way for an eventual IRA ceasefire leading, ultimately, to the conclusion of the Good Friday Agreement. I noted the long, intensive and difficult work undertaken by the governments led by John Major and...

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: ...xe1;na. It will be very troubling for its members, as it is for me and other Members of this House, to find out from an official report that there was collusion between some individual members of the force and the IRA that led to the murder of two men in very savage circumstances. I cannot get out of my mind the image of one of those men who, when injured outside his car and waving his...

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: ...is a very extensive report and goes through a significant amount of evidence. It comments on that evidence and concludes that there was collusion between some members of An Garda Síochána and the IRA that led to the killing of two police officers on their way back from a meeting in Dundalk. By any standard, that is a serious matter, at a number of levels. It was obviously...

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The central grave finding of the Smithwick tribunal report is that there was collusion within An Garda Síochána and the IRA in the murders of Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Robert Buchanan. I am appalled and saddened by this finding, as I know all in this House will be. The Government apologised immediately on the publication of Judge Smithwick’s...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland Issues (14 Nov 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: ...murder from a newly merged group of dissident republicans. According to news reports, responsibility for the murder of Mr Black has been claimed by a group of so-called dissidents comprising the Real IRA, Republican Action against Drugs and various other activists. These groups have no public support and no identifiable ideology. Communities, North and South, have been united in their...

Saville Inquiry Report: Motion (30 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: ...Widgery, the then Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. The soldiers responsible for the deaths and injuries insisted that they had come under sustained gun and bomb attack by members of the IRA and fired only at people in possession of weapons. The Widgery report was produced within 11 weeks of Bloody Sunday. Faced with testimony from the soldiers, who claimed they had been shot at,...

Northern Ireland Issues. (21 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: .... At earlier stages of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, it was from just such a point that difficulties began to emerge. There have been indications that certain groups, particularly the Real IRA, have been recruiting aggressively and, according to reports, quite successfully in the North and the South. What is the level of the Taoiseach's knowledge in respect of this matter? What...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (9 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: ...for refusing to account for his movements. In 1962, he was elected president of Sinn Féin and was one of a group of people who recognised the absolute futility of the type of campaign waged by the IRA and who were determined that there would be a change of direction in the republican movement. Under his leadership during the 1960s, Sinn Féin became deeply involved in campaigning on such...

Northern Ireland: Motion (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: ...would have been higher. Thirdly, dissidents have turned their efforts more directly to trying to kill PSNI officers, using a variety of tactics and methods. The commission said that the Continuity IRA had not only undertaken direct attacks against members of the PSNI but had also engineered public disorder, with a view to exploiting the exposure of police officers which it expected to...

Northern Ireland Issues. (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ...of policing and justice functions to the Northern Ireland institutions? Last weekend, the DUP stated that one of the conditions for devolution would be the winding up and dissolution of the IRA army council. Has the Taoiseach discussed this matter with Prime Minister Brown or Sinn Féin and where does he see it going? I share Deputy Kenny's concern regarding reports of the increasing...

Northern Ireland Issues. (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ...for the Taoiseach since the Ceann Comhairle told us Opposition leaders cannot ask questions of each other. What does the Taoiseach understand Deputy Ó Caoláin to mean what he says the Provisional IRA is acting as a bulwark against dissident republicans? Does he know what that means and does he agree with that assessment?

Written Answers — Northern Ireland Issues: Northern Ireland Issues (24 May 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 163: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to his interview in a newspaper (details supplied) 9 May 2006 if he will clarify his views on IRA criminality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19723/06]

Written Answers — Northern Ireland Issues: Northern Ireland Issues (6 Oct 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 24: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the recent pickets by IRA members of the home of one of the McCartney sisters in the Short Strand in Belfast; if he has met with the McCartney family to discuss these pickets, further attacks on the family and their friends, and the progress made in their campaign for justice for the murder of their brother; and if he will make...