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Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: ...see an abyss opening. In mythology there is a guardian of the gate. For 70 years or more Fianna Fáil has acted as a guardian against an armed doctrine — the armed doctrine of extremists in the IRA. It was a buffer. If it is about to disappear it is not a good thing for Irish politics and a certain duty devolves upon the other great parties of authority. I personally am going to...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)

Eoghan Harris: ...is the much lamented Michael McDowell. I will put flesh on Senator Ó Murchú's recollection of Wikileaks. Michael McDowell reminded us that, far from packing it in 1993 or 1998, the Provisional IRA was actively engaged in planning the subversion of the State as recently as 2005. Adams and friends were up to their necks in it. All those who retrospectively offer benediction or...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Some weeks ago a prominent academic in Northern Ireland revealed that there was soft support for the dissident IRA from no less than 18.4% of the Nationalist community. In that ominous context, it is beyond belief that RTE News would put out two minutes last night, at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., of what amounted to an inflammatory montage of what looked like police brutality. Everyone in the trade...

Seanad: Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2010)

Eoghan Harris: ...crime, criminal and quasi-political. I commend him on the work he has done and urge him not to play down, as was the case in the past with Governments, the extent of the threat posed by the Real IRA and allied groups which, in an ominous fashion, are beginning to seek to create a combined command structure. In the past the mistake that was made by various Governments was to play down the...

Seanad: Compulsory Retirement from the Irish Army of Lieutenant Dónal de Róiste: Motion (10 Mar 2010)

Eoghan Harris: ...of Lt. Dónal de Róiste's commission. People know I am not a bleeding heart. I supported the provisions of section 31 in the Broadcasting Act when in RTE, which kept members of the provisional IRA off the air, and I support selective internment. The case of Dónal de Róiste is one that would move the hardest heart. I will begin by saying that former Second Lieutenant de Róiste is his...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)

Eoghan Harris: ...head shops, for instance. There were calls on Joe Duffy's "Liveline" to close them down. Head shops have caused the collapse of the heroin and cocaine trades in Dublin and of the lucrative Real IRA trade. This is why the Real IRA is shooting head shop owners. There are two sides to every question. Politics puts a brake on the kind of populism to which I refer and results in debate on...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (14 Jul 2009)

Eoghan Harris: ...or at his front door in the course of a robbery. The essential killing is not the point, it is the context that is important. The context is that the symbiosis between degraded sections of the IRA campaign and the drug culture has created a new form of gang, one whose criminal members are capable of turning up on the streets of a major city during a demonstration and photographing...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Bill 2009: Second Stage (30 Jun 2009)

Eoghan Harris: ...by the Government has been adequate. The criminal gangs are a sui generis and a new thing in Ireland because they are based upon the delinquency created by the armed struggle of the Provisional IRA and the disrespect for human life is geometrical whereas the response of the community has been arithmetical to it. I believe in a system of proactively searching out and tracking down the...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Eoghan Harris: ...have something like the type of politics represented by the two British National Party MEPs. The reason Irish democracy is the most stable in Europe, surviving fascism and armed struggles by the IRA, is that we have two centre parties which offer a change of tone and temper and which can move to the left or right according to changes in the political context. We do not need a left-right...

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)

Eoghan Harris: ...stop conniving, going down on their knees and pleading with these people, as they did a few weeks ago in begging Maura Harrington to come off hunger strike. That kind of slumming with Sinn Féin or IRA people always ends in trouble. I predicted some time ago that Dr. Jerry Cowley would lose his seat if he connived with these people. I tell Senator Norris-----

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Eoghan Harris: ...and Justice, Equality and Law Reform to come to the House to give Senators a progress report on Northern Ireland. What I am seeing, slowly and surely, is the beginning of a rerun of the Provisional IRA campaign. When a policeman and a couple of soldiers were shot and killed recently, it represented a tightening of the screw that is being turned. The Real IRA and the Continuity IRA are...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Eoghan Harris: I will not. It is infested with Real IRA fronts. It is infested with them. The Senator should go away and read the Éirígí website.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Mar 2009)

Eoghan Harris: There is an element of posturing in some of the condemnation we have heard. The Real IRA and Continuity IRA will do this again. They will kill someone else the week after this and the following month. We will be standing around here hand wringing. While Senators Fitzgerald and MacSharry speak for me on the moral issue, we should move on because we have a moral obligation to take our...

Seanad: Middle East Conflict: Motion (26 Feb 2009)

Eoghan Harris: ...shift in European opinion away from supporting a democratic state and a benign gaze being turned to what by any standard is a gangster organisation, namely, Hamas, the equivalent of the continuity IRA or the real IRA in Palestinian terms. Fatah has been noticeably silent, failed to give it any support and did as little as possible because Fatah knows, as we know in Ireland, that those in...

Seanad: Middle East Conflict: Motion (26 Feb 2009)

Eoghan Harris: ...amputations, stonings and crucifixions. It used its poor people as fodder for their fanatical ideology much as the Border provos used young men and suborned them into various factions of the IRA with the same cult of death and martyrdom. As some of my fellow Senators and politicians from both Houses seem to imagine, Hamas is not some kind of benign Sinn Féin branch with a peace process...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2008)

Eoghan Harris: ...important point is that the courts seem unwilling to take the word of a superintendent of the police. That voice is the most effective weapon to use to put them away because it treats them as the IRA was treated. If that is done, we should then move legally, using lawyers, and appoint prosecuting magistrates as the French and Italians do. They should be properly trained lawyers armed...

Seanad: The 70th Anniversary of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (7 Feb 2008)

Eoghan Harris: ...culture of paramilitary criminality resulting in the murder of Mr. Paul Quinn, whose parents are in the other House in pursuit of their campaign for justice; and the very serious threat by the Real IRA to re-open its campaign. I do not wish to be negative but there is a tendency in the Republic, particularly when one resides more than 50 miles from the Border, to see the Northern Ireland...

Seanad: The 70th Anniversary of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (7 Feb 2008)

Eoghan Harris: ...and is a document of which we can be proud, having been amended by experience, it behoves us not to allow this last threat to the state of peace in the two states on the island from the Real IRA to go unchallenged. It behoves us to keep up pressure on Sinn Féin to bring the murderers of Paul Quinn and Robert McCartney to justice. The Greeks pointed out that when the moral order is...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2007)

Eoghan Harris: ...are deluded about this, but it is a drug-driven criminal organisation and an enemy of democracy. John Minihan was to the fore in making this clear because FARC was linked to the Provisional IRA's bomb-making technocrats and, in turn, to a journalist with stars in his or her eyes and journalists involved in the Daily Mail's despicable campaign against the Taoiseach. John Minihan pioneered...

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (31 Oct 2007)

Eoghan Harris: ...him through ten years of very bitter struggle within the republican movement after the split and he was a man of steel in setting his face like flint against the northern campaign of the Provisional IRA. He never feared to stand up to them or say what a real republican should be, a man who wanted to unite Protestant and Catholic in the centre. I do not wish him to go to his grave without...