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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (20 Nov 2012)

Joe Higgins: ...Taoiseach as the leader of Fine Gael, from the leader of Fianna Fáil and from the leader of Sinn Féin during the first 40 minutes of Question Time, will the Taoiseach admit that not only was the IRA paramilitary campaign an unmitigated disaster for the people of Northern Ireland but so also was the loyalist paramilitary campaign, the sectarian gunmen and bombers who inflicted...

Central Bank and Credit Institutions (Resolution) (No.2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: ...campaigns, but we cannot get into that now - there was a joke among the establishment media. When the leadership of Sinn Féin said seriously and with great deliberation that they would talk to the IRA, the response was that they would just have to go into a room and talk to themselves. We have had no such exposure of the reality with regard to the markets. These grandees, whether they...

Official Engagements (30 Mar 2011)

Joe Higgins: ..., dragged his political career from obscurity to national prominence among certain Irish Americans 25 years ago by declaring his support for the disastrous paramilitary campaign of the Provisional IRA. I would like to know if the Taoiseach discussed this issue and whether he pronounced that it was deplorable to be stirring up hatred against American Muslims who have no connection with...

Irish Unification: Motion. (2 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: ...the political crisis in Northern Ireland. That is a fundamental fallacy. The Good Friday Agreement has provided for the institutionalisation of sectarian division, not for its overcoming. Since the IRA ceasefire halted its disastrous paramilitary campaign, the polarisation of the communities in Northern Ireland has widened horrifically. It has been a process not of coming together, but...

Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (Resumed). (2 Mar 2005)

Joe Higgins: ...Belfast and Northern Ireland as a whole, the trade union movement and, I hope, activists and working class people from Protestant and Catholic areas. I may be convinced that Sinn Féin and the IRA are serious about their demands that justice be done when witnesses come forward and tell what they know because this would mean the intimidation has been lifted. I will support the Sinn Féin...

Leaders' Questions. (23 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: ...republicanism, and that revulsion at the bestial murder of Robert McCartney, and the heroic quest for justice by his family, are challenging in an unprecedented way the insidious control of the IRA in many Catholic areas in Northern Ireland? Does the Taoiseach agree that we must categorise as vacuous doublespeak the words about Robert McCartney's murder by the leaders of republicanism such...

Leaders' Questions. (23 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: ...of Catholic working class communities by republican paramilitaries. Loyalist paramilitaries visit the same intimidation on Protestant working class communities. The reluctance to dissolve the IRA is not because a resumption of the paramilitary campaign against the British State is contemplated — that disaster ran into the sand long ago. It is retained as an enforcer for the political...

Northern Ireland Issues. (15 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: ...jobs, for example, the Makro and Gallahers robberies, which many believe were carried out by republicans, because talks were still going on. When they broke down, however, they jumped all over the IRA and Sinn Féin over the Northern Bank job. In regard to the Northern Bank robbery, there are not many people in Belfast who do not believe the IRA did it, but as a member of the Socialist...

Nally Group Report on Omagh Bombing: Statements. (20 Feb 2004)

Joe Higgins: ...was an outrageous atrocity. As usual, the victims were ordinary working men, women and children. The Omagh bomb demonstrated yet again the utterly reactionary nature of paramilitarism, whether Real IRA, Provisional IRA or loyalist paramilitary. These self-appointed organisations had no mandate for the atrocities carried out in the course of decades in Northern Ireland. Of course, the...