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Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (23 Sep 2015)

Paschal Mooney: ...has taken. I have always had great respect for him because he has never at any time shied away from the reality of his background in Derry. He has admitted that he was not only a member of the IRA but also that he was an active member, unlike his party colleague, Deputy Gerry Adams, but I am not going to go down that road. I welcome Senator David Cullinane's renewed commitment to...

Seanad: Participation in Sport: Motion (26 Nov 2014)

Paschal Mooney: It happened with the England fans at the Scotland game. They were singing anti-IRA songs.

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (25 Jun 2014)

Paschal Mooney: .... His first book was published in 1970 and was followed by a further nine works, of which the final one was published in 2003. He helped to establish the peace train movement, which campaigned against the IRA's regular disruption of the rail link between Dublin and Belfast. While these events seem a long time ago, they were real obstacles to peace at the time and there appears to be a...

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

Paschal Mooney: ...the contribution that Sinn Féin has made and continues to make to the peace process. Sinn Féin is working it and we applaud it for that. There is also a view of the enormous economic damage the IRA campaign did not only to this island but also to the perception abroad that we were nothing more than a bunch of people who like fighting among each other. It did enormous damage to job...

Seanad: Northern Ireland: Motion (4 Apr 2007)

Paschal Mooney: ...emerge from the northern conflict who had supported actively militant republicanism. Mr. McGuinness admitted during the Bloody Sunday inquiry that he had been an active commander and leader of the IRA in Derry during that period. What a remarkable transformation it is that both of those gentlemen are now elected public representatives and one of them will be sitting in Government and...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2006)

Paschal Mooney: ...identity of those who carry out crimes of this nature and if its members cannot touch them, there is then a need for change. The Special Criminal Court was established to deal with the Provisional IRA and it sat in the absence of juries. As Members are aware, widespread intimidation of witnesses has taken place. Will the Leader convey to the Minister the horror of Members regarding what...

Seanad: Foreign Conflicts: Motion. (5 Jul 2006)

Paschal Mooney: ..., in common with Arab states in the region, pledged to obliterate what many of them to this day call "the Jewish entity". Like most of the political class in Ireland, I turned a blind eye to the IRA-trained Fatah movement and the IRA-trained Fatah fighters, who carried out frequent attacks on the real Óglaigh na hÉireann, wearing the blue helmet of the United Nations in south Lebanon...

Seanad: Middle East Peace Process: Statements. (26 Apr 2006)

Paschal Mooney: ...Government in Northern Ireland. The people of Northern Ireland, along with many in Britain and in the Republic suffered grievously from a series of indiscriminate bombings and shootings as the IRA, supported by its political wing Sinn Féin, engaged in a war to remove the British presence from Northern Ireland and establish a united Ireland at the point of a gun. It seems far distant now...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Bill 2002: Second Stage. (26 Jan 2005)

Paschal Mooney: ..., fronted by a political organisation with a philosophy quite separate from the rest of us, is at last unmasked, as it were. On the Order of Business I said that I was not at all surprised that the IRA-Sinn Féin republican movement can make a distinction between what it defines as a crime and something being tactically wrong because that movement has always believed it is the legitimate...

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Jan 2005)

Paschal Mooney: ...generation of Irish people about the true nature of that with which we have been living since the foundation of the State. We have been somewhat inured and protected from the reality of what is the IRA and its political wing, Sinn Féin, as a result of the ceasefires, the Good Friday Agreement and all that has followed — all of which we all welcome and enthusiastically embrace. This is...

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Dec 2004)

Paschal Mooney: ...about the peace process initiative than on previous occasions. I hope complacency has not set in and that there will be an acknowledgement of how far we have come in the peace process since the IRA ceasefire of 1994. As other speakers have said, we are now hanging on to a thread. Modest man that he is, our friend and colleague, Senator Maurice Hayes, would not be the first to ask anybody...

Seanad: European Council: Statements. (6 Apr 2004)

Paschal Mooney: ..., including the EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States, eventually came to realise that the war was unwinable. The terrorists would continue their reign of terror — I mean the IRA — while those charged with maintaining law and order, the British, would continue a policy of containment. The result, as we all know, was stalemate. Dialogue and parity of esteem is the...

Seanad: Northern Ireland: Statements. (8 May 2003)

Paschal Mooney: ...endgame. Sadly, there is another phenomenon unique to Northern Ireland is also ongoing, called "wordgames". It is clear that in the last couple of weeks, culminating in the second statement by the IRA, we are involved in word games. It is regrettable that the second IRA statement was not produced a little earlier. It is time to look forward. I am glad there will be a period of reflection...