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Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (27 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...of the Opposition will go along with it and some may abstain. Unfortunately, the majority opinion of the review is to turn what was sold to the public 50 years ago as an emergency court to combat the IRA into a permanent institution of injustice. It seems all the majority really had a problem with was the ad hocway a supposedly emergency anti-terrorist non-jury court "mission crept" into...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...only miscarriage of justice he was aware of in the Special Criminal Court is the Sallins case. A quick Google search on my phone presented a case from 2021 where a man spent 14 months in prison for IRA membership and the Special Criminal Court subsequently found that to be a miscarriage of justice. The point is that the majority of miscarriages of justice are never identified. It is the...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (24 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: .... Restrictions on civil liberties are pushed through in the context of a perceived or actual emergency. In the case of the Special Criminal Court, it was supposedly to deal with the threat of the Provisional IRA. The emergency, necessity and reasons that are given to justify the legislation then change, the repression stays on the Statute Book and is able to be used by the State. It...

Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: ...would likely have quickly slipped out of the headlines but for the announcement of the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, PSNI, on 22 August that he believes the Provisional IRA still exists and that its members were involved in Kevin McGuigan's murder. His statement confirmed what most working class people in the North believe, namely, that paramilitary groups...

Allegations Regarding Sexual Abuse by Members of the Provisional Republican Movement: Statements (12 Nov 2014)

Paul Murphy: ...for her bravery in coming forward as a victim of sexual abuse. The shame and tragedy is that none of the institutions that could have or should have acted in the interests of the victim did so. The IRA did not. When it acted to cover up the crime of one of its members, when it acted to confront a victim with her abuser, when it moved abusers into different jurisdictions it was not...