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Seanad: 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Motion (30 May 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: ...on Human Rights and a bill of rights for the North, a civic forum in the North and human rights commissions North and South. In addressing the "totality of relationships" at the heart of the political conflict, the changes that the agreement brought led to the IRA ending its armed struggle, a truly remarkable and historic decision that also contributed to the process of change which has...

Seanad: Location of Victims' Remains: Motion (22 Mar 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: ...this opportunity to extend my sympathy, and that of Sinn Féin, to the families of those killed in the conflict and who are collectively known as "the disappeared". Republicans accept, and I accept, that what the IRA did was an injustice that needed to be rectified. This has been said by Sinn Féin many times over the years and I say it again here on behalf of Sinn Féin. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Bertie Ahern (20 Oct 2022)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: ...used to dominate the time in the Oireachtas. I was thinking of a neighbour and friend of mine who passed away a few years ago, John Doherty or "Johnny Doc", as we knew him. Johnny was a veteran IRA man who was interned as a teenage schoolboy in the 1940s. His family fought hard to have him released because he was 15. He was subsequently released but when he turned 16, they came back...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by US Congressman Richard Neal (24 May 2022)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: ...that bedrock of support, the Land League would not have succeeded, the 1916 Rising and the Tan War would not have occurred, this State would not have been established and the republican resistance in the North would not have been sustained. The IRA ceasefire, the loyalist ceasefires, the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement, in part, all owe their existence and durability to the...

Seanad: British Government Legacy Proposals: Motion (13 Oct 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: ...Ballymurphy, Springhill and Westrock, and on the New Lodge Road, for the murders of other individuals going about their normal everyday lives, and for the high-profile shoot-to-kill operations where IRA or INLA volunteers were summarily executed when an arrest operation would have been a viable option but was rejected in preference for a politically motivated execution. Generally speaking,...

Seanad: Inquiry into the Murder of Mr. Patrick Finucane: Motion (25 Nov 2020)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: ...British Government was also set, both unintentionally revealed in comments by Douglas Hogg, a junior minister in the Tory Government. He told the British House of Commons that certain solicitors were, "unduly sympathetic to the cause of the IRA". John Finucane told me that his parents spoke about their concerns arising from Hogg's remarks but they did not have time to do anything about...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: ...Cabinet tonight. The Reverend Harold Good of the Methodist Church in Ireland will be known to many people for his work in peace-building initiatives. He was one of two people to oversee the decommissioning of IRA arms, the other being the late Father Alec Reid. Yesterday, he told Eamonn Mallie that nobody should fear or presume to know Protestant-unionist-loyalist thinking on the debate...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009 and Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motions (14 Jun 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: ...under the 1998 and 2009 Acts relating to same. In its current incarnation it dates from May 1972 but its roots are to be found in this State's reaction to the Second World War when it claimed that the IRA threatened its existence. The reality is that the Offences against the State Act and the Special Criminal Court are ineffective relics of a conflict era. We are opposed to their use....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: ...this information can come forward. This closing window makes it critically important to have the information. Would Mr. Knupfer accept that he has received support for his efforts from former IRA activists thus far? Would Mr. Knupfer accept that they were genuine in their efforts to help? Mr. Knupfer referred to the legislation that provides for immunity for information received but...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2017)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I thank my colleague, Senator Norris, for his lovely remarks. However, I must correct the record; it was actually Elisha McCallion, the MP for Foyle, who referred to Martin McGuinness as a proud IRA man. We are proud of Martin McGuinness in his entirety - all of him and everything he did in his lifetime. This building, Leinster House, has pictures depicting many proud IRA men and IRA women...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2017)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: When we have a Fine Gael Taoiseach, we have a proud IRA man in the Taoiseach's office. When we have a Fianna Fáil Taoiseach, we have a proud IRA man hanging in the office.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2017)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: It is important to point out that the IRA left the stage in 2005, thankfully down to much of the work of Deputy Adams and Martin McGuinness.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: .... My own home city of Belfast sent many volunteers to fight against Franco and against the kind of tactics which we saw deployed against the people of Catalonia at the weekend. My parish sent two IRA volunteers, Liam Tumilson and James Straney, who died in defence of the kind of democracy we saw exercised by the people of Catalonia on Sunday. The people there have spoken. They have...

Seanad: Independent Reporting Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (19 Jul 2017)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: ...points. Coming just a few short weeks after the UDA murdered a man in the car park of a Sainsbury's supermarket in Bangor, Fianna Fáil got up in this House and started to tell Sinn Féin it needs to reflect on the IRA, which left the stage in 2005. That, of course, was verified by a whole raft of organisations, North and South and internationally, and by bodies appointed by the...

Seanad: Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (20 Jun 2017)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: ...Criminal Court was first established under the Offences Against State Act 1939 during the Second World War to counter what the Government at the time claimed was a threat to the State's neutrality from the IRA. Its current incarnation dates from May 1972 following Bloody Sunday in Derry and the escalating political conflict in the North. The Offences against the State (Amendment) Act...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2017)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I have no colleagues in the IRA. Sinn Féin and the IRA are two very distinct and-----

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2017)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: ...'s case. It was a bomb planted at McGurk's bar on North Queen Street in 1971. It killed 15 people. Immediately after that tragedy, the British state moved, as it transpires, incorrectly, to blame the IRA for the bomb, citing it as being an own goal. It is several decades ago now but the families have not lost their commitment or determination for justice. It has got to the point where...