So the New IRA have come out and taken responsibility for this, offered their full and sincere apology and put in place measures to help ensure this doesn't happen again.
Any chance of them handing over the volunteers they say they deployed to attack the enemy?
I think not.
Not a chance What they have came out with is pathetic. They offer their "full and sincere apologies to the partner, family and friends of Lyra McKee" - yet in the next sentence they say this
“On Thursday night, following an incursion on the Creggan by heavily armed British crown forces which provoked rioting, the IRA deployed our volunteers to engage,” it said.
So they offer full and sincere apologies, but they then try to place the blame at the Police ?
The next part is this
The statement, which was signed T O’Neill, added: “We have instructed our volunteers to take the utmost care in future when engaging the enemy, and put in place measures to help ensure this.”
How about not giving guns to teenagers that would be a start.
And let me add in someone else here.
I was talking with my cousin at the weekend. My Aunt lives just yards from where it happened, she was away on holiday, so my cousin who lives nearby went to check her house when she heard there was disturbances, she couldn't get back across to where she lives but what she told me happened next is quite remarkable.. (which has been said by many people)
When they fired at the police, not one Policeman was outside of the Jeep they were firing at. So they were firing at a bullet proof vehicle for heavens sake.
These so called hardliners, the older generation. Would they have done this, acted so recklessly? I would say probably not, but then again they would never get their hands dirty. The issue is they are giving kids idea and guns, kids who are more than likely fascinated by the idea of having a gun, bragging to their mates and showing off to girls.
I'm sorry but if you do that, from a distance away, there's a very very strong possibility that you will catch an innocent person which is what happened.
An innocent person who moved here and called it home, who has said and written some beautiful things about the City.
There is a sea change , you can feel it. Many people who may have gave them a sympathetic ear previously are not doing so. It has been said that Police have been handed over 120 pieces of video footage which is remarkable.
If those sad sad events didn't occur and it was just rioting and cars burned (i say just but you know what I mean) , and Police asked for Video footage, they wouldn't get a single one.
