"In a very real sense, Ruairà Ó Bradáigh can . . . be said to be the last, or one of the last Irish Republicans. Studies of the Provisional movement to date have invariably focused more on the Northerners and the role of people like Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness. But an understanding of them is not possible without appreciating where they came from and from what tradition they have broken. Ruairà Ó Bradáigh is that tradition and that is why this account of his life and politics is so important."
—from the foreword by Ed Moloney, author of A Secret History of the IRA
This is a 300 word report about the demonstration for James Miller and Tom Hurdnall outside the EU Commission in Edinburgh on Friday April 14th.
RAF commissioned officer, Flt Lt Dr Malcolm Kendal-Smith has been jailed for 8 months by court-martial for refusing to return to 'serve' in Iraq.
Jesuit priest Fr. Romeo J. Intengan, one of the founding leaders of the Partido Demokratiko-Sosyalista ng Pilipinas (PDSP) and author of the Ateneo study asserting that party-list lawmakers belonging to the extreme left channeled millions of pork barrel funds to communist rebels, slammed anew the party-list solons.
“The details that BAYAN MUNA party-list Rep. Satur Ocampo and his colleagues (Rafael Mariano, and Teodoro Casiño of BAYAN MUNA; Liza Maza of GABRIELA; Joel Virador Crispin Beltran of ANAKPAWIS) want, regarding the diversion of their pork barrel funds to abet communist insurgency, are now part of the evidence in the rebellion charges being filed by government against them,� Intengan said.
A Raoyal Airforce physician has been jailed by courtmartial for his refusal to return to Iraq.
