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Judge Questions
“Colombia Three” Verdict

By Frank Shouldice, Contributor
June / July 2005

June 1, 2005 by Leave a Comment

Although the whereabouts of the so-called `Colombia Three' remain a mystery, a judge on the three-member appeal tribunal has publicly questioned the guilty verdict returned against them. The three Irishmen -- Niall Connolly, James Monaghan and Martin McCauley (pictured above) -- were accused of assisting FARC rebels in Colombia and passing on expertise gained from IRA … [Read more...] about Judge Questions
“Colombia Three” Verdict

O’Cealleagh Wins
Deportation Case

By Deanna Turner, Contributor
June / July 2004

June 1, 2004 by Leave a Comment

Sean O'Cealleagh (also spelled Kelly), a U.S. Greencard holder since 2001, has won his deportation case following a Los Angeles immigration trial that revisited a murder he was convicted of in Northern Ireland. In 1990, O'Cealleagh was found guilty by a British Diplock [non-jury] Court for aiding and abetting the murder of two British soldiers in 1988 in West Belfast. … [Read more...] about O’Cealleagh Wins
Deportation Case

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Today in History

December 5, 1921

Following the conclusion of negotiations between Irish government representatives and British government representatives, the British give the Irish a deadline to either accept of reject the Anglo-Irish Treaty. The treaty established the self-governing Irish Free State but still made Ireland a dominion under the British Crown. The treaty also gave the six counties of Northern Ireland, which had been acknowledged in the 1920 Government of Ireland Act, the option to opt out of the Irish Free State and remain part of England, which they opted for. The Anglo-Irish treaty split many and on this day in 1921 Prime Minister David LLoyd-George said that rejection by the Irish would result in “immediate and terrible war.”

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