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“Russian president Vladimir Putin held meetings with the Official IRA during two visits to Belfast in the 1980s.” – Intriguing Report on the Cedar Lounge Blog

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Are past events in Ireland a guide to current events?

https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2022/12/01/and-interesting-story/

From the Irish News.

Source :

Russian president Vladimir Putin held meetings with the Official IRA during two visits to Belfast in the 1980s.

The former KGB intelligence officer was part of two separate delegations from the Soviet Union that visited Ireland in 1986, sources linked to the Official movement have claimed.

On both occasions Mr Putin travelled north where he met with representatives of the republican paramilitary group.

Could it be true?

Did Vladimir Putin Meet the Official Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Dublin in the 1980’s?

How about this?

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Dec 1, 2022 at 11:03 am

Posted in Anti War Movements, Dublin Governments, Fall of the Berlin Wall, History of Ireland, International Political Analysis, Ireland, Irish News Newspaper (Belfast), Korea, Left Wing Organisations, Mass Action, Media Sources - Reliable Versus Unreliable, Russia, Seán Garland, Six County State, Unionism, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Workers' Party

The Workers’ Party in Ireland Splits Again

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Gavin Mendel-Gleason, a supporter of the WP wing which has expelled the “northern business committee” makes a statement open to possible alarming interpretations :

While they would have been afraid to move with Sean Garland still alive, they saw their chance with his death.

A sister party in the foreign fields of North Korea is also called the Workers’ Party.

Seán Garland outside an Irish court while successfully contesting a US extradition request over alleged North Korean counterfeiting of “SupetDollars”

Was the WP northern business committee trying to avoid a fate similar to the late Kim Jong-Nam after he fell out with his brother Kim Jong-Un?  Presumably Gavin Mendel-Gleason does not have the same clout as Seán Garland or the leaders of the Kim dynastic family? Read the rest of this entry »

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Jun 19, 2020 at 5:57 pm

Posted in Black Humour, Ed Moloney, Internal Democracy, International Political Analysis, Ireland, Josef Stalin, Korea, Seán Garland, Unionism, Workers' Party

Internment of Marian Price, Attempted Extradition of Seán Garland

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Very Good News – it  seems Seán Garland, long-time leader of the Workers’ Party and a veteran of the Irish Republican movement since the 1950’s, has won his battle against the United States government, which wishes to charge him about accusations of currency forgery.

http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/sean-garland-extradition-refused/#comment-111337

Many people put their political differences with Garland and his party to one side, and supported the anti-extradition campaign.

One example is the United States socialist Gerry Foley: Read the rest of this entry »

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Dec 21, 2011 at 11:28 pm

Posted in Extradition, Internment, Ireland, Marian Price, Seán Garland, Sinn Féin, Six County State