Texts and Emails, Thursday 1 April 2010

Topic: The panel discuss Ed Moloney's new book on the North, "Voices from the Grave"

Panellists: Ed Moloney, Brendan O'Brien, Suzanne Breen, Simon Carswell and Marie-Louise O'Donnell

Why have the assets and passports of all the suspect bankers and speculaters not been taken and frozen?

Mary

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As usual Vincent the hardline left wing bias of your show is apparent.

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I'm not a Gerry Adams admirer, but he believed in a cause, not like our bankers and Taoiseach who are only motivated by money and greed.

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As we face a bleak and uncertain future in both north and south of Ireland we need to move towards Truth and reconciliation in regards towards our troubled and tragic past. Let all ask for forgiveness for provoking the violence and giving hatred a stronghold on both sides. Those in power namely bible preaching unionists are just as cruel with their fascist dictats as the IRA WERE WITH THEIR BULLETS.

Ard ri bluebell

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Will you just put it to Ed or Susan: is Adams a British agent?

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Gerry Adams must rot in hell. An habitual liar. 10 orphans. A merciless killer in a highly paid job.

M Darcy

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Gerry Adams was a member of the IRA and continues to deny it. My response is...so what! Have we not all moved on. Is this not what the whole Good Friday agreement was about?

Colm

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Gerry Adams had to deny being in the IRA or face being jailed. Are ye forgetting what he’s done for peace in this country. Lay off.

Danny, Carlow

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Breen and the other alleged journalists seem to be missing their "Meal Ticket" since the ceasefire took their whipping boy away.

Padraig, North Dublin

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Adams was technically a civilian when he ordered murders and bombings. Why has he not been arrested, questioned even charged?

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Why did Gerry Adams not take the top job in politics?

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Have we now given up looking for Osama bin Ladin and started on Gerry Adams, history is in the past.

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Everyone knows Gerry Adams is in the IRA. He's always going on that he's a republican, if he is what he says, tell the truth now, because now is the time and don't keep hiding in lies!!

Darren, Galway

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Vincent its amazing we are still talking about Adams being in the IRA,of course he was, if people just marched the British would have done nothing, what would you have done to any effect?

Joe, Limerick

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Why are u all drawing up the past in this age of conciliation and healing?

Joe, Cabinteely

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How did you manage to get so many Gerry Adams fans in one room?

Jim, Tralee

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While I do not condone the actions of the IRA I also think the government have blood on their hands due to their deliberate policies that causes poverty and illness and the two tier healthy system do lead to early death.

Thomas, Enniscorthy

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Are all the other party’s so afraid of Sinn Fein that they are all coming out of the wood work to drag them down? Our people would want to wake up and stop running Gerry Adams down. What are they afraid of? Fianna Fail are doing worse to us. Anglo bank only been propped up because I bet most of them are the bond holders. Love the show from

Hannah O’Brien

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Gerry Adams might simply have not taken the oath. He never denies his close involvement with the organisation. Therefore, I do not understand what all the fuss is about.

Anne, Enniscorthy.

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