Sandy Boyer with news of what Radio Free Eireann is bringing to its listeners this weekend.
Anthony McIntyre, of The Pensive Quill and author of
Good Friday, The Death of Irish Republicanism, will be our guest on
Radio Free Eireann this Saturday October 18 at 1pm New York time. McIntyre will
talk about interviewing Brendan Hughes for the documentary Voices from
the Grave.
Thomas Dixie Elliot, a former blanketman, who previously on TPQ called Sinn Fein councillor Michael Henry McIvor out on denying that he was in fact Sinn Fein Councillor Michael Henry McIvor, tackles him once again, this time for his use of slander and smear against a rape victim.
Pauline Mellon with a piece that featured in A Diary of a Derry Mother on 15 October 2014. Pauline Mellon is a rights activist in Derry.
To all those elected to Public Office.
You will have learned yesterday of how the Public Prosecution Service have been successful in their bid to increase the sentence given to John Paul Wootton. John Paul who was originally sentenced to fourteen years for the murder of Constable Stephen Carroll in 2009 has had his sentence increased to eighteen years.
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To all those elected to Public Office.
You will have learned yesterday of how the Public Prosecution Service have been successful in their bid to increase the sentence given to John Paul Wootton. John Paul who was originally sentenced to fourteen years for the murder of Constable Stephen Carroll in 2009 has had his sentence increased to eighteen years.
Casa Murphy with a piece from her blog Casa Murphy USA about her friendship with long term prisoners in the American penal system. It is reproduced in TPQ with permission.
For nearly a decade now I've written weekly to three Jewish inmates in California prisons. Alan is one we have a special bond with. We visit him four or five times a year at the prison in Tehachapi. He will be released in 2017, which after nearly twenty-five years of incarceration feels to him like five minutes. Spuds is in elementary school when we first visit Alan and will (we hope) have graduated from college when Alan is released. Alan is a person I would choose, and am fortunate to have, as a friend. I enjoy our visits and reading his letters. I send him stamps and books and do research that he needs on my computer. When he leaves prison at age 57 he will have never operated a computer or even held a cell phone.
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For nearly a decade now I've written weekly to three Jewish inmates in California prisons. Alan is one we have a special bond with. We visit him four or five times a year at the prison in Tehachapi. He will be released in 2017, which after nearly twenty-five years of incarceration feels to him like five minutes. Spuds is in elementary school when we first visit Alan and will (we hope) have graduated from college when Alan is released. Alan is a person I would choose, and am fortunate to have, as a friend. I enjoy our visits and reading his letters. I send him stamps and books and do research that he needs on my computer. When he leaves prison at age 57 he will have never operated a computer or even held a cell phone.
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