God´s curse on you Britannia for this cruel deed you´ve done/ But god will have his final say when your judgement day it comes

On the day that the NI election results become finally available, Nuala O'Loan the NI Police Ombudsman has announced an enquiry ( interviews have already started) into claims of collusion between members of the IRA and the security forces who have been said to be agents for Special Branch and other state agencies MI5 /6/7/8 Dame Pauline Neville Jones Fan Club.

Initially she will examine 6 incidents over a 20 year period. (Pics Aidan McAnespie 21 (1988) Mary Travers 22 (1984)both killed by the British Government - God's curse on you Britannia)

Alfredo Scappaticci

Four years ago Belfast man Freddie Scappaticci, was unmasked as an IRA informer the dramatically codenamed Stakeknife and was also head of the IRA's notorious internal security unit, which interrogated and killed those it decided were informers, often after torture. He denies he was Stakeknife and anything to do with any informing, killing etc.,

Three IRA members were shot dead by the unit in July 1992, and it is claimed they were killed to protect another more high-ranking agent.

Anthony McKernan

Anthony McKernan from the Markets area of Belfast was shot dead by the IRA in January 1988 and the IRA said at the time that he was an informer, an allegation that Mr McKernan's family has always deniedand they say their father was one of those murdered to cover for Scappaticci.

Mr McKernan's daughter, Sharon Murtagh, has recently said on the popular Nolan TV show that the family believed there was collusion in his killing.

"It would have been in the British interest to take my father out because my father was a member of the IRA.

"He done jail, he was on the run, he was an alleged bomb maker although he was never charged with anything in connection with explosions.

"Our theory is that it would be in their interests to take him out. But we also feel that my father was under Freddie Scappaticci and that they both colluded together to take him out."

It's not everayday that the Brtish State is accused on TV of having colluded in the murder of the a named individual, or by their surviving family ...the equivalent perhaps would be Dr David Kelly's daughter claiming MI6 had her dad killed ... which is (of course) a preposterous suggestion.

The killing of Mary Travers

In another development a former magistrate Tom Travers has caused questions to be asked of the Ombudsman's office when a whistle-blowing former Special Branch officer was arrested by the Police Ombudsman amid allegations of a cover-up in the murder of his daughter Mary in 1984.. He was, with his daughter (then 22) leaving Mass at St Brigid’s Church in the Malone area of Belfast in April 1984 when an IRA gang opened fire on them, he was injured and his daughter killed in front of him.

The officer who had befriended and helped the Travers family - it is believed he told them that he witnessed a cover-up of the killing. The retired officer said another Special Branch officer allowed a member of the IRA, also a police agent, to destroy vital evidence including the murder weapon. The now retired officer was arrested yesterday at 7am, when Ombudsman staff and PSNI officers raided his home in north Down.

They spent several hours searching his home before arresting him for alleged 'neglect of duty in 1984'.

2 arrested for 1981 shooting

In another curious election time action, Police arrested Independent Republican candidate Gerry McGeough (former hunger striker and vehement pro-life activist) was arrested as he left the Omagh count centre last night. Mr McGeough, a fringe Sinn Fein defector and vocal critic of the party, polled 814 votes in Fermanagh.

The PSNI said the operation was part of an investigation into "serious terrorist crime" which is believed to be the assult in 1981 on Sammy Brush, (now a DUP councillor) in Ballygawley, was shot several times in the attack - and was himself at the count in Omagh.

Simultaneously 44-year-old Vincent McAnespie , husband of Sinn Fein councillor Brenda McAnespie was arrested in Aughnacloy. His brother Aidan McAnespie was shot dead by security forces at a checkpoint on 21 February 1988.Charges were initially brought against a soldier for manslaughter but were dropped prior to prosecution. McAnespie's family allege a cover-up by the British state.

The incident was investigated by both the RUC and the Gardai with no evidence of anything other than an accidental discharge being the cause of death - this was raised by Denis Canavan in the House of Commons with the then NI Secretary Tom King on Thursday 20 July 1989. who maintained that ...

"no evidence was forthcoming, on either side of the border, that the incident was anything other than an accident".

Which should the Ombudsman find otherwise, might cause the shifty shit some trouble to his conscience .... no.no it won't.

Just another day in the killing fields of Ulster, really.

Twas on a Sunday evening the sun was in the sky
As he walked his way to the Gaelic pitch never thinking he was going to die
But as he crossed the checkpoint the sound of gunfire came
The news spread through the border town Aidan McAnespie was slain
For years he was harassed by the forces of the crown
As he went to his work every day he left his native town
The soldiers swore they´d get him the reason no one can say
And sure enough they murdered him in cold blood that sunny day

Oh why did you do it?
Have you not the guts to say
You say it was an accident or even a ricochet
But like Loughgall and Gibraltar you´re lies are well renowned
You murdered Aidan McAnespie on his way to the Gaelic ground

The people heard the gunfire they came from miles around
They saw that your man lying there dying on the ground
His flow of life was ebbing fast and people they tried their best
That bullet wound it was far to deep it went right through his chest

Oh why did you do it?
Have you not the guts to say
You say it was an accident or even a ricochet
But like Loughgall and Gibraltar you´re lies are well renowned
You murdered Aidan McAnespie on his way to the Gaelic ground

Aidans life had ended it was time for judgement day
The soldier he jumped down from the tower and the coward he slipped away
God´s curse on you Britannia for this cruel deed you´ve done
But god will have his final say when your judgement day it comes

Oh why did you do it?
Have you not the guts to say
You say it was an accident or even a ricochet
But like Loughgall and Gibraltar you´re lies are well renowned
You murdered Aidan McAnespie on his way to the Gaelic ground

To say it was an accident is the greatest crime of all
To his heart-broken family the worst had `er befalled
A cross it marks the lonely spot where Aidan was gunned down
As he strolled on that sunny evening on his way to the Gaelic ground

Oh why did you do it?
Have you not the guts to say
You say it was an accident or even a ricochet
But like Loughgall and Gibraltar you´re lies are well renowned
You murdered Aidan McAnespie on his way to the Gaelic ground