Talk:Dominic McGlinchey/Archive 1

Broken formatting
The top of this article hsa some broken formatting. Unfortunately, I'm not familiar on how to fix that. Need someone to do that.

/O/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zer0thenumber (talk • contribs) 15:24, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

SAS assassination
I'm well aware that the whole 'shoot to kill' story is controversial: others should be aware as well. It is *not* a 'fact' that the SAS 'decided' to kill him, but an allegation. The fact that the allegation has been made is worth noting, but it shouldn't be given without qualification.

Personally, i don't really care what the article says: any republican reading this will 'know' this is true just from seeing the allegation, while anyone else would discount it as obvious POV. But for the sake of Wiki (cough), disputed 'facts' should really be distinct from the undisputed.

Please don't revert again - then it'll just go into the POV bureaucratic wikihole... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bge20 (talk • contribs) 15:56, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

14 det / Roddy Carroll etc
Removed this it makes no sense. It should be re-written. Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi  12:32, 13 September 2015 (UTC)


 * " However an attempt by the RUC to interdict him on 12 December 1982 failed with Roddy Carroll and Seamus Grew being killed as they allegedly ran a checkpoint. (Those deaths were subsequently investigated by John Stalker as part of his investigation into the Shoot-to-kill policy in Northern Ireland.)"

Sources?
I'm quite concerned about this article and what information it is based on. It's virtually a carbon-copy of this site. While I'm sure the information is factually correct it is a breach of copyright to make a direct copy of protected material.GiollaUidir 22:07, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

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POVy and too long
I am afraid the article is tendentious and lacks a neutral tone and citations for many of its lede assertions. The feud having stemmed from a barroom brawl is not supported by the Holland book on the INLA, but that is now not even mentioned. As the article used to read "Tim Pat Coogan, a historian of the Republican movement asserted that McGlinchey's authority within the INLA was absolute and that he re-enforced it by ordering the deaths of 'anyone he didn't like'. However other authors claimed that decisions were actually taken collectively by a council of leading members, although those disgruntled with the outcomes tended to attribute everything solely to McGlinchey.[13] When a powerful northern unit based around an extended family did not turn over £50,000 raised in a fake postal order scheme (which was essential to the INLA's finances) the scheme's originator insisted that unless the offending unit was punished he would not supply any more funds. It was decided, reportedly against McGlinchey's objections, that members of the northern faction were to be killed. Two were summoned to a meeting: because Mary McGlinchey was acting as an emissary the pair were lulled into thinking that there would be no danger of violence. However, they were led to waiting gunmen and shot dead. This incident sparked a long-running series of tit for tat revenge killings, including that of Mary, and is theorised to have ultimately led to the death of Dominic McGlinchey.[13]". Both explanations for the feud should be included. Overagainst (talk) 20:26, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Problems with this article
1) It isn't just republicans who call Derry that. The SDLP don't call it Londonderry either.

2) McGlinchey left the INLA before he was murdered. He remained a member of the IRSP however.

3) The Droppin Well bomb's victims weren't all RUC and civilians. British Army members were killed as well.

4) This article should emphasize McGlinchey's decision to put the INLA under "direct military rule," which worked for a time but eventually helped tear the movement apart. For instance it helped turn Harry Kirkpatrick supergrass. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.92.122.219 (talk) 01:22, 16 August 2006 (UTC)