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Hackney has now accused me of lying [] claiming that what I wrote about RTE is incorrect and that I know that. Hackney claims that the podcast did not exist at the time of the dispute and that it has been added later. This is a serious allegation for Hackney to make here, especially as he makes it in the course of an appeal against his AE sanctions and again I am obliged to reply.

The Billy Fox article is Troubles related as IRA members were convicted of his murder. The RTE reference was added in 2007 [] pointing to http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/1099677.html. In 2011 Hackney removed the RTE reference as being a dead link []. I corrected the link to point to http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/rumours.html []. I know the link worked and I listened to the recording. In what I now would recognise as an edit war, Hackney supported by the Old Jacobite [][] edited amongst other things to remove the working RTE link. Being outnumbered I used dispute resolution [] and with the assistance of mediators I put a compromise edit in the article including the RTE link. At no time in the talk I started [] or in the dispute resolution I started did either of them claim the RTE link was not working, and I know it was. Instead they objected on the basis that it was an unnecessary addition. As the talk page discussion and the dispute resolution were about references it is inconceivable that any of the references included would have been broken or unexamined. Hackney disputed the content of the Bruton link [] but never disputed the content of the RTE link.

I think in this AE that Hackney still thinks that he did nothing wrong at any time, and that he sees editors who disagree with him as those who make 'disruptive, incorrect and/or policy violating changes' [] and that he has been sanctioned on a whim. []