For the first time an allegation long made in private has been stated in public: a senior member of the largest political party representing the British Unionist community in the north-east of Ireland and a current minister in the regional executive in Belfast was once an associate of Tara, a would-be British terrorist grouping founded in the 1960s by the notorious paedophile, Orange Order chaplain and British-Israelite occultist William McGrath. The latter individual is indelibly linked with the Kincora Boys’ Home Scandal, the Belfast care home where vulnerable children were “ritually” abused by McGrath and suspected members of Britain’s political establishment flown in for the occasion, not to mention others linked with the paramilitary police, armed forces, intelligence services and various militant factions.
McGrath’s organisation seems to have been part of a wider if loosely organised network of paedophiles in Britain from the 1950s to ‘90s whose more notable members have become familiar names in the controversies of recent months. He is also closely linked with the inception of the “Ulster-Scots” völkisch movement, in particular those who believe in a catalogue of pseudo-historical theories linking the Unionist community in Ireland with the ancient Pictish peoples of eastern Scotland and the Lost Tribes of Israel. If all this sounds very Dan Brown I suggest that you employ Google or Bing for yourself to discover more. The truth is more fantastical – and worrying – than any novel. Religious fundamentalism meets ultranationalism with hefty doses of colonial racism and fringe academia thrown in. And in this case made subservient to the physical and sexual exploitation of children.
The Irish and British media will remain silent on this one. But for how long?
AN SIONNACH FIONN 
Interestingly, the clowns who put up these flags are obviously unaware that the Union flag should, according to the etiquette, never be flown below other flags as this is an indication of subservience. Perhaps it’s just ignorance………
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Ignorant in more ways than one, I might suggest.
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Not sure how you can say that the Irish and British media will remain silent, I’ve heard McGrath et al discussed at length on various programmes up here in the North and it was covered in the Sunday papers, in which the names of various Unionist politicians (deceased) were mentioned. Perhaps the South has enough child abuse scandals to be going on with, without discussing this in any detail. As far as I can recall McGrath was also unusual in Unionist circles in being a bit of an Irish language enthusiast.
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The reference to silence was more to do with those around McGrath, some of whom are now being named. Speculation on some parts, informed guesses on others. These days the established news media usually wait for someone else to make the running before jumping in.
William McGrath has been well discussed but more often than not in a peripheral fashion. His crimes and those of his coterie have never been fully analysed and certainly never in the context of the major scandals emerging in Britain. Many claims previously dismissed as far-fetched or “Republican propaganda” have now gained credibility. The Kincora scandal is the tip of a particular rotten iceberg (and one not confined to the British or Unionist communities if some recent allegations are true).
Child-abuse in whatever part of the country it occurs needs to be examined and justice delivered. The border was no barrier to cruelty and deviancy.
The Unionist minority are no more peculiar in this regard than the Nationalist majority.
McGarth was far from the fringe player others later portrayed him to be (and expediently so). There are many in positions of power who were his acolytes thirty or forty years ago. His initial influence in “Ulster-Scots” circles was considerable, though again now downplayed. yes he expressed interest in the Irish language and culture though with the intention of “appropriating” that which he believed supported his historical fantasies.
More here in the Belfast Telegraph, just a couple of hours ago.
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‘Adams canvassed with brother’
Liam Adams
Liam Adams reported to a Sligo police station last week
A picture of Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams canvassing with his brother Liam for the party in Dundalk in 1997 has been published in a Sunday newspaper.
Mr Adams has said he moved to get his brother expelled from Sinn Fein in the late 1990s.
Liam Adams is wanted by the PSNI over claims he sexually abused his daughter.
A Sinn Fein spokesman said it saw no conflict with the Sunday Tribune’s claims and Mr Adams’ previous comments on meetings with his brother.
“Gerry Adams has made it clear that he did see his brother on occasions in the 1990s and made it clear when he discovered he was a member of the party in the Dundalk area he moved to have him expelled in the late 1990s,” a Sinn Fein spokesman added.
The Sunday Tribune shows pictures of Mr Adams posing with his brother Liam and Sinn Fein’s County Louth candidate in the Irish general election, Owenie Hanratty, which it said were published in the Dundalk Argus newspaper on 6 June 1997.
Gerry Adams has said he found out about the allegations levelled against his brother in 1987 and said he had brought Liam’s daughter Aine Tyrell, then aged 14, to confront her father.
In an interview with RTE this month, Mr Adams said his brother later moved out of his life “when he moved abroad for a while and then came back, although I saw him occasionally during that period of 15 years”.
“When I learned that he was a member of Sinn Fein it was I who moved to get him dumped out of Sinn Fein,” he said.
Liam Adams, who is wanted by the PSNI after claims that he sexually abused his daughter from the age of four, gave himself up to Irish police on Monday.
He walked into a Garda station in Sligo but Irish police could not detain him as they did not have the right warrant.
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So? Posting “whataboutery” simply comes across as a defence of those involved in the Kincora Scandal. All those who have engaged in criminal acts against minors should be known regardless of community or nationality.
You should be commenting on the substance of the post above. With respect, your antipathy to Sinn Féin is blinding you too all else. Even when it is not the focus of an article you must, perforce, make it so.
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So? Posting “whataboutery” simply comes across as a defence of those involved in the Kincora Scandal.
No it doesn’t.
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