Clyde Phone-in now allowing IRA supporting scum fan rep a voice in regard to Higgins appointment

deedle said:

From 2007...​

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CELTIC FANS' CHIEF RAISED CASH FOR FAMILIES OF IRA; EXCLUSIVE And she was the one who first brought Gerry Adams here too..​


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Byline: By SIMON HOUSTON & THOMAS SMITH

THE head of a Celtic fans' group who sparked fury by defending the singing of IRA songs campaigned for the release of jailed terrorists and raised funds for their families.

Dr Jeanette Findlay was coordinator of the Saoirse campaign in Scotland, which was set up in 1995 to demand the freeing of jailed IRA terrorists and which collected funds for their relatives.

She shared a platform with an IRA terrorist jailed for the murder of an Ulster policeman during a controversial rally in Glasgow.

And she organised Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams' first public appearance in Scotland - at a meeting which erupted in sectarian violence in the shadow of Ibrox Stadium in Govan, 12 years ago.

She also tried to sue a Celtic supporters club when it scrapped a drama group's booking after learning the cast included a former IRA terrorist.

Glasgow University economics lecturer Dr Findlay, 47, was last week condemned for saying in a radio interview that chants backing the IRA were simply "songs from a war of independence going back over 100 years".

Steelworker's daughter Dr Findlay, who grew up in tough Easterhouse, Glasgow, is chair of the Celtic Trust which claims to represent the interests of Hoops fans who have shares in the club.

In 1995, the Sunday Mirror can reveal, she arranged for Gerry Adams, then viewed as political outcast in many circles, to address 1,100 people in Glasgow's Govan town hall.

Five people were arrested as around 300 loyalists hurled bottles and taunted people attending the meeting.

Dr Findlay blamed the police saying: "They should not have allowed the protesters intimidate people going to a public meeting."

In the same year she fuelled more controversy by inviting a former IRA prisoner to address a vigil at George Square to mark the launch of the Saoirse campaign in Scotland. Felim O'Hagan, jailed for the murder of an RUC officer, addressed the crowd. A year later it emerged that the Celtic Supporters' Club was being sued after banning a theatre group whose cast included a former IRA terrorist.

Belfast-based Phoenix Drama Group's booking at the London Road club, Glasgow, was scrapped when officials discovered the links. Dr Findlay, who organised the tour, vowed to sue the club for breach of contract. The matter was settled out of court. An Irish Republican source said last night: "Jeanette Findlay was at the heart of a Scottish campaign to free Irish political prisoners and raise funds for their families.

"Anyone who knows her would not have been surprised by her radio comments. Being able to pick up the phone and persuade Gerry Adams to address a crowd near Ibrox Stadium gives you an idea of the clout she has in Irish Republican circles.
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Hopefully all Twitter bears are sending this to RC & getting it all over social media to remind people who she is Deedle.

And pointing out that she is also behind the so called anti hatred group Call it Out too.
 
Bit strange why Clyde / SSB as a partner of the scum would allow her to come on and criticise their partner?
It is as if the scum looking for away out to not employ Higgins after all they won't talk about a FIFTY year old elephant in the room on the show to defame but allow the groin brigade to dictate who the scum employ?
 
jomacbe said:
What’s their beef with Higgins? Thought he was one of them?
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They have it in their thick uneducated heads that he was partly responsible for the implementation of the legislation. I would suggest they seek some advice from someone who knows how legislation is formed, and they would soon realise it was absolutely nothing to do with Bernie Higgins.
They just love a moan!
 
Any Rangers business owner who advertises on Snyde should be boycotting. Tell them the reasons why. Hitting them financially is the correct way forward.
 
This was on in work and I was genuinely thinking that surely that isn't the hate filled bigot Clyde have on. I heard the first name but thought surely not.
 
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