#OTD in 1981 – At 2:11 am, Raymond McCreesh dies on hunger strike in the H Blocks of Long Kesh Prison. Later, the same day at 11:29 pm, he is joined in death by his friend and fellow hunger-striker, Patsy O’Hara.
#OTD in 1981 – At 2:11 am, Raymond McCreesh dies on hunger strike in the H Blocks of Long Kesh Prison. Later, the same day at 11:29 pm, he is joined in death by his friend and fellow hunger-striker, Patsy O’Hara.
The third of the resolutely determined IRA Volunteers to join the H-Block hunger strike for political status was twenty-four-year-old Raymond McCreesh, from Camlough in South Armagh: a quiet, shy and good-humoured republican, who although captured at the early age of nineteen, along with two other Volunteers in a British army ambush, had already almost three years active republican involvement…
[Video] Margaret Thatcher statue egged just few hours after installation
(Sunday, 15 May 2022) That didn’t take long! Following fears that the new statue of Margaret Thatcher would attract egg throwing protests (as “promised” on various social media platforms) came true just a few hours after its installation in the town of Grantham where she was born and raised and later went on to become Britain’s Prime Minister and one of the most hated political figures in British history.
Interestingly enough, the bronze statue was installed without a ceremony on a 3-metre base, to protect it from people’s acts of “appreciation, respect and affection”, since back in 2021, when it was revealed that there were plans to use £100,000 of taxpayers’ money for an unveiling ceremony of a Margaret Thatcher statue a Facebook group proposed an egg-throwing contest, which attracted 13,000 expressions of interest.
It has to be reminded that back in 2002 a marble statue of Margaret Thatcher in London was attacked with a cricket bat and decapitated with a metal bar. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ouJEZ3V33l0
[Video] Margaret Thatcher statue egged just few hours after installation
(Sunday, 15 May 2022) That didn’t take long! Following fears that the new statue of Margaret Thatcher would attract egg throwing protests (as “promised” on various social media platforms) came true just a few hours after its installation in the town of Grantham where she was born and raised and later went on to become Britain’s Prime Minister and one of the most hated political figures in British history.
Interestingly enough, the bronze statue was installed without a ceremony on a 3-metre base, to protect it from people’s acts of “appreciation, respect and affection”, since back in 2021, when it was revealed that there were plans to use £100,000 of taxpayers’ money for an unveiling ceremony of a Margaret Thatcher statue a Facebook group proposed an egg-throwing contest, which attracted 13,000 expressions of interest.
It has to be reminded that back in 2002 a marble statue of Margaret Thatcher in London was attacked with a cricket bat and decapitated with a metal bar.
April 2nd 1982: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands
On this day in 1982, Argentine forces landed on the Falkland Islands and occupied the area, which marked the beginning of the Falklands War. The war was the product of long tensions over who possessed the islands, with Argentina claiming ownership and Britain seeing the islands as British territory. Argentine forces landed on the islands and fought the British Royal Marines at Government House, leading to British surrender and thus Argentina seizing control of the Falklands. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher responded by sending a naval task force to attack the Argentinians. The conflict killed 649 Argentinians, 255 Britons and three Falkland Islanders, even though it only lasted 74 days. The war ended with Argentine surrender on 14th June, thus returning the islands to Britain.
On this day in 1979, the Shadow Secretary for Northern Ireland Airey Neave was assassinated by a car bomb aged 63. Neave was elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Abingdon in 1953, and in the mid 1970s helped lead the effort to install Margaret Thatcher as party leader. At the time of Neave’s death, the Conservatives were the opposition party to the Labour government of James Callaghan but the Conservatives were poised to win the upcoming election, which would have elevated Neave to the cabinet. Neave was known for his tough, anti-IRA policies, which invoked the ire of republican paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland. As the politician was leaving the House of Commons car park, a bomb attached to his car exploded, and he subsequently died from his injuries. The noise from the explosion could be heard in the Commons, which led to a suspension of proceedings as MPs rushed to the windows to see what had happened. The Irish National Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the murder. The incident occurred at the height of the Troubles, which saw conflict in Northern Ireland over the country’s relationship to Britain.
How is Joseph Biden (b.1942), 46th President of the United States, related to -~-~ Margaret Thatcher, née Margaret Roberts (1925-2013), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1979-1990?
“Those glorious candid shots of Margaret Thatcher without her shoes on gave me a foot fetish. I’d love to have worked for her in No 10 and given her a nice, long footrub to help her relax after a hard day of work, perhaps leading to something a bit more intimate…“
