Anyone Watching 'bloody Sunday' ?

[kylesmum]

Hard at the moment to see where the 'blame' lay in the film.


I'm thinking one as bad as the other at the moment ...always two sides to the one story.

I've had very happy times in the North and the South :) Got to love Ireland !

[agchristie]

The issue of 'blame' is still a moot point since that fateful day in Jan '72.

[kylesmum]

Thank you ag as I was beginning to think I wasn't 'following' it with the right 'mindset'.I knew I had in the past but this film puts a different slant on it. I agree with you....I wouldn't want to call it..at all !

[Canary42]

Religious mania is to blame IMHO.

[kylesmum]

I'm still watching it and it's insane....

[kylesmum]

It's very real...

[ToraToraTora]

Martin McGuinnes fired, the army shot back, end of. No idea why that is so difficult to comprehend.

[agchristie]

TTT- you obviously haven't looked closely enough then at the Saville Inquiry Report.

Paras lost control of the situation, didn't issue any warnings before firing, none of the killed civilians were armed, firing on other civilians attending to the wounded etc.

I'm glad you can sum it up so easily in a sentence or two.

[kvalidir]

Wow TTT they should make you the next Dr Who, since you seem to have such a talant for simplifying and rewriting history ;/

[ToraToraTora]

someone fired on the army. probably McGuinnes

[agchristie]

TTT - I see you have watered it down to 'probably'.

Saville exonerated MM from firing by the way.

[Peter Pedant]

Kylemum - its a film for chrissakes - it may not be true

The Svile inquiry into it ( Bloody SUnday ) cost £162 000 000
and that works out as £10m for each dead person
I bet THAT doesnt come up in the film even tho it is true

[Peter Pedant]

Damn Sorry Saville here has two els .
Savile is someone else .
Soz

[agchristie]

From Saville:-

'we are sure that MM did not engage in any activity that provided any of the soldiers with justification for opening fire'

[kylesmum]

Peter Pedant...that's why I posted it in Media & TV. No need to be quite so rude.

[ToraToraTora]

the army did not fire first, terrorism went wrong for them on the day. More anti British BS. Why must we keep raking over this? It was effectively a war, bad things happen in war.

[Peter Pedant]

Soz Kyles mum -

[kylesmum]

Thanks to everyone for enlightening me, I admit that I get baffled at times trying to understand the 'troubles'.

[kylesmum]

Thanks PP, there wasn't any need to apologise but thank you :)

[agchristie]

It did go badly wrong.

For the record, the second in command that day was Sir Michael Jackson, who I have gone on record and, will say again, is one of the best soldiers we have ever produced.

[Peter Pedant]

// Why must we keep raking over this? It was effectively a war, bad things happen in war.//

o god 3T you must re-watch 'In the name of the Father' its is about the framing of the Guildford non-bombers. I think your very words come up in the mouth of evil Corin Redgrave who plays the mandarin who knows all but wont tell all. - Isnt that your favourite Maggies commment on Hillsboro' ( " do we have to go thro all this again " or perhaps it was 'why why why'