BLACK IS THE NEW IRISH

The Guilford Four are going to the House of Commons hoping Prime Minister Tony Blair will apologise for their wrongful imprisonment.

Eleven people were jailed for IRA bomb attacks in Guildford and Woolwich in 1974. Fifteen years later the Court of Appeal quashed the sentences of the Guildford Four after doubts were raised about police evidence. Gerry Conlon said: "People thought that when we were released it was the end of it, but it was only the start of it.

"It has been harder to clear our names than to get out of prison."
So we can expect Bambi to step up, tilt his big doe-eyes to the heavens and do his Diana routine again. Meanwhile he’s just sanctioned his Home Secretary to re-start internment without trial. Sheesh, the irony of it all!

Mr Conlon was one of four people - Paddy Armstrong, Paul Hill and Carole Richardson - arrested in 1974 and wrongfully jailed for an IRA bomb attack on the Horse and Groom pub in Guildford.
The blast killed five people - four soldiers and a civilian.
Members of the Conlon and Maguire families will attend Prime Minister's Questions to see if Mr Blair will comment on the wrongful convictions.

Nationalist SDLP MP Eddie McGrady will try to put a question to the Prime Minister on the cases of the Guildford Four and Maguire Seven.The family of father and son, Gerry and Guiseppe Conlon has been seeking a public apology from the British Government for the miscarriage of justice after a letter to SDLP leader Mark Durkan privately acknowledged the wrong done to the family.
But sorry’s not really the issue is it? Not when there’s people banged up in Belmarsh, or British Security Services having people

arrested and flown to American torture camps or when people can be imprisoned without charge for years.

Read the Mirror article here.