Former IRA member turned back at the border

[CHIMO]

Former IRA member turned back at the border
Last Updated Fri, 26 May 2006 23:38:11 EDT
CBC News

A former member of the Irish Republican Army was sent back to Ireland this week while en route to Fort Augustus, P.E.I., for Irish heritage celebrations.

Pat Treanor, the mayor of County Monaghan in Ireland, had been to Canada twice in the past year. But when he flew into St. John's on Wednesday, border security officials asked him whether he had a record.

He told them he was convicted once — for being a member of the IRA. He was refused admittance to Canada and sent back home.

The Canada Border Services Agency won't talk about the case. But spokeswoman Jennifer Morrison said people can be turned away for a number of reasons, such as having a criminal record or belonging to a terrorist group.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/05/26/ira-pei.html

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

1. Something is not correct in this story from CBC.

There is no such person as "mayor of County Monaghan". Co. Monaghan is made up of many towns ie., Monaghan City, Castleblaney, Clones, etc. There are mayors of towns, but not counties in either the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland, i.e, the Six Counties.

One other note, when Ireland was divided in 1921 by the Brits, Counties Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan became part of the "Irish Free State" now know as the Republic of Ireland because the religious persuasion of the majority of people in these three counties being Catholic, would have made it impossible for their opposite numbers to maintain control over the other six counties of Ulster: Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Down, Fermanagh and Tyrone.

Historically in Ireland there have always been nine counties in Ulster, politically it's a different story...

[Lasher]

2. Ray, when someone asks if you're a God, you say "Yes"!

Maybe he should have said, "No, I don't have a record."

[Dr.Phool]

3. He should have said, "Sure I have a record....New Dixie Chicks CD".