{"id":796919,"date":"2026-03-01T13:02:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/796919\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T13:02:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:02:41","slug":"mairia-cahill-blaming-the-brits-for-the-troubles-of-west-belfast-lets-the-ira-off-the-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/796919\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00e1ir\u00eda Cahill: Blaming the Brits for the troubles of west Belfast lets the IRA off the hook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Actor Lola Petticrew\u2019s controversial Ifta speech didn\u2019t give the full picture of the political landscape in Ballymurphy\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lola Petticrew with the Ifta for Best Lead Actress in a Drama. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/121419623.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Lola Petticrew with the Ifta for Best Lead Actress in a Drama. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Lola Petticrew\u2019s Best Lead Actress in a Drama win at the Iftas was deserved. But, when the actor dedicated the award to \u201cthe kids of west Belfast\u201d and declared that one in three lived in poverty because of \u201cthe legacy of war\u201d and \u201cBritain\u2019s hand in Ireland\u201d, it was hard not to look for a sick bucket at the sight of the audience applauding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Most of these people have never set foot in Ballymurphy, yet they were happy to accept a half-narrative and lend their weight to it publicly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Lola Petticrew\u2019s controversial Ifta speech didn\u2019t give the full picture of the political landscape in Ballymurphy Lola&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5011],"tags":[22306,231343,1434,1144,11528,16,15],"class_list":["post-796919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-northern-ireland","tag-ira","tag-mairia-cahill","tag-michelle-oneill","tag-northern-ireland","tag-sinn-fein","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116154056441213419","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}