Talk:Thomas Murphy (Irish republican)

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Farmer Murphy has confirmed today that he is nothing but a humble peasant of modest means in rural Ireland. It's not everybody who wakes up in the morning to be accused of being Chief-of-Staff of the Irish Republican Army. Dastardly journalists. Must have been quite the shook to the poor lad. hehe. http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/1012/murphyts.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4335674.stm (It gets better: imagine suing against an allegation that you are Chief-of-Staff of the IRA- and losing the damn thing! hehehe)

Contents 1 Slab Allegation 2 Torched 3 WikiProject class rating 4 Arrested 5 Rationale for deleting unsourced/unreferened possibly contrived Irish name

[edit] Slab Allegation

Who is this Mathew 'Bobby' O'Brien? I know a great deal about the IRA leadership (or what the British media claims it is) and i've never heard of this guy? some evidence please?

[edit] Torched

Thomas Slab Murphy recently torched his own farm, to hide evidence of his involvement in Republican Terrorism and secondly to make a massive insurance Claim.

He is a Fenian terrorist and should be brought to justice

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balanced and well sourced!?!?! Vintagekits 15:59, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 16:27, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Arrested

He's been arrested in the Republic by the CAB. The Lunchbox of Dooom 08:57, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Might I just say that Wikipedia should not offer first-hand news reports on breaking stories. Has this person been found guilty of anything? However, our sister project Wikinews does exactly that, and is intended to be a primary source.--Domer48 18:17, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Your link is misleading. It connects to the "no original thought" policy on wikipedia. Murphy's charge and arrest are reported in quotable news reports, so they are not original research. Also, the section you removed (which I, too found too detailed) did not state he is guilty of anything. If Murphy is a public figure, surely the basic fact that he was arrested and charged is important enough to be included in this article? athinaios 14:01, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

athinaios, I agree with you, and have returned the Arrest section to the article. I have, however, shortened it to a more manageable size. As is the nature of these things, if/when anything else happens on the story, and over the passage of time, it will be expanded or shortened as required. --The.Q^(t)(c) 15:29, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rationale for deleting unsourced/unreferened possibly contrived Irish name

In line with the majority consensus in this discussion, I removed the reference to the subject's alleged Irish name of "Tomás Ó Murchú", provided by User:Derry Boi[1], as no evidence has been provided that a) the subject uses this name or b) that he has been referred to as such. There are many forms of Murphy in Irish (including Ó Murchú, Ó Murchadha and Mac Murchaidh). Names are names and there can be one version of an individual's name. Unless we know whether Slab uses an Irish name and what form this takes, this encyclopaedia should make no reference to it as it may help spread misleading, indeed false, information.--Damac 16:40, 9 November 2007 (UTC)