No more nazis at the Central Bank
This graffiti at the Central Bank reads ‘Irish punks & skins against racism’. Its heartening to see this part of town being taken back from the backwards gang of self-styled neo-Nazis who were hanging out here.
Here are some of my pieces from the Sunday Mirror throughout 2009 exposing members of the gang, in chronological order.
NAZIS INVADE IRISH ARMY; FAR RIGHT SKINHEADS INFILTRATE RDF
NEO-NAZIS have joined the Army’s reserve force - where they are given training with LIVE ammunition, the Irish Sunday Mirror can reveal.
And the right-wing fanatics are encouraging their friends and sympathisers to join up to master high-powered weapons and hand-to-hand combat.
Two skinheaded recruits have posted pictures of themselves on a website along with their unsuspecting Army platoons as well as with Nazi gear.
In one picture Stephen Kellett, 20, from south Dublin, poses proudly in a war museum next to a statue of a German eagle clutching a swastika. He is also wearing a German iron cross buckle on his belt in the picture.
And pal Joseph McKenna, also from south Dublin, is even dressed ina German WWII uniform giving a Heil Hilter salute for the camera as a friend appears to copy him in the background.
Last night the Army promised an investigation into the matter.
Commandant Gavin Young said: “We will look at any information we are given and it will be fully investigated.
“If they are members of a proscribed organisation then they will be thrown out of the Army. If they are involved in any criminal activities that would be grounds for expulsion.
“Reservists get to fire live ammunition under controlled circumstances once or twice a year.”
A source said: “A lot of the members of a skinhead gang in Dublin have had weapons training and are beginning to link up with older fascists via the internet who have more experience.”
McKenna, a member of the Reserve Defence Force in Rathmines, openly de-clarehimself to be a neo-Nazi and confesses on his Bebo page “mymates class me as a Nazi because of my appearance, to be honest I amreally”.
He uses codes like 88, which as the eighth letter of the alphabet stands for HH, which means Heil Hitler.
In one rant McKenna wrote: “I’m proud of my bloodline of my white ancestry and if that makes me a racist then I’m proud.”
But one fellow soldier blasted him on his website: “You are a soldier, and a damn good one, so stop wasting your time with national socialism, Hitler is dead, he died a total failure!” And Kellett openly boasts of his army training and physical strength on his web profile,where he regularly converses with known members of the far right.
Neo-nazi RDF probe
TWO neo-Nazis who joined the Army’s reserve force are being investigated by military top brass after an Irish Sunday Mirrror investigation.
The investigation comes after we revealed how two RDF recruits Stephen Kellett and Joseph McKenna both from south Dublin posted pictures of themselves on a website with Nazi gear.
Yesterday Commandant Gavin Young confirmed: : “An investigation isbeing carried out.”
IT’S ALL REICH; WE EXPOSED NAZIS IN ARMY…
YET TOP BRASS SAY NOTHING’S WRONG!
RMY top brass have refused to give the boot to two soldiers exposed as neo-Nazis by an Irish Sunday Mirror investigation.
Right-wing skinheads Stephen Kellet and Joseph McKenna were investigated by Army chiefs for their devotion to Nazi ideology.
But the Defence Forces have now admitted the pair received NO disciplinary action and continue to receive training at their base in Rathmines, South Dublin.
Army spokesman Captain Pat O’Connor said racist, homophobic or derogatory behaviour was not accepted from its members.
But he added: “The incident outlined by your newspaper was looked into, the matter was dealt with and no disciplinary action was recommended.
“Should other issues arise that require further investigation they will be dealt with seriously.
“It must be pointed out this issue has not been brought to our attention Joseph by anyone other than your paper and the Garda have made no contact with us on the matter.”
But TD Finian McGrath plans to raise the issue in the Dail.
The Dublin North Central independent, whose nephew serves in the Army and recently returned from a tour in Chad, is outraged with the force’s tolerance of hate-mongers.
He said: “This is a cancer in our Defence Forces that I will be calling on [Defence Minister] Willie O’Dea to launch a tactical strike against.
“The Army must deal with this matter immediately and erase any people found to be involved from their ranks.
“People like this risk damaging the Army’s good reputation on an international level.”
The Irish Sunday Mirror revealed how Kellett and McKenna were encouraging friends and sympathisers to join up to master high-powered weapons and hand-to-hand combat.
The two South Dublin recruits posted pictures of themselves on a website posing with their unsuspecting Army platoons as well as with Nazi gear.
In one picture Kellett, 20, poses proudly in a war museum next to a statue of a German eagle clutching a swastika. He is also wearing a German iron cross buckle on his belt. Kellett used his internet profile to make contact with other members of the far right from Ireland and Britain.
His pal McKenna posed in a German WWII uniform giving a Heil Hitler salute for the camera.
McKenna, a member of the Reserve Defence Force in Rathmines, openly declared himself to be a Neo-Nazi and confesses on his Bebo page: “I’m proud of my bloodline of my white ancestry and if that makes me a racist then I’m proud.”
DO YOU THINK THEY SHOULD BE KICKED OUT? THEN LET THE ARMY KNOW. WRITE TO: Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Dermot Earley, Defence Forces HQ, Infirmary Road, Dublin 7.
O’DEA ORDERS A NEW PROBE INTO NEO-NAZIS; Fury over skinhead soldiersshocker
A NEW investigation into neo-Nazis in the Army has been ordered - by Defence Minister Willie O’Dea.
Top brass had said there would be no disciplinary action against the two members of the Reserves who openly boasted about their Nazi sympathies.
But after Minister O’Dea was quizzed about it in the Dail a new investigation was ordered.
An Irish Sunday Mirror investigation revealed how right-wing skinheads Joseph McKenna and Stephen Kellett had been encouraging people to sign up to the Defence Forces - but senior officers said the pair had done nothing wrong and refused to kick them out of the RDF.
But after a Dail question last week from independent TD Finian McGrath, Minister O’Dea promised the matter is now under review by military authorities.
Deputy McGrath called on O’Dea to explain why the Defence Forces were refusing to act in relation to our revelations.
In his reply the Minister stated the final determination if disciplinary action will be taken, or not, has yet to be made.
Mr O’Dea told the Dail: “I am advised that the matter of the article contained in the Sunday Mirror on 16 August last continues to be under review by the Military Authorities.
“The images referred to in the article have been removed from the Bebo site and the Reserve Defence Forces members concerned have been paraded by their unit commanders and informed their actions were contrary to the aforementioned policy.”
The Minister said Defence Forces have policies on equality and dignity in the workplace that covered in training: “The Defences Forces also promulgated a Defence Forces Imagery Policy in April 2007.
“This prohibits personnel from posting inappropriate images or material in public on-line and advises that all such imagery will be investigated and appropriate disciplinary action will be initiated if necessary.”
He said that while action had not been taken at unit level this did not rule out disciplinary measures being taken. Deputy McGrath, whose nephew has served with the Defence Forces in Chad, believes it is time that the matter be handed over to a body outside the Army for investigation.
The skin-headed recruits posted pictures of themselves posing withtheir unsuspecting Army platoons as well as with Nazi gear. In one picture Kellett, 20, from South Dublin, poses proudly in a war museum next to a statue of a German eagle clutching a swastika. His pal Joseph McKenna, also from South Dublin, posed dressed in a German WWII uniform giving a Heil Hitler salute.
NEO-NAZI LATEST: I AM A JEW;
ARMY PROBE MAN DENIES ANTI-SEMITISM
A NEO-NAZI at the centre of a probe into far-right infiltration of the Defence Forces claimed last night: “I’m half JEWISH.”
Joseph McKenna is one of the young South Dublin recruits at the centre of an Army investigation into neo-Nazi activities ordered by Defence Minister Willie O’Dea.
McKenna, who posed for the camera in a Nazi WWII uniform while giving a Nazi salute, protested his innocence declaring that he was not a Neo-Nazi despite having swastikas on his web profile.
He claimed: “I disagree with the extermination of the Jews considering I am half-Jewish, it would be a bit hypocritical.”
The skinhead, who described himself as a “boot boy”, came close to tears as he explained how his extremist views had alienated him from his friends and fellow soldiers.
He declared: “I don’t even pal around with my friends because they all judge me now. People I used to get on with won’t even talk to me because they think I’m a racist and they think I am anti-Semitic.”
When questioned over his use of Nazi imagery and constant references to 88 - neo-Nazi code for Heil Hitler - McKenna claimed he was being ironic and tried to laugh the matter off.
“It’s just a figure of speech…it does mean Heil Hitler, it was a joke, a bit of sarcasm,” he said. However, we can confirm that despite being exposed for openly encouraging Nazis to join his Rathmines-based unit McKenna continued to use his web profile for far right activities even while under investigation by the Defence Forces.
McKenna made contact with right wing fanatics in Cobh and Limerick as well as a militaristic New Zealand group called the Right Wing Resistance.
When questioned over one sick rant in which he declared: “I’m proud of my bloodline of my white ancestry and if that makes me a racist then I’m proud,” McKenna denied that made him a racist insisting that he had a proud family military history.
The young recruit confirmed that he was still a member of the Defence Forces and had no plans to leave, hoping to climb the ranks and build a career for himself in the military.
“I’ve been investigated, I’ve been brought into the office of my commanding officers, I’ve been called up by commanding officers and I’m still on investigation at the moment,” he confessed.
He added: “I just want to get on with my life and put all of this to be behind me.”
McKenna denied the charge he was an active neo-Nazi but said hehad a great interest in history and different cultures including Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, who he would sympathise with historically.
Joe and his cronies;
