A number of people who never studied in a university have asked me to explain why Sean Murray’s Plagiarism in Queen’s University is a BAD THING…
Plagiarism is the theft of the work of others and passing it off as your own.
Plagiarism is stealing other persons’ text or ideas and failing to acknowledge the work of others in originating that text or those ideas.
Plagiarism is cheating other students by stealing an advantage over them while they do not engage in theft or cheating.
Plagiarism is a breach of trust with the University by breaking its rules and undermining its academic standing in the wider world.
Plagiarism undermines the University’s integrity vis-à-vis other students and universities – since the university does not EXPECT to be cheated and may not DISCOVER the cheating – as happened in Queen’s University which placed trust in Sean Murray and was blindsided by his undiscovered cheating.
Plagiarism undermines the plagiarist’s own experience of true learning – that there are no shortcuts to learning – and identifies that the plagiarist has not learned the true meaning of education.
Plagiarism denotes an essentially dishonest character in a person who cheats both other students and the host university.
Sean Murray’s blatant dishonesty was already evident for all to see:
In the course of an interview with RT’s “Going Underground” programme, Seán declared to anchor Afshin Rattansi and to RT’s entire television audience:
“There’s never been a single prosecution or a single sentence that’s been served by a British soldier during the conflict.” SEÁN MURRAY JNR
Few republicans who have lived through or studied the consequences of the IRA’s failed and abandoned ‘armed struggle’ can forget Private Ian Thain’s prosecution and conviction for the murder of Thomas ‘Kidso’ Reilly, road manager of the band Bananarama.
Or Private Lee Clegg’s prosecution and conviction for the murder of joyrider Karen Reilly and intent to wound Martin Peake (who later died of his injuries).
Or the “pitchfork murders” of Fermanagh farmers Michael Naan and Andrew Murray which were investigated by police as a “cold case” after 9 years and led to Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Sergeants John Byrne and Stanley Hathaway pleading guilty and receiving life sentences, and to two others pleading guilty to lesser charges, including Captain Andrew Snowball who received a 4 year sentence.
Or the murder of Belfast teenager and father of two Peter McBride for which two Scots Guards – Mark Wright and James Fisher – were successfully prosecuted, convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
Since the Ulster Defence Regiment was a regiment of the British Armed forces, many serving members of the UDR were successfully investigated and prosecuted by detectives of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and convicted for involvement in paramilitary crimes including murder – too many to name here who served long sentences in the Maze Prison.
So why would Seán Murray Jnr tell a television audience a blatant untruth by claiming that not a single British soldier was ever prosecuted or convicted or served a prison sentence during the conflict in Northern Ireland?
The only explanation is that either Seán Murray Jnr is Northern Ireland’s least accurate researcher or else he knew these convictions very well but decided to impart propagandist mistruths to a British television audience – he decided to LIE… to CHEAT the audience…
Sean Murray sees ADVANTAGES in and seeks ADVANTAGES by CHEATING – by LYING…
The only remaining question is whether Queen’s University will seek to rectify its own integrity vis-à-vis other non-cheating students and vis-à-vis other universities which have a right to expect Queen’s shared research to be honest, genuine, authentic and ethically attained.
Do I have confidence that Queen’s University will take the appropriate actions outlined in its own Disciplinary declarations against Sean A Murray, Plagiarizer and Cheat?
The Irish Peace Process 
typical ira. Born Liars.
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