Eoghan Harris: hero or zero?

Dionysus

Yeah, yeah, yeah - I should be, to paraphrase his hero Mrs Thatcher, "starving him of the oxygen of publicity". But he's just such a muppet I can't resist.

Over the weekend it seems he has decided to call every Irish republican from Michael Collins to Liam Lynch a "terrorist" because they have used violence to fight the British state in Ireland which is here precisely because of using enormous and historically unprecedented violence against the Irish people. Harris, being what he is, always likes to brush over the latter part.

Remember Harris? Well, leaving aside the widespread innuendo about his mental stability, he's the guy who was formerly in Sinn Féin/IRA (as he likes to call it) and then found there was more money in opposing them. He has had numerous reincarnations since, from pro-USSR Sticky to pro-British Unionists to pro-Tory Party to his most recent incarnation as admirer of one Bertie Ahern who appointed him to Seanad Éireann for ranting in favour of Ahern on the Late Late Show prior to the 2007 election.

Harris received over €100,000 of Irish taxpayers money per year because of his appointment to Seanad Éireann by that discredited parasite who bankrupted Ireland, Bertie Ahern. That's Harris's latest "hero".

In between he has been ranting in what is by any educated standard the most objectionable newspaper in Ireland, the Sunday Independent. Really, it's about as in-bred and lower class as a paper can get (half of his family works for it).

There's so much wrong with his latest rant against Irish republicans, most noticeably at first his very British tendency to refer to this state in 2011 as the "Irish Republic", a state which existed between 1916 and 1922 and has not existed since.

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Anyway, is Harris a hero or zero?

fontanalis

Can we go sub zero?

Dionysus

fontanalis wrote: »

Can we go sub zero?

hehe. Inspired, fontanalis. How do I edit the poll to give that option?

Liam Byrne

fontanalis wrote: »

Can we go sub zero?

It might confuse some people.....on Top Gear "sub zero" means "cool", and it'd need to mean "absolute tosser" in order to be relevant to the poll.

CiaranMT

Harris is still around? News to me.

Wolfe Tone

I would also question the mental state of whoever invited Harris, someone with known anti Irish and anti republican views, to give a speech at a commemoration for an Irish Patriot like Liam Lynch. It was obvious he would use that as an opportunity to slag off all those who fought and died for Irish freedom, doing it at Liam Lynches graveside no less.

Cllr Frank O’Flynn, chairman of the Liam Lynch committee, said he was appalled by the address.

“We in no way condone what he said. He attacked Liam Lynch, who fought to protect the very freedom we enjoy today. It was disgraceful.”

Yes, he is quite the tool, to put it mildly.

Dudess

Just because he has respect for unionism and no time for the provos, doesn't mean he has to do sh1t like defend the Black & Tans - allegedly anyway.

Teutorix

Dionysus wrote: »

Yeah, yeah, yeah - I should be, to paraphrase his hero Mrs Thatcher, "starving him of the oxygen of publicity". But he's just such a muppet I can't resist.

Over the weekend it seems he has decided to call every Irish republican from Michael Collins to Liam Lynch a "terrorist" because they have used violence to fight the British state in Ireland which is here precisely because of using enormous and historically unprecedented violence against the Irish people. Harris, being what he is, always likes to brush over the latter part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3nDQFickqY

Terrorism at its finest

Super-Rush

Try politics or clebrity forum.