Happy Gerry Adams Day?

timthumbni

It seems New York mayor Bill de Blasio said that st patty’s day should be renamed after the terrorist excusing ex leader of SF. You would think with NYs recent issues with mass terrorism that the city’s mayor would have a bit of a cop on with himself.

Maybe he can visit here and go for a long walk on a beach to discuss tactics with Adams.

Imagine if a mayor from Northern Ireland suggested having a day to celebrate the terrorists behind 911 attacks on NY. What an absolute clown that yank mayor is.

timthumbni

It seems New York mayor Bill de Blasio said that st patty’s day should be renamed after the terrorist excusing ex leader of SF. You would think with NYs recent issues with mass terrorism that the city’s mayor would have a bit of a cop on with himself.

Maybe he can visit here and go for a long walk on a beach to discuss tactics with Adams.

Imagine if a mayor from Northern Ireland suggested having a day to celebrate the terrorists behind 911 attacks on NY. What an absolute clown that yank mayor is.

FTA69

You'd be a bigger clown equating Al Qaeda with Gerry Adams.

It always cracks me up when Unionists try and crowbar the whole '9/11 was the same as the IRA' rubbish into a discussion and then five minutes later they'll be fawning over the RUC and UDR who tortured people, murdered people and colluded with Loyalist paramilitaries.

The reality is you're no more anti-violence or morally correct than Gerry Adams, and you've no problem with the type of stuff you're criticising him for as long as it was your side doing it.

john why

timthumbni wrote: »

It seems New York mayor Bill de Blasio said that st patty’s day should be renamed after the terrorist excusing ex leader of SF. You would think with NYs recent issues with mass terrorism that the city’s mayor would have a bit of a cop on with himself.

Maybe he can visit here and go for a long walk on a beach to discuss tactics with Adams.

Imagine if a mayor from Northern Ireland suggested having a day to celebrate the terrorists behind 911 attacks on NY. What an absolute clown that yank mayor is.

It's st Patrick's day

munsterlegend

timthumbni wrote: »

It seems New York mayor Bill de Blasio said that st patty’s day should be renamed after the terrorist excusing ex leader of SF. You would think with NYs recent issues with mass terrorism that the city’s mayor would have a bit of a cop on with himself.

Maybe he can visit here and go for a long walk on a beach to discuss tactics with Adams.

Imagine if a mayor from Northern Ireland suggested having a day to celebrate the terrorists behind 911 attacks on NY. What an absolute clown that yank mayor is.

Rather than give out about New Yorkers you should start closer to home and focus on the idiots who celebrate a battle from 1690.

Anyway as the rugby showed it's amazing what this island can achieve together!

jaykay74

timthumbni wrote: »

It seems New York mayor Bill de Blasio said that st patty’s day....

You lost me early on. Are you Irish ?

machiavellianme

It seems that you are very outraged OP. So outraged that you had to start 2 threads with the same text but slightly different titles. I for one am outraged at that!

timthumbni

FTA69 wrote: »

You'd be a bigger clown equating Al Qaeda with Gerry Adams.

It always cracks me up when Unionists try and crowbar the whole '9/11 was the same as the IRA' rubbish into a discussion and then five minutes later they'll be fawning over the RUC and UDR who tortured people, murdered people and colluded with Loyalist paramilitaries.

The reality is you're no more anti-violence or morally correct than Gerry Adams, and you've no problem with the type of stuff you're criticising him for as long as it was your side doing it.

Let me assure you FTA that Adams lost his moral compass many, many years ago. No “long walks “ on the beach with a nonce either for me.

Maybe next year bill could call it Johnny Adair day (or any loyalist terrorist) to even things out in the name of equality. How crass and insensitive for a mayor of a city who saw for themselves just how romantic a terrorist attack was at close hand. Sickening. With a name like his he obviously has Irish blood too. :-)

timthumbni

jaykay74 wrote: »

timthumbni wrote: »

It seems New York mayor Bill de Blasio said that st patty’s day....

You lost me early on. Are you Irish ?

Half right.. I would refer to myself as being Northern Irish.

munsterlegend

timthumbni wrote: »

Let me assure you FTA that Adams lost his moral compass many, many years ago. No “long walks “ on the beach with a nonce either for me.

Maybe next year bill could call it Johnny Adair day (or any loyalist terrorist) to even things out in the name of equality. How crass and insensitive for a mayor of a city who saw for themselves just how romantic a terrorist attack was at close hand. Sickening. With a name like his he obviously has Irish blood too. :-)

It obviously goes over your head but the republican movement continue to have huge support in North America. The violence is not equated with al queda/isis for reasons a child would understand.

McMurphy

timthumbni wrote: »

With a name like his he obviously has Irish blood too. :-)

New York mayor Bill de Blasio

He's prob descended from the long line of de Blasios from Ballinasloe.:cool:

Anyways I was just happy that they managed to make Leo look like an irrelevant B-list celebrity during the presentation.

No Millions spent Via an SCU for this cracker of a shot.

DoozerT6

Wait.....

St PATTY'S day???

get ta fu....

timthumbni

munsterlegend wrote: »

timthumbni wrote: »

It seems New York mayor Bill de Blasio said that st patty’s day should be renamed after the terrorist excusing ex leader of SF. You would think with NYs recent issues with mass terrorism that the city’s mayor would have a bit of a cop on with himself.

Maybe he can visit here and go for a long walk on a beach to discuss tactics with Adams.

Imagine if a mayor from Northern Ireland suggested having a day to celebrate the terrorists behind 911 attacks on NY. What an absolute clown that yank mayor is.

Rather than give out about New Yorkers you should start closer to home and focus on the idiots who celebrate a battle from 1690.

Anyway as the rugby showed it's amazing what this island can achieve together!

Yes, great result on Saturday. But I’m not sure the relavance of this though to a NY major jumping into bed with the ex leader of a party closely associated with a republican terrorist grouping. It’s an insult to the majority of people from NI who didn’t support terrorists.

pjohnson

timthumbni wrote: »

Half right.. I would refer to myself as being Northern Irish.

So thats a no.

Fr Tod Umptious

Bill de Blasio is to the left of Bernie Sanders on the US political landscape.

I'm not surprised he came up with this.

People like Marty Walsh in Boston thankfully would never be that stupid.

FrancieBrady

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Bill de Blasio is to the left of Bernie Sanders on the US political landscape.

I'm not surprised he came up with this.

People like Marty Walsh in Boston thankfully would never be that stupid.

Leo seems happy enough to be there and go along with it.

Timely reward for Adams peacebuilding.

corner of hells

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Leo seems happy enough to be there and go along with it.

Timely reward for Adams peacebuilding.

We could have a happy Edgar Graham day too.

I wonder why Adams is allowed into the USA , don't they have a policy of excluding terrorists , my friend is a convicted IRA man and can't visit the States.

Hitman3000

corner of hells wrote:

I wonder why Adams is allowed into the USA , don't they have a policy of excluding terrorists , my friend is a convicted IRA man and can't visit the States.

Adams was convicted of terrorism? When?

corner of hells

Hitman3000 wrote: »

Adams was convicted of terrorism? When?

Was he ? I never said he was convicted.

FrancieBrady

corner of hells wrote: »

We could have a happy Edgar Graham day too.

I wonder why Adams is allowed into the USA , don't they have a policy of excluding terrorists , my friend is a convicted IRA man and can't visit the States.

Once you have a conviction for anything the States is off limits I would think.

There is something very obvious about your post. If they have a 'policy of excluding terrorists' how come Gerry is welcomed with open arms and feted?

I will let you work it out yourself.

suicide_circus

Gerry was never a member of the IRA.


:pac:

Hitman3000

corner of hells wrote:

Was he ? I never said he was convicted.

So why would you expect him to be denied leave to enter the US?

corner of hells

suicide_circus wrote: »

Gerry was never a member of the IRA.


:pac:

You wash your mouth out , Philistine

FrancieBrady

suicide_circus wrote: »

Gerry was never a member of the IRA.


:pac:

It is of little importance now whether he was or not, like it always was.

jaykay74

timthumbni wrote: »

Half right.. I would refer to myself as being Northern Irish.

So are you just being provocative calling it st. pattys day then or what ? bit odd..

corner of hells

FrancieBrady wrote: »

It is of little importance now whether he was or not, like it always was.

Oh , I'll think you'll find it is , his standing in some circles would rocket if he admitted it .
But then he can't now in reality , he'd be admitting he's being living a lie politically all his life.

FrancieBrady

corner of hells wrote: »

Oh , I'll think you'll find it is , his standing in some circles would rocket if he admitted it .
But then he can't now in reality , he'd be admitting he's being living a lie politically all his life.

In the circles that believe he was anyway, you mean? :D

It never made any significant difference whether he was or not. He was still a political force working at building the peace. There are former IRA men (most notably McGuinness) who worked for the peace and it never got in the way.
Adams being in or out was a sideshow for the moral high grounders only.

timthumbni

jaykay74 wrote: »

timthumbni wrote: »

Half right.. I would refer to myself as being Northern Irish.

So are you just being provocative calling it st. pattys day then or what ? bit odd..

Well considering a lot of yanks refer to it as such more than provocative. A NY mayor honouring someone like the beach walker is provocative. Maybe they should give him and his brother the freedom of the city too whilst they are at it.

_Kaiser_

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

Anyways I was just happy that they managed to make Leo look like an irrelevant B-list celebrity during the presentation.

No Millions spent Via an SCU for this cracker of a shot.

Aye, saw that shot yesterday too and Leo doesn't look a happy bunny does he?

Interesting though from another perspective... everyone else is focused on Gerry (regardless of whether they believe (in) him or not - it's the optics), but not our Leo.. looking straight into the camera - me, me me!
It's just a pity his lack of self-awareness makes him look like a sulky teen dragged to an event he didn't want to go to.

jaykay74

timthumbni wrote: »

Well considering a lot of yanks refer to it as such more than provocative.

This is Ireland (not physically as I am in Sweden )

munsterlegend

timthumbni wrote: »

Yes, great result on Saturday. But I’m not sure the relavance of this though to a NY major jumping into bed with the ex leader of a party closely associated with a republican terrorist grouping. It’s an insult to the majority of people from NI who didn’t support terrorists.

The vast majority of nationalists vote Sinn Fein. Given recent trends they are likely to be the largest party in the not too distant future. You find that hard to accept but that's what happens when you create sectarian states and somehow hope the minority just accept it. The minority in a generation might represent the majority and everything changes.

Gerry Adams has retired now and with the rugby I prefer to focus on what unites this island as opposed to focusing on a bleak past up north.

Ken.

Mod-Threads merged.

timthumbni

Yes, as I live in Northern Ireland I’m well aware that a substantial percentage of nationalists have no issue voting for a party directly linked with terrorists. That is quite disturbing but is a poor reflection on themselves rather than me.

FTA69

timthumbni wrote: »

Yes, as I live in Northern Ireland I’m well aware that a substantial percentage of nationalists have no issue voting for a party directly linked with terrorists. That is quite disturbing but is a poor reflection on themselves rather than me.

I’m sure you’re equally as devastated that the majority of Unionists vote for a party whose leading members had numberous links with Loyalist paramilitaries.

munsterlegend

timthumbni wrote: »

Yes, as I live in Northern Ireland I’m well aware that a substantial percentage of nationalists have no issue voting for a party directly linked with terrorists. That is quite disturbing but is a poor reflection on themselves rather than me.

But sure you can say the same about those who vote DUP. It beggars belief in a western society that they are the largest party.

pjohnson

munsterlegend wrote: »

But sure you can say the same about those who vote DUP. It beggars belief in a western society that they are the largest party.

Arlene Foster is an amazing lady. If the day was named after her OP wouldn't make this thread.

OldMrBrennan83

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FrancieBrady

timthumbni wrote: »

Yes, as I live in Northern Ireland I’m well aware that a substantial percentage of nationalists have no issue voting for a party directly linked with terrorists. That is quite disturbing but is a poor reflection on themselves rather than me.

Yes, the B-Specials, Ulster Defence, the UDR, the RUC, the BA. No links with terror at all at all.

corner of hells

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Yes, the B-Specials, Ulster Defence, the UDR, the RUC, the BA. No links with terror at all at all.

Like Gerry 😀

FrancieBrady

corner of hells wrote: »

Like Gerry ��

Adams was always upfront about his attitude to the IRA. Take it or leave it.

timthumbni

I see a SF senator showing their true colours again by trying to justify the murder of an Irish prison guard.

They truly are a nasty piece of work.

De blasio should be embarrassed having anything to do with them but then again Americans tend to be pretty clueless in general about Northern Ireland. I remember mickey rourke not being able to understand the massive amount of Union flags up around Belfast as he thought it was just Irish Catholics against the British army. I’m had to educate a few Americans myself that were surprised to hear that the majority of people in the country wanted to remain British.

corner of hells

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Adams was always upfront about his attitude to the IRA. Take it or leave it.

He was , done well too in the Army Council , was it number two or three he reached ?

FrancieBrady

timthumbni wrote: »

I see a SF senator showing their true colours again by trying to justify the murder of an Irish prison guard.

I fail to see where the 'justification' is in this message. Perhaps you could 'educate' me too?

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=445985&stc=1&d=1521481817

corner of hells

FrancieBrady wrote: »

I fail to see where the 'justification' is in this message. Perhaps you could 'educate' me too?

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=445985&stc=1&d=1521481817

I wonder why she's been suspended.

FrancieBrady

corner of hells wrote: »

I wonder why she's been suspended.

Because she shouldn't have retweeted a parody account having a dig at Leo without realising it also had a dig at Stack's father.

doolox

The prison officer is no longer here to defend his professional actions , if they needed defending at all.

Stuff like this should have been done through normal channels instead of resorting to murder to "solve" a complaint against a prison officer. It was an attack on the State.

FrancieBrady

doolox wrote: »

The prison officer is no longer here to defend his professional actions , if they needed defending at all.

Stuff like this should have been done through normal channels instead of resorting to murder to "solve" a complaint against a prison officer. It was an attack on the State.

The reason I don't think it was 'an attack on the state' is because it wasn't sustained. There would have been a much higher toll if the IRA was attacking the Irish state.

In that sense it was much more likely to have been as Austin Stack was told when a meeting was facilitated - that it was not a sanctioned operation and was an unfortunate personal settling of a score.
Stack didn't want to accept that afaik.

corner of hells

FrancieBrady wrote: »

The reason I don't think it was 'an attack on the state' is because it wasn't sustained. There would have been a much higher toll if the IRA was attacking the Irish state.

In that sense it was much more likely to have been as Austin Stack was told when a meeting was facilitated - that it was not a sanctioned operation and was an unfortunate personal settling of a score.
Stack didn't want to accept that afaik.

An " unfortunate personal settling" , nah , it was a murder.

FrancieBrady

corner of hells wrote: »

An " unfortunate personal settling" , nah , it was a murder.

No argument there.

end of the road

timthumbni wrote: »

It seems New York mayor Bill de Blasio said that st patty’s day should be renamed after the terrorist excusing ex leader of SF. You would think with NYs recent issues with mass terrorism that the city’s mayor would have a bit of a cop on with himself.

Maybe he can visit here and go for a long walk on a beach to discuss tactics with Adams.

Imagine if a mayor from Northern Ireland suggested having a day to celebrate the terrorists behind 911 attacks on NY. What an absolute clown that yank mayor is.

a day dedicated to our boy gerry would be fantastic. i would certainly support it but it would need to be a different day though. our boy martin (peace be upon him) should also have a day dedicated to him. 2 great politicians and leaders, the likes of who we will never see again.

corner of hells wrote: »

We could have a happy Edgar Graham day too.

I wonder why Adams is allowed into the USA , don't they have a policy of excluding terrorists , my friend is a convicted IRA man and can't visit the States.

gerry isn't a terrorist so he would be allowed in . if it's proven that he was a terrorist then he won't be.

suicide_circus wrote: »

Gerry was never a member of the IRA.

correct.

timthumbni wrote: »

Yes, as I live in Northern Ireland I’m well aware that a substantial percentage of nationalists have no issue voting for a party directly linked with terrorists. That is quite disturbing but is a poor reflection on themselves rather than me.

so no different to the DUP and those who vote for them i presume?

davycc

Belated Happy Gerry Adams long weekend folks