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Saoradh dissident republican march in Dublin

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  • Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭Tomas81


    Berserker wrote: »
    Why was this march allowed to go ahead. I was under the impression that it was illegal to walk down the street dressed in that manner and also illegal to be associated with a terrorist organisation? Also, do you not need to get permission for the Gardai to march on a street like that?



    You have to laugh at the suggestion that Kingsmill wasn't sectarian. RC's were told to jog on, Protestants shot in the head. It wasn't sectarian though. Some logic that.



    Did that as part of the GFA essentially. A border poll is never going to happen in reality. The consequences of the inevitable defeat would be dire.



    I doubt that these people are that interested in what the authorities have to say.



    The RoI isn't partitioned.


    I don't acknowledge a 26 county state as a republic. 6 counties remain occupied.


  • Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭Tomas81


    blanch152 wrote: »
    If what was sectarianism?

    The ideology.


  • Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭Tomas81


    blanch152 wrote: »
    If what was sectarianism?

    Also please show me proof that 99% this island reject republicanism. Electoral counts will do.


  • Registered Users Posts: 27,302 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    Tomas81 wrote: »
    I don't acknowledge a 26 county state as a republic. 6 counties remain occupied.

    That is so last century thinking.

    There are so many more important things in life and in the world than whether this country is 26 or 32 counties big.

    https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/government_in_ireland/local_and_regional_government/local_authorities.html

    Given that we now have 31 local authorities, would splitting Tipperary again make you happy?


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,097 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Tomas81 wrote: »
    If you take on a uniform of police force or armed forces in a partitioned country you need to be aware you will be attacked. It is inevitable.
    That's some "we're the heros here" bolloxology!
    Is this logic limited only to police and army or does it include say doctors and paramedics working within the NHS?
    What about Firemen?
    What about traffic wardens?

    Tell me, who do you think someone in NI should call if they were burgled or mugged or affected by some kind of crime?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭Berserker


    Tomas81 wrote: »
    I don't acknowledge a 26 county state as a republic. 6 counties remain occupied.

    Sucks to be you, so. A heavy majority of the people of the island do recognise the Republic.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭Farawayhome


    markodaly wrote: »
    Not true at all.
    Irish Republicans killed more civilians than the British Army and Loyalists combined.

    Wrong!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭Farawayhome


    ...and here's the hypocrisy coming through: on the one hand you've the IRA who weren't sectarian and on the other hand you've the unionist terrorists. :rolleyes:
    The IRA were always terrorists. No ifs or buts.

    Unionists just targetted civilians, they were terrorists. The British security forces also targetted civilians but occasionally fought the PIRA, the PIRA mostly stuck with military targets. That's the difference set out for you.


  • Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    The Republic of Ireland should announce that it has no wish to unify with NI.

    This would simultaneously be a reflection of reality and remove any quasi-justification these 'Nationalist' scumbags have for their murderous actions.
    Article 3 of the constitution wouldn't permit such an announcement. The Republic is bound to recognise the will to unify peacefully and on the basis of a majority mandate.

    Realistically the only way to abandon unification would be to delete that part of the constitution, and a few others too. Even a rejected border poll wouldn't be enough.

    Good luck with that :)
    Creggan estate is interesting, apparently it had the lowest crime rate in the North, until the government decided it had to be seen to be doing more to dominate republican areas and built a military installation in the estate and that was the end of peace in creggan.
    I can't find anything to indicate that Creggan was ever a "peaceful" place. The set of estates was built to house Catholic corpo tenants, and was built specifically for gerrymandering purposes. Historically the area of Creggan was deeply involved in Republicanism. So I expect it was always a thorn in the side of the local authorities.

    The "lowest crime rate" thing could be apocryphal - in the late 60s and early 70s, Creggan was one of a couple of designated "no-go areas" of the RUC and BA. Probably the closest that the paramilitaries ever came to annexing part of the north. Justice and peace in these areas was enforced by the IRA.
    By 1972, it was all getting too embarrassing for London, who ordered the BA to go in and take control at all costs. Which obviously the residents didn't take too kindly to.

    So I would expect that on paper, the RUC's official crime statistics for Creggan probably showed little or no reported crime in the area, until the BA went back in and it all kicked off. Thus came the notion that Creggan was a low-crime area until the Brits messed it up.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    Tomas81 wrote: »
    I don't acknowledge a 26 county state as a republic. 6 counties remain occupied.

    Some people don't acknowledge that the earth is round - the rest of us just laugh at them.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭Farawayhome


    The problem for partitionists is that they have to ignore the truth of the old IRA. They celebrate the 1916 heroes, they celebrate the free state/republic but ignore the murder and mayhem that these Republicans were responsible for. Truth is that there was very little difference between the old IRA and the PIRA.


  • Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭Tomas81


    Some people don't acknowledge that the earth is round - the rest of us just laugh at them.

    But yet here you are 30 pages later still responding and while a republican alternative is accepted by the people of the country which has been evident in last 6 years.


  • Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭Tomas81


    Berserker wrote: »
    Sucks to be you, so. A heavy majority of the people of the island do recognise the Republic.

    A heavy majority of the island spat on and cursed those who fought at Easter 1916, now a heavy majority support them.


  • Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭Tomas81


    Colin Duffy home raked with gunfire in Lurgan


  • Registered Users Posts: 27,302 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    The problem for partitionists is that they have to ignore the truth of the old IRA. They celebrate the 1916 heroes, they celebrate the free state/republic but ignore the murder and mayhem that these Republicans were responsible for. Truth is that there was very little difference between the old IRA and the PIRA.

    The problem for some people is that they still think that 2019 is the same as 1916.

    Makes them a joke.


  • Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Tomas81 wrote: »
    But yet here you are 30 pages later still responding and while a republican alternative is accepted by the people of the country which has been evident in last 6 years.

    You're even doing boards wrong. It's only 11 pages with the proper settings.


  • Registered Users Posts: 27,302 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    Tomas81 wrote: »
    The ideology.

    You can't get anymore racist than "Brits Out".
    Tomas81 wrote: »
    Also please show me proof that 99% this island reject republicanism. Electoral counts will do.

    99% was an exaggeration, but the ideology of the Saoradh idiots was overwhelmingly rejected by the votes in favour of the GFA. You know that they have more in common with the likes of the DUP extremists than they do with ordinary people.


  • Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭Tomas81


    You're even doing boards wrong. It's only 11 pages with the proper settings.

    Proper settings hahaha I'd say your gas craic at a party. It's the internet FFS.


  • Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭Tomas81


    blanch152 wrote: »
    You can't get anymore racist than "Brits Out".



    99% was an exaggeration, but the ideology of the Saoradh idiots was overwhelmingly rejected by the votes in favour of the GFA. You know that they have more in common with the likes of the DUP extremists than they do with ordinary people.

    See if you read my posts you'd see what I thought of Saoradh.


  • Registered Users Posts: 27,302 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    Tomas81 wrote: »
    Colin Duffy home raked with gunfire in Lurgan

    Is that some nonentity we should be worried about?

    Nobody deserves to have their home raked with gunfire no more than nobody deserves to be gunned down in the street by a mindless indoctrinated idiot, I am sure that you and him will agree with that?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 498 ✭✭zapitastas


    blanch152 wrote: »
    The problem for some people is that they still think that 2019 is the same as 1916.

    Makes them a joke.

    Some people still think it is 1690 as well


  • Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭Tomas81


    blanch152 wrote: »
    Is that some nonentity we should be worried about?

    Nobody deserves to have their home raked with gunfire no more than nobody deserves to be gunned down in the street by a mindless indoctrinated idiot, I am sure that you and him will agree with that?

    I just stated a fact. Now come off your high horse, keep voting for Fine Gael continue to support the destruction of our economy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,015 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    Tomas81 wrote: »
    I just stated a fact. Now come off your high horse, keep voting for Fine Gael continue to support the destruction of our economy.

    Their economy is fine, you're thinking of society.


  • Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭Tomas81


    Their economy is fine, you're thinking of society.

    Fine? Projection dropped from 4.6 to 3.2 that isn't fine considering it's an 18 month period.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    Tomas81 wrote: »
    I just stated a fact. Now come off your high horse, keep voting for Fine Gael continue to support the destruction of our economy.

    Let's put the Anarcho-Marxists in charge - that'll sort out the economy.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    markodaly wrote: »
    so please enlighten us.

    No. Do your own research, you might learn something instead of making shit up.


  • Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭Tomas81


    Let's put the Anarcho-Marxists in charge - that'll sort out the economy.

    What is your problem with socialism.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭Farawayhome


    blanch152 wrote: »
    The problem for some people is that they still think that 2019 is the same as 1916.

    Makes them a joke.

    The PIRA are not on the go anymore.


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,268 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    The PIRA are not on the go anymore.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭Tomas81


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    Any proof to say otherwise?


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