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Seamus Mallon RIP

  • 24-01-2020 5:31pm
    #1
    buckomchd
    Site Banned Posts: 6 ✭


    Peacemaker and politician, aged 83.

    Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anamacha.


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  • #2
    buckomchd
    Site Banned Posts: 6 ✭buckomchd


    He was key to the peace process, a true Irishman.


  • #3
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,823 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    RIP. Country owed him a lot for all his work.

    His class of politician very much an endangered species in the north unfortunately.


  • #4
    MrAbyss
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 426 ✭✭MrAbyss


    One of the good guys. Legacy assured for all the right reasons.


  • #5
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,623 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Decent man RIP


  • #6
    buckomchd
    Site Banned Posts: 6 ✭buckomchd


    His belief in a peaceful solution has benefited everyone in NI, he showed that nationalism rejected violence as a means to gain reunification.


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  • #7
    buckomchd
    Site Banned Posts: 6 ✭buckomchd


    He was a Catholic growing up in the majority Protestant village of Markethill in Co. Armagh. He played Gaelic football and always had antipathy towards IRA violence.


  • #8
    buckomchd
    Site Banned Posts: 6 ✭buckomchd


    If we had more of his like in both sides in NI I would have no doubt they would be genuinely moving forward.


  • #9
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    A true gentleman in every respect. RIP.


  • #10
    buckomchd
    Site Banned Posts: 6 ✭buckomchd


    He was only on the news recently talking about Brexit.


  • #11
    Edgware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Seamus Mallon was a true Republican. He detested violence of all types wherever it came from Loyalist or Republican terrorists, British army, R.U.C. etc.
    The Sinn Fein I.R.A. gang especially hated him because he wouldn't bow down and allow them control the community.
    They were so bitter against him that the Army Council told their puppets to vote against him getting the Freedom of Drogheda


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  • #12
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    RIP to a very honourable and capable politician.


  • #13
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    R.I.P.


  • #14
    Naggdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    R.I.P.

    A man of peace who was a voice of reason on NI throughout my childhood and early adulthood.


  • #15
    skallywag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,029 ✭✭✭skallywag


    buckomchd wrote: »
    Peacemaker and politician, aged 83.

    Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anamacha.

    Agreed, he was a great man.

    On a curious note, did you open this account today just to write about this?


  • #16
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    A proper statesman.

    RIP.


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