Tomas81 wrote: » Any proof to say otherwise?
bilston wrote: » I had this conversation with a Dublin taxi driver recently. He said he took a fare all the way up to Belfast and got lost and ended up in a Loyalist estate and was very nervous. The reality is people with southern accents would be absolutely fine in Loyalist areas and people from Loyalist areas will be absolutely fine in Republican areas. I'm sure there are places where the PSNI still have to tread carefully. The Creggan being a prime example. I imagine Northern Ireland is a much safer place to be than London
Farawayhome wrote: » When you ask for proof:
Farawayhome wrote: » 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.
_Brian wrote: » We spend allot of time on he north through sport, most weekends. Just in the last year I was stopped at traffic lights in a small town, a guy made his way over to my open window and said with southern reg car I wouldn’t be welcome staying about tue town and should move on, man in his 40’s not some yobbo. More recently our car was parked along a street overnight, only southern car in a row and it was vandalised. If you think everything in the north is antlything but simmering just under a shallow surface appearance of peace then your being very foolish. Interacting with individuals across all areas and you see the subtle tells, they won’t ask your religion but there are conversational queues they use be that football, Irish dancing, among others. It’s something they want to know about others. Peace in the north is fragile, very fragile.
Mortelaro wrote: » The bottom line here is,if Mary Lou or any political party that is in the Dáil at the moment said every night on TV that if reelected they'd rise defense spending by a few billion,buy tanks and jet fighter planes,bomb the crap out of psni stations and GB army barracks and blockade loyalist areas until all agreed to go back to Britain, what do you think would be the result? They'd lose all their seats That simple fact or any respect for democracy hasn't been absorbed by the groups marching O'Connell street at Easter sympathetic to the 'new' IRA The funniest thing I saw was how beer bellied and frankly out of shape a lot of the marchers were,Army how are ya In fact a caption under one of the photos on Twitter summed it up "The men behind the FRYER"
Mortelaro wrote: » The bottom line here is,if Mary Lou or any political party that is in the Dáil at the moment said every night on TV that if reelected they'd rise defense spending by a few billion,buy tanks and jet fighter planes,bomb the crap out of psni stations and GB army barracks and blockade loyalist areas until all agreed to go back to Britain, what do you think would be the result? They'd lose all their seats
Seth Brundle wrote: » The loyalists were terrorists. The British army at times were terrorists. The IRA were terrorists. Why are you trying to pretend it was something else when everyone knows what it was?
Farawayhome wrote: » The stats back up what I'm saying. Unionists - 85% of those they killed were civilians. British army - 51% of those they killed were civilians PIRA - 31% of those they killed were civilians
Seth Brundle wrote: » Oh I'm sorry - so that 31% choose to be murdered? Did relations of mine ask for the IRA to threaten their property unless they gave money to the IRA? Would you go and ****e with your attempt to say that the IRA weren't terrorists? How many innocent civilians that didn't choose to be involved in your campaign are behind those statistics?
blanch152 wrote: » 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?
Tomas81 wrote: » I asked for proof 2 pages ago, poster admitted he had exaggerated I am waiting for proof that the provisional IRA is still operating.http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/25th-IMC-Rpt According to the IMC reports they are commited to peace, have broken down their rank and file structures.
Dick phelan wrote: » Bad as their views are i think they have a right to march, unless i'm mistaken they are not designated as a terrorist organization? Unless they are carrying illegal firearms or engaging in some other illegal activity i don't see a legal basis to stop somebody marching down a public road wearing some military style clothes
EmmetSpiceland wrote: » I find a lot of this “online” support baffling. I mean, what sort of person, in this day and age, would defend and support groups such as these??
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.
Yermande wrote: » Idiots.
mosstin wrote: » Ben Dunne Gyms?
JohnnyFlash wrote: » Someone or something like this one would imagine, Emmet.
_Brian wrote: » There’s an element out there wearing tin foil hats and waiting for every group that come along to “stick it to the man”. They don’t care if it’s water charges, repossessions, unionists, nationalists, doctors nurses or guards. They just want to be seen to be anti something organised. These are the people falling over themselves to support this nonsense.
FrancieBrady wrote: » Why would they (SF) advocate that? They have gotten the British to say that they have no strategic interest in Ireland and that it is for the people of Ireland to decide it's future.
If the last 20 years says anything, it is that the IRA have gotten sufficient for them to cease operations. It was never the IRA's or indeed the SF's intention to cleanse Ireland of unionists or loyalists as far as I know, but I may have missed that. Do you have a link/proof?
Creol1 wrote: » That link dates back to 2010. However, as recently as 2015 the killing of ex-PIRA member Kevin McGuigan was linked to the PIRA by the PSNI. They have decommissioned but they have never dissolved and there is no proof their basic structures have been stood down.
Matt Barrett wrote: » genuine people with genuine issues
