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RIC and DMP to be commemorated this month

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Apparently a ceremony is going to be held attended by the Minister for Justice and Garda Commissioner to comemorate members of the DMP (Dublin Metropolitan Police) and RIC (Royal Irish Constabulary) killed during the Irish Revolution.

Does anyone else think this is grotesque?

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theguzman

Even the Germans are smart enough to not go commemorating the National Socialists.

Millionaire only not

KWAG2019 wrote: »

Lord Mayor of Cork is not attending this shameful event.

Fair play to him , 24 counties left or is that 30 to go

Montage of Feck

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

No one deserves to be killed for either their political beliefs or simply doing their job.

No one.

Repression and trechery isn't a normal requirement for most jobs. The RIC was an armed paramilitary force, as the saying goes "live by the sword, die by the sword".

The high horse brigade

Why don't we commemorate the Nazis while we're at it!

Montage of Feck

Dr. Bre wrote: »

Build a statue of Cromwell while we are at it

A good Republican.

[Deleted User]

I couldn’t say what I really want to here, but I just hope people will remember this when it comes to an election. Sickening but not unexpected with FG and Drew Harris running the show.

corks finest

saabsaab wrote: »

Nobody knows who killed him and at this stage we probably never will.

Well as my family were all anti free state Collins signed his own death warrant ,end of

corks finest

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

I couldn’t say what I really want to here, but I just hope people will remember this when it comes to an election. Sickening but not unexpected with FG and Drew Harris running the show.[/quote leo the Langer is truly am awful leader,who has no cultural, historical,or family toes with Ireland,so it's really not surprising the way he acts

corks finest

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

I couldn’t say what I really want to here, but I just hope people will remember this when it comes to an election. Sickening but not unexpected with FG and Drew Harris running the show.[/quote leo the Langer is truly am awful leader,who has no cultural, historical,or family toes with Ireland,so it's really not surprising the way he acts

corks finest

Hamsterchops wrote: »

Never heard it called the "hunger' before now!

Not in school, not in college, not anywhere. All references on the internet and reference books call it the Irish Famine (the great famine) primarily caused by potato blight......

Maybe it should be officially renamed?

An gorta mor

spurious

The ignorance of Irish History in this thread is fantastic.

TwoMonthsOff

https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1214209061966811136?s=09

He's an arrogant c**t

whisky_galore

Lefty Bicek wrote: »

It isn't that simple.

'Don't like it, therefore object to it in principle' is a much more decent position to take.

I couldn't care one way or the other but all these people getting triggered sure is funny.

LuasSimon

Fine Gael wish we were still part of the United Kingdom , Charlie Flanagan and the South Dublin oligarchs and don’t forget RTÉ ( BBC Donnybrook) and (British )Independent Newspapers

saabsaab

corks finest wrote: »

Well as my family were all anti free state Collins signed his own death warrant ,end of

Michael Collins was the main man who beat British Intelligence at their own game and forced them to the table.

Even De Valera himself said that he was the one man who could have ended the Civil War early. Collins said on signing the peace treaty that he had signed his actual death warrant. R.I.P.

saabsaab

Dr. Bre wrote: »

Build a statue of Cromwell while we are at it

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/cork-statue-of-oliver-cromwell-found-after-8-years-missing-903732.html

Someone beat you to it!

the_syco

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Why don't we commemorate the Nazis while we're at it!

Before Ireland became a republic, all people in Ireland were british... :pac:

The Rape of Lucretia

LuasSimon wrote: »

Fine Gael wish we were still part of the United Kingdom , Charlie Flanagan and the South Dublin oligarchs and don’t forget RTÉ ( BBC Donnybrook) and (British )Independent Newspapers

Its a reasonable position to take, and must be respected. Not everyone wants to be farmers, learn to speak Irish, dance at the cross roads, and go to mass twice a day.

Fann Linn

the_syco wrote: »

Before Ireland became a republic, all people in Ireland were british... :pac:

....according to the british.'
Fyp.

Junkyard Tom

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

Its a reasonable position to take, and must be respected.

Who says I must respect people who wish to reverse our independence?

Fuck that.

Galwayguy35

Next thing Varadkar will want to hold a commeration for the Black and Tans.

The RIC were traitors who threw people out of their homes to starve when they couldn't pay rent.

mick malones mauser

So the state that came into existence in 1922 is to commemorate the force that FOUGHT AGAINST the creation of that state.
Total madness

horsebox1977

LuasSimon wrote: »

Fine Gael wish we were still part of the United Kingdom , Charlie Flanagan and the South Dublin oligarchs and don’t forget RTÉ ( BBC Donnybrook) and (British )Independent Newspapers

Yep.

Frank Feighan and Neale Richmond also looking for Ireland to re-join the Commonwealth.

Charlie Flanagan is one disgusting human being.

dresden8

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Next thing Varadkar will want to hold a commeration for the Black and Tans.

The RIC were traitors who threw people out of their homes to starve when they couldn't pay rent.

The black and tans were part of the RIC.

FG scum are commemorating them.

ChikiChiki

More wretched behaviour from the sellout party. FG are the party of traitors to this very day.

Galwayguy35

dresden8 wrote: »

The black and tans were part of the RIC.

FG scum are commemorating them.

The Tans were cold blooded murderers, the Government is crazy to be doing this.

the_syco

Fann Linn wrote: »

....according to the british.'
Fyp.

Yeah. And according to the people not wanting the RIC to be commemorated, the RIC were somehow more british than the other british.

If the locals were Irish, than so too were the local people who joined the RIC to gain employment. Heck, they helped maintain order, until the IRA "took over" by force.

=-=

Didn't see anything about commemorating the 'Tans, though.

Larbre34

dresden8 wrote: »

The black and tans were part of the RIC.

FG scum are commemorating them.

No they were not. They were demobbed tommies, the psychos off the Somme.

The RIC existed for 110 years, mostly ordinary Irish catholic men who earned a crust to feed their families in hard times. Unfortunately many Irish people had no choice but to earn the Queens shilling under occupation, but these guys had to balance keeping order on the streets with a decade of political rebellion. 500 of them killed and 700 injured when mostly unarmed.

A commemoration of their work in policing over 110 years in existence is not betraying anyone.

[Deleted User]

Larbre34 wrote: »

No they were not. They were demobbed tommies, the psychos off the Somme.

The RIC existed for 110 years, mostly ordinary Irish catholic men who earned a crust to feed their families in hard times. Unfortunately many Irish people had no choice but to earn the Queens shilling under occupation, but these guys had to balance keeping order on the streets with a decade of political rebellion. 500 of them killed and 700 injured when mostly unarmed.

A commemoration of their work in policing over 110 years in existence is not betraying anyone.

They pulled innocent people from their beds and killed them for entertainment.

Odhinn

Larbre34 wrote: »

No they were not. They were demobbed tommies, the psychos off the Somme.

The RIC existed for 110 years, mostly ordinary Irish catholic men who earned a crust to feed their families in hard times. Unfortunately many Irish people had no choice but to earn the Queens shilling under occupation, but these guys had to balance keeping order on the streets with a decade of political rebellion. 500 of them killed and 700 injured when mostly unarmed.

A commemoration of their work in policing over 110 years in existence is not betraying anyone.

Try going to France/Denmark/Czech republic/slovakia and taking the same line about the gestapo.