jh79 wrote: » Fair enough but when your son is hiding in plain sight over there maybe some of the other members should of suggested Boston
Bowie wrote: » If the original story was true, it was odd but nothing to write home about, unless you added some colour of your own. This poor thread has really **** the bed. GAA now...
smurgen wrote: » I think it's fascinating look at the initial pile on in likes on comments and fellas jumping over one another to smear SF with the same old tactics no matter how tenuous a link to the story. Fell hook line and sinker for a fake news story .Yet these same people are quiet and not asking questions of the government at their height of one of the most tumultuous times in our countries history. Good Republicans they ain't!
Ash.J.Williams wrote: » There’s a possibility they thought he didn’t do it , I know for a fact a local looked my elderly relative in the eye and said he didn’t do it and she said they were convincing
Following a reception and information evening with New York Irish and business community representatives on Wednesday evening, the delegation continued their campaign of positive promotion of Crossmaglen at the prestigious American Ireland Fund dinner in New York where they met Mr Sean T Kelly, Vice Chair of KPMG and The Ireland Fund. The delegation also headed to Park Avenue where they met with the Irish Consul General Barbara Jones and the vice Consul general Anna McGillacuddy.
jh79 wrote: » Crossmaglen have gotten off lightly so far.
JohnnyFlash wrote: » Who the hell is Liam Browne? I wouldn’t take the word of some crank on Twitter over that of a respected journalist working for our paper of record.
FrancieBrady wrote: » You have to admit - it's gone very quiet in here though?
Charles Babbage wrote: » On the contrary, they have been subject to absolutely ridiculous comment here. Because their chairman was related to a person who committed a crime has nothing whatsoever to do with the GAA club. An Irish soccer player has recently been associated with crime, does that implicate the FAI? Have the FAI issued a statement retrospectively disowning him?
rdwight wrote: » Hardly a crank. Has posted as RockofCashel on politics.ie over the years and is at the saner end of the shinner spectrum. He may have even left the party at one time. But he does have his blind spots. (don't we all)
smurgen wrote: » I agree but it contrast massively with the media and social media attention of the focus on Sinn Fein who had nothing if anything to do with any aspect of the story.
JohnnyFlash wrote: » Anyone who posts on politics.ie is a crank and an oddball.
Shefwedfan wrote: » The minute washing diesel was mentioned the whole country knew the PIRA and SF sticky fingers would be all over it. No surprise when this story comes out
smurgen wrote: » You said the same about Twitter. Let me guess. You were laughed off both platforms? How about stick to reading the indo. It's a safe space for people like you.
smurgen wrote: » There's no link. Way more of a link between say Larry Goodman Mr Beef tribunal and the Fine Gael government. Or Keeling and Coveney. I say FG and most people think crony. Same with FF. Aul Michael Martin who's wife had money resting in her account from a developer. Father Ted type stuff.
Shefwedfan wrote: » Twitter is full of cranks and oddballs....who told you it wasn’t?
JohnnyFlash wrote: » I prefer my political news to come from reputable sources that employ journalists, as opposed to some toothless simpleton who drives a white van and thinks his worthless opinions are worthy of being transmitted to the world. The sort you find on Twitter in particular.
smurgen wrote: » All your journalists and politicians are on Twitter. Of course they hate it as the general public hand them their arse on a regular basis.
smurgen wrote: » Cranks and oddballs? Like this lad?https://twitter.com/LeoVaradkar/status/1293663127809204233?s=19
The party now says the witness was not a member, though according to the account of the investigating garda, Sinn Féin confirmed at the time he was “one of ours”. Whether he was enrolled or not, he was clearly associated with the party.
mynamejeff wrote: » Well turns out they were wrong , He did do it , there was a trial and everything I guess old people are more convincing liars that young ones
McMurphy wrote: » The paper has corrected itself now, so there's that I suppose. First he was a member - now "an associate" according to information given by an anonymous Garda. There was a fair few posters up in arms about the gards anonymously leaking info on Barry Cowen, they're fierce silent on this thread. Reads like another botched hatchet job attempt, is there an election on the horizon or something? Looks like the jam just fell out of your donut Johnny.