Completely agree. Atrocious acts should be condemned, whichever side they originated from. The incident you refer to was appalling and definitely to be condemned. Do you condemn the British army shooting innocent people in the back ?
Maybe you could show me anywhere I claimed to vote remain? Stop making stuff up to have a go at me; it only belittles your case
Absolutely I do. And I also condemn the exaggeration and lies that try to undermine the bravery and commitment of the British army to stand against terrorism, at a terrible cost. So poignant as I sit here and watch Remembrance from the Albert hall, and consider the awful loss of our brave soldiers. LWF
I have been told how the 26 countries are United and of one mind etc etc. Now you want to disown one of them?
They are united in how they want to deal with Brexit and the Protocol.
lol, Im not owning or disowning anyone. You just seem a bit confused between the actions of a country and of a grouping of countries. But thats OK, a lot of important and wealthy people have gone to great lengths to create that confusion for you.
Ah, so you condemn, but..... Bit like if I’d said, yes, the strapping of the bomb to Patsy Gillespie was diabolical ( which it was) but what about Bloody Sunday, Ballymurphy etc.
Hold on, are you saying you voted for Brexit now ? Maybe my memory is playing tricks, but I thought you’d said more than once you didn’t vote for it, but you respected the decision, etc.
Confused here too.
do you condemn the murder of John Pat Cunningham by a british soldier who your community see as a hero. Yes or No, no deflections.
If you do, don't you think whatever Unionist party you support should call him out fo what he was?
Yes your memory is playing tricks with you. At no time have I said I voted to remain. Too many posters on here read everything I say with black and white filters on. I have been very clear that I did not vote but had I have voted I was split near 50/50 in my mind. Had I voted I think I would have veered on remain but I was neither disappointed nor pleased when brexit won.
and I have been completely clear about this throughout.
Stop misquoting me. I have no buts. My condemnation is unequivocal
Like the bravery and commitment of the IRA to stand against the war crimes of the British army & sectarian NI state at terrible cost? An awful loss of our brave freedom fighters?
Why may I ask did you not vote?
I don’t deflect difficult questions, unlike a few here.
Yes, if we take the dictionary definition of ‘condemn’, then yes I completely disapprove of the killing of john Cunningham. Tragic incident. I though, am not prepared to condemn Denis Hutchings as some sort of horrible being. I have no idea what the context was on a rural border road during the violent conflict that cost many lives on all sides. I don’t know what the army thought as JPC was running off into the fields after shouts to stop. I realise those were terrible times. I don’t know if the claims are true that jpc was put there by the ira to tease the army into action.
I don’t believe DH killed JPC or indeed tried to kill him. I do know that DH carried out emergency first aid on JPC - hardly the act of someone wishing to murder.
DH arrested ira members the day before without harming any of them.
DH served a distinguished career in the army protecting all communities in ni and indeed further afield.
DH was treated horribly in his last months of his life
I would like my government to say sorry to both men DH and JPC, and indeed many others, for the times they got stuff wrong that resulted in devastated lives
was anything that happened in the DH / JPC encounter in the same league as the Martin Maginnis premeditated operation of turning an innocent catholic into a human bomb, absolutely not - in that case I can condemn the man (and I use the term ‘man’ loosely)
I was at the euros in France. And yes I could have arranged a postal vote but two reasons I didn’t. I am not that organised and I genuinely didn’t know which way to vote. Tbh I was surprised how big a brexit support vote there was in ni. Most political parties in ni were pleading with people to vote remain and heaping on the scare stories. The only party of any significance that was pro brexit was the dup and there were even politicians in it who were implying they were against brexit. I can’t remember the figures exactly, but the people were much more in favour of brexit that the politicians. I think the total dup vote was about 20% yet the ni pro- brexit vote was more than double that. So don’t believe stories that almost everyone in ni rejected brexit
I am going to assume that is just distasteful sarcasm
Are your statements distasteful sarcasm?
Ok, apologies for my mis remembering. You always seemed at pains to stress that you hadn’t voted for Brexit though, so that’s where my confusion arose.
Well I wasn’t quoting you (I was paraphrasing 😛). Your condemnation seemed to come with a pretty big qualification as I read it, but that’s ok, that’s your view. My original point was that you accused those on the other side of only condemning one side, when you’re pretty handy at that yourself. I understand, there is a natural tendency to do it.
Shot him 3 times and did not mean to kill him, that's some fcuked up logic there, you'd defend the devil if he wore a british uniform.
That's some condemnation as the majority of your reads like a tribute to a murderer.
This has been pointed out to you frequently on numerous threads, can spell peoples names correctly, it's Martin McGuinness. If you're going to mention someone, at least have the cop on to spell their name right.
talk to whoever designed spellcheck. I really don’t know why some people get so annoyed about the spelling when they know exactly what it means. I moved to saying m mcg to try not to offend but forgot that tone
You repeatedly call our Taoiseach a prime minister. You can't blame that on spellcheck.
Well why should those who fight against such vicious evil scum not be brave? When will the UK & its soldiers answer for their many, many, many war crimes?
Let's not forget that the only reason that British army & their loyalist lackeys didn't murder an entire school of Catholic school children in Belleeks was fear of the IRA.
How many hundreds - or even thousands owe their lives to the IRA's courageous stance against the forces of inhuman & horrific British barbarism? Surely as someone from Northern Ireland you must salute such bravery and courage in protecting your fellow countrymen against the forces of evil?
Speaks to me of the criminal and obscene waste of life perpetuated by the elite who sent those men to their deaths in a war that should never have happened. 100's of thousands of Irishmen and women sacrificed.
Amazing that you never mispell any unionist politician names.
Also refers to our National Anthem as SS. It's Amhrán na bhFiann.
Have you any idea how difficult I find it to spell Irish language words. I am assuming prime minister is the English translation of Taoiseach (I copied and pasted that - but that is a pain in the arse to do all the time)
now you are on that point - and this is a genuine question Why is coiamhe not spelt keeva?
Cool your jets. Most people on here refer the Northern Ireland as ‘the north’ and Londonderry as Derry. I don’t bat an eyelid. I guess there lots of different reasons eg some were brought up to call them that, some think they are called that and no doubt a small number are trying to make a political point. I am relaxed about it.
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