Apologise for what?
Saying Tiocfaidh ar lá? Our day will come? A United Ireland is coming one day, there's no doubt about that.
Also, it was a comedy sketch for charity at the end of the day.
Yawn, whatever. The guy has a very successful set-up, but anyone that doesn't follow the Provo line always gets a hit around here.
Ha! This posts a laugh 🤣 claiming people might take offence to a polar view/biased opinion.
Links up above to Slugger OToole.
Seen the editor being called out on another thread. Seems like a lovely fella blanchey, I can see why you're so fond of echoing his "neutral and unbiased" opinion..
"Nailing Catholics"
Fealty, the rag he edits and you, have absolutely zero credibility pal.
I posted here yesterday that I agree with you. I also posted that Adams should step down from all positions as a public representative.
But as I say, ignore what doesn't suit your agenda.
You quoting a fair minded unbiased observer's opinion piece as some form of validation? :)
And here you are, ignoring the victims of the PIRA, if it was a unionist making a video like that, you would be screaming about it.
It is when you ignore the victims that don't fit into your agenda.
For those who don't get the big deal of the video of Adams, here is an article that spells it out
"A classy piece of work for the thousands of families still missing loved ones murdered in 30 years of what we euphemistically call “the Troubles”.
And a real gee-up for the hundreds of people still suffering pain and incapacity from being maimed in various forays by “our brave IRA freedom fighters” who Gerry allegedly never joined – but never failed to publicly support."
I missed your concern, and input to other victims of the troubles Blanch.
Did you offer any stellar contributions or thoughts on the Miami Showband victims, or the recent thread about the Sinn Fein councillor that was murdered?
You're using victims to point score in your political crusade. I'd say you might have convinced those in the thread who already would never give the shiner's a vote, but doubtful you persuaded anyone else. The perfect example of an echo chamber.
The demographic is changing and the civil war party loyal voters are dying out, each new day they're replaced with a new, much more optimistic and nuanced one. That's why FF and FGs days are numbered.
You know it, I know it too.
Let's not indeed.
Lol.
That FG voter probably got the inspiration from me.
"They brazenly beatify Provisional IRA members who murdered civilians, and their representatives openly chant “Up the RA”, rubbing salt into the wounds of those maimed and bereaved by the IRA. Yet, Sinn Féin claim unionists would be respected in their “new Ireland”. How could any unionist believe that?"
Couldn't have put it better myself and Adams' video is only the latest example.
"For all that divides them, the DUP and Sinn Féin are united by intransigence. Both have abandoned any pretence of wanting a shared society. Both represent nothing but their own insular ideologies. And both are undermining themselves and their objectives through successive own goals."
The two sides of the same ugly coin.
Yes, you gave a lecture all right, but that doesn't mean there was any sense in it.
Highlighting victims and the way they were treated is not selfishly using victims. I promote what the victims are saying.
Putting your hands over your ears, humming nonsense, and hoping they will go away is not a dignified way to respond to them.
Blanch I gave a bit of a lecture (as my kids would say) yesterday on here about this habit yourself and others have with selfishly using victims, and trying to capitalise on their misfortunes for what you may (wrongfully in my eyes) perceive to be a tool to dissuade potential voters away from possibly voting for Sinn Fein.
Might I suggest that apart from yourself, and a few others in this vacuum of an echo chamber won't be giving the IRA of Gerry Adams a second thought when it comes to the election. You are trying to preach to the already converted, which is a thankless and entirely pointless task (but whatever makes you happy I suppose)
For the record, I've seen the video of Adams, and I don't get the big deal.
I reckon SF will campaign in the next general election as an independent party.
Nothing to do with Adams having been Taoiseach, all to do with his support for terrorism.
Adams was a disgrace making that video, but I suppose what's new about that? The man has no empathy for victims.
I've a list of facts here on how building is cheaper than buying and leasing.
So if we stopped buying and leasing so much and built, we'd save money.
Pray, explain.
So two people in the same party having diffetent opinions on something is what now? That's democracy for ya.
ah jaysis ?? last time you were trying to suggest you had heard rumours and had an ear to the ground , it didnt exactly go well .....
matt carthy maybe did get in serious trouble though , and maybe harris actually made a complaint bout him , and it was kept hush hush , but I wouldnt think so lololol 🤣
you never learn lolol
Callan does this exact same sort of ridiculous $hit every weekend concerning Sinn Fein. He constantly uses their slogans and their past in the violent conflict as a tool of satirical comedy. And when he does, nobody gives a $hit. It has become normalised due to this. Adams is just copying what the RTE radio editors sanction every weekend.
I assume when you talk about "Boris" you are talking about the current UK Prime Minister Johnson? I don't have to imagine any funny sketch concerning that lad, I just look for current British news and literally witness it.
Also, the last time I looked at the current and History books, Adams is not and never was the Taoiseach, so your comparison with Johnson is not comparable whatsoever. Adams is retired, is in no position of authority, unlike RTE, who are the state's national broadcaster. So the next time you hear the same sort of lame sketch puddled out on their airwaves, direct your outrage there. Because that's what this is about right? Making fun of the past conflict?
It wasn't Callan though. Imagine Boris doing a funny sketch about Bloody Sunday or internment, that is the level of what Gerry did. In fact, it is worse, because Boris had no direct involvement in those events.
Fail to see the outrage here. Adams just did a political comedy skit, the exact same sort of political skit that the likes of Oliver Callan does on RTE every week, using the exact same sort of satirical and hyperbolic traits. If Oliver Callan did the exact same skit for RTE radio, which he has frequently done, the likes of this mornings outraged Claire Byrne would have the thing played on her show as some sort of hilarious advert for Callan's show.
Connolly House were burning the midnight oil, it’s been said.
Well, it didn't take long, did it? The Boys from Belfast must have ordered the troops out to take out Eoin O'Broin. Lucky man that the times of disappearing traitors have gone for now.
"Senior party TDs David Cullinane and Matt Carthy took to the airwaves to directly contradict Mr Ó Broin’s call for the former Sinn Féin leader to issue an apology for taking part in the video."
Think of the savings by not leasing or buying social housing.
I know from past contributions of yours you are an FF voter (I used to be too), and I get perplexed when I see FF/FG bemoan about what they perceive to be an over generous welfare system, which they believe is used and abused by some of its recipients, without realising the system they view as overgenerous and easily abused was installed and overhauled by the party's they pledge allegiance to.
Not seeing the mystery here. From the POV of such voters, things would indisputably get worse under an SF-led government. In their Budget 2022, for example, SF were calling for a €10 increase in the basic social welfare payment.
when in fact we need all types of housing built.
No we don't. I don't want to pay to lease luxury apartments for 25 years with no option to buy, for your "lifetime jobseeker".
This is what the current lot are doing. Are you not as annoyed about that?
Its my understanding that SF want to do away with such wastes. You not happy about that?
Or George Washington, or Michael Collins, or Nelson Mandela, or Margaret Thatcher or Ronald Reagan, or Tony Blair...... tbf, thatcher, Reagan and Blair used violence and bombs after being in the political process.
Are you that naive or just desperate for shock value?
I agree with some of what you have said. FF and FG have introduced a welfare system that is overly generous to the lifetime jobseeker and not nearly generous enough to those who for whatever reason cannot work due to a disability. Sinn Fein have absolutely no ambition to change that, in fact they want to make it to make it more generous.
I also agree with the facts that opposition attacking Sinn Fein on the troubles is of little concern to the majority of young voters, they however cannot be allowed to rewrite history, they committed some acts that in fact made them as bad as any British Soldier or UDR man. We also cannot let SF continue with this charade that victims of British Atrocities deserve justice while Sinn Fein honour men and women who commited equally sectarian and indiscriminate murder.
There is plenty more that FF and FG could use to attack SF on like their continued objection to housing on the basis that it's the wrong type of housing when in fact we need all types of housing built.
There is also plenty that the UKSF branch get up to while in government such as handing powers regarding welfare back to Westminster or raising rents during the pandemic.
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