Seems like you want to be offended by a bit of stone. Touché. Maybe if tried to live in another's shoes for a while you would see why my consistent position is that commemoration(which people will do anyway) should be respectful.
Very easily I'd imagine.
The problem yourself and others seem to have is accepting there's a connection between the IRA and SF and SF are proud of that connection. Yourself and others mistakenly think they should be eternally apologetic for commemorating their heroes. It shows a woeful lack of understanding.
If SF get in we might see Bobby Sands or the like on stamps.
That is your position when it comes to Republican memorials but when it comes to the other side, you are quick to want to ban or force people into a position.
What is the connection between SF/PIRA and the Irish Defence Forces, the actual Óglaigh na hÉireann?
I suggest you read what you quoted. I answered your question.
How can a SF minister of defence or Taoiseach who is the head of the Irish government with a legitimate Irish Defence Forces and army and at the same time stand up and give a thumbs up to a terrorist organisation who claim to call itself the real 'Óglaigh na hÉireann'?
DeValera didn't seem to have any issues and he was on the losing side of a Civil war. Like Michael Collins and the black and Tans, it'll be just more 'terrorists' a governing party celebrate.
But you didn't answer the question, you just waved it away.
Unless you are suggesting that there are two legitimate Óglaigh na hÉireann?
Also, this is not 1922, its 2022.
Why do you continuously post lies in defence of Sinn Fein and the PIRA??
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%B3glach#Irish
Óglach, the singular of óglaigh,
Absolutely fed up of the nonsense that you post. It is nauseating drivel defending those who kill and maim for no reason at all.
So Martin McGuinness' tombstone should be taken down. It is a blatant affront to all the people of this country.
It is quite disturbing to see posters being proud of the connection between Sinn Fein and the PIRA. It is almost sociopathic in its lack of humanity and awareness of the damage that the PIRA caused.
I see the GAA are distancing themselves from the disgraceful memorial in Clonoe. Good to see that, but I am sure that Michelle will show no remorse or apology, just continuing the Sinn Fein practice of rubbing the noses of victims in the dirt.
The majority of people in the 26 voting for Sinn Fein or are going to vote dont care about the past, they care about health, housing, cost of living not what the IRA done 30/40/50 years ago.
You would think after the last election the Govt parties and there supporters would have learned this but no same old but the IRA as Sinn Fein lead the polls comfortably
Keep up the good work
I think you missed the point. I am not talking about voters fooled into thinking that the PIRA has gone away.
I am talking about the posters who speak proudly of the association between SF and the PIRA, I find that almost sociopathic in nature.
The gobshites who call themselves the IRA or Real IRA or whatever it is this weather HATE Sinn Fein even more than you do!!!
You must not vote FF or FG cause if you look back, both parties have been involved in murder, rape, selling children etc since the 1900s or is only recent past bad?
O Id say plenty people are still concerned with what ira are up to these days with their political cover in sf,
as we are repeatedly reminded by your party members "they haven't gone away " they are sitting in the back ground pulling the strings trying to fool young people who dont remember the horrors that sfira were responsible for.
filling media, on line and off with lies about the party interpretation of history wont work either no more than it has for other terrorist groups :-)
welcome and enjoy the new account btw :-)
I voted Sinn Fein last time, i will next time but i am not a member of any political party!!
Polls north and south show what SF are doing is working so why would they change tactic now (although what FFG are doing is also helping SF)
If they care about health, housing, or cost of living then Sinn Fein are hardly the correct party to vote for. No policies that stand up
Those gobshites, as you call them, were all members of the PIRA and no doubt Sinn Fein.
no one who posts exclusively pro sfira stuff ever is it seems ....... weird that ,
go on out of that , every time sf polices are examined in detail, here or anywhere else they are exposed as fantasy , just like their history lessons
That why they are most popular party?
Where did I hear that mantra before…….
You say it is a sign of progress if they have dropped using Oglaigh na hEireann. Bobby Storeys headstone, erected very recently had both Oglach (he was 64) and Oglaigh na hEireann inscribed on it. So would you agree that the continued use of these terms signifies an unchanged lack of progress?
I don't know, i am not a mind reader.
Im in my 30s and last election was 1st time ive ever voted as i realise that going uni, having a decent career means **** all as im paying 1500 month a rent plus bills not able to save for a house while my landlord with his 20 properties rolls in the cash (paying **** all tax i bet aswell)
Not sure what your point is here.
You do know that if the IRA are actually still operational in defiance of the GFA that there is an onus on the governments to take action?
Ever wonder why they don't?
I wonder if its that their fantasy's have never been tested with out the massive financial support of the London government
propaganda , manipulation of historical events to fool people
a seemingly unlimited financial war chest from shady sources
a fanatical member base made up of god knows who
making promises that they lack both the ability or intentions to follow up on ,
understandable voter apathy towards the other parties
gas to see shinners celebrating a election that they have yet to win
I said 'if' it signals an end of the silly use of the term that would be progress.
Not a normal party
so sf still currently support the use of the term then ? busted again
Not going by that latest memorial.
you must think you live in a perfect world , francie , not all criminals are prosecuted and a lot of terrorists got away with murder as yu well know ,
its sf who keep insisting that they haven't gone away , a thinly veiled threat perhaps?
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