Liveline: Thread with no name, Host with no shame

Iggy is looking for a row

I thought Iggy was going to say:

I was delighted to see Leo Varadkar at The George.

Joe is enjoying a competitive game of whac-a-mole with the research team 🔨

Why would we revere the likes of Liam Lynch, De Valera and their ilk? They set about sabotaging the new state, they were traitors.

Leo and Micheal Martin shook hands in the name of political expediency - not for any great ideals

I wouldn't mind but Fine Gael are cut from the same cloth as Sinn Fein.... They seem to forget that

Problem is, “England” was a group of warring Germans and Danes (not even actually “Britain/UK”, but we are obliged to put up with their nonsense of them being a unitary state and pacifying the place

Rudimentary Irish (and British) history in the early modern era obviously destroys that agenda, but what was once an imperialist farce theory held by sociopaths is now promoted as PC and, dare I say, the old canard ‘maturity’

They are effectively the same party....it's daft that there's a few thick politicians in both parties (who probably can't even spell treaty) that hold onto some 100 year old grudge over something that their parents weren't even alive for

Europe was essentially a collection of small kingdoms and clans in those centuries and we were just part of that culture. Sure there were regional kings that others submitted too but there is no sense that the island of Ireland had any sort of national identity then.

What about de Marita Ann so to speak?

Yes I know, but the 18th - 19th century imperial ideology, and to this day, etc tries to imply “England” was a unitary state, hundreds of years before it actually was

What was the point of that segment?

Is this part of Joe gunning to get his name on more memorials?

Also, there was some similar Free State Army nonsense some months ago from one of Joe’s friends from a Yacht Club, clearly not caller driven

These people need to get over memorials, there are tonnes to the British army and none to the WoI, Easter Rebels or IRA

"You never ever referred to Martin McGuinness or Gerry Adams as freedom fighters Joe"

He was instantly on the back foot there