The accelerating fall in Sinn Féin support

aw stop the cycle will ya

shinerbot after shinnerbot has been dissembled in this and other threads on this topic , not wasting my time going round again with the next one ,

read back the threads if you like

So your 100% is not quite 100% after all but just a rant. In the absence of policing, some action was needed to prevent anti social activity, this wasn't welcome by the anti social elements but was by everyone else.

Why should I provide an answer, as your post says you will simply ignore it as you did when I answered you in post #1658? A discussion forum requires discussion, not an imitation of a broken record.

Its like talking to the wall 😫 I never claimed that they were not in part a criminal gang, I said that they were not only a criminal gang.

But I never said 100%, why are you posting lies? Here is what I said:

The Provos were little more than a criminal gang. In fact, over 99% of their activity was that of a criminal gang, the last 1% was driven by pure sectarian hatred.

I stand over that, and nothing you have posted contradicts that. I listed their activities as follows:

Nearly all of the PIRA activity was about controlling their own community through punishment beatings, kneecapping, rape, patrolling the streets, extortion, etc. Only a tiny minority of their activity was directed outside the community.

That is all factual. Only a very small amount of PIRA activity was directed outside their own community. The extortion alone dwarfed all their other activity.

Facilitating rapists and child abusers, as the PIRA repeatedly did (clearly admitted by Gerry Adams in a later deleted blog post), was not preventing anti social activity.

A lot of young people today have this romanticised view of the PIRA as some sort of clean cut Robin Hoods, that is as far from the reality as it is possible to get, as those of us who lived through the 1970s and 1980s can attest.

Their operations against the British were driven by sectarian hatred, criminal thuggery or nationalistic bigotry, whichever label you prefer, but there was nothing noble, glorious or admirable about anything they did.

do you not notice a predictable pattern when engaging with the "shinnerbot" type of poster .

denial of established historical fact , endless circular debating , whataboutery , making nutty comparisons to other conflicts, suggesting that any one who doesn't agree is a monarchist or a fffg shill, sly little digs at the victims

or as per post 1677 claim your in the orange order

every thread every time , its the very definition of cult like behavior

Smuggling fake smokes, destroying the country with toxic sludge from washing plants and taxing drug dealers is hardly the same as taking the cash out of state institutions like a UK bank now is it ? especially when you emptying AKs into police cars for the fun of it ,

the voting record suggests 10 percent in the north and between 1 and 1.9 percent in the south during the early to mid 80s , the height of the war . long way from 70 percent isnt it, bad guess

we were not sheltered enough down here that we couldnt spot scumbags pretending to kill babies on our behalf,

Most in the south are and were republicans but we still detest the things they claimed to have done in our name. and this revisionist shinner policy is an insult to those victims and those of us old enough to remember the truth , not that 70 percent support BS

SF making a major tack to the right on immigration, will it win back the voters?

https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0713/1459739-sinn-fein-ard-comhairle/

I'm looking forward to this policy paper on immigration. Hopefully it starts the ball rolling with other parties doing the same.

Populist party......trying to be all things to all people...except the 'wealthy elite' who will pay all the taxes required to run the country....

Cant be trusted....

Yes they know they fcuked up with immigration, new policies on it might help them, reflecting people's views

https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0713/1459739-sinn-fein-ard-comhairle/

I know what their policy will be before they announce it

" Speed up processing times for successful applications and make sure unsuccessful applicants are deported"

It's what they will all say. They are all virtually indistinguishable.

Inaccurate personal insults wash off me. I am far from an Orangeman. I am someone who lived in Dublin through the 70s and 80s and saw what the PIRA did, I know of people who were murdered by the PIRA, of families who were devastated by what happened, unlike the kids of today who have silly fantastical Robin Hood ideas of what the PIRA were about.