EU vice president criticises Ireland

Her ignorance of history demonstrated in her patronising speech today is not half as bad as her support for genocide, mass slaughter of children, forced starvation, illegal bombings, mass displacement. A vile person.

She said “Ireland not having a modern-day understanding of "atrocities, mass deportations, suppression of culture and language".

Bit of a mouthy dose.

She's 100% right and like the rest of them fed up with the representatives of a country that contributes nothing to western security and doesn't even take it's own security seriously pontificating to those under direct threat on "peace".

Many in that room would have gone much further.

The representative in question also comes from a party that wants "the Brits" to have a veto over our defence forces.

That's how messed up SF's whole position is.

Embarrassing.

My guess is that she isn't referring to NI and seen in that context she's right if you just include living memory.

And if even you do include NI, what happened in NI is child's plan when you looked at what happened before and during WW2 and then the cold war. The Ukraine war is very close to the bone. I get where the OP is coming from and the OP has a point. But at the same time the OP's reaction shows a huge amount of ignorance to Estonian history of the last 100 odd years/living memory. The Irish aren't the only culture that was suppressed.

it would seem she has a far better command of history that you or the usual SF clown show has…

The successive governments of Ireland since independence have said we are militarily neutral and still support not joining a military alliance.
You can fully understand 'atrocities, mass deportations, suppression of culture and language; without partaking in them or suffering them.

Loony right propagating for war, cheering on the mass slaughter of children , forced displacement and starvation but yeah, the 'loony left'...

She is right and wrong. Ignorant yes but her overall point is that we are freeloading. Ireland needs to get on board with a whole of Europe defence pact which means we contribute - I would also suggest we can play a role in the technology side of the defence industry and gain some economic benefits. We need a proper army and navy now, and while we are at it we should build nuclear power stations. We have no leadership on these issues.