Article in Daily Mail which is "not making excuses" for bloody sunday. What a rag...

samsemtex · 18-06-2010 03:34PM #1

What an utterly ****e anti Irish paper. I can't believe they try to flog an Irish version of that crap here.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1286909/No-excuses-forget-context-Bloody-Sunday.html

But what is undeniable (apart from the fact that it made some lawyers very rich) is that Northern Ireland today is more peaceful than it's been for decades. For this, the overwhelming glory must go to the police and 250,000 soldiers who served there, of whom all but a handful showed almost superhuman restraint. As we illustrate on our front page, these men, and their sons and grandsons who are dying now in Afghanistan, are the true face of the British Army. And nothing can diminish the debt we owe them....

....But such protests are fruitless. The bitter truth is that the Saville Inquiry was set up (and how fortuitous for Tony Blair that he's not around to reap what he has sown) as just one of a series of squalid moral compromises in the name of the peace process.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1286909/No-excuses-forget-context-Bloody-Sunday.html#ixzz0rDPczmi0

So basically what they are saying is that the Saville report is bull**** just to appease the Catholics.

TheBlock · 18-06-2010 03:35PM

samsemtex wrote: »

What an utterly ****e anti Irish paper. I can't believe they try to flog an Irish version of that crap here.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1286909/No-excuses-forget-context-Bloody-Sunday.html

So basically what they are saying is that the Saville report is bull**** just to appease the Catholics.

FFS Man it is the mail what did you expect?

PeterIanStaker · 18-06-2010 03:37PM

The mail is a tabloid rag with delusions of grandeur. The Indo group in this country is pretty much the same.

JIZZLORD · 18-06-2010 03:38PM

Ah. The Daily Mail, that bastion of journalistic integrity....

easyeason3 · 18-06-2010 03:39PM

I wouldn't light the fire with a copy of the Daily Mail.

PeterIanStaker · 18-06-2010 03:41PM

Daily mail headline generator, its good for sh1ts and giggles

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kylith · 18-06-2010 03:42PM

squalid moral compromises

The investigation into the murder of unarmed civilians by British troops... a squalid moral compromise...?

I post on some UK fora, and the amount of British people essentially saying "Ah, it's all in the past, let byegones be byegones, no point in charging anyone, put it behind us" is making me quite uncomfortable to be honest.

baltimore sun · 18-06-2010 03:42PM

I'm with PeterIanStaker here

What a pile of crap, at least we can take some comfort in the fact that the Irish Daily Mail is only aimed at housewives and sure them lot are already a bunch of nazis so the paper's only preaching to the choir

The Indo is close behind them, a really god-awful abortion of a newspaper too

Nodin · 18-06-2010 03:44PM

samsemtex wrote: »

What an utterly ****e anti Irish paper. I can't believe they try to flog an Irish version of that crap here.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1286909/No-excuses-forget-context-Bloody-Sunday.html

So basically what they are saying is that the Saville report is bull**** just to appease the Catholics.

Next - "Ku Klux Klan in Racist Cross Burning Shock!!!!"

rovert · 18-06-2010 03:51PM

Grand bit of readin in it anyhow

ejmaztec · 18-06-2010 03:51PM

Only to be expected from the Daily Bile, written by idiots for morons..

My name is URL · 18-06-2010 03:53PM

Not defending it or anything, but it's just an opinion piece. We have enough 'journalists' in this country which use outrage as a means of peddaling their warez.. the biggest of which has written many anti-Irish articles in the Indo

Trashbat · 18-06-2010 03:53PM

So what they're saying is basically: "We don't hate the Irish, BUT......"

whay am i not surprised by that rag :rolleyes:

Acacia · 18-06-2010 03:53PM

For 30 minutes, in the fear and confusion of that fateful afternoon in 1972, Paratroopers policing an illegal march lost their discipline and self-control.

Hmmm, if the Daily Fail are so keen to explain the context of the situation you think they would have high-lighted the context surrounding the ''illegal'' march i.e. to get Civil Rights for Catholics which so grossly denied to them in the North. :rolleyes:

That article is beyond insulting for the victims' families but what more would you expect from that rag...

rovert · 18-06-2010 03:54PM

My name is URL wrote: »

Not defending it or anything, but it's just an opinion piece. We have enough 'journalists' in this country which use outrage as a means of peddaling their warez.. the biggest of which has written many anti-Irish articles in the Indo

Including at least two this week. Lets refer to him as only K.M.

rockmongrel · 18-06-2010 03:57PM

What a ****ing rag.

True, many may question the reliability of evidence given to an inquiry that began more than a quarter of a century after the events it examined - and God alone knows why Lord Saville took 12 staggering years to prepare his report.

Answers the question in the same bloody sentence.

Thomas828 · 18-06-2010 03:57PM

This is no surprise to me. The Daily Fail has always been a right-wing rag, the mouthpiece of the Monday Club. And it's brimming with hostility towards anybody who doesn't agree with them - and that's something like seven eighths of the UK and 95 percent of the world.

chin_grin · 18-06-2010 03:57PM

Yeah? The Daily Mail is the new Hitler!

/Godwins Law.

/Necessary trolling to anti-troll the inevitable Daily Mail trolling that will troll.....occur.

Killer Pigeon · 18-06-2010 03:58PM

"superhuman resistance" -- *shiver* -- just has too much of the KCNA's style of reporting for me.

petes · 18-06-2010 04:01PM

easyeason3 wrote: »

I wouldn't light the fire with a copy of the Daily Mail.

You like it that much??

stovelid · 18-06-2010 04:01PM

The Daily Mail winds up its intended targets. Again.

Latchy · 18-06-2010 04:06PM

With the Daily Mails nobody gets out alive and everybodys guilty /innocent .

Todays uk edition page 10 has ''Did Martin McGuinness fire a machine gun in those lost minutes on bloody sunday ? ''

Fcuk me , I dont recall any soldiers being shot dead that day on the bogside but 13 civillians were :rolleyes:

18-06-2010 04:10PM

It's so ridiculous you can't do anything but laugh. I love how the irony is just totally lost on them, they're saying NI is more peaceful than ever because of the work of the British army - well perhaps if they hadn't taken over the place, there wouldn't have been any Troubles! So many British people talk about Northern Ireland as if it had absolutely nothing to do with them. My mum is English and she is so embarrassed by this ridiculous 'poor us' carry on.

18-06-2010 04:11PM

I have sent them emails expressing how distasteful i find that article considering the legal battle the families had to endure to clear the deads names!

:(

Sykk · 18-06-2010 04:13PM

PeterIanStaker wrote: »

Daily mail headline generator, its good for sh1ts and giggles

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"COULD CHAVS GIVE MIDDLE BRITAIN DIABETES?"

Win.

moonpurple · 18-06-2010 04:13PM

anti irish?

they have burnt the ass off sean fitzpatrick, printing his legal threat letters, laughing in his face and daring him to take them to court

they are up there with wolf tone for that alone

their article opens with
"Bloody Sunday was a shameful day in the proud history of the British Army."

it was a day of shame and they reaped what they sowed, but remember we would all be speaking german only for the brave US, russian and UK soldiers of 1942

but hey the op is called samsemtex
semtex the east european plastic explosive crammed into surgical tubing and wrapped around fertilizer and icing sugar, that triggered the explosion that vaporised a little boy in omagh one afternoon along with many others

now that was anti Irish

samsemtex · 18-06-2010 04:25PM

moonpurple wrote: »

anti irish?

they have burnt the ass off sean fitzpatrick, printing his legal threat letters, laughing in his face and daring him to take them to court

they are up there with wolf tone for that alone

their article opens with
"Bloody Sunday was a shameful day in the proud history of the British Army."

it was a day of shame and they reaped what they sowed, but remember we would all be speaking german only for the brave US, russian and UK soldiers of 1942

but hey the op is called samsemtex
semtex the east european plastic explosive crammed into surgical tubing and wrapped around fertilizer and icing sugar, that triggered the explosion that vaporised a little boy in omagh one afternoon along with many others

now that was anti Irish

Oh do **** off. what the hell has my username to do with anything? Am I to assume any user with the word dynamite (eg dynamitedave) in his name has a penchant for mining?

moonpurple · 18-06-2010 04:29PM

samsemtex wrote: »

Oh do **** off. what the hell has my username to do with anything? Am I to assume any user with the word dynamite in his name has a penchant for mining?

anti irish?

they have burnt the ass off sean fitzpatrick, printing his legal threat letters, laughing in his face and daring him to take them to court

they are up there with wolf tone for that alone

their article opens with
"Bloody Sunday was a shameful day in the proud history of the British Army."

it was a day of shame and they reaped what they sowed, but remember we would all be speaking german only for the brave US, russian and UK soldiers of 1942

but hey the op is called samsemtex
semtex the east european plastic explosive crammed into surgical tubing and wrapped around fertilizer and icing sugar, that triggered the explosion that vaporised a little boy in omagh one afternoon along with many others

now that was anti Irish

flutered · 18-06-2010 04:31PM

will you people stop giving that rag exposure, let it die a silent death, do not advertise it, just close this thread

brummytom · 18-06-2010 05:25PM

moonpurple wrote: »

anti irish?

they have burnt the ass off sean fitzpatrick, printing his legal threat letters, laughing in his face and daring him to take them to court

they are up there with wolf tone for that alone

their article opens with
"Bloody Sunday was a shameful day in the proud history of the British Army."

it was a day of shame and they reaped what they sowed, but remember we would all be speaking german only for the brave US, russian and UK soldiers of 1942

but hey the op is called samsemtex
semtex the east european plastic explosive crammed into surgical tubing and wrapped around fertilizer and icing sugar, that triggered the explosion that vaporised a little boy in omagh one afternoon along with many others

now that was anti Irish

Are you stuck on repeat?

aDeener · 18-06-2010 05:34PM

moonpurple wrote: »

anti irish?

i can't believe you need to ask that question

especially during the troubles they directed nothing but bile at the irish.

ive said it before, any irish person who buys it, is a fucking simpleton imo

Article in Daily Mail which is "not making excuses" for bloody sunday. What a rag...

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