dark crystal wrote: » Aw, build a bridge and get over the bitterness. It's clearly eating you up inside. Embrace the peace and let go of the anger. Honestly, you'll feel so much better for it.
Barely There wrote: » Things must have been so much simplier for SF/IRA when they could just bundle people into the boots of cars, bring them up the mountains and shoot them in the head.
Banjo String wrote: » With his (continued) posting style, he wont be around much longer. "It's a statistical certainty"
Gazzmonkey wrote: » You smell a troll too?
bumper234 wrote: » Gilmore to announce his resignation at 4 today?http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0526/619609-reshuffle/
If the Government hopes to stem the Sinn Fein surge before the next general election it will have to do more than make snide jibes about Gerry Adams' alleged IRA membership in the Dail.... ...And, while 34pc of voters think Adams should be replaced, even more think both Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore should go – so, really, they're in no position to judge. Even the arrest of Adams for questioning in connection with the notorious Jean McConville murder a couple of weeks before the election didn't stem the tide of new support. Just 23pc of voters said they were influenced by the arrest but, significantly, Sinn Fein supporters were most influenced, with 38pc of them saying that their anger at his treatment encouraged them to go out and vote. So, the message is clear. Voters are well aware of Adams' background but they either don't care or don't see it as relevant in domestic politics. It's time that the rest of the political establishment accepted that. While Kenny and his frontbench chums have been busy carping on about the IRA, high-profile members of Sinn Fein have spent their time much more effectively, eviscerating the Government at every opportunity.
William F wrote: » Gilmore was once in Official Sinn Fein or the Official IRA? I can't remember.
he joined the UCG Republican Club, which was affiliated to Official Sinn Féin, subsequently "Sinn Féin the Workers' Party" and later renamed the Workers' Party. In recent years he was accused of being evasive on the subject and trying to play down that he had joined the Official Republican Movement, stating that the party was in the process of becoming the Workers' Party at that time, I can't recall exactly the dates.[7] [8] Using both names, the Workers' Party's links with the proscribed paramilitary organisation the Official Irish Republican Army throughout the 1970s is well established.[9]
bumper234 wrote: » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eamon_Gilmore
Bannasidhe wrote: » The Indo is singing from a radically different hymn sheet this week. I wonder why???http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/stunned-coalition-gets-rude-awakening-on-risk-of-ignoring-threat-of-sinn-fein-30304423.html
William F wrote: » He was actually an IRA member?
bumper234 wrote: » Is that what it says?
William F wrote: » You don't seem to distinguish between IRA or Sinn Fein
Barely There wrote: » So was blowing up a couple of kids on a boat, or torturing and murdering a young mother. I have to laugh at the Shinner supporters trying to portray themselves as the people who care so much about others.
stout_drinker wrote: » the only thing which can prevent a SF goverment now is if FF and FG merge to form a single party , thats not a slight against SF btw
Santa Cruz wrote: » Why post that ****e when a simple google search would give you the facts? Lay off the Dutch Gold if it's having that effect on your memory
Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: » This kind of scutter that the shinners are coming out reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ALqhgVK9M Fianna Fail won the election yesterday. When you take FF, and FG and assorted centre right independents seats from yesterday, its clear that the majority of the country are still centre-right. That is under the worst possible conditions. As conditions improve, the protest vote will move back to the traditional parties and SF can continue to shout on the sidelines with the other scruffy independents up the back.
Santa Cruz wrote: » Keep living in the past. It's more comfortable there. SF are part of the political system now and will have to perform or else they will get the usual treatment from the electorate. They have the opportunity to show how things can be done different in local government and let people judge them on that.
stout_drinker wrote: » if FF and FG merge to form a single party
Lastlight. wrote: » If Sinn Fein got into power in the Irish Republic, give it 4-5 months and people will be absolutely hating it and in uproar about how incompetent they will be, especially when it comes to running the economy which leaves a lot to be desired.
tayto lover wrote: » Many voters who have given them the chance locally will be watching their performance and if they continue to progress you could see them get even more votes in a General Election. Never say never in politics or sport. It would be very foolish.
William F wrote: » Funny you say that. A lot of voters seem more interested giving FF a second throw of the dice rather than voting Sinn Fein. It says a lot about the public's imagination.
Lastlight. wrote: » FF will rise again, no doubt about that. Can see them winning the next election.
Banjo String wrote: » Do you hold the royal family responsible for bloody Sunday?
