any1butdublin3 wrote: » I am a republican and I have 4 ancestors who died in the war, they came from a nationalist family and some of the brothers were even in the IRA. In modern Ireland all the British Army WW1 celebrations comes hand in hand with being Anglo-Irish, many of the men who died weren't Anglo-Irish or unionist.
Pumpkinseeds wrote: » Sinn Fein would protest the opening of an envelope if they thought it would get them media attention. Bunch of shameless attention whores. The people who voted for them only have themselves to blame. They should have been left in the gutter, where they belong.
wazky wrote: » I think alot of people are using this action by about 20 so called republicans as a stick to beat Sinn Fein.
Jesus. wrote: » There'd be one way to counter that. If SF condemned, not so much the protest itself but the nature of the protest, tomorrow then they'd shut them up straight away. But I doubt we'll hear anything from them.
Jesus. wrote: » There'd be one way to counter that. If SF condemned, not so much the protest itself but the nature of the protest, tomorrow then they'd shut them up straight away.
Jesus. wrote: » I doubt we'll hear anything from them.
Jesus. wrote: » Please do elaborate, oh happy one
Kermit.de.frog wrote: » The vast majority of the Irish population are nationalist. If they weren't we wouldn't be living in a republic. These "protesters" most definitely do not represent the views of the vast majority of the Irish people.
any1butdublin3 wrote: » But just look how the army were treating N.Ireland catholics just a couple of decades ago, many of those catholics had grandfathers, etc who fought in WW1, it is a pity they couldn't show some respect and compassion when marching like thugs around the streets of N.Ireland
Jesus. wrote: » How do you make that out? Did you actually watch it today? The Irish Defence Forces were there, giving their commands in Irish. The Irish President was there, giving parts of his speech in Irish. Amhran na Bhfian was played etc etc. Did you just block all that out? I think the perfect balance was struck between both the Irish and British dimensions to a war when Ireland was part of the UK. Some people are just never happy.
any1butdublin3 wrote: » They aren't, it was their ancestors who were nationalists, people just assume they are nationalists because there hasn't been an offer to rejoin the union for them to accept.
Strazdas wrote: » The British army were only a symptom of the problem in Northern Ireland. The real conflict was between loyalists and republicans. Take the British army out of the equation and loyalist and republican paramilitaries would still have been waging war on each other's communities.
Kermit.de.frog wrote: » Fact is we would not be living in a republic if the majority were not nationalist. Statement of the obvious. Are you trying to tell me most Irish people don't support self determination? If that was the case no one would have to make an offer. Every party in the Dáil is defacto a nationalist party. The shinners and republican fanatics have never held a monopoly on nationalism or republicanism in Ireland.
any1butdublin3 wrote: » True i suppose but many are not true Irish republicans, many are as anti-N.Ireland catholic as Willie Frazer and co.
any1butdublin3 wrote: » Yes but many of them deserve to be viewed as legalised terrorists by their actions towards people who were their own citizens, they treated them like they were aliens and in reality they were just a people with a tradition not so far removed from the northern British (Scottish)
K-9 wrote: » A good few soldiers came back and fought for independence, but I suppose nuances are kind of lost on these people.
Young Blood wrote: » Can you believe Theresa Valliers was at this? The same woman who earlier this year denied an inquest into the Ballymurphy Massacre. Shocking.
pO1Neil wrote: » Fair play to them, out their against savage wolves of the Free State secret police protesting against poppy fascism. More power to them.
Strazdas wrote: » It's not as if the British Army had any particular opinion on NI remaining within the UK or becoming part of a united Ireland.
pojfexcsc wrote: » Of course they did they didn't spend all this time over here.... Was sickened to hear Villiers had the neck to be anywhere near a commemoration for the dead after her denial of a public inquiry into the Ballymurphy massacre.
Jesus. wrote: » Right beside the fukking GPO? What if it was the Orange Order that were booing and heckling in two years time at the Centenary? During the minutes silence all you hear is chants of "terrorists" and "murderers" in reference to the 1916 leaders. You'd be A okay with that?
Madam wrote: » I just love the way the Irish on here call Lizzie 'The Queen'
end of the road wrote: » in an irish context the british army will always be bad guys until the last bit of vermin who murdered a civilian in northern ireland is dead.
