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President condemns brutal old IRA execution of elderly woman

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  • #242
    skallywag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,008 ✭✭✭skallywag


    guy2231 wrote: »
    Funny you say this now when earlier me and you were spouting the same nonsense against the old IRA you were actually singing my praises.

    You really think I was singing your praises?

    Is this thread an attempt at an exercise in creative writing since your junior cert is not going ahead?


  • #243
    guy2231
    Site Banned Posts: 339 ✭✭guy2231


    skallywag wrote: »
    You really think I was singing your praises?

    Is this thread an attempt at an exercise in creative writing since your junior cert is not going ahead?

    You seem very bitter ever since I changed sides of the argument are you alright?

    You had no problem with me earlier on in the thread when we were both teaming up spouting pro British anti Irish nonsense together.


  • #244
    skallywag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,008 ✭✭✭skallywag


    guy2231 wrote: »
    You seem very bitter ever since I changed sides of the argument are you alright?

    You had no problem with me earlier on in the thread when we were both teaming up spouting pro British anti Irish nonsense together.

    What did I say that was anti-irish?

    Do you regularly do a complete u-turn every few minutes? One minute want mummy to make you chicken nuggets for dinner, then pizza the next ...


  • #245
    maccored
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,713 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    skallywag wrote: »
    What did I say that was anti-irish?

    Do you regularly do a complete u-turn every few minutes? One minute want mummy to make you chicken nuggets for dinner, then pizza the next ...

    did you hear a whoosh as the whole thread went right over your head?


  • #246
    skallywag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,008 ✭✭✭skallywag


    maccored wrote: »
    did you hear a whoosh as the whole thread went right over your head?

    If the purpose of the thread is to discuss nothing at all relevant to the original point, then I guess you have me.


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  • #247
    tipptom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,219 ✭✭✭tipptom


    skallywag wrote: »
    If the purpose of the thread is to discuss nothing at all relevant to the original point, then I guess you have me.

    Youve had yourself.

    When he was talking like a Unionist saying the old IRA were as big a terrorists as the provos and committed as much violence you could not get enough of him.

    He is still making the same point from another perspective and you have gone full Eoghan Harris on him


  • #248
    guy2231
    Site Banned Posts: 339 ✭✭guy2231


    skallywag wrote: »
    If the purpose of the thread is to discuss nothing at all relevant to the original point, then I guess you have me.

    Discussing nothing at all? Me and you were discussing our hatred for the IRA for the first ten pages.


  • #249
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    guy2231 wrote: »
    I have yet to see a valid argument differentiating the two groups

    Well the Old IRA kinda deliberately triggered the insurgency against British Rule by shooting dead two RIC men whereas the Troubles was brought to bear on the Irish people in the north by the RIC's descendants in the RUC, as well as Unionist terrorists.

    So there's that.


  • #250
    skallywag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,008 ✭✭✭skallywag


    guy2231 wrote: »
    Me and you were discussing our hatred for the IRA for the first ten pages.

    You seem to have a skill at jumping to conclusions.

    My point is that the IRA are the IRA, and I do not agree that the 'old' prefix has any real meaning, and most certainly not in any attempt at sentimental sugar-coating.

    I am really not sure where you are assuming my 'hatred of the IRA' from though? Plenty will concede that the acts of 100 years ago were just as horrific as any acts in the 70s or 80s, but that does not necessarily mean that they do not still hold sympathy to those actions, or even condone them to a degree.


  • #251
    skallywag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,008 ✭✭✭skallywag


    tipptom wrote: »
    [/B]When he was talking like a Unionist saying the old IRA were as big a terrorists as the provos and committed as much violence you could not get enough of him.

    I believe that you need to take a re-read of exactly what I said.

    I pointed out in no uncertain terms how the 'old' IRA behaved, but you seem to be intent on using this to force me into a box to agree with the OP? (which the OP also seems deluded enough to believe).

    Where have I agreed with the OP? Have I mentioned, or even hinted, that someone somewhere should be standing up and making apologies for the same?

    Is it not conceivable to you that one can state that the IRA of 100 years ago were vicious, without insisting for an apology for the same?


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  • #252
    guy2231
    Site Banned Posts: 339 ✭✭guy2231


    skallywag wrote: »
    You seem to have a skill at jumping to conclusions.

    My point is that the IRA are the IRA, and I do not agree that the 'old' prefix has any real meaning, and most certainly not in any attempt at sentimental sugar-coating.

    I am really not sure where you are assuming my 'hatred of the IRA' from though? Plenty will concede that the acts of 100 years ago were just as horrific as any acts in the 70s or 80s, but that does not necessarily mean that they do not still hold sympathy to those actions, or even condone them to a degree.

    I very much respect that opinion, at least you seem informed enough on the subject to not glamourise one or the other like some posters on here who glamourise one while demonising the other for doing the exact same things as the other.


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