The wondrous adventures of Sinn Fein (part 3) Mod Notes and Threadbanned List in OP

who policed and administrated the country for those 100 years , tens of thousands of men served the only state that they had , and to be retrospectively labeled as you and others do for cheap political point scoring is just nasty and exploitative . but then again par for the course.

you know how many irish men served in the british army all over the world for hundreds of years ?some still do . you might want to brand them all as imperialistic oppressors and violent rabid dogs but most of them just needed a job and to create a life for themselves.

bending history to suit a modern narrative is disrespectful in the extreme , sort of like the way sf claim a link to the sf of 1916 and the 20s when in reality there is none

the mentality that allows some one to retrospectively assign blame for political and personal murders carried out by another is something that we hear a lot in ths thread but only from one side,

there are still many murders being protected by political party's in this country , i for one think thats disgusting

the responsibility for shooting some one lies with the scumbag who pulled the trigger and those who hide him

the responsibility for shooting some one lies with the scumbag who pulled the trigger and those who hide him

but not if you were in the RIC/Black and Tans, you 'just wanted a job'.

Such blatant hypocrisy in a few short posts.

CDarby has already answered this more eloquently than I could. So if he/she doesn't mind I will reshare it, in case you missed it.

Good call dudley, Some folk have lives.

Don’t feed these sort Mike, they base all their m. o. on trying to tire out sensible folk,and whose only way of life seems to be defend the indefensible.

These folk get their kicks by this.

I think the guys and gals trying to separate out the Black and Tans are the ones most answerable for a lack of historical knowledge, as they are posting on the thread. No need to introduce somebody from some programme you are not linking to, to have yet another vague pop at a political party.

P.S. I have no doubt there are historically unaware people in SF and other parties...we have had plenty of gaffes across the board.

What a shame you didn't include all of what O'Luain said and only posted the bit you could construct a rant about. Par for the course again, mis-represent and invent opinions in order to have a rant.

I notice you left out why he didn't feel any particular need to research his relative, which makes complete sense to me. What my ancestors did has no bearing on what I believe in.

Here is what he said for the record.

There were educational assessments of them as part of the commemorations mark.

Spin what mark?

Your pivot away from what Leo and Charlie attempted to do in 'this' state, to some future exclusion you wish to promote?

I said, go ahead and convince the electorate of that if anyone proposes a state commemoration for the IRA (something I have already said would be inappropriate on this very forume)