Former FG Taoiseach's son's links to extreme right wing sect

He looks rough for 39!

Jesus, another person who thinks following a political party is the same as following a football team.

You are allowed call out both you know, regardless of what way you would vote if there was an election tomorrow. Blind faith in one side or the other is stupid

the op isnt that clever.

the leader of the party using the secret armed wing of the party to ensure his brother escapes justice for the most horrific crime possible would be a bitter pill for any "normal " party member to swallow

Is he an elected public representative on the taxpayer's dime?

Was he ever an elected public representative on the public's dime?

Was he ever an elected public representative at the same time as being involved in an extreme right wing sect?

The answer of course is no, so the real headline here is 'Man thinks in certain way'

I condemn any fool shilling for any would be fascist morons, but he's absolutely nobody, so I couldn't care less.

And lets be clear, the SF situation to which you draw parallels, was utterly different and the people involved were condemned for it for utterly different and very well documented reasons.

Quote from the op-

, shortly after the Ireland Mail on Sunday hand-delivered a letter detailing his son’s links to the group to John Bruton’s Co. Meath home.

Just imagine being complained to your father at 39 years of age.

Let me introduce you to a few of the regional leaders and party officers of the AfD, Alternativ für Deutschland.

You don't need to worry about the skin head fascist with the tattoos and the bovver boots. The ones to watch out for are moisturising, eating quinoa and shaving the pubes before they don the Armani suit, or, more likely Hugo Boss.

The fine gael link to facism via the blueshirts is oversold tbh

2005.

SSPX Restistance, the group which which he has been affiliated, didn't get going until 2013, and I don't think arrived in Ireland until 2016, more than 10 years after Bruton's involvement with YFG.

I'm happy to deplore and condemn the views of SSPX resistance. And I'm not a fan of FG. But I honestly struggle to think that Bruton's involvement with SSPX resistance has any implications at all for FG, or that the story about Bruton has any meaningful parallels with the issue of what senior leadership figures in the republican movement did nor did not do while acting as senior leadership figures.

Save us the pearl clutching. This is an continuation of the links between FG members and the far right than looks uncomfortable for some. Does anyone know if he is still a member of FG?

Not sure the FG link is all that relevant tbh. Even Bruton himself is being left behind by the party. He's only a step or two away from suggesting that Ireland rejoin the UK. FG are more and more frequently embarrassed by his apparently unionist leanings.

That his son might be a raving bible-thumper doesn't actually come as that much of a surprise. It suggests that Bruton himself probably has more extremist leanings but kept a lid on them for the purposes of being likeable and electable.

doesnt stop you waffling on about SF tds

The republican persecution complex rears its head again, always the victim, never taking responsibility for their own actions.

As for this Bruton kid, never heard of him, never heard of this organisation, are we all supposed to be cowering in fear?

The OP started a thread about poor SF, always the victim. You might have got suckered by the obtuse reference to a non-politician, but the aim was once again to act the poor mouth on behalf of SF. Poor little things, everyone picks on them.

You think what? Quite a funny post.

Jaysus lads, just wait till ye hear about the group* that Mary Lou used to be a member of, your heads will explode.

*by which I of course mean Fianna Fáil

You would say that <snip>.

And you're talking absolute dog crap with it.

I chose to vote FG because they are EXACTLY the type of people I want to be associated with. The type of people that grabbed this country by its bootstraps and turned it into an economic powerhouse.

I'm just about old enough to remember when our capital city was derelict, when unemployment and emigration were eye-watering, when my Father and so many like him worked 60 hours a week to get rode by Revenue and pay 18% on his mortgage at the same time. When the Church ruled the roost and women's healthcare was everyone's business, except their own.

Liberal social policy and the rewarding of education and entrepreneurship have got us where we are and yes there are problems of that success but no left wing nonsensical bunch of no marks are going to solve that without ruining the place in the process.

My great grandparents were farmers and domestic servants, my grandparents builders and plumbers, my parents and their siblings were pilots and teachers and accountants and lab researchers, now my generation are tech business owners and university professors and on the boards of great Irish organisations. Thats where centrist coalitions have got us and where they will keep us. Varadkar is no Tory, just take a look at the actual Tories for obvious evidence of that. And he's no neoliberal either, he's a social liberal and a big investor in people and infrastructure, as well as a proponent of prudent regulation and European social democracy, hardly the hallmarks of a Reagan wannabe.

Mod note - quit the personal digs