Are Mick Wallace and Clare Daly Irelands greatest shame?

I would have agreed with that before Donald Trump and Boris Johnson took their pre-politics fans to ballot box. I don't compare Mick Wallace's views or conduct with theirs.

I’m her to defend Wallace in the interests of balanced reporting. This is what Wallace had to say, (from Irish Examiner) I presume ‘we’ve’ is referring to Daly as well

"First of all, we've condemned the Russian aggression in Ukraine many times. We're still condemning it. We've already been very clear that when Russia invaded Ukraine, it was a breach of the UN Charter, which we completely disagree with. And it was illegal”

I think criticism of the US of A for doing the exact same as Russia did is W and D’s biggest ‘crime’.

It's not only Russia. They have the hots for any despotism that could be considered anti-west. They pooh-poohed the reports of Chinese genocide in Xinjiang and lately they've been defending the Ortega dictatorship in Nicaragua. Their criticisms of the Russia invasion are very pro forma, just getting it out of the way before the real meat of their spiels, how the USA and NATO are REALLY responsible for the war and its continuance.

Excellent and exceptional post. Summarises their modus operandi to a T. They could be dupes/fellow travellers and/or gullible in the extreme. Or worse?

Their stance is anti freedom, pro licence

'Licence is the complete fulfillment of one's own will and, consequently, the overriding of everyone else's will.It goes hand to hand with the will to power and the desire to impose one's own ideas and opinions on everybody else. The man governed by licence always sets himself aims, and this only intensifies his lust for power: in order to achieve one's aim, one has to force everybody to act in concert and march in the same direction.'

Pretty sure Wallace's biggest crime is defrauding the exchequer of millions of Euro and stealing his employees pension contributions.

However he may have more skeletons in the closet, so who knows ?

Fatuous rubbish. Absurd equivalences.

Can that pair not comment on the Ukraine situation without immediately linking it to a comparison with US? God knows the vast amounts of talking points that could be discussed re the conflict - illegality, war crimes, murder, Putin's predatory behaviour, courage, resilience. Yet they zero in on a US theme. Absolutely in line of course with their narrow, blinkered, quasi insane views on how the world is ordered. I suspect their bona fides.

Refer you to Yurt2's two excellent posts above.

Vincent Browne has a lot to answer for!!

I’m calling it like I see it.

Claire Daly can go and live in Russia where they support mass murder, rape and kidnapping of children.

What’s bullshit?

Every single time they talk about the war they spend about 5% of their speaking time stating that they are "against Russia's invasion" (usually a single sentence at the very beginning) and then the remainder of their time laying into "the West for their hypocrisy".

They're smart enough to realise that they cannot be overtly seen to be supporting Russia in this conflict. Hence they go through the box-ticking exercise of making a dispassionate statement of condemnation. They're not exactly being subtle about where their priorities lie.