The emergence of "Zombie" by The Cranberries as an Irish sporting anthem

Where are you getting that from? You've stretched so far at this point I really can't follow you.

What's in general?

I don't think the majority of sf voters, and I can't speak for all of them, are offended by the song itself, no.

If people are using the song to 'sicken their holes' or 'remind them of the blood on their hands'. I think they would be upset, patronized, offended, put out, excluded etc.

no, they won in that they got almost everything they were looking for.

equal rights, eradication of the sectarian state, the side lining of beligerent unionism which is now in it's death throws, and a UI to be decided by the people rather then the british government.

that's quite the win as far as i can see.

anyway sf are going to be our next government, north and south they shall be in charge.

i have always been clear that the PIRA was a necessary evil and make no appologies for that.

if it wasn't for the PIRA as i said there would have been a genocide and ethnic cleansing of the catholic and nationalist populations of northern ireland and that could not be allowed at any cost.

britain is the one responsible fore creating the conditions where all issues could happen, and they had over 40 years if not more to change those conditions but didn't cause empire something something.

Nothing clear about that. We both have an opinion! Why are you so defensive?

I don't care. I think its a great (anti-war) song and should be played.

I dislike that it has been turned into a stick to beat the PIRA/Sinn Fein in though. I'm looking at you, Michael Martin.

Just on the anti-war aspect. The British Government banned the playing of Zoombie during the Iraq War. They obviously thought it was an anti-war song. I can't see the British Government banning anything that would be having a go at the PIRA!

“In March 2003, on the eve of the outbreak of Iraq War, the British Government and the Independent Television Commission issued a statement saying ITC's Programme Code would temporarily remove from broadcast songs and music videos featuring "sensitive material", including "Zombie". Numerous media groups complied with the decision to avoid "offending public feeling", along with MTV Europe. Since it violated the ITC guidelines, "Zombie" was placed on a blacklist of songs, targeting its official music video. The censorship was lifted once the war had ended.” (via sluggerotoole).

a united ireland only became an issue later in the conflict when it became clear the british were going to continue siding with beligerent unionism rather then take no sides.

they sided against nationalists, and moderate unionism, instead siding with the minority of unionism, which shows that in reality they didn't even care about the majority of unionists.

i have no issue with it at all, it's you who has the issue with it, using it and a couple of irrelevant twitter posts to engage in fo/fake outrage and to go on a rant about our next and first 32 county government.

most of the people including 99% of sinn fein voters couldn't care a less about the song being sung at all.

The most astonishing piece of revisionism I have ever seen on Irish history.

The PIRA were heroes, the same way the Old IRA were heroes. They both did some horrible things but fighting back against oppression is never something to be shamed for. Those who have were extremely brave. Remember, most likely they knew they'd end up dead or in prison but they volunteered anyway. We should be proud of how they stood up to terror from the British armed forces/loyalists, this doesn't mean that we should be proud of all their acts. They will always be heroes though.

Oh sorry! There's another poster called Yeah Right that I responded to. I'll quote what I said to them because it's very relevant to your post:

Does this link work?

https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/cgi-bin/tab2.pl.

You go to databases and bibliographies, then down the page go to database of deaths, down the page go to crosstabulations, then input status summary and organisational summary.

That put the Republican total for innocents killed at 722, the PIRA killed 508. They killed 1,048 members of the British side.

1,156 innocents were killed by the British side, they killed 187 members of Republican groups.

29% of those killed by the PIRA were civilians. 77% of those killed by the British side were civilians.

That backs up my claim that the PIRA targeted active combatants for the most part while the opposite was true for the British side, they targeted innocents for the most part.