Six arrested after Real IRA promise continued violence at Easter Rising ceremony

IrelandNorth- You missed the "boat" entirely, certain American Indian "Nations" are growing wealthy through Casino Gambling! They own the Casino's, these places are packed with the elderly "White Man" and woman, giving up their kids inheritance. People have gambled since the begining of time. For my Part, the free drinks draw me like a moth to a flame! It is great fun to watch people enrich the same people who were abused in the first place. Kind of like the "circle of Life" and, a far better way than resorting to violence and endagering the innocent!

MCCOLGAN1492! I've had a profound empathy for Native Americans ever since I was a young lad growing up in south Dublin. Since when is gambling a laudable social diversion. It's official variant wrecked the Irish economy. True moving-on, (a mere journalistic cliché), doesn't mean enthusiastically embracing historical amnesia, as actively encouraged by the petit-bourgeois partitionist press in Ireland. DanOLoingsigh! Fair point re. Pearse's madate for 1916 Rising. But then many fine revolutions were conspicuously democratically deficient, were they not? 1641 - 1688 - 1777 - 1789 - 1798 - 1803 - 1848 - 1916 - 1921 etc. For the record. I warmly applaud the seriously-impressive diplomatic navigation which produced the British-Irish Agreement done at Belfast on Good Friday, 1997, and paramilitary ceasefires before and since. And I strongly urge all protagonists to embrace it enthusiastically. I'm also on record a long time ago for suggesting that an amicable resolution to the intractable problem of partition is a provincially federated Ireland, in a confederal alliance with a federated Great Britian, in the Commonwealth. Real questions is. Will Ulster unionism/loyalism reciprocate by seceeding from the British Union. Before the UK's inevitable democratisation forces them to do so.

@StevenStar- we offer you our wisdom as a nation who was VERY SUCCESSFUL in defeating the English Twice (Revoluntionary War and War of 1812), When England was truly a force to be dealt with. Please, be a little more Grateful and have a drink to kill that bug up your ass!

I'VE SAID IT BEFORE AND ILL SAY IT AGAIN..AS I READ ON THESE COMMENTS.. AMERICANS ARE MORE ANTI ENGLISH THEN WE IRISH ARE OVER HERE IN IRELAND. IM IRISH I LIVE IN IRELAND AND I WAS BORN HERE .. IT REALLY ANNOYS ME HOW AMERICANS CONSTANTLY PICK ON THE ENGLISH AND NORTHERN IRELAND .. WHER WE IRISH REALLY WISH YOU WOULD MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS...

MCCOLGAN1492 - Can't see your average presbyterian joining...me neither...so you could be a valued customer...

@DanO-an Englishman, an Irishman and a Greek go to Easter Dinner, who pays the Bill???? The Germans of course!! Thanks for the info, still would like to see a few casinos in Belfast.. turn it into the Las Vegas of Ireland\UK... People always have money to drink and gamble, especially me!!!

IrelandNorth - I see you don't question Pearse & Co. democratic mandate for 1916? RIRA, just another group out to deny the CURRENT democratic mandate across the island...the precedent is not too impressive, and will only delay any future rapprochement - time to call it a day?

Please let me know if you are refusing to publish my comments, if so I can cancel Irish Central off my internet Thank you \

MCCOLGAN1492 - All countries have areas of wealth, and areas of poverty...The English taxpayer has been screwed for years, not only by NI, but Scotland and Wales...the outflow is generally accepted as the price of the union, similar subsidies go to the poorer states in the US...the dire financial state of NI is just the elephant in the room...

Irelandnorth- Thank God the American Indians don't have your outlook... Guess some people can move on and some can't.. Why dont the Catholics open a few casinos in Belfast, screw the English thru their pockets... Much more civilized way to go!!!

Spare me the whataboutery. Typical comments from some here, particularly the ex-pats or those not even born in Ireland. Still trying to justify acts of violence today by harking back to events long ago. all sides carried out atrocities in our long history, none of that can justify continued violence today. This so-called 'army' has no support but for a tiny fraction of people. Their blood lust is not wanted here, they are not wanted. They cite history frequently but learn nothing from it. They will achieve nothing and they know it. What these gangsters do, they do for themselves, certainly not for Ireland or its people.

MCCOLGAN1492! Easter is about death and resurrection, which is why Pearse specifically chose it for his 1916 gig - High Noon on Sackvill Street! Sinn Fein won a landslide electoral victory in 1918 elections. Lord Edward Carson, patriarch of Ulster unionism, threaten UVF violence to resist it. How democratic was that? How democratic was the Act of Union, 1800/'01, where Ireland's landed-gentry voted its own House of Lords into extinction - for a fistful of sterling. Looks like the RIRA has some fairly impressive precedent to call upon.

citizen69 they are interesting comments when you consider the that people like George W Bush constantly made statements of violence in public! People responsible for many tragedies including the murder of children still freely roam around the UK, those responsible for Bloody Sunday have never been charged! Such views should apply equally to all people!

Yikes!

In 1916 they fought for a Free and United Ireland. It is still the the same fight in 2012. They have not nor will they ever go away. Thank God there are still people willing.