Che Guevara’s daughter to discuss his Irish roots at Clare event as planned

Che Guevera has "Irish Roots?" Sounds ludicrous. He was from Argentina. His parents were Argentinian....and if there is ANY "Irish Roots" it was from such distant relatives it is implausible. OK so he has very distant relations in the Lynch clan in the West. However, based on the fact the genocide done to the Irish and the Irish Diaspora creating huge waves of migration with native born Irish fleeing as refugees around the world, if in fact Che Guevara had "Irish Roots" it was very slight and a relative that was many times removed. I am Irish-American and as an American citizen, I know there isn't a big bunch of people in the USA who intensely dislike Che Guevara. That iconic image of Guevara has been part of pop culture in the USA for so long it is almost passe'. You can go into shopping malls, retail shops, book stores in the USA and see that iconic image of Che Guevara plastered on all sorts of merchandise for sale - it lost it's "revolutionary" signature cachet ages ago and is now just a merchandising tool to sell STUFF. So it is NOT going to change American tourism to Ireland, not one little bit. The whole thing sounds like a tempest-in-a-teapot...manufactured, fabricated publicity stunt just to stir things up.

If he was still living, I wonder if he would be bending the knee to the Pope, as his confrere Castro. I won't be discarding my Tshirt with his image. He was a freedom fighter, and in today's society, he would be acknowledged as such.

I fully applaud the good citizens of Ireland for standing their ground and not allow themselves to be intimidated by outside imperialist forces that be..., especially by two interventionist rightwing "Cuban" American U.S. Republican Congresspeople. This is not to amiss Ms. Almeida, the eldest daughter of the late Comandante de la Revolucion Cubana, Ernesto Che Guevara, who will be present at the ceremonies. Sovereignty is the most ultimate precious symbol for Ireland's citizens resisting foreign intervention in any form, shape or manner! The erection of the statue of Che Guevara is a message of resistance by Ireland! Che would had wanted that! On a final notice, I look forward to visit Ireland one day and take a picture myself next to Comandante Che! I have a son, now 31, and his name is Ernesto Che Guevara. His birth certificate confirms it! ...And my wife's maiden name is Guevara! How lucky can I get, huh? CHE IS ALIVE AND WELL..., THE WORLD OVER! - E.F. Mohammed Martinez - Chicano anti_Fascist Freedom Fighter - Spear of the Aztlan National Congress

in 1851 Charles Baudelaire said that a day would come when a statue would be unveiled to the Marquis de Sade. Until very recently this was deemed an impossibility. It has happened. So, get on with it, put up the statue to Che and for God's sake take that stupid effigy of Jesus off the crosses in Ireland. Who needs a looser as a mascot.

Pilib-Jim hasnt made a cent out of that image because he didnt patent it! Hate that!

Maybe now we will be proven right when we say Ireland is very much to the left and that is the reason they hate America. Not the average Irish man or Women but the so called snobbish elite. What an insult to Cuban Americans who fled there homeland in order to live in a free society. How naive are those who refuse to see what Che really was.

"... defended" (?) Whose attacking? If some American tourists need to control and manipulate proposed tourist destinations, maybe they should consider some other tourist destination - like Argentina. I hardly think Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and Oliver Cromwell are comparators. Paralleling the iconic image of Che with a corporate America soft-drinks company is a little economically heretical - surely? 1916 inspired Lenin also.

nolan651,dcdief557 ignorant-fact.colkelley how many women and children were killed by Pearse and his boys in 1916? none you idiot.

Guevara is as irish as Obama with many of the same goals and ambitions.

Well said Colkelley and Nolan651!

Facts = murderer.

What a shame Che is no longer around to come and free Ireland. When he'd done that, he could then start on America (North). How about a statue of Jim Fitzpatrick too!

Jim Fitzpatrick's drawing of Che is recognized world wide. Youth of the world have adopted it for 40 years. We should all be proud of Fitzpatrick.

While you're at it don't forget to honor Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, and Ho Chih Minh - all "patriots" who shared Che's zeal for murdering unarmed innocents. In this case I can find no excuse or explanation other than sheer stupidity and total disregard of history. Did the Irish rebels of the 1916 Rebellion also engage in wholesale murder of women and children? You idiots make me very glad my ancestors left Ireland in the 1600s to help found America.