46 Comments

• seanomelb | Feb 05, 2013, 07:36 PM EST

  another fallacy by anglo

• anglo-norman | Feb 05, 2013, 01:41 PM EST

  The FACT is the IRA killed more catholics

• IrelandNorth | Feb 05, 2013, 04:03 AM EST

  Pádraig Ó Riordáin! Some of us only revisit the past to point up hypo[deom]cracy. And to remind the terminally revised that 1922 was not the year zero in Irish h[y]story[ia]. We don't actually reside there. "The past is foreign country. They do things differently there!" (English novelist A J Ayer). A comment more applicable to present day Ireland apropos its past.

• curtisjohnson | Feb 04, 2013, 10:15 PM EST

  fallsthe rat distorting reality again. The statistics show that the overwhelming number of non-combatants were killed by the british terror state and their squatter allies. Weren’t you a squaddie, rat boy? How many women and children did you kill?

• seanomelb | Feb 04, 2013, 06:37 PM EST

  Fallser is at it again with his false logic.

• FallsRNat | Feb 04, 2013, 06:25 PM EST

  cillowen - adams gave us a sense of justice for the treatment of nationalists in NI, no, his PIRA organisation outdid the BA, Loyalists & RUC in total by killing more catholics then all of these together, he sure did a lot for us.

• Dixie Elliott | Feb 04, 2013, 04:07 PM EST

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• Dixie Elliott | Feb 04, 2013, 04:04 PM EST

  A quick apology for the killing of Garda McCabe then here I am at the funeral of Garda Donoghue. I the bringer of peace to Ireland. The cameras see me; a funereal leader among leaders, I share their disgust, the cameras must record that and show it later. I also share their hypocrisy but they won't allow me to share it with them. I must stand outside their circles and be pointed at. Ridiculed. B*****ds! I brought peace, the cameras know that. The cameras also record that I am not attending the funeral of the Republican Dolours Price; a dastardly dissident. My place is now here among the leaders, for I am a leader too. I lead the peace process, it is my peace process. I lead the way in campaigning for the removal of the border. I also led a generation of young Republicans to early graves or long years in prison for a 32 County Socialist Republic and not a border poll. I know most of the graveyards in Ireland, the cameras recorded my presence in them - at the graves. This is where I am today, in a graveyard; the cameras are here too. And so are the other leaders. "Unscrupulous politicians and so called 'Peacemakers' " Was it really I who said that - in 1976?

• Dixie Elliott | Feb 04, 2013, 04:04 PM EST

  A quick apology for the killing of Garda McCabe then here I am at the funeral of Garda Donoghue. I the bringer of peace to Ireland. The cameras see me; a funereal leader among leaders, I share their disgust, the cameras must record that and show it later. I also share their hypocrisy but they won't allow me to share it with them. I must stand outside their circles and be pointed at. Ridiculed. B*****ds! I brought peace, the cameras know that. The cameras also record that I am not attending the funeral of the Republican Dolours Price; a dastardly dissident. My place is now here among the leaders, for I am a leader too. I lead the peace process, it is my peace process. I lead the way in campaigning for the removal of the border. I also led a generation of young Republicans to early graves or long years in prison for a 32 County Socialist Republic and not a border poll. I know most of the graveyards in Ireland, the cameras recorded my presence in them - at the graves. This is where I am today, in a graveyard; the cameras are here too. And so are the other leaders. "Unscrupulous politicians and so called 'Peacemakers' " Was it really I who said that - in 1976?

• Dixie Elliott | Feb 04, 2013, 04:03 PM EST

  A quick apology for the killing of Garda McCabe then here I am at the funeral of Garda Donoghue. I the bringer of peace to Ireland. The cameras see me; a funereal leader among leaders, I share their disgust, the cameras must record that and show it later. I also share their hypocrisy but they won't allow me to share it with them. I must stand outside their circles and be pointed at. Ridiculed. B*****ds! I brought peace, the cameras know that. The cameras also record that I am not attending the funeral of the Republican Dolours Price; a dastardly dissident. My place is now here among the leaders, for I am a leader too. I lead the peace process, it is my peace process. I lead the way in campaigning for the removal of the border. I also led a generation of young Republicans to early graves or long years in prison for a 32 County Socialist Republic and not a border poll. I know most of the graveyards in Ireland, the cameras recorded my presence in them - at the graves. This is where I am today, in a graveyard; the cameras are here too. And so are the other leaders. "Unscrupulous politicians and so called 'Peacemakers' " Was it really I who said that - in 1976?

• Dixie Elliott | Feb 04, 2013, 04:03 PM EST

  A quick apology for the killing of Garda McCabe then here I am at the funeral of Garda Donoghue. I the bringer of peace to Ireland. The cameras see me; a funereal leader among leaders, I share their disgust, the cameras must record that and show it later. I also share their hypocrisy but they won't allow me to share it with them. I must stand outside their circles and be pointed at. Ridiculed. B*****ds! I brought peace, the cameras know that. The cameras also record that I am not attending the funeral of the Republican Dolours Price; a dastardly dissident. My place is now here among the leaders, for I am a leader too. I lead the peace process, it is my peace process. I lead the way in campaigning for the removal of the border. I also led a generation of young Republicans to early graves or long years in prison for a 32 County Socialist Republic and not a border poll. I know most of the graveyards in Ireland, the cameras recorded my presence in them - at the graves. This is where I am today, in a graveyard; the cameras are here too. And so are the other leaders. "Unscrupulous politicians and so called 'Peacemakers' " Was it really I who said that - in 1976?

• PatrickRiordan | Feb 04, 2013, 01:14 PM EST

  Ballyseedy massacre 1921? Living in the past again? Irish people are more worried about the present and future. The can't do anything about the past. Let it go.

• PatrickRiordan | Feb 04, 2013, 01:12 PM EST

  Ballyseedy massacre 1921? Living in the past again? Irish people are more worried about the present and future. The can't do anything about the past. Let it go.

• PatrickRiordan | Feb 04, 2013, 01:11 PM EST

  Ballyseedy massacre 1921? Living in the past again? Irish people are more worried about the present and future. The can't do anything about the past. Let it go.

• PatrickRiordan | Feb 04, 2013, 01:11 PM EST

  Ballyseedy massacre 1921? Living in the past again? Irish people are more worried about the present and future. The can't do anything about the past. Let it go.

• PatrickRiordan | Feb 04, 2013, 01:04 PM EST

  Melbourne- I never heard of Lugs whathisname. I have never been to a police ball. We don't have them here. What is your idea of an Irish person?

• cillowen | Feb 04, 2013, 12:00 AM EST

  a lot of dying was afoot back then as gerry tried to excite the natives of the island to liberate those from the apartheid statelet that still exist and will in spite of the propaganda that we're expected to believe. Then the queen showed up and they loved her being in Erin gone broke. Gerry gave us a sense that something was being done to correct the abuse of humans in NIR but ENDA krud lacked courage to even acknowledge that NIR bros were treated like dogs - his ilk even feared these unfortunates.

• anglo-norman | Feb 03, 2013, 06:46 PM EST

  seanomelb is so Irish that he emigrated from Ireland lol

• Seanmor | Feb 03, 2013, 06:14 PM EST

  Politically correct politicians at both sides of the British-imposed Border wll continue to find ways to belittleAdams as long as he advocates national Reunification and tries to preserve what's left of the native culture, especiall teanga nanGael

• seanomelb | Feb 03, 2013, 05:44 PM EST

  You mean Dinosaur I presume? were you schooled by some lowlife like lugs?Did you thumb your nose at northern nationalists and put your arms around some RUC thug at a police ball?? WE can only judge your Irishness by your behaviour.

• mamaginnty | Feb 03, 2013, 04:37 PM EST

  Where did IC get the info that Kenny said he disagreed with Sinn Féin deputy leader Mary-Lou McDonald who said there was a difference between the IRA killing Irish police officers and killing RUC officers. All Mary Lou said on camera in the Dail was..." there is a differance " Kenny and his crowd will jump at anything SF. say, why? because they are topping them in the polls. Nothing has ever been done about all the killings in Dublin or Monaghan, by any government in the south of our country, why again ? because they might step on some british army toes. People are sick of Kenny and Gilmore for using SF and other opposition parties to cover up their own greed and blunders.

• anglo-norman | Feb 03, 2013, 12:53 PM EST

  Irish Politics is a sick joke

• IrelandNorth | Feb 03, 2013, 05:19 AM EST

  Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. They criticise him for never having apologised, and when he finally does, they say his apology is unacceptable. Neither Kenny nor Shatter have apologised for the Free State Army's (FSA's) Ballyseedy massacre in Co Kerry in 1921. That's 90 years ago, and people are still hurting. And I say that as an ex-Irish Army man. What's sauce for the goose, is sauce for the gander - Tea-shock! Take the beam out of yer own eyes!

• IrelandNorth | Feb 03, 2013, 04:37 AM EST

  The Right Honourable Deputy Adams, (Sinn Féin Teachta Dála for north county Louth in Doyle Air-in) is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. The counter revolutionary revisionists criticise him for not apologising, and when he does, say it's unacceptable. The Fine Gael/Labour coalition Government in the 26 are merely bagmen for the International Monetary Fund/European Central Bank - just like their predecessor Fíanna Fáil/Greens. As British Labvour Party member Ken Livingstone once said during the Iron Lady's reign of terror: "If 'democracy' (sic) worked - they'd ban it!" Since they haven't banned it, it mustn't be working?

• IrelandNorth | Feb 03, 2013, 04:36 AM EST

  The Right Honourable Deputy Adams, (Sinn Féin Teachta Dála for north county Louth in Doyle Air-in) is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. The counter revolutionary revisionists criticise him for not apologising, and when he does, say it's unacceptable. The Fine Gael/Labour coalition Government in the 26 are merely bagmen for the International Monetary Fund/European Central Bank - just like their predecessor Fíanna Fáil/Greens. As British Labvour Party member Ken Livingstone once said during the Iron Lady's reign of terror: "If 'democracy' (sic) worked - they'd ban it!" Since they haven't banned it, it mustn't be working?

• anglo-norman | Feb 03, 2013, 12:24 AM EST

  seanomelb is always good for a laugh

• Gordan Duggan | Feb 02, 2013, 11:38 PM EST

  write to Taoiseach Enda Kenny c/o Leinster House, Dublin 2 with you complaints and see if he will answer you. Adams could of course challenge him in the Irish Courts but seems reluctant to so. Makes you think.

• Gordan Duggan | Feb 02, 2013, 11:32 PM EST

  write to Taoiseach Enda Kenny c/o Leinster House, Dublin 2 with you complaints and see if he will answer you.

• Gordan Duggan | Feb 02, 2013, 11:17 PM EST

  I doubt the Irish Prime Minister reads this anti Republic of Ireland site and if he did he certainly would not be worried about it. As Irish leader, he will seen the security files on Adams and will know what he is talking about. He's most probaby been shown the FBI and CIA files as well. You don't get to be leader of your country by being overly bothered by critics.

• PatrickRiordan | Feb 02, 2013, 11:06 PM EST

  Melbourne: Lord you are a dinosor. Lugs Branigan indeed.

• seanomelb | Feb 02, 2013, 09:52 PM EST

  Tell me patrick were you defending the status quo and thumbing your nose at northern nationalists along with some of your bullyboy cops. You were probably trained by some lowlife like lugs Brannigan.

• aloistmartin | Feb 02, 2013, 07:53 PM EST

  Enda Kenny is James Cameron`s Shadow !

• PatrickRiordan | Feb 02, 2013, 07:07 PM EST

  Irishfree1916:As a retired Garda Police Detective Special Branch Officer, I am appalled to hear Jerry O'Keffe a retired police chief California praising Gerry Adams. My colleagues have suffered greatly at the hands of this man and his associates over the years. If you knew what Irish Dectectives and Anti-Terrorist sqauads knew about this man over the years you would be shocked. The evidence will come out some day mark my words.

• seanomelb | Feb 02, 2013, 05:12 PM EST

  Maybe Enda will apologise for turning his back on the murder of innocent children in the north east. Enda preaches us all to move on and forget the past,he should take a leaf from his own anti-nationalist book

• bunkerisland | Feb 02, 2013, 05:02 PM EST

  Edna needs to spend last time criticizing or commenting on Mr. Adams, less worrying about his future and more time on jobs, the nation's economy and how to get us out of the hedgerow and back on the lane!

• cahalfinbarr | Feb 02, 2013, 03:45 PM EST

  320 years ago the Pope of Rome raised an army to go and put manners on the English king James who had had the audacity to give religious freedom to dissenters, Jews and Catholics. We can spend the rest of our lives giving out about this. Some years ago members of an organisation associated with Gerry Adams murdered many people including Gardai. Gerry Adams and many of his colleagues have moved forward. He took the unprecedented step of apologising for the murder of Jerry McCabe. While I do not like the methodology used by Sinn Fein, I think we should appreciate the efforts they make towards reconciliation.

• pilib04 | Feb 02, 2013, 03:30 PM EST

  This from a blueshirt!

• mastersonjp | Feb 02, 2013, 02:34 PM EST

  maybe Gerry now sees the light artere he got that expensive eye treatment in the USA

• Rebelforce | Feb 02, 2013, 01:43 PM EST

  If only Edna was as indignant over the murder of Irish-Catholic children by British rubber bullets in the north of Ireland. When are we going to hear an apology for those deaths?

• Portia_O'Neill | Feb 02, 2013, 01:35 PM EST

  I know Mr.Kenny and he doesn't like it when anyone criticizes him so go easy.

• Searlit | Feb 02, 2013, 01:32 PM EST

  Regarding people who have been imprisoned by illicit courts, one must consider the effects of Post Taumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) when referring to them. I think that also applies to anyone serving on the police department, emergency crews, and especially military personnel. It also applies to people who have suffered physical, mental or sexual abuse. Everyone needs to put their hands down and stop looking for the 'mote in the eye' of their fellow human being. There is enough suffering going on everywhere. Don't add to it.

• Gordan Duggan | Feb 02, 2013, 01:14 PM EST

  Irishfree1916 - if you think Adams is a good man, you would not have been accepted into the Irish Gardai. The McCabe family will not accept his apology at this late stage. His behaviour towards Anne MCabe and her children over the years was unacceptable to the majority of Irish people. He needs to GET REAL.

• Ristard Millea | Feb 02, 2013, 12:40 PM EST

  Sinn Fein has it's way of reducing the number of Gardai. Irishfree1916 it's as well you never made it into the Irish Gardai if you think Gerry Adams is a good man. You so don't know him.

• Paradigm | Feb 02, 2013, 10:37 AM EST

  I would assume that any ex-Police Chief can spell: "efforts", "officials", transferring", "repelled”, "political", "against", "cared", and “safety”. So are you, Irishfree 1916, a humbug too?

• irishfree1916 | Feb 02, 2013, 09:58 AM EST

  Mr Kenny you waited 17 years to denounce agood man's efferts to ease pain for a damaged family! As a retired Police Officer who discussed with officicials the idea of transfering from being a California Cop of Irish Birth to become a Guard myself I can only be repealed by you making a politicial issue agaist a man of like Mr. Gerry Adams! Get real SIR! If you carred about conditions and safty of our current day Guards it would be under your job Description and better serve my Brother Police Officers and the People of Ireland! Jerry O'Keefe Retired Police Chief California

• Paradigm | Feb 02, 2013, 09:43 AM EST

  What relevance is there to the words of a lying, pompous ass like Adams. He wasn't in the IRA, he tells us - then how can he apologise for them? I knew Gerry Mccabe - a decent honest man - and his family are delightful. They deserve more than Adams humbug and Taoiseach Kenny is right in his reaction.