84 Comments

• Joe Glackin | Mar 01, 2013, 06:27 AM EST

  @Smyrnian. With all the earlier comments etc that we get embroiled into regarding IC,s above article, leads to off tracking in different areas. Hopefully many of these comments creates awareness ,to many unknown events ,issues etc for some.Your comment is the one that should be foremost accepted in present times. From 30 years of troubles which many living still bear the scars, physical mental and emotional, their war continues. Killing, maiming not just the innocent ,but anyone, are totally wrong immoral and against humanity. We may or not agree with Sinn Fein,s direction,its present amnesia,hearing,speech,sight or Political misrepresentation,but,there's no justification for a return to hostilities.Everyone involved are victims as they are what you say Smyrnian counterproductive.Only a few know whether Sinn Fein were either blackmailed manipulated,etc into selling the G F A,as present injustice prove.The constant media censorship of Irish Catholic Republican ,Nationalist abuses continues. The Irish Govt Politicians ,UN human rights, protests and intervention against mainly Political internment are censored. These British actions are a breeding ground for the young being recruited into present Republican Socialist paramilitaries These injustices are a much smaller scale than 1968/69 Civil rights protests which laid the foundation for the troubles. These present injustices are creating similar to a degree.These unaware easily influenced young, dont realize the horrors of armed conflict.Theres very minimal supoport nor any justification for their activities. In all people having pro British opinions relating to 30 years troubles are justifying Unionist/loyalist/brutality murders against Civil Rights protesters and Irish Catholic People.The troubles were a result of these British backed injustices.

• Smyrnian | Feb 27, 2013, 09:06 PM EST

  I hope these idiots do nothing of the kind. Killing and maiming innocent people is terribly wrong and acts of terror are counterproductive.

• seanomelb | Feb 26, 2013, 07:59 PM EST

  Realist is entitled to his opinion and his anti Irish stance.

• curtisjohnson | Feb 25, 2013, 09:31 PM EST

  @surrealist – “Tell me, what's it like to carry around that size of Union Flag coloured chip on your shoulder and to know that the very people you despise so much....quite frankly couldn't care less?” yawn – whether they care about the truth being told about them is immaterial although their vulgar and bigoted triumphalis m suggest otherwise (not to mention their crude distortions of history and the lengths to which they have gone to conceal the truth – much of which they even officially admit at this point).

• IrelandNorth | Feb 25, 2013, 02:12 PM EST

  Realist! I answered you question apropos genocide in the context of Ireland generally, and not any artificialised part thereof. Certainly, military/paramilitary coercion is non-efficacious. Which is why both the military conquest of Ireland by the British, and resistance thereto by the Irish, has damaged many people. But how else does one right a wrong, when the consitutional path is frustrated by those who control the parliamentary democracy game. Imperialism and (ungerrymandered) democracy are mutually exclusive. Maj Gen Sir John Grenfal Maxwell, the Scottish-Unionist military man the English sent over to suppress the 1916 Rising criticised the Government of the day for winking and nodding at Carson's sedition and subversion, whilst at the same time getting him to do the double standarded dirty work of supressing republican dissent. He also said that without the UVF, there would have been no IRA. PS National Geographic did a documentary some years ago about a Zen Buddhist (Japanese) monk doing a rigorious spiritual routine, central to which was fasting. But you're not required to share my eclectic appreciation of metaphysics.

• maryosullivan | Feb 25, 2013, 10:07 AM EST

  Wouldn't it be more accurate to refer to O'Callaghan as a paid Brit snitch or as Ruth Dudley Edwards "houseboy" rather than an IRA Commander?. He spend much more of time in those occupations than any commanding in the IRA

• darragh S | Feb 25, 2013, 09:23 AM EST

  nek minute, The Plauge 2.

• Joe Glackin | Feb 24, 2013, 11:39 PM EST

  @ Realist. The Queen when in Dublin paid homage to IRA volunteers of earlier times. She like David Cameron, Tony Blair did earlier apologized unreservedly for the atrocities carried out by Crown forces on Irish Nation to recent times. They were the Brits,UDR, RUC as you should know.The UDR were called a Brit Regiment but they were a legalized loyalist machine. Not all RUC nor Brits were murderers but many were or supported Loyalists. You calling anyone a convicted terrorist is one reason your known as brainless Huns as they were convicted against UN ,World Human rights org by illegal dip-lock Courts. How many recent convictions have been quashed.??? There were far too many killed, injured ,imprisoned and many today still suffer from physical,emotional ,mental problems as a result ,from both communities . The blame for this is your Unionist,loyalist, Orange establishmentwere given free reign in 1922.Maybe youl deny this too that Carson declared"A Protestant state for a Protestant People" in 1922 created this situation that started Civil Rights. The rest from then we all know. The GFA was similar to Sunningdale but your mighty Unionists,Loyalists, Orange Reverent,s etc wouldn't have it. Learn the facts about who created and kept the violence going. Theres many today on both sides would love to have their loved ones with them.The creators are responsible. They are the British Government for giving your Unionist loyalist/Orange Protestant People a Statelet to discriminate in every way against Irish Catholic/Nationalist /Republicans . Your people created the sectarianism etc. SHAME ON YOU

• Joe Glackin | Feb 24, 2013, 11:38 PM EST

  @ReaLIST. So do you now agree with your own Harry West that the People voted Bobby Sands in was democratic, as you said earlier was undemocratic.To say Robert Bradford incited the murder of Catholics by his rants was not condoning his death.To call Bobby Sands a convicted terrorist is your loyalist opinion.Are the Brits /RUC UDR etc that murdered not terrorists. Youl deny that one . You are of a Nomadic peoplke whose only customs or traditions are man-made anti Catholic loyal Orders who march . Neither the British or anyone wants you. We are of Celtic Race,Gaelic Irish culture and faithful to our beliefs. Who are you and dont try making up some typical Loyalist crap to justify you existence . You own Gusty Spence gained respect for his admittance that Loyalists used the defense of Ulster as their cause where it was hatred of catholics/Irish Republicans /Nationalists . He said your hatred and bigotry that the British used to their advantage.If they wanted a favour that would not expose them ,loyalists were used and allowed so many Catholic lives as pay off. I or nobody should supply you with any quotations as youyd deny it. Like Paisley,Mc Crea,Bradfordetc under the title of Rev did The BBC etc said it was not condoning or agreeing with the ranting inciting Rev,s by allowing them air time.Their incitement to murder Catholica was clear for any to see. There were the RUC,UDR, Brirish Army to defend Ulster. So your hatred etc was carried on into legalised murderers of the UDR, Brits, RUC. Youl deny that too . But read up on thee truth not .Yous denied bloody Sunday etc.

• Realist | Feb 24, 2013, 07:46 PM EST

  curtisjohnson: Lol...."that petty nation of degenerate materialists shop keepers"? Tell me, what's it like to carry around that size of Union Flag coloured chip on your shoulder and to know that the very people you despise so much....quite frankly couldn't care less?

• Realist | Feb 24, 2013, 07:39 PM EST

  "fasting has religious and spiritual justification" Lol....what utter rubbish. I mentioned the words comedian and hypocrisy earlier and for good reason. When Robert Sands died in 1981, the IRA and Sinn Fein (let's pretend they are not one and the same for the minute) wailed to the World that a democratically elected member of Parliament should not have been allowed to die like that. Still, six months later they murdered the unarmed Robert Bradford, MP for South Belfast. So, two deaths, two MPs, two men in Belfast, two Roberts. One major difference....choice. Robert Sands chose to take his own life, while Robert Bradford had his choice taken away by others....by Mr Sands' fellow terrorists. Sadly, the only retort I have ever read or heard to this point, made by terrorist apologists who do not really believe it themselves, consists of feeble attempts to justify and condone a man's murder. Shame.

• Realist | Feb 24, 2013, 07:19 PM EST

  IrelandNorth: Lol....firstly, Sands never had the title "Right Honourable". That is reserved for members of the Privy Council only. Irish Republicans are perfectly entitled to their views on Northern Ireland and its history, I have no problem with that as long as they continue to refrain from trying to convince their neighbours by murdering them as they did during their failed terrorist campaign of the "Troubles" era. Given seamus60's ludicrous analogy of the Provisional IRA with the World War II French Resistance, I asked....when did the British attempt genocide during the "Troubles" period? You chose not to answer that.

• Realist | Feb 24, 2013, 07:06 PM EST

  Joe Glackin: "Robert Bradford was a mate of Wests and had incited the murder of Catholics by his rants .This doesnt condone his death...." Lol....that is exactly what you have done....condone the cold blooded murder of a democratically elected Member of Parliament. Also, would please provide quotations of when Rev. Robert Bradford advocated the murder of anyone? Was the Rev. Bradford ever convicted of a terrorist related offence? Harry West was merely stating a fact....the people who voted for Sands, voted for a convicted terrorist.

• Realist | Feb 24, 2013, 06:57 PM EST

  seano: Lol...."Realist....states Sands was not democratically elected"? Quite the contrary my friend. Yet again, you have succeeded in making a fool of yourself. I suggest you get a grown-up to explain it to you.

• seanomelb | Feb 24, 2013, 06:56 PM EST

  The second most spoken language in England/wales is Polish. Maybe orange Fallser should worry more about his own backyard.

• IrelandNorth | Feb 24, 2013, 03:05 PM EST

  FallsRNat! Those sallow-skinned Bulgarians and Romanians won't be impeded in their influx by an increasingly insignificant [de]commissioned boundary. But you guys in the 6 are better practiced in your siege mentality than we are in the 26, so it should be less of a culture shock. Who knows, even some of those Roma gypsies may be interested in joining the compulsive bipedalist of the surplus shoeleather society, diluting the concentrate of the Orange Order, and giving it a different complexion.

• curtisjohnson | Feb 23, 2013, 06:59 PM EST

  IrelandNorth -“And incidentally, fasting has religious and spiritual justification.” An important point but incomprehensible to that petty nation of degenerate materialists shop keepers.

• warrenpoint00 | Feb 23, 2013, 04:10 PM EST

  Who in their right mind would listen to the words of advise from a corrupt rat like OCallaghan.Those that do, are just as delusional as he is ,the thing is the brit government pays this rat for his hysterical rantings.

• FallsRNat | Feb 23, 2013, 03:33 PM EST

  when the bulgarians/romanians flood into ireland on the back of the EU open door policy later this year, the number of non irish in the 26 county state will increase once again, the dissidents are fighting a losing cause as the rate of irish emigration & foreign immigration in will mean that in 20 yrs there won't be a irish ireland anymore.

• IrelandNorth | Feb 23, 2013, 02:48 PM EST

  Realist! Yes, the Rt Hon Robert Sands, MP was elected by popular suffrage to the British (Lower) House of Commons, ie he succeeded in being democratically elected in what is seen by Irish republicans as an undemocratically constituted neo-provincial statlet - and not without justification. The Act of Union, 1800/'01 undemocratically annexed all of Ireland into a democratically deficient United Kingdom (UK). Ergo, it should all have been disunited. You can't have your cake and eat it. Genocide was attempted during British rule of all Ireland. Read Tim[othy] Pat[rick] Coogan, 2012. No one country claims NIs place in the UK is illegal. But many Irish consider it undemocratic and unconstitutional. That the United Nations (UN) recognises a disunited nation is an delicious irony. Law and justice are not necessarily coterminous, as a trip to any court of law will adequately testify. I share your moral repugnance of all violence. Which is why I argue for atonement and Christian forebearance, and the telling of the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, however inconvenient to ones preferred political paradigm. And incidentally, fasting has religious and spiritual justification.

• seamus60 | Feb 23, 2013, 11:11 AM EST

  Folks Realist appears from time to time to bring up such issues as Bradford. An issue that has been flogged to death long ago. Enter his arena is you have little or nothing to kill your time.

• curtisjohnson | Feb 22, 2013, 10:05 PM EST

  It should also be remembered that Bernadette Devlin, an MP and witness to Bloody Sunday, was consistently denied the chance to speak in Parliament about the day, although parliamentary convention decreed that any MP witnessing an incident under discussion would be granted an opportunity to speak about it in the House. This was in the face of statements by the Secretary of State that the soldiers acted in self defense.

• curtisjohnson | Feb 22, 2013, 09:36 PM EST

  @surrealist“When was the Provisional IRA denied access to the democratic process?” When they were denied habeas corpus, trial by a jury of their peers, access to the media to combat endless brit propaganda exploiting english racism, detainment and barbaric torture before conviction, diplock show trials, summary execution (shoot to kill), unrestrained search and seizure, gerrymandering, etc.

• Joe Glackin | Feb 22, 2013, 07:24 PM EST

  It beyond belief at times what these articles bring up in terms of comment direction. For someone like S O Callaghan to issue such a mouthful gives the British ample reason to arrest ,intern as is happening at present. Those that are interned like Marian Price, Martin Corey etc have done or said nothing like above. But comments relating the "treaty won" and Bobby Sands not democratically elected portrays a trend of comical but disrespectful,ignorant comments. Bigoted Sectarian Harry West who lost his Seat to Bobby Sands declared "The people have voted and all Catholics voted for a terrorist in Fermanagh/south Tyrone ". He soon shut up when asked of his Loyalist,Vanguard connections. Ro Robert Bradford was a mate of Wests and had incited the murder of Catholics by his rants .This doesnt condone his death but he put himself & constituents in a precarious position then.I dont believe West would agree that the election was undemocratic ,even though RUC/UDR tried stopping Ballot boxes reaching their count center . I seen on here there was sightings of Big foot in Oregon. Well he and Callaghan have been seen together spraying graffiti on the walls in Leinster house claiming " The Treaty won".

• seanomelb | Feb 22, 2013, 06:15 PM EST

  Realist condemns hypocrisy and states Sands was not democratically elected. I find that hypocritical and if unrealist can offer proof of Sands "undemocratic" election I will apologise. Go for it turd.

• seanomelb | Feb 22, 2013, 06:12 PM EST

  One is not to know of your fathers demise and I am sorry for your loss. But please do not use his demise as a crutch it belittles him and yourself.

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• Realist | Feb 22, 2013, 02:59 PM EST

  IrelandNorth: Lol….another Republican comedian. When was the Provisional IRA denied access to the democratic process? Was convicted PIRA terrorist Bobby Sands not democratically elected British Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, while slimming for Ireland, in 1981? Still, the IRA showed us that their respect for democracy only cuts one way when they murdered Robert Bradford (Protestant minister, and MP for South Belfast) in November that same year. “Violence was the language of the unheard!”? When, during the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland, did the British authorities commit genocide? Name one country which claims Northern Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom is illegal? I condemn all terrorists, both Loyalist and Republican. I also condemn hypocrisy and indifference, but then, according to some people, “Apologies and condemnations are the province of the ego”.

• IrelandNorth | Feb 22, 2013, 01:43 PM EST

  "... did not have access to the democratic process, they were facing a genocidal enemy who illegally occupied their country ..." Hmmm! Sounds disturbingly familiar to me. It's amayonazing how people can suffer from a carefully cultivated blind spot to preent acknowledgement of an inconvenient truty. When will unionist terrorists be put under a similar magnifying moral analyses. Cure the disease, not the symptoms.

• Realist | Feb 22, 2013, 11:33 AM EST

  Seamus60: My friend, as I explained before, the comparison between the French Resistance and the Provisional IRA is pure Republican propaganda fantasy. Even Sinn Fein no longer repeats this rubbish. I also suspect the French people would find your conjecture nothing less than offensive. There are numerous differences that even a bored school kid could point out to you. For instance, the French during the period 1940 – 1944 did not have access to the democratic process, they were facing a genocidal enemy who illegally occupied their country and who routinely perpetrated lethal reprisals against both them and the civilian population, and they were never officially registered as a terrorist organization by the likes of the United Kingdom, the United States, and their fellow countrymen and Irish Republicans in the Irish Republic. I suggest you go back to the Felons’ Club – a club for ex-prisoners, right?

• audreybolton | Feb 22, 2013, 11:19 AM EST

  Seano and others: My father was buried yesterday with full military honours. Yes I can be trusted with several types of firearms and can drive a tank, thank you.Now shut up and have some respect.

• audreybolton | Feb 22, 2013, 11:01 AM EST

  Seano and others: My father was buried yesterday with full military honours. Yes I can be trusted with several types of firearms and can drive a tank, thank you.Now shut up.

• Smyrnian | Feb 22, 2013, 07:45 AM EST

  Jacob - yes, it was different but maybe not in our lifetime.

• seamus60 | Feb 22, 2013, 05:15 AM EST

  Realist. Sorry to deflate your bubble by agreeing with some of what you said. I am on record as stating that what happened to Jean Mc Conville and her family was a total disgrace. Also on record as condemning the murders of Robert Mc Cartney, Paul Quinn Joey O Connor and others.punishment activity I have condemed for the reason that we are still finding out, some were more deserving than others, yet got more lenient treatment if any because of who they were or were related to. I would dearly love that Truth commission that no one in any authority from any side wants to see the light of day. I do not shun my responsabilities for mistakes the peoples Army made as a collective we are all responsable. How the mistakes were made if genuine, is totally differant.The reality is, if we Republicans are`nt allowed to know the truth of what went on with the Hungerstrikes and the last six deaths theres little hope for all the rest. Forget all the garbage about taking prisoners or you`ll be admitting next that the French resistance were nothing but a pack of murderers. Finally I will agree to the battle being lost, theres no nice way to dress up surrender, even worse via treason from now recognised save the worlds.

• seamus60 | Feb 22, 2013, 04:53 AM EST

  That should have read. People have said simular shyte about non SF Republican groups

• seamus60 | Feb 22, 2013, 04:52 AM EST

  Anglo. Thats part of the problem, No one knows, at least not enough to make such statements with such crazy amounts attached to them. People have said simular shyte with just as crazy numbers attached with out any proof. But if you have something solid we`re all ears.

• Realist | Feb 22, 2013, 04:22 AM EST

  Seamus60: “Easy to accuse anyone when proof is not required”? I agree. I’m sure the families of Jean McConville, Robert McCartney, and all those recipients of Provisional IRA administered punishment beatings and knee-cappings would also concur. It never fails to amuse me when the supporters of those who dispensed summary justice from kangaroo courts complain about the legal system, when those who never took prisoners complain about prison conditions, when those who routinely denied human rights to their victims complain about infringements upon their delicate sensibilities….and here we have it again. Still, that’s the Irish Republican “narrative” for you. You know, the only reason why more people don’t point this out to you is because you were de facto militarily defeated and politically out maneuvered by your adversaries. That’s why laughably partisan attention seeking websites like this exist….to somehow dress up failure as success.

• IrelandNorth | Feb 22, 2013, 03:46 AM EST

  Fellow Posters! Beware of dangerously revisionists historical amnesiacs posing as political literates. Or fifth columnists perpetuating partition.

• Jacob | Feb 22, 2013, 02:58 AM EST

  IrelandNorth - heard you the first time. Smyrnian - do you really think it was ever any different?

• anglo-norman | Feb 22, 2013, 12:53 AM EST

  Sinn Fein had a nice little earner in Colombia 50 mil I think it was...

• anglo-norman | Feb 22, 2013, 12:35 AM EST

  AussieSean was in the FCA lol

• Smyrnian | Feb 21, 2013, 08:58 PM EST

  They are just drug and crime gangs now latching onto old nationalist names.

• darragh S | Feb 21, 2013, 08:04 PM EST

  The council will convene to Dublin California.

• darragh S | Feb 21, 2013, 08:02 PM EST

  The Brits do not seem to concerned about the treat. Its not in the Guardian. Instead they have the sentencing of the 'British terror gang who thought 7/7 was not deadly enough found guilty' on their home page. or 'Three would-be suicide bombers found guilty of terror plot'.

• seamus60 | Feb 21, 2013, 08:00 PM EST

  Seano. Think you`re getting your seans mixed up.

• seamus60 | Feb 21, 2013, 07:58 PM EST

  Go get em Darragh ya boy ye. lol

• seanomelb | Feb 21, 2013, 07:50 PM EST

  First hand knowledge ME old pal I was an adult when this occured. The cradle had long since passed to your poor mum. I spaek as an ex Irish serviceman. What uniform did you wear Johnnie me boy

• darragh S | Feb 21, 2013, 07:14 PM EST

  New Irish Republican Brotherhood = NIRB

• darragh S | Feb 21, 2013, 06:51 PM EST

  Ill tell you whats weird. Whats weird is trying to work out why 1916 even means anything to PIRA or RIRA? As a person from the Republic of Ireland I can relate to the 1916 rising more in terms of the Treaty. And the IRB fought with the IRA over that but guess who won? The Treaty won. But how will this be viewed by the British. Everyone Irish gets punished by this kind of thing. Some of us will end up back to washing latrines or will be beaten up in the street because of this remorseless murders that have no connection to the Hero's of the Republic of Ireland. As the Supreme Commander of the NIRB(reconstituted) I fully hereby disown the IRA in all its forms including the PIRA and RIRA and hereby declare War upon them under the Arms of the Republic of Ireland.

• johnbyrne | Feb 21, 2013, 05:37 PM EST

  would the bould sean be telling us he has first hand intel on this. beware the hand that rocks the cradle.

• Tooreenagrena | Feb 21, 2013, 03:34 PM EST

  O'Callaghan is a mouthpeice for british securitiy and anything he says should be seen in that light.

• seamus60 | Feb 21, 2013, 01:49 PM EST

  Robin. Republican groups not aligned to SF are consistantly accused of criminality by SF, the brits and others. Easy to accuse anyone when proof is not required. There is proof however that SF activists were arrested in Columbia.

• IrelandNorth | Feb 21, 2013, 01:49 PM EST

  Never forget. The Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Titanic sank because of tawdry boltholing, those Orange boys being too busy dropping hammers on the unprotected heads of unskilled taigs down below. If Her Majesty's Ship (HMS)Brittania cares to stay afloat, she might consider loosening the bolts on the constitutional bulkhead. Max[imum] devo[lution] being independence for slow learners.

• IrelandNorth | Feb 21, 2013, 01:47 PM EST

  Never forget. The Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Titanic sank because of tawdry boltholing, those Orange boys being too busy dropping hammers on the unprotected heads of unskilled taigs down below. If Her Majesty's Ship (HMS)Brittania cares to stay afloat, she might consider loosening the bolts on the constitutional bulkhead. Max[imum] devo[lution] being independence for slow learners.

• RobinForester | Feb 21, 2013, 01:46 PM EST

  James "Whitey" Bulger has been on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted list since 1999, number two, behind Osama bin Laden. His life has almost exclusively devoted to crime since the age of 14. He is wanted for 19 murders, money laundering, extortion, and drug dealing. Bulger was an FBI informant for some time, tipping off the police to the Patriarca crime family while building his own crime network. A Life of Crime Gang Leader / Fugitive StatusBorn James Bulger on September 3, 1929, in Dorchester, Massachusetts. One of six children born to Roman Catholic Irish-American parents, Whitey (white-blond hair) grew up in a Boston public-housing project. His father worked as a longshoreman. Bulger was a troublemaker as a child, and even lived out the childhood fantasy of running away with the circus when he was ten years old. Whitey Bulger was first arrested at age 14 for stealing, and his criminal record escalated from there. As a youth, he was arrested for larceny, forgery, assault and battery, and armed robbery and served five years in a juvenile reformatory. Upon his release, he joined the Air Force where he served time in military jail for assault before being arrested for going AWOL. After returning to Boston, Bulger embarked on a life of crime. His offenses grew increasingly large in scale, culminating in a string of bank robberies from Rhode Island to Indiana. In June 1956, he was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison. He ended up serving nine years, including stints in Atlanta, Alcatraz, and Leavenworth. Bulger became an enforcer for crime boss Donald Killeen. After Killeen was gunned down in 1972. A shrewd, ruthless, cunning mobster, Bulger sanctioned numerous killings, including Spike O'Toole, Paulie McGonagle, Eddie Connors, Tommy King and Buddy Leonard. W-SEARCH.

• RobinForester | Feb 21, 2013, 01:37 PM EST

  I was unaware the PIRA were involved with drugs, and last I heard they were knee-capping drug dealers, as that stopped? The more I read the more it reads like incidents taken from the archives of the Black Hand Gang in Naples and after the great 1880 immigration wave New York. Who was it who said 'nothings ever knew, same old thing, just a new name'.

• seamus60 | Feb 21, 2013, 01:00 PM EST

  Mickey. Thats must be why there are so many Republicans locked up for drugs offences. Don`t forget though that PIRA were aided by criminal gangs in the USA ( Bulger)and the drugs manufacturers in Columbia.

• krisdaly | Feb 21, 2013, 12:39 PM EST

  DO THE IRISH WANT TO BECOME LIKE THE MUSLIM FANATICS THAT MURDER INNOCENT PEOPLE INCLUDING WOMEN AND CHILDREN?? AS JESUS SAID "LOVE YOUR ENEMY" BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU HAVE TO "LIKE" THEM!!!!!!!!!!

• seamus60 | Feb 21, 2013, 12:30 PM EST

  Gob. All down the pub ???? Pals in the desert ????

• gobdawpaddy | Feb 21, 2013, 12:05 PM EST

  Daragh S, the RA never favored that suicide bomber lark. Those heroes preferred to watch the carnage they had caused on the TV down the local bar over a few pints with their comrades. Besides, they thought it was a very messy practice, best left to their pals in the desert.

• darragh S | Feb 21, 2013, 09:26 AM EST

  Do Ireland a favor and blow your selves up instead.

• seanomelb | Feb 20, 2013, 10:47 PM EST

  Audrey cannot figure out 6countys post until she discuuses it with daddy the retired army colonel. Audrey joins that usual long line of nepotism in Ireland. My father passed an entrance exam to do an officers course and was rejected by the "board" he did not live in the correct neighbourhood.

• Mickey Ryan | Feb 20, 2013, 09:35 PM EST

  Ah. I don't know about 2016. A lot of these splinter RA groups are tied up with the lucrative narcotics trade with Irish Mob gangs in and around the Dublin area. Are there young Irishmen still out there with a Michael Collins-style heart willing to give his life for this? Sure there are...but how many? Are they prepping for this supposed 2016 thing?

• aloistmartin | Feb 20, 2013, 09:14 PM EST

  Never discuss Revolution over Double Devon Cream and Irishcentral !

• lcobryan | Feb 20, 2013, 08:36 PM EST

  Ireland North, you are 100% correct. This moron, Sean O’Callaghan, just wants to feel important and the english elites along with the throngs at the bottom just love hating on the Irish b/c we refused to bow to their immoral occupation and acknowledge a foreign entity as sovereign. The unification will happen without violence from our side. I do believe there will be peaceful parades in celebration of what has been currently achieved.

• paolipete | Feb 20, 2013, 07:36 PM EST

  @6countybrit; entertaining and well thought out post !! thought provoking nevertheless

• Smyrnian | Feb 20, 2013, 07:26 PM EST

  I hope none of this happens. I really do.

• gobdawpaddy | Feb 20, 2013, 07:24 PM EST

  Audrey, if you can't figure out 6county's post, I hope the Irish army don't trust you with a firearm.

• seanomelb | Feb 20, 2013, 06:12 PM EST

  The do nothing army.

• audreybolton | Feb 20, 2013, 05:52 PM EST

  6countybrit: What a great imagination you have or are you having a joke? Little food and no running water? Eh! Not fecking likely. Air strikes on Ulster? Protestant infidels? The Irish Army (of which I am a member)rising up in the name of Allah? WHAT DRUGS ARE YOU TAKING?

• seamus60 | Feb 20, 2013, 02:25 PM EST

  IrelandNorth. Nicely put.

• IrelandNorth | Feb 20, 2013, 01:51 PM EST

  Me thinks the British securocrats are justifying their lucrative existence by attempting to manufacture a moral panic. There's money in paranoia about political paramilitarism. The only thing more interesting than a ventriloquists dummy, is whose got their hand up his arse?

• Searlit | Feb 20, 2013, 01:35 PM EST

  Raise your consciousness, not your arms.

• seamus60 | Feb 20, 2013, 01:34 PM EST

  PhlutiePhan. Can you give the old Adams and socialism thing a rest. The man gets prostates done in private, whilst the people he has served as a politician for decades remain the most deprived in his and his partys UK. Try finding the word socialist on any of their paper heading, all dropped long ago. They now prefer to mingle with multinational CEO`s and welcome companies like CATTERPILLAR into Ireland, even though out the other side of their mouth they call on people to boycot the same company. Do ye not remember Martin and Gerry inside Stormont discussing setting up a trade delegation with the Isreali Ambassador whilst their lackys were at the front gate protesting at the same Ambassadors presence.

• Sparklet | Feb 20, 2013, 12:02 PM EST

  Violence just pushes unification further away.

• pilib04 | Feb 20, 2013, 11:53 AM EST

  Sean O'Callaghan is a British agent, what do you expect him to say?

• CathalCav | Feb 20, 2013, 11:33 AM EST

  Sean O'Callaghan effectively cut himself off from Republican contacts years ago and has since spent his time issuing self serving stories to the media as well as ingratiating himself with the Unionist circles. What his information is based upon nowadays is anybody's guess and if anybody wishes to believe his occasional blurbs, so be it.

• PhlutiePhan | Feb 20, 2013, 11:09 AM EST

  In order for Ireland to be a player on the socialist stage, England must be overthrown. That has always been the goal of Gerry Lad from the very beginning. Any vestiges of St. Patrick must be erased on the road to secular humanism with a marxist twist. That is the same goal of the horse that Mohammed rode. In Europe, Islam is a "Trojan horse" which will accentuate that goal.

• seamus60 | Feb 20, 2013, 10:52 AM EST

  Three cheers for a british trained tout and all his wisdom. 6 Countybrit. Theres no need for exaduration as the report from all the various groups tasked have merely deemed West Belfast as having the second hightest rate of child poverty in the UK for you that like to call it that. Although we still have Internment, something the victims of Bloody Sunday were protesting about when murdered. Gobdawpaddy. Regardless of what you or I think of individuals who still aspire to the Proclamation as to how a foreign oppressing force is removed from Ireland. Their support is growing on the street due to the bismally failed promises of so called Republican politicians who are more interested in feathering their own nests. A great example being West Belfasts most recent award as a result of decades of representation of the great honorable Adams who is more interested in playing with his rubber duck in the bath than the welfare of those who put him where he is.

• gobdawpaddy | Feb 20, 2013, 10:13 AM EST

  6countybrit, I must admit to having had to read your post twice, reading between the lines. Very good. When are these 'dissident RA groups' going to learn, the overwhelming majority on both sides of the border have rejected you and your methods. Wake up and smell the coffee, Irish people, north and south have more to concern them in their lives than the antics of a collection of 'dad's army' types who are too dumb and under educated to get the message.

• Joe Kelsall | Feb 20, 2013, 10:12 AM EST

  6countybrit? That's an oxymoron!

• 6countybrit | Feb 20, 2013, 10:01 AM EST

  Great news for the Armed struggle. We Irish live with little food and no running water due to years of British oppression, it's about time Irish America took action and started Air strikes against the British oppressor, just like they do to us. Did you know the SAS still operate a shoot to kill policy - many innocent Catholics have been killed since the IRA ceasefire - it just goes unreported in the news because of British media bans. They conduct night raids against us and our innocents. We have to fight back against the British police and Army of the foreign infidel invader. Our brave Irish Army will rise up, in the name of Allah and win! Look what we are doing in Derry in it's year of shame - we held a protest as the British Olympic torch was getting forced through our area in a blatant sectarian charade, we paint bomb community centres which are used by infidel Protestants and go to court and create havoc in public galleries in support of our innocent bomb makers. Anyway, who cares.

• Joe Kelsall | Feb 20, 2013, 10:00 AM EST

  A Commander of the IRA who lives in the UK for his own safety.That is as absurd as a Hamas leader living in Israel! Now. I wonder why the Queen of England released him early. Methinks he doth protest too much!

• mylesie | Feb 20, 2013, 09:04 AM EST

  There was never a decision to stop the Union Flag being flown over the Belfast City Ha, it flies on agreed specified days.