Galway political leaders now question Che Guevara monument plan

I think we need to look at the consequences of the statue not being erected. In which case, Jim Fitzpatrick should be banished like the snakes of 432 for immortalizing The Che with his impression of Alnerto Korda's original painting of Guevara.

If they honor Che, who's next William Joyce (aka Lord Haw Haw? William Joyce, at least, was an actual Galway man.

IrelandNorth, for all his faults, at least De Valera wasn't a Stalinist thug who got off of the murder of innocents like Ernesto Cabeza de Huevo. It's easy to mindlessly idolize the guy when you are in a free country not having to live under the rule of a totalitarian government. By the way, the word "che" means Argentinian, it has nothing to do with the sound he made in speeches. Guevara, a foreigner was called that by the Cubans because thats what he was, an Argentinian mercenary for Castro and Stalinism. It seems that you are speaking out of your "thoin" with regards to el paddy plastico Ernesto "Cabeza de Huevo" Guevara.

Hildegarde of Naughten? Is Galway City Councillor Cameron anything to the British Taoiseach? I get a very strong impression that this whole thing has been a proverbial 'ball hop' from the word go. I believe we've been given the royal run around, (or should that be the revolutionary run around in the context of 'Che'). Still, I suppose someone's got to rattle the cages of American republicans, who ideologically oxymoronically seem to have a gra for all things royal. What a strange and unusual world we live in. De Valera's father was Cuban-New Yorker. If Ireland can have a Cuban-American president, it can have a statue to an Irish-Hispanic/Argentinian revolutionary in Galway. His nickname 'Che' came from the sound he made to punctuate his speeche subparagraphs. A bit like African-American - yo, bro! Or as they say in Spiddal - "Los Americanos, póg mó frickin' thoin!"

One hopes that if the Che statue goes ahead, Cuba does not reciprocate and erect a statue in honour of De Valera (who was if I'm accurate of Cuban descent).

Bythebay, there are memorials and monuments to Cromwell in the US as Niall pointed out here 2 weeks ago. I see you referred to irish newspapers as 'your own'. And you tell me youre Irish! Youre a liar!

Big surprise, the Blue Shirt mayor (for the year) of Galway is having second thoughts about a tribute to Che Guevera. Even bigger surprise, the disgraced Fianna Fail is lining up behind Fine Gael. Not to worry, Hildegarde will be out of the Mayor's office in June. Hildegarde was elected because of an agreement between FF and FG.

All polititions in ireland should maybe take a leaf out of Che's book ,

When Che set up communal farms and factories, they were very low production, Che put a production quota on every worker. When a worker did not meet the quota, their pay was cut accordinaly, when a worker exceeded the quota, they got no pay increase but a letter of comendation. If you complained you were acused of been a counter revolutionary, and you disapeared, and your family suffered real bad..Cuba became a PONZI UTOPIA..

good point of view Kevin Keogh,capitalism is great,providing you are a capitalist,they have a bloody cheek calling Che a mass murderer,an amateur compared to them,castro and Che tried to provide a little bit of social wealth redistribution, anathema to neo con usa,these multi national exploiters of the poor were challenged and they didnt like it,che was a great man ,put the statue up.

Bythebay, why would a statue of someone in another country be of any interest to me? Why would it be any of my business? There are statues of Cromwell in the Uk, do you ever hear of Irish complaining about them? The only reason this was ever mentioned in Irish papers was due to the uproar by yanks! And yet again, we were laughing thinking 'wtf?, mind your own business! Worry about your own country before you lot pretend to give a damn about Cuba'!

Question On Murder and killing;Which Country Killed the most people or caused the most People to be killed since WW2.If you know please Let Know.Was it Cuba?

In the Castro regime, Che Guevara basically served the same function as Himmler did in the Third Reich and Dzerzinsky did under Stalin. Cameron and the other Che apologists fail to mention this. By the way, would Councillor Cameron and the other middle class anti-American D4 liberals consider Che a "plastic paddy?" Or is that term only used for Irish-Americans that the hip new liberal Ireland despises?

I hope Galway does not build a statue to che guevara. I have a small farm off the dublin rd, i would love to build a memorial to che guevara and the big fellow and sell all kinds of t shirts and i will make a fortune. this is capitalism at its best.

Sean O the Irish American below... thinks Americans should have a say in politics in this country. Otherwise he threatens Americans wont visit Ireland.