Irish Easter Rising paintings removed by leading golf club

This has nothing to do with golfing types frowning on the men of 1916. Druid's Glen is running on empty and the managment will need to sell a lot more than Bobby Ballagh's paintings.

“Let’s put it this way. They (Druids Glen) are trying to attract business from around the world so this really doesn’t gel . . . " translation, rich capitalists don't like having anti-capitalist revolutionaries looking over their shoulders when they're drinking expensive scotch and talking about their latest problems with the "little people" who work in their factories.

The class of operators who frequent such exclusive golf clubs are hardly revolutionary material. Descendents of rebels invariably become ashamed of the audacity of their forebears for demanding freedom, having become cross contaminated by the diseasse of respectability. On this, Groucho Marx was right.

The GAA is the only organization in Ireland with an honorable history.

'...this really doesn't gel'? Ian Whyte knows damn well he wouldn't get away with a statement like that in any other SELF-RESPECTING country. I've never in my life been so happy to have given up golf.

Georgie Boy don't be such an idiot.Gaelic games are played in 90% of Irish schools and the immigrant kids are playing them just like the Irish kids.They have Irish accents at this stage.They learn about all things Irish and will no doubt be proud of their country and Irish culture.This strange Anglo/Irish hybrid known as West Brits actively refuse to assimilate fully and always had their own West Brit clubs and schools.They have always been the enemy of Irish culture.West Brits kids are thought to pick up a hockey stick and a cricket bat not a hurley and Gaelic football.

George Dillon ,I in fact have been reading your posts but just who as an individual group is doing this .We have laws against hate crimes in the U.S. This insidious attack in two areas is like what is happening here,minorities fringe groups taking over.

The west brits are at it again

Perhaps Kenny and Merkel and Cameron really did talk about getting Ireland out of the Euro and into the Pound Sterling.

Appropriate move since Ireland is a colony once again.

its a private golf club so i guess they can do as they wish,the way the republic was formed and by who should always have prominence and the people who wish to remove that statement should be asked if they are ashamed in some way,they have always been there,i feel they should have been left for the many foreign visitors to learn a little of irish history..

Murph46: Haven't you been reading my posts? I've been telling Irish Americans for over a year to be aware that their ethnic heritage is dissolving, even while the Irish Americans continue with their silly blarney and baloney.

Celebrate the Black & Tans remove history of the Uprising,who the hell is taking over my ancestral home? It's a bleeding crime!

commonwealth yearnings in their breasts.

For once I taught this was goimg to be a REAL story, but no just more publicity paid for by a person with money in hard times looking for people who belive in the cause to bail him out. The Paintings were made in 1995. Now give me somthing just before the leaders were killed, thats a whole different story