Irish TD will wear poppy to commemorate the British war dead

Hey Dano with the amount of Cognac in his bloodstream everybody looked like a pig.

Seano - Churchill claimed that a pig will look a man in the eye and see his equal...not sure he had you in mind, though?

Sad!! Moses(dano) you trivialise the argument to make a weak point. But the again what can you expect from a pig but a grunt.

Mr Knee…thanks for the history lesson…the point I was making was that, given your argument about not fighting unless you’re directly attacked, the allies should have ‘sat on their’ hands, waiting for the Nazis to finish off their ‘enemies within’, and those in the east, until he was ready to go west?

Lumpenlooney--just so you know, the Germans in WW1 were not fascists. Fascism hadn't even been invented, you dope!

Dan: You may not have actually said it, but the tone of your posts imply it. They were all wrong, in WWI, and America had no business being in that war. Perhaps you can tell us what was the benefit of Irish men going off to kill Germans and Turks?

Old Knee seems a little confused...and thinks fighting the fascist menace should have been left to others...

barneyhjo--"Well documented" that Dublin sales of Poppies were high? Well documented in your fantasies, have some sense.

LumpenLoonsey--the onus on anyone who supports peace is not to defend his position. The onus is on fascists and warmongers like you to show us why it was a good idea for Irishmen to kill Turks, Hungarians etc. Should today´s Irishmen make plans to start killing Turks and Austrians also?

Towngate the turd who called Pearse and his colleagues racist fascist has no morality on this site.

ancavker - can't recall calling anyone a 'hopeless romantic'...remember it was a world war...if you believe that the French, Belgians and the USA were fighting on the wrong side...and the Germans were right, maybe you could give us a rationale for this viewpoint???

It is well documented that up until the mid 1960s, the most successful sales of poppies were by British Legion branches in London. The second most successful area was, wait for it.......Dublin; but of course that was before the IRA decided to destroy the Legion Hall(s) in and around the city!!

Dan thanks for your spirited defence; but you are throwing strawberries to the pigs,I'm afraid.`~~~ Whoever they were and where-ever they came from they all 'fought for freedom'.That is: unqualified freedom to praise or condemn their effort or to wear a poppy or not. ~ ~ ~ Hey, let's all cherish this Romantic delusion - because the Truth is just too appalling to contemplate!

Dan:I don't question the men who fought in WW 2, who fought for whatever reason most likely economic. My problem is and has been WWI. If you choose to believe that gallant young Irishmen went off to fight German tyranny and the rights of small nations to be free, than that is about as romantic as you can get. Ironically you accuse posters who disagree with you, and support a free independent Ireland as hopless romantics. Sorry I will honor the small group of Irish men and women who gave all so that Ireland might have a shot at freedom, and to find her own way. Those are who the Irish government should be honoring. As far as air brushing, it is ironic you mention that, as it is successive Irish governments who are air brushing 1916 and the war of independence out of Irish history! At the end of the day Dan you believe it was perfectly fine for Irishmen to go out and kill Germans and Turks in WW 1, people and countries who did no harm to Ireland, and yet those Irish men who fought for Irish freedom during the period of 1916-21 were criminals and gunmen because they killed British soliders etc. So it is OK to kill, for England, but not for your own country.

I see the SDLP have several politicians wearing Poppies also - good on them!