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Irish justice minister slams Real IRA paramilitary display at funeral

Shots fired at Dublin funeral of Real IRA leader Alan Ryan


Mourners at the funeral of Real IRA member Alan Ryan at the Church of the Holy Trinity in cemetery in Balgriffin, Dublin.
Mourners at the funeral of Real IRA member Alan Ryan at the Church of the Holy Trinity in cemetery in Balgriffin, Dublin.
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"Wall slogans and black flags cannot hide the fact that this violent faction is rejected by the community in Donaghmede and that they represent no-one but themselves. Genuine Irish republicans throughout the country totally reject the activities of this group and other such factions who abuse the good name of Irish republicanism to further their own ends."


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Begin was just another terrorist.maybe we should remember the British soldier hanged from a tree in Palestine by Begin and his terrorist friend. Nowadays the Israeli terrorists wear the uniform of the Israeli army.
That would be the KING DAVID hotel...Polish-born Begin was condemned by Ben-Gurion as an enemy of the people...he later authorised the invasion of Lebanon...his contemporary, Russian-born Shamir, planned the assassination of UN EMISSARY Count Bernadotte...
However non-ideal political violence or physical force republicanism is, (or is use to justify extra curricular activity), can't help wondering about Menachem Begin and the Irgun organisation in British mandated Palestine, who apparently emulated Michael Collins's IRA in bombing the St David hotel in Jerusalem convince the British to leave.
I wonder what your past is Gordon!! I live for the now and entitled to my opinion,your use of the hackneyed old "living in the past" phrase is just an excuse for your inability to discus the issues raised and weakens you argument.
Some unedifying, anti-semitic drivel crawled onto this site11
@Ancavker: It's not only revisionists, as you call them, who claim these people are of the same linage of the men 0f 1916 but the groups themselves who promote this propaganda... it's the Real IRA, The Continuity IRA, The Provisional IRA, Oglaigh na hEireann, INLA, Provisional Sinn Fein, Republican Sinn Fein, and all the rest of them, who all claim to be a legitimate continuation of the original Irish Volunteers. And quite clearly many people of the diaspora fall for it hook line & sinker.
Are these face coverings the male equivalent of the Burka.if they are and you wear one in the land of Marie Antoinette you will be charged with breaking the law they are banned in France,discharge a firearm in a public place and you are invited to a spell in jail.
@seanomelb: Ryan was suspected by most quarters to be taking 'protection money' from these drug dealers to allow them to continue their trade so it seems he may not be the anti-drug crusader you make him out to be.
Seanobelb, wounndedego and IrelandNorth: The terrorists will never win, REMEMBER 9/11. So give your brain a rest boys. Stop living in the past!
Shatter the jew/el in erin's crown is a media constant - no doubt tells everyone how it should be. such being one of his kind who'll utter a word - without devil a word against him/them.
The only ‘mob’ I can see here are Seano’s masked ‘heroes’...the ones he defends with all his usual delusional gusto...
seanomelb. You know that, I know that, people in Ireland know that, let the west brits and their apologists believe what they want!
The usual anti-Irish mob are on the rampage again. As I stated before Ryan was an known anti drugs campaigner,he was murdered because he had the dealers on the run.The usual gutter press tie him to drug running because they hate his politics. Maybe Shatter should have taken a more proactive approach against drug runners instead of engaging in gutter politics to shore up his shortcomings in dealing with drug barons.
I'm a strong believer in strict law-enforcement, greatly respect the Gardí and staunchly upport G.F.A. However, for almost a century it has been the tradition of the authorities in Ireland, North and South, not to interfere in the funeral services of a fallen para-military who opposed foreign rule - which still exists in the "Wee Six". In the Writeback page in today's "Belfast Telegraph (10 Sept.)is a letter titled "Armagh Firmly in Ireland" agus is mise an té a scríobh an litir sin. What happened to the North-South cooperation provided for in G.F.A. as part of the peace oprocess?
Never Forget !




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