Senator David Norris believes IRA hero Michael Collins may have been gay

its a calumny of the worst kind,and yes it does matter,to include michael collins in the same company as 90%of brit polititions and lisping mincing weak wristed homosexuals is a personal insult,its a slur and massively insulting,foff.stick your lousy lying book where the sun dont shine,i,m sure there is plenty of room.

seanomelb@ As a Disciple of James Connolly, and more inclined to the INLA, I. honestly believe Sinn Fein has more to fear from The Far Left, ( Support the Irish Spring :] ) than Fine Gael does from Sinn Fein @! Arthur Griffith, Indeed ! And where are Seamus Costello, Billy McMillen, and William O Brian ? ... All, All are on the Hill ~

Truth is he was a proper man. Men today appear weak and feeble, purple skinny jeans and 3 sizes too small low v-neck pink t shirts complete with orange neon coloured glasses frames. But get this, no lens. When a TV show called gay daddy is on RTE, then all is dead. I cringe when I hear people say things like they descend from Celtic/Norman/Saxon/Viking peoples. No you don't, them people where fierce and raging, they would put an axe through your head and think nothing of it. And they would especially put an axe in your head at the sight of what you have done with their land all these years later. I'm afraid common sense as been locked away in a dark room and madness and cringe prevails. Boo

what's 'matter with this norris character? The big fellow was hot for Julia Roberts, like any regular guy would of course be. 'nuf said...

Mr Norris: inveterate free-loader, self promoter and salesman. He has a book to sell so he puts in a controversial "a man told me in the pub" story about a famous dead person. People talk, he gets free publicity and sells a few books.

Couldn't answer the post Alois and BTW Adams is president of Sinn Fein as was Arthur Griffith. Cat got your tongue maybe!!!

Michael Collins may have been gay, but he almost certainly wasn't homosexual, given his well publicised trist with Anglo-American Lady Hazel Lavery in London during protracted Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations in 1920, whilst being engaged to Co Longford property heiress Kitty Kernan. (Even if the play button on the above video clip is stragecially placed around his genital area - ahem!) Believing isn't knowing, and sexuality isn't a theology. Senator Norris's hypotheses is a case of premature extrapolation(?), since the centenary of 1916 isn't for another 4 years. It would have been more appropriate to retrospectively co-opt Sir Edward Lord Carson to the pink revolution, not least since he was the Marquis of Queensbury's prosecuting lawyer of Oscar Wilde for hs homosexual relationship with is son. (After all, old Queensbury was more into watching men make war than countenancing them making love.) Unless to do so would go against Sen David's political orientation (ie closet unionist)? I strongly intuit Sen Norris's analyses are a case of subjective projection, in that we very often see others not as they are but as we are, not lease it we are genitally narcissistic. As to his theorem of percentile sexuality. Very counter revolutionary indeed!

Well if Michael Collins was gay he was in good company according to historians. The pantheon of gay military heros include: Alexander the Great Julius Caesar King Richard the Lionhearted Frederick the Great King William of Orange General Herbert Kitchener Lawrence of Arabia General Friedrich von Steuben General Charles Gordon of Khartoum

wtf Would you people get real for a while? A gay guy says he talked to an old guy who said he was the lover of a man who was murdered almost ninety years ago. Even a gay guy would not believe that on to be factual.

and we care if he was why!!? would be nice to get some real news around here instead of this junk!

hi i think the gays are saying all this to help there own cause most of these people who say these things are kinky there normal sex life is not good so thy are turning to the gays which is not normal

seanomelb@ Gerry Adams for President ! ( Like the Sofa or the Floor/Stormont ? ) ;[

Interesting selection of names Alois considering that McGuinness is the only name mentioned who is a member of the same party as the Hero's of the '16 rebellion.

And who are the Real Hero`s of Ireland`s 1916 Rebellion: Bertie Ahern, Denis Donaldson, Martin McGuinness, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Oliver North, Bill Clinton, Mother Theresa ... And of course Edna Kenny !

You can slander any public figure after death , they can't defend themselves. Just another pathetic gay trying to peddle a book .