Sinn Fein votes in favour of official apology to Irishmen who fought Hitler

True Dan we've exhausted this one

seanomelb - I brought up the Carl Gustav, then you decided I was referring to a machine gun...which I wasn't...never seen one of those...so you jumped to the wrong conclusion...not just on that point, either...time to stop digging, I think!!

Gustav small arms (machine gun) you bull is showing again.Combat engineer in the US forces I was right you are full of it.Crawling your way out of a situation which is over your head or just been mischievous.We never mentioned anti Tank weaponsyou miserable little yank know-all.

Maybe your brain has been a little fried in that Aussie sun? The FN was a SLR, the C Gustav was an effective anti-tank weapon...always firing a single shot projectile...FYI I began as a combat engineer...MGB, Mine clearance, demolition...so wrong again...

More invectives from a beaten man. The gustav pulled to the right making it difficult to control,it also was unable to fire single shot.Its replacement the belgian FN was a far superior weapon.You're a bullshit artist and never served in the military.And I repeat you are not Irish, so move on and blog with others who have your limited intellect, George Dillon or gobdawpaddy come to mind.

A BAD WORKER BLAMES HIS TOOL...maybe you should have spent less time playing with yours?

How old are you The "gustav"was sent God and what a usless machine it was. I remember using on the range in Kilcoran shortly before it was retired. You may google Kilcoran if you wish(as you are not Irish). BTW keep those snide remarks coming.

seanomelbourne – I expect your biggest fight was to get a slice of the Army deafness compo!! You know nothing about me or my military service…and I only have your word for your own…show me your ‘carl gustav’, and I’ll show you mine…

Thats right dan! attack an exservice man with a glib remark,What service did you volunteer to join. It's easy to come from left field to avoid answering the question. You never served in the military and you are not Irish.So Dan others have to do the fighting for you and then you cheer at their homecoming parades.A little bit hypocritical maybe?.

seanomelbourne - 'they did a lousy Job'...this is your comment... men who put themselves 'in harms way' to ensure freedom so the likes of you could insult their memory...oops I forgot, you're a 'war hero' too!!

I never questioned anybodies gallantry, here you go again accusing me of comments I did not make. I am an ex serviceman of the Irish defence forcres. What did you do for Ireland? ooops!! I forgot your not Irish.

Seano – you certainly have some neck, criticising the gallant efforts of the allied navies and air forces in fighting the Battle of the Atlantic (The longest continuous battle of WW2), not forgetting the code-breakers of Bletchley Park, while your ‘heroes’ stayed safe pointlessly guarding some boreen in Donegal or Cavan…as to your other point, I did not ‘wish to have your head blown off’, I merely used your own argument about the rights of natives against interlopers, as you yourself are an interloper in Oz…

Whatever their motivation, and I suspect it was young lads anxious to see some action and fighting, rather than wilful desertion and certainly not the high-flying 'treason' bull-dust being expressed by some commentators! If they had stayed at home, and if Ireland had been invaved by any belligerents, the Irish Army would not have stood a chance except to revert to guerilla tactics, hit and run, etc. What I consider much more gutless and 'treasonable to humanity' was the scurrilous activities of the IRA in courting Nazi assistance and resources to attack Britain and, by extension, the Allies during the WW2 - fighting with evil against the small and the big nations, including their own country! Surely, to an unblinkered-by-ignorance observer, these 'deserters' chose the better part and for whatever reason, took on evil and fought it. After all, it is a fact that Ireland depended on Britain and the Allies for protection should the Nazis ever invade. I salute all those who fought the evil of the Nazis; 'desertion' is insignificant in comparison with the good these soldiers did for mankind! Forget the petty parish-pump' craw-thumping- it is disgusting!

cynical cynicus

So, Sinn Fein agrees! Well, let it be done, so! The only decent and humane apologies I have hear in the last 40 years were (1) Gusty Spence's for the loyalists and (2) The British Government for Bloody Sunday. We wait on Sinn Fein-IRA's apologies! How long must we wait? 40 years?