US should butt out of row over Che Guevara statue in Galway
A statue of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara has been proposed for Eyre Square
Published Thursday, March 29, 2012, 8:46 AM
Updated Thursday, March 29, 2012, 8:46 AM
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sopa | Apr 13, 2012, 11:27 PM EDT
P.S. JFK doesn't and never will NEED a statue in his memory. Eyre Square be dammed. The people of Ireland who were there know what was presented to them. New Ross only lives in his words that were said in Galway.
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sopa | Apr 13, 2012, 11:24 PM EDT
Addressed to Wexfordman: You are dead wrong on every point you attempted to make. Ireland stayed neutral during the whole time of WWII. The Freestate would not declare itself with the Allies. Don't try to simplify this fact. Americans would, over time, skim over this fact, (with Irish American influence) the Nazi Party was aided by the Irish in many intertwined communities. Mr. Churchill never forgave that fact. JFK entered Ireland only to absolve it. End of story.
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sopa | Apr 13, 2012, 11:09 PM EDT
Go ahead, put up the statue of Che. Laugh it up fuzz nuts. Continue to pretend you know all about America and their citizens. They are a quiet bunch as they observe everything. This I know from doing business with many from all financial walks of life. You will see a decrease of business in the area. A decrease in jovial conversation. And a cold eye with a good bye. Please, my fellow Irishmen, put your thick comments to them. I believe it's time to put your words out in the open.
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seanomelb | Apr 01, 2012, 07:59 PM EDT
Oh!! for a block of Kerry gold butter.
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KerryGold | Apr 01, 2012, 03:18 AM EDT
This is a stupid thing to be spending our money on here in Ireland. They want us to pay a household charge for crap like this, no wonder half the country refused to pay. About time these councillors and politicians copped themselves on.
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seanomelb | Mar 31, 2012, 08:13 PM EDT
kaydog is barking again what a whiner.cluideman rather a statue of the devil than any of you or kaydogs middle of the Neo-fascist right wing gutter snipes like Hannity o O'Reilly
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kaydog1 | Mar 31, 2012, 12:14 PM EDT
HA HA HA, you just can't make this stuff up, you know. This will do wonders for tourism from America, at least for attracting Democrat Party tourists. May I make so bold as to suggest that to REALLY attract the Lefty American Democrats, a group statue of Che' with Barack and Michelle Obama? ALL of them are Communists with Irish ancestors. Please consider the idea.
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CLUIDEMAN | Mar 31, 2012, 08:09 AM EDT
What's next, building a statue of the " Devil" in Killarney?
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dibble2008 | Mar 30, 2012, 12:52 PM EDT
No american politician will tell us irish what statues to erect in our own country. Ros-Lehtinen calls it an outrage to erect the statue of Che but what about her governments mass murder of iranian and afghanistan citizens. What kind of a hypocrite is she. Che has an irish mother and we are honoured to have his statue.
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wdwrkr371 | Mar 30, 2012, 11:23 AM EDT
this headline is just gutter journalism designed to have us at each others throats pitting Irish reader against American reader. Tell me it could not be worded differently. Just too contribute when I was in my twenties I read the motorcycle diaries and thought Che was a hero, I then read some more got older and realized that he may have begun a hero but became the opposite.I don't believe a statue should be erected in his honor he already has his place in history and will not be forgotten any time soon.
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ciaradexy | Mar 30, 2012, 11:10 AM EDT
IrelandNorth, so youre a homophobe as well as a plank?
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eiriamach | Mar 30, 2012, 07:42 AM EDT
Your intolerance is sickening, IrelandNorth. T'is a pity the public has to put up with you.
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IrelandNorth | Mar 30, 2012, 06:35 AM EDT
If Ernesto 'Che' Guevara's Galwegian grandmother's name was Lynch/O'Loinsigh, are they related to the serial unionist/loyalist Gaelgoir poster on this site of the same name? Murph46! Chinese communists already own half of America. I believe new Chinese Premier Xi Peng has his eyes on Texas. Next Govenor of [five] star state - Mao Tse Tung Jnr. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Don't recall 'Che' dropping the big one on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Or incendiarising innocent Germans in Dresden like the RAF. By the way. Not sure about the photo. A bit too gay. I reckon it's really Cahir Doherty doing a gig in 'The George' (Dublin Gay Bar).
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madpadd | Mar 30, 2012, 06:24 AM EDT
Erect a monument to George W Bush and then you can p everyone off. Like, who cares. Something else for the gulls to crap on.
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