Not wanting to get embroiled further ......... lets say, if I had to pick 15 gaa football players under 16 years and, on the blind, had to choose from Kilkenny or Kerry ........ afraid I'd have to go for the latter. Kinda empirical, if you get my drift! If, on the other hand, I had to pick 15 gaa hurlers under 16, and the same conditions applied ....... then I'd choose the former. I could be totally wrong with the results but, the idea suggests that I had reason to follow my instinct. Was afraid to mention nationalities lest I appear racist. In advance I apologise to Kilkenny football aficionados (sorry about the 11 letter word Jim - Googling will explain) and Ditto for Kerry hurlers. In fact to anyone that gets miffed by my presumptions. And I apologise to myself for ever getting involved in this one
Having been out of this discussion for a few days due to work commitments I've just read back thro' the whole thread. It seems that, squabbling aside, 2 camps have emerged. Those whom, like myself, deem the use of forged Irish passports by a foreign power in the murder of an individual as wholely unacceptable and those who seek to be apologists for it.
I’m not happy with Irish passports being used by agents of any foreign power for covert operations. That said, in the real world these things happen.
What exactly do you mean by the statement in bold?
Just that; in the real world secret service operatives from different countries use passports from other countries when travelling under a false identity. The USA does it, The UK does it, France does it, Israel does it etc. I’m sure all other major powers do it as well. It would be great if it didn’t happen but it does. Nobody is singling out us, we are just a small innocuous country with no secret service and bugger all clout internationally so by using an Irish passport there’s the double benefit that it is a good low profile flag to travel under and if they get caught there’s very little we can do about it.
I’m not happy about it but there’s not a lot we can do about it.
so.. everything is good and well. I take it it wouldnt be a problem if this was done by an arab country too then?
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