I was thinking about that last night and I agree. In any small to medium company for example, the top man/woman would be well aware of any new permanent hire for example, and with the IRA I would imagine any permanent killing would also have to get the nod from the top.
Otherwise known as a "systems failure" a phrase commonly used in Ireland nowadaysWasn't that a standard IRA "excuse" if someone went a bit too far?, it wasn't sanctioned by the IRA Army Council.
Folk endure customs checks throughout the world. But it seems that to reintroduce the same in NI could be so upsetting to the Most Oppressed People Ever that they just might go back to blowing up Remembrance Day services.I don't know what you mean Duke.
Yep, or shopping streets in Dublin and Monaghan.Folk endure customs checks throughout the world. But it seems that to reintroduce the same in NI could be so upsetting to the Most Oppressed People Ever that they just might go back to blowing up Remembrance Day services.
That's my view as well.Possibly Henda doesn't believe there is any serious threat but is using this as leverage to ensure the best chance for the continuation of an invisible (soft?) border. That must be it, fair enuff.
Folk endure customs checks throughout the world. But it seems that to reintroduce the same in NI could be so upsetting to the Most Oppressed People Ever that they just might go back to blowing up Remembrance Day services.
Yep, or shopping streets in Dublin and Monaghan.
Didn't want to start another thread and thought this the best place to make my point. And my point is that only a most delicate flower like the MOPE could ever threaten the peace over the mere imposition of a customs border. Possibly Henda doesn't believe there is any serious threat but is using this as leverage to ensure the best chance for the continuation of an invisible (soft?) border. That must be it, fair enuff.
our precursor, the Irish Free State.
Good clarification and also my understanding of what happened.Taken together these posts seem to suggest that the Dublin and Monaghan bombings were the work of republican paramilitaries.
Although no one has ever been convicted for these events, they would appear to have been a joint undertaking of the British Army led by Robert Nairac and the UVF.
There has never been any suggestion that republicans were involved.
My dear cremeegg (looking forward to Easter?) I did not at all interpret Purple in the way you suggest.
It was changed in 1937 when we enacted a new constitution. The Free State had the British king as head of state and a Governor General in residence representing the Crown. The Republic of Ireland is a Republic with an elected President as the head of State. They are very different things. We remained in the Commonwealth until 1948 when John A. Costello pulled us out, removing the last faint hope of a united Ireland.The "Republic of Ireland" is the "Irish Free State", the name was changed in the 1940s but there was no resounding of the state.
True, between 1937 and 1948 we were just called "Ireland" and while we had a President it was unclear he he or Georgie boy was head of State. As the Brits were bigger and more important other countries stuck with the status quo. We became a Republic in 1948 however we stopped being the Free State in 1937.The present constitution was adopted in 1937, it is unclear who was head of State between 1937 and 1948.
Google tells me that Foreign ambassadors were received by "The King of Ireland" a chap based in London called Windsor.
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