In the words of the single F.U.R.B. - Eoghan Harris must be smoking crack.
He ended the show telling us that the men &women of 1916 were the suicide bombers of their day. The suggestion was also made, mainly by the DUP MLA, that commemerating 1916 was encouraging dissident republicans of today. Same man didnt volunteer any worries about commemerating 1690, or about the mobilisation of Ulster Volunteers at the time Home Rule was proposed.
Have they no sense of context??
It isnt even valid to compare the 1916 people with the Provos, since in 1916 there was not a democratic alternative (Home Rule wasnt going to happen) and there was not a sectarian element to their escapade. Also, their "ideal" did have the support of the nation - even if the week long fiasco didnt.
It was suggested that all the civilians killed in Easter week were killed by the Irish. I admit I dont have the figures but I would have thought that levelling O'Connell Street with shells might have had something to do with it....
Harris also said that respect for Collins was "glorifying a gunman".
Is it only under the Union Jack and Stars & Stripes that a just war can be fought??
The northern terrorism has made Irish Republicanism a dirty word and its high time it was reclaimed for the people of the State (albeit that the current efforts are due to party political concerns).
Well done to the opposing debaters, Manseragh and the Dublin historian who gave fact, context and balance to the discussion.
Harris and the Sindo in general really annoys me - on the odd ocassion I flick through the rag - havent bought it in years. It seems to be the refuge of the extreme right wingers & southern unionists. Now I'm not denying free speech or the validity of alternative viewpoints but its largely repetitive bile. It isnt Sunday unless Sinn Fein arent to be blamed for the woes of the world - and I'm not a Sinn Fein voter and never will be but I think they are driving people into Sinn Feins arms. Its like the time they had to tell McDowell to shut up about Sinn Fein as he was becoming their principal recruiter. Harris is making himself into a cartoon character he's so off the wall.
Harris, Mary Ellen Synon (travellers & the handicapped beware), Eilis Hanlon (the whinge from Belfast ... its a city I (we?) dont particularly care about so get over it) , need I say more ? .........
He ended the show telling us that the men &women of 1916 were the suicide bombers of their day. The suggestion was also made, mainly by the DUP MLA, that commemerating 1916 was encouraging dissident republicans of today. Same man didnt volunteer any worries about commemerating 1690, or about the mobilisation of Ulster Volunteers at the time Home Rule was proposed.
Have they no sense of context??
It isnt even valid to compare the 1916 people with the Provos, since in 1916 there was not a democratic alternative (Home Rule wasnt going to happen) and there was not a sectarian element to their escapade. Also, their "ideal" did have the support of the nation - even if the week long fiasco didnt.
It was suggested that all the civilians killed in Easter week were killed by the Irish. I admit I dont have the figures but I would have thought that levelling O'Connell Street with shells might have had something to do with it....
Harris also said that respect for Collins was "glorifying a gunman".
Is it only under the Union Jack and Stars & Stripes that a just war can be fought??
The northern terrorism has made Irish Republicanism a dirty word and its high time it was reclaimed for the people of the State (albeit that the current efforts are due to party political concerns).
Well done to the opposing debaters, Manseragh and the Dublin historian who gave fact, context and balance to the discussion.
Harris and the Sindo in general really annoys me - on the odd ocassion I flick through the rag - havent bought it in years. It seems to be the refuge of the extreme right wingers & southern unionists. Now I'm not denying free speech or the validity of alternative viewpoints but its largely repetitive bile. It isnt Sunday unless Sinn Fein arent to be blamed for the woes of the world - and I'm not a Sinn Fein voter and never will be but I think they are driving people into Sinn Feins arms. Its like the time they had to tell McDowell to shut up about Sinn Fein as he was becoming their principal recruiter. Harris is making himself into a cartoon character he's so off the wall.
Harris, Mary Ellen Synon (travellers & the handicapped beware), Eilis Hanlon (the whinge from Belfast ... its a city I (we?) dont particularly care about so get over it) , need I say more ? .........
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