Guest writer Thomas Dixie Elliot with a humourous take on the recent border poll. The writer is a former blanket man who still campaigns for prisoners' rights.

Sinn Fein MLA Conor Murphy declared victory in the recent border poll held in South Armagh.


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As members of Ogra SF set about painting phone and post boxes green He said, "this overwhelming victory meant he was now forced to pay his Property Tax in line with other Sinn Fein TDs"

Slab Murphy said he is demanding a recount as the removal of the border from around his farm could cost his business millions.

Gerry Adams and Mary Lou McDonald got their photograph taken together before Gerry jetted off to tell the Irish Diaspora around the world the good news at 500 dollar a plate dinners.

Martin McGuinness was unavailable for comment as he was in South Africa offering Nelson Mandela the job as his political adviser.

South Armagh wins Border Poll

Guest writer Thomas Dixie Elliot with a humourous take on the recent border poll. The writer is a former blanket man who still campaigns for prisoners' rights.

Sinn Fein MLA Conor Murphy declared victory in the recent border poll held in South Armagh.


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As members of Ogra SF set about painting phone and post boxes green He said, "this overwhelming victory meant he was now forced to pay his Property Tax in line with other Sinn Fein TDs"

Slab Murphy said he is demanding a recount as the removal of the border from around his farm could cost his business millions.

Gerry Adams and Mary Lou McDonald got their photograph taken together before Gerry jetted off to tell the Irish Diaspora around the world the good news at 500 dollar a plate dinners.

Martin McGuinness was unavailable for comment as he was in South Africa offering Nelson Mandela the job as his political adviser.

18 comments:

  1. Dixie-

    Well it was short-that was the sweet thing about this post-

    Not a mention of poor louth who also took part in this poll-maybe it will be brought up in part two-looking forward to another big read-

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  2. Ah, Dixie

    that auld wit!

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  3. Michaelhenry,

    he knew you had difficulty taking in too much!

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  4. Great wit in that piece Dixie, even MH understood it, I think!.

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  5. MH-It may have been short but it had much more substance taht your normal contributions! lol
    p.s. Louth is a different jurisdiction so it doesn't count! only the sheep on Slab's farm have the freedom to move both sides of the border...

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  6. Great wee piece there Dixie, it may be short but it definitely hits home. I'd just first like to say it was great to see Marian finally win her freedom yesterday and to see an end to the sorry, sorry saga we've witness over the last two years. Let's hope she can make a full recovery from here and go on to enjoy life to the full - no-one deserves it more.

    I'd say Michael the problem is for those of us up here we're so used to your party's appearance as something internal to the six-counties the fact you's organise in Louth and the South isn't something that readily comes to mind. Because of the partitionist nature of Sinn Fein the party in both jurisdictions appears almost as separate and rival entities - the position on austerity perhaps being the most striking example of this duality. I'm scratching my head here though as to this whole thing you's are trying to do, is it a border poll you's want or an all-Ireland referendum? One is consistent with your establishment approach to the Good Friday Agreement the other is not, one is consistent with Irish republicanism the other is not. Gerry Adams has advocated one, Declan Kearney the other. So which is it then? We already know the answer don't we...

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  7. Dixie at his lark again,however he failed to mention that this poll created a major split in the party and the non existent(ha ha)military wing, leading to the formation of a determined quasi military group known as the Business Republican Army known as BRA,a powerful support in the lovely rolling hills of Armagh to those whose livelihood has been put in jeopardy,the quisling $inn £ein mp for the area the honorable ?Con Murphy esq mp.was nowhere to be seen or heard when reporters visited the area,he had it seems disappeared,"nothing to do with me guv" said Gerry Itwasntme but it was noticed that the local pigs had a well satisfied demeanour,while the swine were to busy arresting and harassing those opposed to corruption. green might indeed be the colour of the phone and post boxes in this area but the socialist" red" diesel like quisling $inn £ein itself turns into a whiter shade of pale in order to keep these honorable men in the style they have come accustomed to,

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  8. Marty-

    "Con Murphy esq mp.was nowhere to be seen "

    He is in Cuba where The Colombian government and FARC are holding Peace Process talks-there could be a deal on the cards-

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  9. michaelhenry.

    "Peace Process talks-there could be a deal on the cards-"

    I hope the FARC prisoners are well informed, It would be totally dishonorable and a sell out not to involve them, I cant see what any SF mla has to offer to GARC Negotiators.

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  10. It's interesting that they couldn't get a 100% yes vote when the electorate for the poll was created via a process of door to door canvassing.

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  11. Con ghaileach-

    100% is impossible-does not matter how many doors are visited-TV-the papers-the internet are great for PR-but nothing beats going around the peoples homes-that's where the others lose out-they forget about the people because they think that their views are so important-[the cops stop ME-the cops follow ME-] Sinn Fein will always beat the ME's
    of this world-

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  12. -TV-the papers-the internet are great for PR-

    Michael they are also used for disinformation. SF are very good at disinformation. Gerry Adams wants the world to belive he was in prison when Jean McConville was killed, sang songs that weren't even penned at the time. His version of events concerning the 1981 hunger strikes is at odds with fact (that there was a deal in place to save the lives of at least six hunger stirkers). Fast foward to 1998 and the GFA, SF lied to their own party members.

    While I have your attention Michael, can you ask Gerry Kelly (through what ever channels you use), why are ex republican & loyalist combatants being investigated for offences prior to 1998, while members of the state forces who committed acts of terrorism & murder are allowed to get away scott free? I'm not asking for your opinion but Gerry Kelly's. If I was in Gerry Kelly's position (sitting on the policing board), I'd walk away.

    Can you ask your party president when Brendan Hughes died he released a statement saying Brendan was a friend, comrade etc..Yet when 'Voices' came into print he said, Brendan told a few porkies and was bitter..Basically he said the same about Dolores Price...I'm sure he put the same disinformation about when Ivor Bell was dismissed from the IRA..While you are talking to your party president can you find out for me something that bugged me for years..I have never been a member of the IRA, but would I have been allowed to carry the coffin of a IRA vol ( and I wasn't a family member or very close friend)..

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  13. Mickeybroy there could very well be a deal on the cards and doing deals with drug dealers is well within the scope of quisling $inn £ein,no matter how FARC pay for the expertise that those shower of wasters from here provide it will always be tainted , but it wont annoy our home grown carpetbaggers,had Che still been around I think these experts in "peacemaking" would have been shot.

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  14. Marty,

    MH will probably be leaving us soon to become Marty's new 'special' assistant!!

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  15. Frankie-

    Gerry Kelly is on Twitter-ask him anything yourself-

    "but would I have been allowed to carry the coffin of a IRA Vol"

    There are a few on here who have carried IRA coffins-I am sure I read that AM carried Tomas Begleys
    coffin in 93-i carried a few myself
    but I cant remember a person being told that he/she was not allowed to do that task during the funeral-

    Marty-

    "had Che still been around"

    I always wondered if he would have come to Ireland during the war if he had of survived the 60s-i think he would have-him being a government minister and a fighter he always put the people first-

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  16. Though unintentional michaelhenry's view of reality is at times very humorous.

    Equally humorous was the shinners dragging Rossa Parks into the SPAD thing.

    With Marty's track record you can be assured he would have been photographed shaking hands with leading members of the Ku Klux Klan.

    Anyway it was only a few months ago that SF blocked council funding for the Bogside Artists...So fuck them.

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  17. I meant to say SF got together with Unionists on Derry City Council to block funding for the Bogside Artists...

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  18. michaelhenry:

    ""had Che still been around"

    I always wondered if he would have come to Ireland during the war if he had of survived the 60s-i think he would have-him being a government minister and a fighter he always put the people first-"
    .

    It's a very sad fact that SF don't put the ordinary working class people first, they just look after their own arse hole lickers.
    Do you really feel proud as a so called Republican, being paid by the British Government for services rendered, after so many volunteers have died because of their security forces (BA), and also those assassinated by their sas (Special Assassination Squad), that's what the war was all about MH, getting rid of them from our Island "EIRE".

    Not working for them to retain the wee 6c, also retaining SF as puppets. Had to be said MH. I hope you sit and think about it, and , do something about instead of thinking you are all high and mighty because you's are MLA's. Things are in progress and cushy jobs don't last forever MH.

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