tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post3686819965882525224..comments2024-03-28T17:44:07.653+00:00Comments on TPQ: Useless ViolenceAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-80224437724217780812020-02-07T03:50:34.607+00:002020-02-07T03:50:34.607+00:00A late reply to this piece, but there's an iss...A late reply to this piece, but there's an issue I wanted to raise. <br /><br />It seems that every generation of the republican movement ends up criticising the newer iteration for doing exactly what they did 30 years ago. <br /><br />You said 'for the most part the violence of the New IRA is nuisance violence' and I'd agree with that assessment. However, surely much of the Ffionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00150989836984017811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-34686904035794139542020-01-22T11:57:46.635+00:002020-01-22T11:57:46.635+00:00I fully take your point about useless violence etc...I fully take your point about useless violence etc, etc, and I fully understand why some stayed to try and salvage some aspects of the republican movement only to realise at a later date and time that the ship was holed beyond repair and sinking and that the crew especially were intent on sailing on irrespective of the damage....but where egotistical maniacs reside nothing makes sense to them butNiallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06013400649117430986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-14322228738209834182020-01-21T06:40:20.334+00:002020-01-21T06:40:20.334+00:00Sean - it is like a bad marriage. Nobody pulls the...Sean - it is like a bad marriage. Nobody pulls the plug on the day it starts to go wrong. They hang around trying to salvage it, make it right. It would be a cop out to walk away at the first sign of it going off the rails. By the time it is over and the effort wasted there comes a sense that it should have been walked away from much earlier. Your side goes 2-0 down but you hang on until it is AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-88066603492310660312020-01-20T21:31:48.143+00:002020-01-20T21:31:48.143+00:00Couldn’t figure out how to reply to your reply, To...Couldn’t figure out how to reply to your reply, Tony, so will just put it here. Well I think I’ve said the same on more than one occasion — I cannot fathom how those who stayed through the disband of the IRA (effective disband if you prefer) can seriously hold up the so-called ‘New’ IRA as though the continuum of Óglaigh na hÉireann, whose standing down they did not object to. The mind boggles onSean Bresnahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06842180620284317746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-8354932017793277492020-01-20T20:54:20.659+00:002020-01-20T20:54:20.659+00:00Sean - everybody who left thinks they should have ...Sean - everybody who left thinks they should have left earlier. My point is that a lot of people stayed but opposed the project and challenged it where they could. But others stayed, pushed the project, swallowed the bull and fed it to others. How can somebody decommission IRA weapons and then waffle about revolution and armed struggle? AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-19861538576981255802020-01-20T20:50:44.387+00:002020-01-20T20:50:44.387+00:00Unknown - resubmit your comment and sign off with ...Unknown - resubmit your comment and sign off with a distinguishing handle - whatever you choose - but we don't run comments from "Unknown" as too many of them come thru and it leads to confusion<br /><br />AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-80470412670291869402020-01-20T19:50:30.875+00:002020-01-20T19:50:30.875+00:00It’s painful to think on the whole thing, to be ho...It’s painful to think on the whole thing, to be honest.Sean Bresnahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06842180620284317746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-21260257162640354582020-01-20T19:48:18.067+00:002020-01-20T19:48:18.067+00:00Anthony, I argued against the Good Friday Agreemen...Anthony, I argued against the Good Friday Agreement from the day of its issue and even, indeed, in advance of its issue, having a fair idea of where the negotiations were leading — that being a revised Stormont. Myself, Francie Mackey and a few others were the only people locally not to back it, this despite my being told six months earlier that if Stormont proved a part of the deal that I Sean Bresnahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06842180620284317746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-50195448141119861022020-01-20T08:13:07.297+00:002020-01-20T08:13:07.297+00:00the difference thus far between this season and la...the difference thus far between this season and last Ronan is that this team knows how to win. Short of a disaster like a plane crash or something the title is theirsAMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-50301417639973940212020-01-20T08:11:32.168+00:002020-01-20T08:11:32.168+00:00Eoghan - republicanism lacks a comprehensive criti...Eoghan - republicanism lacks a comprehensive critique of the British presence other than soundbites. Even describing the British presence and partition as illegal is a nonsense. Being legal is just something that the law permits. It doesn't make it right, it doesn't make it just. Chanting that it is illegal avoids taking the hard steps to have it rendered illegal.<br />The whatever means AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-55241947885422183672020-01-20T00:26:09.710+00:002020-01-20T00:26:09.710+00:00100,000 used cars were imported to Ireland from th...100,000 used cars were imported to Ireland from the Uk last year ;just saying ( record figure) . <br />Speaking of records, expect the Reds to win the title by xx points 😂Ronanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08668466933420738253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-52162168741681917012020-01-20T00:07:25.383+00:002020-01-20T00:07:25.383+00:00Thought provoking piece Anthony, I hope any youngs...Thought provoking piece Anthony, I hope any youngsters minded to wage war read this first.Steve Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670990166576346966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-81277345441945223132020-01-19T21:45:43.632+00:002020-01-19T21:45:43.632+00:00Anthony,
Very well done here!
Hope all the stude...Anthony,<br /><br />Very well done here!<br /><br />Hope all the students at Maynooth were paying attention and taking notes.<br /><br />And I couldn’t agree with you more:<br /><br /><i>“Anyone who stayed with the Provisional movement after the Good Friday Agreement is in a weak position to shout "sell-out" at others or hoist above their own head the Proclamation of 1916.”</i><br /><brEoghanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11944611614493961109noreply@blogger.com