tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post1944546100668997958..comments2024-03-29T10:10:03.288+00:00Comments on TPQ: Good Friday in DuleekAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-41517556498003991402015-04-14T04:00:17.657+01:002015-04-14T04:00:17.657+01:00Brilliant speech Anthony.
Christy: SF has NEVER c...Brilliant speech Anthony.<br /><br />Christy: SF has NEVER called for the end to Diplock courts since the GFA. What does that tell you.<br />mcclafferty32https://www.blogger.com/profile/03237425224540320106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-47176458014112807622015-04-08T19:44:20.245+01:002015-04-08T19:44:20.245+01:00Peter,
opposite ends of the spectrum are not an i...Peter,<br /><br />opposite ends of the spectrum are not an impediment I cannot speak for either man but I can weigh up their opinions and decide what is more reasonable.<br /><br />How long did it take SF to arrive at Stormont they shared a platform with the IRSP. Different factions of republicanism are nothing new the same applies to the present divisions. Each faction vying for the Alpha Tain Bohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09441592658332493965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-41261099218793386252015-04-07T17:36:49.080+01:002015-04-07T17:36:49.080+01:00Peter
In all likelihood Irish republicans and Iri...Peter<br /><br />In all likelihood Irish republicans and Irish republicanism aren't and isn't going anywhere important, real or meaningful any-time soon.<br /><br />Some of us though despite our best efforts just can't help occasionally poking about in the emotional vomit of a time that has truly past us by. <br />Either that or we're just enthralled by old trance inducing Henry JoYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04161613445053833181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-45461000478376782192015-04-07T09:51:08.600+01:002015-04-07T09:51:08.600+01:00Tain and Henry JoY
Perhaps I didn't make myse...Tain and Henry JoY<br /><br />Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. After watching the 1916 Society Catney lecture video on Youtube it is clear that AM and the likes of Fennel are miles apart regarding the legitimacy of violence. My question is: how long can "alternative" republicanism's profoundly different strands share the same platform? I understand republicanism's Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15027470398152153427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-52060646373759643772015-04-07T08:32:43.650+01:002015-04-07T08:32:43.650+01:00Peter
As AM acknowledges with his reference to Or...Peter<br /><br />As AM acknowledges with his reference to Orwell ... its sometimes challenging to see what's right in front of our noses. <br />Its only fair to acknowledge that Anthony's comments in this piece and over recent years are unambiguous about the legitimacy of any return to armed struggle and the inevitable outworking that inherent hierarchical secrecy brings.<br /><br />Its Henry JoYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04161613445053833181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-4197691569677857662015-04-06T19:39:05.991+01:002015-04-06T19:39:05.991+01:00Peter,
Dissent from the SF narrative is the lesse...Peter,<br /><br />Dissent from the SF narrative is the lesser of two evils exposing their hierocracy and challenging the platform they vowed to break but now share is a republican necessity. That does not mean that every anti-treaty-republican wishes to go back, if that was accurate we would already be back it or it would never have died out and lingered on the margin.<br /><br />I sincerely Tain Bohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09441592658332493965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-76216672858543768922015-04-06T19:36:56.425+01:002015-04-06T19:36:56.425+01:00A thoughtful speech if any left feeling disgust th...A thoughtful speech if any left feeling disgust then per chance, they were not listening.<br />It is fitting to honour the fallen volunteers in the traditional sense, even if some found the observations a little difficult to digest.<br />What I find indigestible are the hypocrites who will continue to speak rehearsed words to acknowledge the dead but constructed to deny them the truth for which Tain Bohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09441592658332493965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-25066345040646901972015-04-06T18:49:39.788+01:002015-04-06T18:49:39.788+01:00Reflective and relevant, and in relation
toToby ve...Reflective and relevant, and in relation<br />toToby very poignant.<br />I asked someone from an ex prisoners<br />support group, why their outreach did<br />not include Toby or Brendan or any of<br />the volunteers locked outside the 'New<br />Strategy', no reply!!!<br />They're contained by by their own<br />reintegration only policy, that's why.<br />As Brendan said, 'the Fionnuala Perryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16112456307341779243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-6901276419323970652015-04-06T18:49:32.873+01:002015-04-06T18:49:32.873+01:00At last we have an admission that gerry adams fail...At last we have an admission that gerry adams failed. Yesterday he called on the people of Ireland to achieve a united ireland, through peaceful means. YE HA. HE SAY HE FAIL.Feel te lovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17281999605534185574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-61059225307837953642015-04-06T16:16:40.781+01:002015-04-06T16:16:40.781+01:00Anthony
As has been said above, and I have said s...Anthony<br /><br />As has been said above, and I have said so in the past, you are very able with words to illuminate complex issues.<br /><br />Eddie<br /><br />I think you are right in what you say, Ford thinks you are right thus his concern that the profile of my case might get highlighted. On 25th February a senior Republican told me that Republicans will not support me. I asked him if he Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-42114936563207759532015-04-06T12:54:39.489+01:002015-04-06T12:54:39.489+01:00Brilliant piece of penmanship from Dr Big Mackers....Brilliant piece of penmanship from Dr Big Mackers. Love the idea that The Northern Freestaters would hold their commemoration on Spy Wednesday!<br /><br />Though I am in agreement with much of your analysis Anthony I'm afraid I can no longer hold with the implied central premise of the piece that Irish Republicanism was ever a worthy sea-going vessel, not even in the early years of the Henry JoYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04161613445053833181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-32530527867206934932015-04-06T12:48:02.652+01:002015-04-06T12:48:02.652+01:00...Nor is there a Che Guevera type call “to intone...<i>...Nor is there a Che Guevera type call “to intone the funeral dirge with the staccato singing of the machine-guns and new battle cries of war and victory”...</i><br /><br />Given their disavowal of militarism, the only proper staccato 'singing' at Adams etc funerals would be a mass array of flatulists?DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-19577764524476872222015-04-06T12:30:23.057+01:002015-04-06T12:30:23.057+01:00Fascinating stuff AM. Your ability to see complex ...Fascinating stuff AM. Your ability to see complex matters with clarity and articulate a position eloquently is a thing to envy. You saw the Troubles from behind the barricades and the wire, I wonder how long you can keep sharing a stage with those who want to take us all back there.Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15027470398152153427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-16810635779542859372015-04-06T11:20:15.732+01:002015-04-06T11:20:15.732+01:00Excellently stated baseline - some of which obviou...Excellently stated baseline - some of which obviously did and does hurt, but it is best that it is said, 'it' being the truth. Hopefully it will appeal to others as it did to me, that we have to claw something back for the Toby McMahon's of this world and for other innocents like Christy Walsh; such injustices which Toby et al made gigantic efforts and paid a heavy price to overcome eddiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16025554963518660658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-53982862840250514702015-04-06T10:39:00.370+01:002015-04-06T10:39:00.370+01:00For me Irish republicanism is about the extension ...For me Irish republicanism is about the extension of decision-making capabilities to the people themselves, at the expense of centralised power structures. Some form of 'Eire Nua'-style constitutional reconfiguration is needed which puts the people in command of their own destinies within a truly sovereign Ireland - an Ireland in which codified constitutional guarantees ensure the Sean Bresnahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06842180620284317746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-50109513821701788622015-04-06T01:37:00.381+01:002015-04-06T01:37:00.381+01:00Terrific read Tony and your analysis of the situat...Terrific read Tony and your analysis of the situation is spot on. Whether it comes to pass another matter...Sean Bresnahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06842180620284317746noreply@blogger.com