tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post5041198228298299614..comments2024-03-29T10:10:03.288+00:00Comments on TPQ: Stormont Crisis: The Gravy Train Versus Something Really DifferentAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-9156252166570980482015-09-26T19:26:04.299+01:002015-09-26T19:26:04.299+01:00Peanut
O'Bradaigh was always very clear about...Peanut<br /><br />O'Bradaigh was always very clear about the inherent contradictions of attempting to pursue a constitutional path whilst maintaining a revolutionary struggle. <br /><br />He more or less predicted the way things have gone. There were several precedents to back up his analysis. So no, he wouldn't be in the least surprised. Frustrated and disappointed, but not at all Henry JoYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04161613445053833181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-80004926145147105622015-09-25T20:44:25.223+01:002015-09-25T20:44:25.223+01:00people object to joint sovreignty/authority becaus...people object to joint sovreignty/authority because nobody actually wanted it - republicans wanted a UI, Unionists to remain in the UK.<br />However, it is the only solution that has never been tried and one that might actually provide good governance for NI <br />https://eurofree3.wordpress.com/2015/08/28/joint-authoritysovreignty-in-ni-faq/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-58539826223879389572015-09-25T17:37:50.056+01:002015-09-25T17:37:50.056+01:00Peanut,
I am not sure what the question actually ...Peanut,<br /><br />I am not sure what the question actually is. AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-88647537946257331932015-09-25T15:42:13.259+01:002015-09-25T15:42:13.259+01:00Niall,
when we compare the dysfunctionality of sy...Niall,<br /><br />when we compare the dysfunctionality of systems like Iraq and Syria with the North it reminds me of comparing stone throwing by loyalists in East Belfast as making Belfast like Beirut. After another incident where there were no fatalities Belfast was said to be like the Warsaw Ghetto. Such comparisons don't work because the degree of dissimilarity belies them. <br /><br />AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-12775509241372499842015-09-25T13:48:43.959+01:002015-09-25T13:48:43.959+01:00The thing is fella's "you" never pra...The thing is fella's "you" never practiced Republicanism but a bastardization called Provisionalism and that like the six county statlet are both failed political entities.frankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452424095829736700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-28414510285099644012015-09-25T11:18:19.928+01:002015-09-25T11:18:19.928+01:00AM,
Frank talk about political failures would cer...AM,<br /><br />Frank talk about political failures would certainly be a new tact.. Tho, post-1969, would any political entity not be considered a failure?<br /><br />I wonder.. When Ruairi O Bradaigh split from the PIRA, did he think the direction the movement was taking.. would lead to statements similar to your last paragraph. I know a principled stance was involved, but was the result of a strand peanuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17543969930741059966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-8804866299259035782015-09-25T11:05:11.155+01:002015-09-25T11:05:11.155+01:00AM
“....but society in the North functions even wi...AM<br />“....but society in the North functions even with a dysfunctional political class” Could this not be applied to current war torn societies like Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.....societies function there but the political class is seriously dysfunctional yet this certainly doesn’t make them a success. As for PIRA, the State that is NI had failed from its inception.....I agree that “Niallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06013400649117430986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-88822135805373402692015-09-25T10:26:32.767+01:002015-09-25T10:26:32.767+01:00"Having invested so much time in it all I wis...<i>"Having invested so much time in it all I wish it were some other way but it isn't. Republicanism as we practiced it is the failed political entity, not the NI state."</i><br /><br />Amen, amen, amen. <br /><br />What great humility it must take for one who sacrificed and endured so much to write those words.<br /><br />Is mise le meas mór,<br />HJHenry JoYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04161613445053833181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-89514551446189118452015-09-25T08:55:09.768+01:002015-09-25T08:55:09.768+01:00Niall,
maybe thinking outside the box is thinking...Niall,<br /><br />maybe thinking outside the box is thinking outside the Charlie Haughey mantra that the North is a failed political entity. It seems to me that it has succeeded. Not only has it fended off every challenge to it but society in the North functions even with a dysfunctional political class. The crises there are never about the existence of the state but the delivery. 46 years after AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-13591536750055109942015-09-25T08:42:04.813+01:002015-09-25T08:42:04.813+01:00“Surely, though, it is time for bolder actions? No...“Surely, though, it is time for bolder actions? Now is the time to take risks for peace, in the spirit of 1998”<br />Michael H C McDowell<br />What McDowell and others like him never discuss is that the actual British State of Northern Ireland is a completely failed entity and no amount of sticky plasters will cure it. There was no spirit of 1998. That was some fictionalised notion dreamt up byNiallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06013400649117430986noreply@blogger.com