Keegan was born in Cavan wasnāt he?
You can tell heās not a real Mayo man because he plays well on All Ireland Final day.
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Niall Morgan
Was listening to the Paddy and Andy podcast during the week. Iām sure Andy Moran is a lovely fella but his accent would kill you and he comes across a bit of a sickener. I like Paddy Andrews though who seems a good laugh. Overall itās a decent podcast though I think they could have done with some Mayo player of that era who might have a bit more chemistry for it, maybe Tom Parsons though his position might make that a conflict of interests.
Anyway Moran had a good story about Morgan. Mayo were playing Tyrone in a league game up in Healy Park a few years back, Mayo gave Tyrone a bit of a clipping but Morgan went up the field and scored a point near the end, on his way back from scoring the point Morgan said to a few Mayo lads āthatās why they man mark me around these parts boysā. A lovely sense of moxy there even in a humbling defeat. Thatās what makes Tyrone football stand out for me. Swagger, authentic swagger.
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Iām sure Paddy had his own wonderful memories of Morgan under the Nally stand in the 2019 league
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A great sort
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Andros Townsend
Even though I donāt like FG, Neale Richmond has been sewing it into the nordys and the tans on Brexit. For some reason, despite this, the shinnerbots hate him because heās not a Catholic and he played rubby.
I think Shinners donāt like him because he is first to roll in behind Varadkarās anti-SF rhetoric. He was one of those ones who liked the FF guys now deleted tweet today.
I didnāt see that tweet. FF, FG, SF, etc. All wafflers. I donāt think there is anyone worth voting for in Ireland, but only realistic option for me is to vote SF, as I canāt vote for FF or FG, or Paul Murphy and the likes. Labour and the Social Democrats and the Greens, I have no idea what they stand for.
SF have some good politicans, but too much baggage for me to really get behind them. The youngsters think theyāre great. The youngsters donāt remember the troubles, and fair enough, people have to move on, but too many thugs still involved with them. But I will probably vote for them as a protest vote, and see what they can do if they get in.
Where are you from? It gets up my wick if a couple of free staters far removed from The Troubles start pontificating about the defenceless and abandoned nationalist community taking up arms and defending themselves. You donāt really have much place to do so. Maybe some introspection would not go astray and how your govt abandoned the nationalist community and maybe thatās where your ire should lie in relation to the troubles.
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But, but, Jack Lynch said they would not stand idly by. Didnāt he?
But then proceeded to stand idly by. UUCOAM
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āthe Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worseā
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True. The govt did abandon the nationalist population. Why? I donāt know. But I wasnāt born then so fuckall to do with me. There is zero justification for the Warrington bomb. Zero. The likes of John Hume didnāt need to do it.
So when they get rid of the thugs, e.g M Ferris etc then I might go all in. As I said , I will vote for them anyway rather than not. I voted for them last time round.
I do admire O Broin most of the time and the bloke from Donegal whose name escapes me is very good as is Matt Carty. Too many shady characters at lower levels though.
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Every party has thugs, shady characters or dodgy characters.
The greatest irony is that people who laud Mandela as a hero and peacemaker and denigrate the Provos seem to be quite ignorant on the similarities between the PIRA and MK and close relationship between both organisations.
For me McGuinness was every bit as great a man as Mandela. Every conflict that has ever taken place has terrible things done by all sides but we have to look at what the context was, what the sides were fighting for, what motive and what intention had they behind their acts.
Thereās a fair difference between bombing Warrington to cause widespread commercial and economic disaster and making attempts at warning authorities of the intent so as to avoid human casualties and going into a bar to murder civilians Iām cold blood because they were Catholic.
Maybe your outlook might be different on the PIRA if you or your family and neighbours were subject to daily harassment from British soldiers and UDR thugs, were intimidated, threatened or discriminated against because you had a Catholic sounding name or went to the wrong school, where you were marked out for beatings or worse if you were a political activist. And through all that nationalists were left abandoned and alone with only themselves to fight back.
Itās not hard to see why these things happened.
Why has John Humeās party been utterly rejected by the nationalist population? Because they failed the nationalist community, this is why the political wing of the former PIRA are the overwhelming nationalist party.
Pearse Doherty
Patrick Kielty seems sound.
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Heād get your vote but you cant remember his name.
Heāll go a long way in the voting booths with lads like you behind him.
too lazy to search for him online
I only know of Martin Ferris through his conviction for gun running. I donāt know whether heās a āthugā or not.
But I will tell you this, the nationalist people, having been abandoned by their countrymen in the South, were in need of men and women who would do the deeds necessary to protect their communities. Those communities included the likes of John Hume but youād never hear the stoops admit that without PIRA and INLA theyād have been beat off the streets and murdered in their homes.
Was it Tom Barry who said something to the effect that the enemy had descended to the gutter and it was necessary to follow them and take the war to them there.
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