Take it as a given. Fire on your bank details there.
But I did, I compared it internationally and said we need to grow up and realise we arenât the only ones.
Mismanagement of large scale projects happens all the time globally, usually because its State and Council led. It is a disgrace.
However, I am in favour of infrastructure spending overall. This Childrenâs Hospital will be great for Ireland in the longer term.
You are losing it a bit again I think.
Thatâs from a couple of years ago.
BAM has significant share holders from retirement funds and many in the Netherlands, paying ordinary pensioners wages and salaries.
I wish people would be more honest on what Funds often are.
Sean Dublin Bay Rockall Loftus, TD for Dublin North East
Ms. Carroll MacNeillâs reference to the âillegalityâ of the IRA last night sort of missed the point, I felt, as you could easily just point to the ANC being illegal during the apartheid days.
The point is the dubious morals of what happened in the Troubles - and that applies to the 1916-1923 period as well.
I know all this talk about the IRA actually pushes people towards Sinn Fein, Iâve actually been saying this sort of stuff for years, but there are questions here that needs to be answered given Cullinaneâs little speech the other night, and especially given that SF could soon be in government.
Is it an overarching requirement (if not in written rule, then in clear unspoken terms) of Sinn Fein membership to believe that the Provisional IRA campaign of 1969-1997 was, on the whole, at least broadly justified?
Where, for Sinn Fein as a party, do the lines get drawn between Provisional IRA actions between 1969 and 1997 that should be justified, could be justified, cannot be justfied and ones that should be outright condemned? Where do the lines get drawn on post July 19th,1997 actions, or at least post April 10th, 1998 actions?
If itâs not a requirement of Sinn Fein membership to believe that the IRA campaign of 1969 to 1997 was at least broadly justified, was it ever a requirement? And if it was ever a requirement, when did it stop being a requirement to believe such?
Can you be a member of Sinn Fein now and believe that the Provisional IRA campaign of 1969-1997 was not at all justified?
Can you believe that, say, the SDLPâs approach in the years 1969-1997 was the correct one - not the IRAâs - and be a member of Sinn Fein now?
If so, how long exactly has that been the case? Was it always the case? Or is it, still, in 2020, a disbarring belief?
If, say, you held similar views on violence in the North since 1969 to those of Neale Richmond or John Bruton but on all other issues had politics more similar to that of Ruth Coppinger or Richard Boyd Barrett, could you be a member of Sinn Fein?
Ok guys - fuck off out of it now ----- weâve all seen this story a 100 times already.
Sure for fuck sake half of them were British informers.
No. But they dont hide from their history either. The onus of their future looking objectives are social justice and true republicanism in it;s older, truer, meaning.
I think nearly everyone in the party would say the worst of those deeds were wrong - but youâd also be in danger of selecting parts of history in isolation if we were to go down that road and we know that nothing has a singular cause.
He did. Was he not elected in two constituencies? He ran in a few anyway.
Yeah, but could one condemn the IRA between 1969 and 1997 in the strongest possible terms, have a strong belief in progressive left politics, and tenably be a member of Sinn Fein?
Is bestowing at least some degree of historical righteousness on the IRA campaign of 1969 to 1997 an essential requirement of a Sinn Fein member in 2020?
Slab Murphy had a dream that was a United Ireland. It needs to be realised before he goes.
Interesting.
Iâd say you can, yes. Iâve found anyone iâve dealt with in Limerick or Cork to be very forward thinking and fair/objective ⌠most new members are people who were barley alive back then so it means very little to them and most of the members recognize that the movement is in a completely new/different space ⌠except the shadowy guys in the background that is.
Be interesting to see it tested like youâre laying out tho.
I think few things have a singular cause. History can be looked at in all sorts of ways. The IRA campaign was made up of many singular and interconnected events. You can argue that fighting was necessary. You can argue that the broad thrust of the campaign was justified. But within that there were many acts that I think cannot be justified in any way.
The problem with Sinn Fein people continually saying âup the RAâ etc. is that the IRA did commit many unjustifiable acts, youâre only as good as your worst behaviour, and that sort of rhetoric is tantamount to justification. Like, if a unionist politician was shouting about being up to his neck in Fenian blood or shouting about Lenny Murphy being a hero, would that make you uncomfortable? It would, I bet. Donald Finlay lost his job at Rangers for something like that.
Yet there is a massive blind spot in Sinn Feinâs support as regards this sort of thing.
Thatâs fair enoughâŚ
You can be a member. Could you be a senior party figure.
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Eoin OâBroin wrote
Contrary to the claims of some, 2018 will not mark a break with the recent past of radical Irish republicanism, but rather the next phase in our struggle for a united and equal Ireland. The task of those that follow in Gerry Adamsâ footsteps is to remain true to his vision while adapting our tactics and strategies to suit an ever changing present and future.
Thirty years after first reading The Politics of Irish Freedom and twenty two years after joining Sinn FĂŠin I feel privileged to have known and worked directly with Gerry Adams. I am proud to describe myself as a Gerry Adams republican. More than anything else he has taught me that ours is âan ideology of the dispossessed seeking equalityâ.
I thought Slab already had united Ireland under the roof of his own house?!
The struggle for housing and healthcare is the only valid struggle, this country fully signed up for the good Friday agreement.