General Election 2020 Part 2

[the_man_himself]

I don’t see anybody defending that

[ciarancareyshurlingarmy]

Pa Daly perhaps

[ChairmanDan]

Is the new deputy for Kerry a Senior Counsel?

[ciarancareyshurlingarmy]

Kerry

[anon61878697]

@anon7035031

…The former was committed by the IRA after the ceasefire was announced and before the civil war. The fact the worst atrocities were during the civil war hardly excuses it, if anything it makes it worse.Fundamentally it speaks to the fog of war and how easy it is to make moral judgments from afar.

https://twitter.com/Mon_The_Hoops81/status/1227278754776518656?s=09

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

@the_man_himself

…I completely understand why the IRA became so popular and I also understand the view that violence was necessary. However I think that anybody who is a senior member of an organisation which orders attacks which have the potential to hurt innocent people is completely fucked up in the head

Do government leaders not do that all the time

[glasagusban]

@Horsebox

Where is it?

The record of FF and FG. They have shown themselves to be utterly incompetent. SF therefore can’t be any worse.

[the_man_himself]

Bad ones do yes

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Blair?

[TheUlteriorMotive]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rte.ie/amp/1114579/

[the_man_himself]

Yes

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

@ChairmanDan

Is the new deputy for Kerry a Senior Counsel?

A friend of mine was in drug squad in Tralee. Said Daly represented every scumbag that came before the courts there

[Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy]

Isn’t that what solicitors/barristers/lawyers generally do?

[balbec]

@anon61878697

Put the ball over the bar and in the back of the net and no more about it.

There’s no sympathy in this game for anybody!

[anon61878697]

Is that a new trend in the profession?

[ChairmanDan]

Got to be a Senior Counsel to be Attorney General. Hard and all as Alan Shatter fought for Senior Counsel status for solicitors, he never got there. Solicitors are still second class citizens in the legal profession.

In any case, don’t think there’s ever been an Attorney General plucked from the ranks of the parliamentary party.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

What about the paramilitary party?

[anon61878697]

Can we all not just get along?

[balbec]

@ChairmanDan

or any of the other IRA/SF supporters - who are the front runners to be Attorney General in an IRA/SF led administration?

Joe Brolly

[Julio_Geordio]

@Fagan_ODowd

Extradition, informers, prison arrangements, policing etc. Not suggesting that these are valid concerns but equally if someone was concerned about them I’d find it hard to fault them.

Kevin O’Higgins, Oscar Traynor, Gerald Boland, Ruttledge, Sean Mac Eoin, Sean Lemass etc. There’s already a fair shot of ministers for justice who were in the RA.

You could probably say that for all ministries though.

But I agree, the optics of SF holding the justice ministry are not great