Kerry journalists and committee members on the “Board of Irish sports” Michael Moriarty and Darragh Kennedy were said to be in jovial spirits at the high turnout this morning in the centres around Kerry. Local publican and petrol station owner Michael Healy Rae described it as brisk.
probably posted already but FFS sake
Watching ITV Ireland’s lunchtime panel discussion programme “Loose Chippings”, presented by Gloria Hunniford, here. That cunt John McGuirk from the UK Independence Party is predicting a 70-30 No vote.
[QUOTE=“croppy_boy, post: 1019181, member: 306”]Are they counting a referendum result using the Proportional Representation single transferabke vote system?
That’d be a first.[/QUOTE]
That’s Paddy for you.
[QUOTE=“Young Ned of the Hill, post: 1019193, member: 80”]http://www.irishcentral.com/news/politics/David-Norris-attacks-1916-Easter-Rising-fighters-as-traitors.html
probably posted already but FFS sake[/QUOTE]
No surprise that forum quislings like @Watch The Break wanted this fifth columnist for their president.
He says they were traitors to their own cause which doesn’t make a lot of sense it must be said. They may have been somewhat incompetent but they were hardly traitors.
Early tallies suggest a particularly strong No vote in Cork, Kilkenny, South Dublin and and South Antrim.
Lord Boyneside was interviewed on Marian Finucane’s South Dublin Coffee Morning on BBC Radio Ireland in the last hour and seemed confident of victory, noting that today was the 100th anniversary of John Redmond’s speech at Woodenbridge where he implored Irishmen to join the Army and go to war. Seemingly the cause of freedom for small nations may not extend to this island.
I see there was trouble in Phibsborough after the Bohs-Rovers match last night and apparently the RIC got extremely heavy handed with Rovers supporters, despite them not being the aggressors. I hope Young Ned of the Hill is safe, wherever he is.
Today’s headlines
From www.irishtimes.co.uk
News
UKIP gains in latest poll ahead of Irish Parliamentary Elections
Rossport campaigners arrested after illegal Trident protest
First Minister Kenny says Ireland’s Union membership “not under threat” if UK votes to leave EU
Backbench MP Burton calls for Corbyn to resign as Labour leader
Varadkar says NHS “not under threat” from privatisation despite outsourcing to Denis O’Brien firm
BBC Ireland’s Joe Duffy launches new book about Irish Somme victims
DART closed between Westland Row and Kingstown due to signal fault
Sport
Reid and Hogan injury concerns for England ahead of 3rd test in Johannesburg
Jones’s Road in line to host Ashes test in 2019
Long and Lafferty “a perfect goalscoring blend”, says German boss Löw ahead of Euro showdown
Ulster captain Cavanagh says team showed “remarkable spirit” in French comeback win
We lost the independence referendum in 2014 then?
I assume @youngnedofthehill is exiled somewhere in Australia or some such by now, alongside the terrorist leader @Chucks_Nwoko .
The head of the INLA, @Nembo_Kid was last seen in his native Columbia.
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Had we a slow week in Sept '14 or what the fuck am I reading Fitzy?
It’s one of Sidney’s hilarious flights of fancy, inspired I believe by the Scottish referendum. Virtual revisionism at it’s best.
If nothing else, it provides documentary evidence of why @artfoley should be banned from the forum.
Fantastical.
Of course we fucking lost.
There were nasty scenes that night in Cork as drunken No-voting cunts went on the rampage attacking the few Yes campaigners they could find.
FFS IRELAND WAS NEVER A 32 STATE:rage:
Forgotten History - how the heroic Bowen-Colthurst foiled the terror plot against the Empire that nearly succeeded
Sunday Dependent, March 27th, 2016
Ireland has had Home Rule since devolution was finally achieved in 1996 under the Prime Ministership of Lord Boyneside, but if the plans of terrorist insurgents 80 previously had worked out, our history could well have taken a radically different course. We could even have been an independent nation.
The foiled 1916 traitors threatened an appalling vista for Ireland and the Union vista during the Great War, a time when the United Kingdom came together to fight for small nations in Europe.
A group of secret plotters were just two days away from launching an armed terrorist insurrection against the Government before Army Captain JC Bowen-Colthurst became aware of the plot and arrived at a house in the Dublin suburb of Kimmage on Good Friday 1916 and shot the seven plotters, Patrick Pearce, John McDermott, Edward Kent, Thomas McDonough, Joseph Plunkit, Thomas Clark and Jim Conally, dead.
Bowen-Colthurst was vilified at the time as “a madman”, but in later years, as the real plans of the plotters were revealed, a campaign began to revisit the case and clear his name. This was led by courageous journalists such as Kevin Myers and Owen Harris who have called him “a man of conviction”, “a hero” and “a patriot”.
Today, 100 years on from his actions, Bowen-Colthurst will be officially pardoned in a ceremony at Leinster House by First Minister Enda Kenny and Deputy First Minister Arlene Foster.
The Royal British Legion and the RNLI will be fund raising today at the Irish Grand National meeting at Fairyhouse.
Please give as generously as you can for two great causes.
And there would have been a Redmonds GFC club in Cork as late as 1950.
Irish First Minister Enda Kenny has laughed off speculation that he is planning a new independence referendum in the wake of Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s announcement that she plans to hold another independence referendum by 2019.
Ireland voted 54-46 to remain part of the UK when the island voted on the independence question in September 2014.
“That question is settled”, said Mr. Kenny. “In Ireland we don’t re-run referendums merely because some people don’t like the result.”
With Prime Minister Theresa May expected to trigger Article 50 as early as this week, there is disquiet among large sections of Irish society about the prospect of leaving the European Union. Separatists such as Sinn Fein say Ireland must now leave the UK if it wants to stay in the EU.
But Mr. Kenny believes Ireland can still stay in the EU while remaining part of the UK and reaffirmed his commitment to this strategy last night. “Look it, it’ll be grand, sure”, said the First Minister at a corporate dinner in Castlebar, where he spoke alongside rugby referee Nigel Owens.
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From irishtimes.co.uk:
Sports Headlines:
Ireland captain Cavanagh “confident” of denying England in Six Nations finale
Tipperary and Kilkenny play out thrilling tie in 20/20 season opener
Cork shock Waterford at Mount Zion Oval
Linfield v Shamrock Rovers - a full preview of Monday night’s crunch Vauxhall Irish Premiership clash
Trump links at Doonbeg bids for 2022 Open Championship
Entertainment:
Jackie Fullerton finally voted off BBC Ireland’s Strictly Come Dancing
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Redmonds are still around mate, the club is probably more notable now for their fine hall which is a big function/ 21st spot just off Barrack Street.