Irish People Poppy Watch

Both had a choice. Soup was on the menu and O’Leary loves soup.

What a bizarre post, are you living on this planet, its become a huge deal because a load of idiots give a fuck. Sad but true.

Fuck off you imperialist apologist…

He’s not very bright is he?? The problem seems to be that people are lambasted for not wearing it…

About a half dozen lads on here give a shit and rattle on about it for a few weeks in the year. It’s become boring as fuck. Let whoever wants to wear it wear it and respect that. And respect if someone chooses not to wear it for whatever reason they have. No big deal, move on

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Would you say that to the families of victims of Bloody Sunday?

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Not Irish.

I repeat, move on

How can you move on when people are being crucified for not wearing one? You’re a man with little or no convictions… The poppy today is basically support for militarism, it has nothing to do with supporting the poor cunts that were sent off to be butchered in both world wars… If you’re happy to see more poor souls sent off to die in meaningless wars, by all means, support the poppy…you hun cunt.

Nonsense.

People are terrified to appear on TV in the UK without one. Why is that? Is it because no one gives a shit?

When did this everyone must wear a poppy shit start and what cunt started it? I would like to say that I never wore a poppy when I lived in England, it never seemed that big of a deal then.

Donna Traynor was bullied into wearing one on BBC NI after having refused to do so.

McClean is from Derry, O Leary isn’t

Who was that?

O’Leary is Irish is he not?

Maybe he’s a blueshirt bastard though.

Who told you that?

fuck knows…I’m useless with famous people’s names… Sienna?

Common knowledge, happened years ago and was reported in the media.

Bought mine in the Frascati Centre, Blackrock there at the weekend. Lord Edward FitzGerald would have been seething to see them sold on his turf but sure fuck it

It is not the first time that the corporation has provoked protests over its insistence that staff adhere to a strict policy during the remembrance period. The BBC in Northern Ireland incensed nationalists by insisting that local television news presenters wear a British Legion poppy, a symbol which has become identified with loyalism in the province, in the run-up to Remembrance Day. Those who refused were told that they would not appear.

One of its most popular news presenters, Donna Traynor, a Catholic who caused outrage by refusing to wear one, later revealed that she received hate mail as a result. Two years ago, BBC Scotland ruled that all its presenters had to wear Scottish-made, four-petal poppies, rather than the English variety, which has two petals and green leaves.