Heās a great writer.
Is he? Well his starting sentences with āAndā.
Says the fella who wrote āHis a horrible cunt!ā
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Whatās wrong with starting a sentence with and?
Itās lazy writing
Telling a Republic lad from the north to consider wearing a poppy. HIS a horrible cunt. And donāt start a sentence with And.
Are you drunk? 
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If we countered all this Poppy-related hysteria with having our own commeration, with a Bank Holiday of course, to celebrate the Irish people who died in the line of military action be it for the Irish army, the fight for Independence or with the Irish Army in the line of peace-keeping duties weād go a long way to shutting down the bullshit.
How would it go down James McClean wearing s symbol like a Pike, Geese or Harp to celebrate the Irish military dead?
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I dont really give a fuck about lads wearing the poppy really ā itās the coercion to wear it that annoys me. Itās simply militaristic nationalism - they preach about defeating Nazism and give it large about freedom then condemn you to death for not wearing a poppy. Iāve said it before, my own grandfather was at Dunkirk, joined up himself to fight against fascism but I donāt see the need for Irish men to support the militaristic nationalism now associated with the poppy ā having our own day would be good -(think it was shot down by Kenny) but Irish people will still feel forced to wear one in a public sphere in the UK.
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Just walking around London last week you can see that itās a āwhiteā thing. Young people donāt wear them. Businessmen tend to prefer the little metal badges.
Thereās a real identity crisis in the UK at the minute - youād need your head examined to be bringing up children over there at the minute
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When I was a teacher in Ireland I used to do debates around the wearing of a poppy with children in upper primary. They then had choice of weather to make a red poppy, white poppy or no poppy at all (during art). Some chose not to make anything, a few chose red and the majority chose white. Children had some interesting opinions on it as is often the case with contentious issues.
Yeah but if it was held on the same day as the UK and US commemorations then they could excuse themselves by wearing the relevant symbol from their home country.
Canāt see it happening under a Fine Gael-led government but there might be some hope if Fianna FĆ”il get in.
Nah - weāve fought no wars and are a neutral country - Weāll never have a remembrance day
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This has really only come in in the last decade or so. Who is pushing it? Is it the media in the UK that is pushing it? Seems on Sky sports that itās part of the dress code that you must wear a poppy. I wouldnāt half the cunts on TV, Football teams or whatever donāt even buy the poppy. I doubt half of them even realise they are wearing a poppy or what it is for.
Itās being pushed by mice, mate- They run complex experiments from their laboratories unbeknownst to humans who think they are running complex experiments on mice in these same labs.
Weāve fought no wars???
Rigghhtttt crazy person.