Hindsight sorts everything out🙄
No one in their right minds would purposely kill innocent civilians
Conveniently some on here forget that democracy in every country comes from guns / bombs
Free state partial republic was founded with tbe gun/ grenade
Ppl of the 6 counties didn’t ask to be partitioned
Actually ol stock
Worked ‘ in Derry and Tyrone
As did a lot of Cork city volunteers
2 of which paid the ultimate sacrifice in the 70s
Dermot Crowley
Tony Ahern
Was a former founding member of Saor Uladh
And became a provisional until they turned political
A member of the 32 CSM, a telling insight into the fella.
We’re now at the point where we have people trying to deify that generation because halfwits like @Corksfinedtboy managed to get through the conflict and need to justify themselves to their maker.
The only reason we have a rebublic is because of people like @Corksfinedtboy and his family.
People may not agree with him but he has principles that he is willing to die for… you on the other hand have repeatedly shown that you stand for nothing and no one except greed .
Bunch of lads here ‘proud to be Irish’ when it suits them, and spend the rest of the time demeaning the lads who prevented them from having British passports. A lot of this attitude, especially in the midlands since the 1960’s is just inherited yellowbellyism from their parents, and grandparents.