Jesus, that’s hard to look at.
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Just kids
Haughey’s worst moment (and the competition is stiff). Man of the people me hole.
Not just Haughey. The entire Irish establishment, such that it was, looked down their noses and decided these people were not worthy of justice and posed a threat to them. They protected their own and buried what happened to these kids and families. One of the truly great disgraces and injustices of this country.
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I agree. But this was in Haughey"s constituency. He had huge support in working class communities around Artane. These where his people, until they weren’t.
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What did he not do that he should have? I’m not saying this to defend him I know nothing about it.
Prosecute the Butterlys for a start. Instead the State compensated them.
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What Fagan said really. The Butterfy’s were a strong FF family and were compensated and most people feel ‘looked after’ by Haughey even though there was emergencyexits locked shut. . A sham investigation found the most likely cause of the fire was arson which was a further insult to the victims. A sorry, grubby tale.
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14 years ago, an all time great American sporting moment
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What did he do?
Cormac McAnallen is dead 22 years today.
22 years. Jesus.
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The truth.
It’s hard to convey the sense of helplessness most people felt around then - on unemployment, the North, lads getting battered around the place and worse, this type of shit. My kids just have no way of understanding it - thanks be to fuck.
As always the real lesson is that it wasn’t bad people at the heart of it (though they were certainly there) but just a ton of bullshit that got embedded and then protected. The ‘ banality of evil’ and all that
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On this day 47 years ago Christy Ring (58) died in Cork city.
Here he is departing the field while addressing the umpire Mick Mackey.
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I wouldn’t be a fan of Ring but that’s fierce decent of him to have a word for that umpire chap
For a long number of years they were deemed to be the two greatest hurlers of all time.
You’d imagine there’d be more made of him
Any idea why the lad on the left is kneeling?
How would I know? Munster championship, we were playing Mayo the same day. Were you not at it yourself?
I can only assume that there was a spillover onto the pitch and he’d been told to keep the head down or he’d be lynched… Was hardly reverence…
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Probably one of those GGA hawks there to retrieve the sliotar