Republic of Ireland WNT - We're all part of Vera and Tony O'Donoghues Army

This is turning into a real test of stamina, squad rotation and S&C could decide it.

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We have Bobby Sands, Nelson Mandela and Hollywood on ourside. We will overcome…or make a great movie about it

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Bi da fuck

You conceded the song was unacceptable.

That’s what this whole debate has been about.

As I’ve never heard Paddy Footix used as a term of racial abuse, especially by an Irishman, which was the context.

Now if a raving imperialist, chauvinist fool like Laurence Fox decided to call say Sinéad O’Connor “Paddy Potatohead” or even referred to the Irish generally as Paddy I’d likely have a different view but that’s dependent on the context of the speaker which you say I ignore, but which I don’t ignore, I mean I specifically referenced the n word having different contexts based o the skin colour of the person who is saying it FFS sake. Christ I even referenced Stewart Lee calling a for “a big clap for the good old IRA” and the Liverpool supporters joking mocking the Rangers supporters with “Up the Ra” last night as being edgy but funny and not crossing a line because of the context of who is saying it, ie. English people, who were the victims of the IRA, this creating comedic absurdity in the same way Mel Brooks could sing Springtime for Hitler because he was a Jew.

The context is different with the Irish team because they are Irish, they’re representing Ireland and they’re glorifying criminal acts done in the name of Ireland. That makes it much more threatening.

Even if Mr. Fox or Mr Littlejohn or Mr. Liddle or whoever used “Paddy Potatohead” I probably wouldn’t call it a racial insult given that there are such close cultural similarities between the English and the Irish, but it would go down as an unfunny, bigoted, xenophobic one.

I’m Irish so I can call Irish people as a group what I like, which sometimes is Paddy or even Paddy Potatohead if I’m bored.

Game, set and match.

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Another essay from Tommy Tan

Tay Tay :smiling_face_with_three_hearts::heart_eyes:

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You’re @ChairmanDan ?

Darby O’Gill isn’t happy.

We were both young when I first saw you
I close my eyes and the flashback starts

It’s not just game, set and match to me, I’ve won the whole tournament.

Barry glenndenning was typically excellent on football weekly.

These cunts complaining would want to educate themselves about the poppy as well.

The brits don’t even study colonialism in school.

Up the ra.

Ooh

Aah

Up the Ra

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The poppy has nothing to do with this, it’s utterly irrelevant.

This is about the disgusting glorification the IRA murderers of innocent children.

But Paddy Rastool as ever reaches for the whataboutery because his cupboard of arguments is barer than that of a famine cottage.

Definitely in the Top 5 songs of all time.

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I’m standin’ there
On a balcony in summer air

You’ve gotten this all wrong.

Well that would be a first I suppose