Fair play to the man
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It was all a mess
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Coward
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It was not small potatoes. It was as far from that as you can get. Why would you think that? Itâs people like your dad who have allowed the kids to know nothing but peace, and people like the other yobs whoâd have them back killing and maiming and being killed and being maimed, over what nowadays is little more than the colour of a fleg.
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The Brits made the IRA do it.
The Malahide rastool branch came up with that over pimms cocktails down the cricket club
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Should be a good show.
The yacht club is full of pretend IRA types. They love to sing their rebel songs there after a hard days sailing and networking.
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must be a difficult ould life for the craters
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Sigh.
The last sentence sums up your whole ignorance on the situation and climate at the time. There is next to no violence nowadays, next to no killing and maiming.
People like the other âyobsâ were the same as the âyobsâ in the 1920s who were going around killing and maiming in the name of freedom. They were bumping off informers at no fixed rate back then too based on âinnuendo and gossipâ.
The climate at the time was brutal and nationalists were at the butt end of violence and murder from the state forces, that is what drove many of these âyobsâ to do what they did, if you want someone to blame for these yobs then look no further than your beloved British Goverment and Free State Goverment who created and allowed a sectarian orange state to fester and consistently caved in to the orange mob. The British committed a litany of war crimes in Ireland during the troubles, they bombed the capital of your state which murdered countless innocent civilians yet youâre here trying to disbelieve they might approach a single mother to be an informant against the IRA.
Many young people were effected by the circumstance and experiences they encountered early in their life, do you hold the same disdain for the founders of your state who maimed and killed innocents?
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Whataboutery on an epic scale.
The 'Ra abducted and murdered a mother of 10, thatâs ISIS level depravity.
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Well put
Genuine question. What age are you?
Matty happened during the war of independence/ civil war and afterwards by all sides,there was no âold IRAâ as some revisionists might have us believe- they were our grandparents,grand uncles/ aunts/ neighbours
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Itâs not that simple. The ruc were despised by catholics, and theyâd only themselves to blame . Iâve no doubt there were plenty of decent cops but they protected and armed murder gangs inside and outside of their force. That said some police men did their best to expose what was going on. Thatâs why the brits set up special branch- a force within a force who could act as they pleased. Lady sylvia hermons late husband was a great lad for the special branch. Bear in mind the courts and the political establishment played their own part.
The survivors of the rock bar in Keady went to the ruc station to report what had happened - the police man they reported it to was just back from attacking the bar. That shit went right up to the British cabinet, it was commonplace and Karen Bradleyâs 10% statistic is meaningless . Is it any wonder young lads joined up?
The psni are still protecting these people today, not to mention the likes of Karen BradleyâŚ
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Lads taking a black and white view to the north are not even worth replying to. Yourself and @Corksfinedtboy , lads that lived there at the height of it, have said enough to show how fucked up it was and why someone could sign up. The place was almost akin to apartheid South Africa from the minute the border went up ⌠That doesnt mean a lot of fucked up shit and murders can be excused - but some fucktard who grew up down south with all the luxuries that came with that should really just try to refrain from bringing their 2019 southern morality into this.
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100 pc boy-was shite for all ,and certainly not black and white- everyone lost
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Donât forget the tough time jeff had in North London.
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Great point ref 2019 morality
Very hard to get a time line on Boycottâs life ⌠did he say he was playing inter county hurling for Carlow in the late 80s / early 90s? And he grew up in London in the mid 70s?
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