Did ya do any active service back in the day??
I had 4 pints of heineken with the lad that did the Manchester Bomb a few years back in
Wesport.
The reason I remembered it was 4 pints was because the fourth was my round and couldnt wait to get the fuck away𤣠He kept banging on about the Sunday World calling him a monster etc but his opinion was no one got killed,so fuck them.2 special branch Rozzers in the pub watching and following him.
That was an interesting encounter.
What would you have done if he jumped up on your back?
Pull him off of course
Mary Lou announcing a united Ireland was within touching distance was definitely an incendiary (pardon the pun) comment. Itâs hard to get grassroot unionists to buy-in when sheâs rubbing their faces in it before the ink is dry on the paper. The DUP wouldnât think twice about walking away, if their own survival is at stake.
Thought the same but it was a nice dig all the same. Another little defeat for them.
The '74 explosion or the one in '96?
Iâd say theyâve bigger worries right now
Tom Barry there with a big head on him and nobody would stand next to him.
I feel that youâre a bit misty eyed about your old âcomradesâ while running down the latter day equivalents. The IRA always had plenty of nasty fuckers and psychopaths/criminals in its ranks
96
A county man of yours.
Well I wouldnât be on here telling yađ
Arrested on a membership charge in Dundalk back in the day
No charges ever stuck thankfully,
Bro and another few Cork mates similar in Drogheda,and up along,
Etc etc
Lots of friends including 4 Cork mates done,
I was a good boyâ:ok_hand:
Bad sign when heâs trying to score points off it in a Westport bar nearly three decades later.
Not at all misty eyed
Pragmatism rules,
Good n bad in every army
Or group of men,
I only met one guy Iâd class as a looper
( originally a Limerick man from Glin ,
Youngest O/C of Fermanagh/S Tyrone
Now based in Ballyshannon)
His boast to me one night in Fermanagh was
â Serbs think they invented ethnic cleansingâ
Not a hope
Any time we hit a UDR man or part time cop or whatever,
We would bypass a Catholic cop/ soldiers house / cottage to get at the Protestant
Tom Barry and Tom K and their men
Were ruthless, honest, God fearing
Decent Irish republicans
Who knew freedom wasnât gained in the pub, debating halls etc
But out in the shite and amongst it,
Kidnapping, extortion, torture, execution whatever,
Ruthless men for a ruthless job,
No romance there my bucko.
I think ML and MON should have kept their snouts clean
Powder dry etc until the institutions were up and running properly,
V fuckin naively done,
Doesent suit nationalists this triumphalist shite.
Thats not all he said.He told me to go Google his name in relation to another huge story a year or 2 after that incident.
I did and he was the real deal.
Im not saying anything else.
Does them no favours when theyâre trying to get a vote across the line.
Exactly
They couldnât bloody help themselves
Not doubting the claim really, only the standard of his character.
The earlier Manchester bomb I referred to was attributed to a family from Donegal also. Two sisters did jail time, and three male relatives came back from Manchester with three lovely businesses waiting for them.
Almost like she doesnât want an agreement.
Yup. They were really the only winners all along.