McDevitt is an upstart and a lightweight; Adams has long past his “sell by date”.
The troubles in the six counties are not going to be settled by hackneyed politicians mouthing nonsense at Stormont. Or in London and Dublin for that matter.
You will agree that the GFA was cobbled together after the British government realized that the bombing campaign in the six counties was spreading faster and faster to cities in England such as London and Birmingham to name a few. They managed to get some cooperation from the Republic and thus a bandage was placed on the massive wound that is northern Ireland.
That bandage has just about absorbed all that it can and now belligerence is once again about to return. I believe the British public will now choose a complete amputation rather than another bandage to correct the problem.
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Comment on “…a sense of nation which means little to the vast majority of Irish people”
on 8 March 2010 at 8:49 am
McDevitt is an upstart and a lightweight; Adams has long past his “sell by date”.
The troubles in the six counties are not going to be settled by hackneyed politicians mouthing nonsense at Stormont. Or in London and Dublin for that matter.
There are going to be some bad days ahead.
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Comment on Gerry Kelly: “a British problem”
on 7 March 2010 at 4:07 am
Mr. Crookes,
You will agree that the GFA was cobbled together after the British government realized that the bombing campaign in the six counties was spreading faster and faster to cities in England such as London and Birmingham to name a few. They managed to get some cooperation from the Republic and thus a bandage was placed on the massive wound that is northern Ireland.
That bandage has just about absorbed all that it can and now belligerence is once again about to return. I believe the British public will now choose a complete amputation rather than another bandage to correct the problem.
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Comment on Gerry Kelly: “a British problem”
on 7 March 2010 at 2:58 am
“Neither are they going to be absorbed by a republic that flies the tricolour.”
Yes, they are.
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Comment on Gerry Kelly: “a British problem”
on 7 March 2010 at 2:43 am
Mr. O’Connell, that is an incoherent posting.
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Comment on Early start for sectarianism in Stoneyford
on 6 March 2010 at 3:29 am
The RUC should check to see whether any youngsters in the “Pride of the Village Flute Band” have been buggered by this cretin.
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Comment on “Saville is pointless (so is any question on it)”
on 4 March 2010 at 9:24 am
“I think that an offence in common law to incite another person to commit a criminal offence”
Perhaps someone should have mentioned that to Jonathan Swift over three hundred and fifty years ago. Don’t you think?
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Comment on “Saville is pointless (so is any question on it)”
on 4 March 2010 at 8:48 am
A fair way to settle this matter would be for thirteen Orangemen to be shot and killed while marching in a 12th parade this year.
What do you think?
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Comment on Queen set to visit the Republic…
on 3 March 2010 at 8:33 pm
Whatever you do, please do not, I repeat, do not get between Mary McAlesse and a television camera unless you wish to be run over.
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Comment on Taking a page out of whose book?
on 3 March 2010 at 4:51 am
What is needed is another trial at Nuremberg.
This time with Jews in the dock instead of Germans.
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Comment on “While we are a city of culture there has to be a recognition that we’re not part of the UK.”
on 2 March 2010 at 7:58 pm
Of course Derry is a part of the UK.
Just look at how warmly its people greeted British troop during Operation Motorman.
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