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on 17 September 2015 , 12:02 am 9 | 982 views

Gerry Adams the butterfly

At a recent press conference the the northern chair of Sinn Fein Bobby Storey deployed an interesting anthropomorphic metaphor to describe the transformation of the IRA, from a caterpillar into a butterfly he explained, adding that the organisation had flown away.

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  • Dixie Elliott

    They haven’t gone away but Gerry doesn’t seem to know. Or does he?

  • MainlandUlsterman

    Storey has ruined my aesthetic appreciation of butterflies for the foreseeable future. I used to think of Jagger and Richards. Now it’s some knuckle-dragger with an itchy trigger finger.

  • SeaanUiNeill

    “Jagger and Richards” had already ruined mine long ago…..

  • Kevin Breslin

    Way to go Bobby Storey, no one associates butterflies with causing chaos.

  • Richard Reid

    Too much being made of a semi-literate trying to use imagery.

  • SeaanUiNeill

    I remember “Poor Butterfly” as almost a theme tune running through Len Deighton’s novel “Winter”……

  • William Carr

    My good lady (her of the moth traps and surveys) has mentioned more than once the relative scarcity of butterfly’s this year, she will be delighted with the addition of the greater spotted Ra!

  • William Carr

    I have been instructed to release this picture of the final meeting of the IRA general staff

  • peepoday

    Try pesticides