Some utter tripe posted on here as usual and from a very insulated situation.
The British Army had no right in Ireland, never has had any right in Ireland and never can have any right in Ireland.
The occupied 6 counties were gerrymandered for generations, and in every generation were young Irishmen who fought the foreign oppressor to take control of their country and unite it.
I am no fan of Martin McGuinness, I once was. But I believe some of his latter day actions of taking it tight and pallying up to the british establishment to preserve peace were wrong. I think today's coverage on the BBC shows why the GFA wasn't a good deal for Republicans or nationalists.
The contrast between McGuinness and Mandela is telling, the same folk claiming Mandella was a freedom fighter yet McGuinness a terrorist. Both were fighting a struggle on behalf of their people. It was a war and in war there are casualties. But lets get one thing straight the war was orchestrated by the british security services.
Bloody Sunday, The Dublin and Monaghan Bombings, McGurks Bar, Widow Scanlons, Pat Finucane, Rosemary Nelson. They are just a few of the attrocities that the Brits had a prominent part in.
If there was no british involement in Northern Ireland there would have been no PIRA. There would have been no fight for McGuinness to get involved in and he'd have just been a regular man working in regular times as a butcher.
But they were no ordinary times and he was a hero of his people.
Sealadaigh Abu!!
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