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RIP Gerry Conlon
RIP Gerry Conlon
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can't until the mother in law passes on
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Sounds about right Burton-Brewers - why's that then - you could take her with you surely.
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because she has other family members she would not like to leave
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Australia?
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bURTON - Well - surely they can look after her ...so what's stopping YOU?.
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my wife is very close to her mother and I would not dream of upsetting their relationship
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Fair enough.
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The I.R.A. has a hell of a lot to answer to.
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said to hear of this
another 70's police fit up RIP |
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I remember the Guildford pub bombing...it made people very angry
I think the need was that someone must go down for this... I don't know whether we got the right ones myself...if Gerry Conlon was alive and innocent, I would apologise to him two wrongs never make a right The IRA are a terrorist group with a cause a United Ireland The troubles were caused by gross discrimination against Catholics in N.Ireland, coming out of protests in late 60's The IRA then came in on the Catholics side. As a terrorist group which basically kills and maims innocents, as all terrorists do, the IRA can be condemned Their cause is not so easy to condemn We of course cannot just pull out of N.Ireland as long as the Loyalist want to stay with us. These people are 'trapped in history' |
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Gerry was not an IRA member never mind a bomber
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The shooting of 13 innocent people in the back ,made alot of people angry blue ,and no one was ever charged with anything
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The IRA caused a lot of problems for the hard working Irish people based in England.
They (the IRA) would plant a bomb in England, shoot back off to N.Ireland, and leave ordinary Irish familes based in England to face to flack Very few Irish people agreed with what the IRA did. |
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Very well said Emden.........speaking from experience?
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BTW there are no TROOPS left that are active in Norhern Ireland ,there are some based at garrisons same as other parts of the UK ..
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We of course cannot just pull out of N.Ireland as long as the Loyalist want to stay with us.
we pulled out years ago mate maybe u missed this  |
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casemoney - I didn't say he was - I was referring to the I.R.A. in general.
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and sent the poor fxckers to afghanistan
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The Catholics in N.Ireland did....not that they had much choice
what one are talking about case After the Guildford pub bombing as I said people were very angry The police had to bring in somebody..they may well have beaten it out of the 4 nearest Irishman the evidence does not look good against Conlon now...I am sorry to see any injustice Those two lunatics who killed Lees Rigby, that raised great anger, did not, it was at that level justice comes under threat in such circumstances in the Lee Rigby case we did get the right ones |
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we pulled out years ago mate maybe u missed this Laugh
no we have not case, the troubles have died down, troops are no longer needed The Loyalists ain't letting us go, I can tell you for certain NO SURRENDER |
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Anyway RIP Gerry ..
For those who have seen the film in the name of the father ,it is more than worth a look .. |
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who have not seen
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I should give it a visit case, I actually feel an injustice was done now
Public anger may have warped our justice As far as I am concerned, N.Ireland, insolvable |
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The troops are gone is what I was saying ,obviously the country is still under British rule ,maybe when Scotland becomes Independant they will fxck off back there
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The IRA are a terrorist group with a cause a United Ireland
The troubles were caused by gross discrimination against Catholics in N.Ireland, coming out of protests in late 60's The IRA are a terrorist group with a cause a Re-united Ireland The troubles were caused by gross discrimination against Catholics going back hundreds of years The IRA then came in on the Catholics side. You think they chose a side after weighing up the arguments?  |
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Tend to agree blue but perhaps another couple of generations and things will change ,to have lived through the troubles over there must have been dreadful for both sides ,I have never lived through anything like that so cannot really comment ..
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Very well said Emden.........speaking from experience?
Yes. Brum 1970's. Irish Family. Irish community in Brum really suffered at the time. The prosecution of the 'Birmingham Six', who live locally, compounded the problem and reinforced peoples prejudices. Happily, everything has changed, and the 'paddys' in brum are well liked with the exception of a few Neanderthal BNP types . |
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FFS!! they have censored my post
plenty of Irish moderators on b/f anyway it is all on the internet you are right case if Scotland go, can they please take N.Ireland with them the loyalists are more Scottish than English |
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We would be glad to get rid of N.Ireland, I can tell you that
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Northernlad
which identity are you going to use next? 'bbc's embarrassed dad' or 'Irish_Celtic'? |
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I am not NorthernLad
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Try to keep up ebulG,
he has already posted on here as the other two. |
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The English have treated the Irish appallingly over the centuries
but when we tried to pull out the Loyalists threatened civil war... as I assume everybody knows |
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Possibly in the future Ireland will re unite
but it needs to be voluntary that is the problem |
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The English have treated the Irish appallingly over the centuries
Maybe,...but....the Irish have moved on and don't look back. There is no victim mentality. The Irish are a confident people, well liked all over the globe. The younger English generation have no problems with the Irish, so it's a thing of the past now. |
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The Irish and English get on great now .
The vast majority of the older type racists have long forgotten about the paddys and tend to focus on the Muslims now. Whatever keeps them happy I guess. Now I must call me a taxi  |
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Call a taxi for myself would be better English.
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Yes they have done well in Northern Ireland Emden
they have rejected violence, they are fairly peaceful, but I doubt whether the base resentments have gone away myself given the right circumstances they would reignite...we cannot become too complacent over this look around the world The Ukraine, a near civil war going on, not quite yet.... the Russians want to be part of Russia, The Ukrainianss want to stay part of Ukraine same situation really These situations exist everywhere..in the Middle East I think we reached the point of pure evil A program on WWI I watched, an average collection of prehistoric skulls, one in 6 had been killed by other human beings..skull smashed in that is what we are Forget all this PC rubbish...we must remain vigilant of what we really are..if we want peace |