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Sneezing on the bus, snots everywhere and no hankie 

The Maggie Thatcher quote about any man over the age of 30 on the bus is a failure comes to mind 

I care about the environment.

Walk, its not as if you couldnt do with the exercise tubby.

Sneezing on the bus, snots everywhere and no hankie 

The Maggie Thatcher quote about any man over the age of 30 on the bus is a failure comes to mind 

My alternative is to live out the rest of my life in peace with my neighbours. I`ll spend 3 months of the year in my holiday home in Florida and continue to pay my taxes here in Ireland. I dont care what happens anymore. But the hypocrisy of Idiots like Donagh who would like to take the moral high ground sickens my hole, they (Sinn Fein) are in the pay of their sworn enemy. They are running NI on behalf of Her Majesty`s Government, but if the truth be told, Her Majestys Government has been running the Republican movement for some time.

Your intimations that eirigi are a sound bunch of people ring hollow with what I saw for myself.

Do you understand?

He is incapable of understanding, his head is firmly buried in the sand.
Donagh I suppose ardmhachaabu had an agenda, or is he bitter and twisted? He couldnt be right, how could he, he was only there. Maybe you could buy him a pair of Sinn Fein blinkers, are they still available by mail order from  An Phoblacht.
This is so f*cked up that I am agreeing with someone called ardmhachaabu, well done Donagh, you`ll have me going to mass next.

5iveTimes I think you've clearly shown on this thread that your not worth replying to, so I think this will be the last.

The truth hurts Donagh  
I used to think you had to wait until Connolly house opened in the morning to get an opinion, but I was wrong, you probably just call your handlers like everyone else in Sinn fein

[continue the struggle]

There are many better, more experienced and more intelligent men then you who have chosen to continue the struggle and improve things for out people (in both jurisdictions) by whatever means suit the times.

Donagh you are really outdoing yourself this time. Continue what struggle? Sitting in Stormont drinking tea with Peter Robinson and Reg Empty is in no way a continuing a struggle. The 1994 ceasefire was the unconditional surrender of the IRA. Sinn Fein taking their seats in Stormont was the final nail in the coffin. They are administering British rule in the North and the only thing more pathetic than that is the fact that you are in denial.
You spoke of a man who was imprisoned in every decade from the 40s to the 80s, is it any wonder we lost with volunteers of that caliber. Then again the people he trusted were probably working for the other side. Its not as if you arent riddled with informers now is it?   How is Scap keeping these days?  I believe he has a lovely little villa in Tuscany, I wonder who paid for that? Then again, where did the money for all those holiday homes in Donegal come from? Maybe Donaldson couldnt keep up his repayments  

In many ways Donagh is to Sinn Fein what Tony Fearon is to Tottenham Hotspur. fearon can see no wrong in his beloved Spurs, near bottom of the table, going nowhere fast, will do well to survive. Yet the odd result like a draw with Arsenal or a fortuitous win over Liverpool is enough to give him hope that better times are around the corner, those lucky results are simply papering over the cracks that the rest of us can see. The same is true with Sinn Fein and lackies like Donagh, they blindly cling to the idea of a United Ireland, the idea of an Irish language act or a stadium for all the good citizens of the North to use at the Maze, is the equivalent of a 4-4 draw with Arsenal to them. Enough to give them hope, but in truth not what they set out to achieve.
Sinn Fein voters can dress it up whatever way the chose, but the fact of the matter is that Sinn Fein are administering British rule in the North. They have settled way short of a United Ireland because it was the best deal they could get. There is nothing else on offer. Republicanism is dead. Dreams of a United Ireland have faded. We cannot do away with 1 million Unionists in the North, so like it or not we have to work with them. In a democracy it is majority rule and they are in the majority.
It may also be a bitter pill to swallow for Sinn Feiners to swallow, but no one here in the South really cares about the North. Its another world up there, a strange place and yes to many it is a different country. People down here have too much to worry about, the economy, house prices, job security and everyday living to worry about people who can stop bickering over who walks down what road. Southerners see yesterdays events as the British Army parading through Belfast, nothing more and nothing to get all worked up about.

Donagh it appears that all the bitterness on this thread is coming from you, after all you started another sectarian thread not me. I dont give a toss who marches where, as long as they dont annoy me or my family. Unlike yourself, I`m not a tea boy or a paper seller, I actually spent a few years behind bars, another member of my family served 14 years and a member of my mothers family was killed on active service. What we all have to realise is that the day the first pound was diverted from the military campaign to Sinn Fein we lost. If you read Eamon Collins` book, he said something similar. He also sums up your old mate Gerry very very well. Adams has led Republicanism into a cul-de-sac and because the IRA have been dismantled and disarmed they have no way out. So what we have is a stalemate, in reality Unionism has won and no matter how you dress it up our side has lost.  The IRA completed the final act of surrender when it decomissioned the last of its arms, it seems that decomissioning is a nice way of saying surrender.
For anyone wanting to know what we should do, I dont have the answers. Maybe we should try to get on with our neighbours as best we can. let them parade all they want, to me they look pathetic, but unless they parade past Faughart Shrine they wont annoy me. The border is here to stay, no matter what way Sinn Fein dress it up. An old friend of mine* used to say, "he who pays the piper calls the tune". Its very true. Sinn Fein are being paid very well to run Northern Ireland by the British Government. They have thrown the dolly out of the pram over policing and justice, but they will be back round the table with the DUP once Gordon Brown has time to deal with them.  Out in the real world, real politicians are dealing with an economic crisis. Jobs are being lost, the cost of living is effecting more and more, but that doesnt concern too many in Stormont. As long as themmuns aren`t getting anything thats all that matters up there.
Build a bridge and move on Donagh, the rest of us have. Maybe its hard for those at the bottom to see what those at the top have done to you.

* edited to add that that old friend of mine is no longer with us, he was murdered by the IRA as he was seen as a threat to the peace process. He was a great lad when he was doing their dirty work, but after the ceasefires of 94 and 96 he was persona non grata.

Do you think the people of Belfast (everyone that is) wanted this daft parade to go through the City centre? Why couldnt they march up and down the Shankhill, where they would be welcomed?

30,000 prods "welcomed" their troops home today, while a Sinn Fein backed rabble of 200 turned up to protest. There were probably more people in Casement today to watch St Galls than at the protest and that says enough about how interested the Nationalist people of Belfast are in such a protest. Would 30,000 people have turned up if Sinn Fein hadnt kicked up such a fuss?
Pints if you are so concerned about the parade why didnt you fly home and take Donagh to it. They could do with another 2 idiots, at least you would make the crowd bigger.

So called Republicans on this board and in general in the North of Ireland need to take their heads out of the sand or in the case of pints, take your head from up your own arse and have a look around you. Northern Ireland is still part of the UK, in fact the union with Britain is probably stronger than ever. Ireland now has no constitutional claim over the six counties. Idiots fantasists like Donagh can bullsh*t all they want about smashing the system from within, but we cannot get away from the fact that Sinn Fein are now happily administering British rule in the North of Ireland and they are a laughing stock in the South. The IRA have gone away, they have surrendered their arms and been disbanded. Thanks to Adams & Co. Republicanism is nothing more than a romantic ideal. We wont see a United Ireland in my lifetime or indeed the lifetime of anyone on this board.
I hate Britain with a passion, I hate everything about it and what it stands for. I`ve just watched a cheating black british racing driver cheat his way to the FIA world title. I managed to say that without using the N word. I hate the fact the the RIR are parading round Belfast today after their time in Iraq/Afghanistan, but I have to accept that Belfast is still under British rule and will continue to be so indefinitely. Sinn Fein are not only kidding themselves, but each and every idiot that votes for them, by saying anything different. Sinn Fein seems to have divided loyalties these days, they are torn between the Crown and the half crown. Either way they are still taking the queens shilling.

We can't all run away move to the south   

Maybe we should all run to England and work for Tesco 

5ivetimes your anti Sinn Fein stance to the point of becoming pro British really is hilarious. 

There is nothing pro-British about me. Unlike your good self, I pay my taxes to the Irish Government, my VAT bill comes from them, my car has an Irish registration, in fact I couldnt really be any more Irish, though I would prefer to pay a bit less tax, but still my 40% goes to running this little country, yours and Donaghs goes to the British Exchequer.
What I find hilarious is the about turn that Sinn Fein have managed to pull off, with the support of their electorate. Not only have Gerry and Martin overseen the surrender and disarming of the IRA, but they are now being paid to run Northern Ireland from a nice comfy office in Stormont. You really couldn`t make this shit up. Still, its you and your ilk who voted them in and its your taxes that pay their wages.

Probably, but unfortunately those on the receiving end of their overseas exploits don't have the luxury of being able to ignore them when they drop another bomb on a wedding. Not in my name do these toe-rag mercenaries murder and pilage their way around the world.

So this Sinn Fein protest was really about the illegal war in Iraq/Afghanistan? Or was it because themmuns were marching in Belfast?
I couldnt give two flying f**ks who marches were, as long as it doesnt effect me. It seems that some people have to travel a long way to be offended. What really bugs me is that the protestors pick up their salaries from the British Government, that same Government who pay those soldiers who are marching through Belfast today. Is there really much of a difference between both sides of todays argument? They are in the pay of the same people after all.

The British Army werent marching in Dundalk today, they were marching in Belfast. The last time I checked Belfast was still part of the UK. A dose of realism would do you fantasists in Sinn Fein no harm at all. Still it will be great when you get your salary from the British Exchequer, Sterling is on the up at the minute. Meanwhile here in Ireland we`ll just keep plodding away with the Euro.  
Donagh can we not agree that if Sinn Fein had ignored this silly parade it would have had a much smaller attendance and been given much less publicity.

Fair play to Sinn Fein, because they have given this home coming parade so much publicity there are now thousands of Unionists/Protestants/Loyalists on the streets of Belfast to welcome these soldiers home. Instead of just ignoring it and giving it as little publicity as it deserves, Gerry & Co. have turned a parade that would have attracted a few hundred people into a Prod Fest.
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