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The 26 counties also voted on 23 May 1998 to amend the Constitution, effectively a vote on the GFA. Either way, all 32 counties voted on the constitutional position of the 6 counties on that date. Your argument that it wasn't a 'democratic document' holds no water - people had the opportunity to reject it, but they endorsed it - that's democracy. The fact that you don't like it doesn't make it undemocratic.

People were presented with the choice, as the Fianna Fáil poster stated, 'vote yes for peace'; which in effect was 'surrender your sovereignty or else'......shades of 'immediate and terrible war'. The media blitz was spearheaded by Thatcher's pet PR firm Saatchi and Saatchi. The GFA is anti-democratic in that it enshrines the veto of a minority on the island of Ireland over the destiny of the entire nation and the criminal Bertie Ahern went so far as to lobby for the constitutional issue being resolved in Britain's favour.

The GFA was all about the perpetuation of British rule in Ireland and anyone who classes themselves as a GAA supporter and cannot recognise that it was desiigned to ensure that an all Ireland would only exist in Croke Park finals is sorely deluded and unworthy of the mantle of the courageious men and women who established our national games.

Democracy is the Good Friday Agreement which was overwhelmingly endorsed across all 32 counties.

Rubbish, the GFA was not a democratic document as it enshrined a minority veto and it wasn't endorsed across 32 counties as only 6 had a vote on it.

What's your solution so Cáthasaigh? What do you think should happen?

My solution is Irish Republicanism and I think that all Irish Republicans should be pushing for a 32 county referendum where all the people of Ireland have an equal say in the future of Ireland. It's called democracy but it's not allowed.

Minister for Sport attends sports fixture involving a team that purports to represent the part of Ireland for which she is Minister for Sport.
What will you get annoyed about next ?? Nationalists and/or Catholics having votes in the 6 Cos? 

This might be difficult for you to understand but the shinners are supposed to be dedicated to the destruction of the 6C statelet but yet they increasingly seem to be enlisted in its enforcement and perpetuation. The endorsement of the god save the queen singing 6C soccer team at a Windsor Park orangefest is but the most recent glaring example. Instead of GSTQ the microminister should have been saying GFYS.

Cathasaigh is some WUM .... isn't he ..... I hope he is..... he has to be......
No one could be that big an eejit 

Clarify why you think I'm on a windup in regard to PSF pandering to the Loyalist agenda?

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If the likes of MGHU thinks that 'shinners are nice' it's indicative of how far they have stooped. Ah well, they aren't the British policy party for nothing (infact they receive quite a few Saxon shillings to keep them on the treachery wagon).

Is it that big a deal? She was probably disappointed there was no reaction to her presence.

Check out the supporter website and consider the significance. Next up shinners attending the 12th.

Carál ní Chuilín made history by being the first PSF politician to attend a norn irn game last night. No mention of it on the norn irn supporters website (http://www.ourweecountry.co.uk/), not even in their 'trooping the colours' section.

Is there an unstoopable level left?

My opinion has nothing to do with the fact that your response is avoiding the elephant in the room - 
that you would prefer a 'brit' (your term) to sing a song about Ireland instead of an Irishman.

Say it ain't so?

I'd have preferred James Connolly and Jim Larkin to William Martin Murphy too. Your 'argument' suggests a natural tendency towards ballbaggery.

Well, its a bigger deal to me that you got a U2 album wrong than it is worrying about where the song originated.

Yeah but you exhibit chronic feejit tendencies so your opinion hardly counts.

What a a ptronising p***k.

Not only patronising but a traitor and a tax dodger, some boy is Bono.

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Rewrite me hole. Same title. Similarities end there.

Wrong, the 'this is not a rebel song' introduction on 'the unforgettable fire' kinda aborted your argument decades before it was born. Nice try though, no doubt you were watchin the muppet show at the time and it wore off.

Wrong. I think you will find that the 'this is not a rebel song' live version was on 'Under a Blood Red Sky' live album, recorded in Sankt Goarshausen, Germany, 1983.

And not 'Unforgettable Fire' album - but sure when did facts ever matter?

Nice try though, no doubt you were in the muppet show at the time.

So, I got the U2 albums confused. Big deal, the reality of the song remains......Bono did say 'this is not a rebel song' did he not?

Rewrite me hole. Same title. Similarities end there.

Wrong, the 'this is not a rebel song' introduction on 'the unforgettable fire' kinda aborted your argument decades before it was born. Nice try though, no doubt you were watchin the muppet show at the time and it wore off.

The indignation on this thread is some craic. The press only got the phone transcripts through intelligence service contacts. All phone traffic is recorded and monitored yet people only react to that which they are conditioned to.

U2 are a shower of self-loathing wabs who would be terribly embarrassed to discover they were being discussed by the ordinary people on a GAA board of all people.

They can go f__k themselves for their pro-Brit Widgery friendly rewrite of John Lennon's classic protest song about Bloody Sunday. Most of you will never have heard it but here it is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLZhNs7M1oE