Republicans finally admit murdering 9 year old Gordon Gallagher

[trueblue1234]

On which latter point, so long as you express the opinion that the blowing to pieces of a nine year old boy out playing in his garden is "not a black and white issue", then you'll get no respect from me.

Just out of interest do you feel the same about civilians killed by the British Army or indeed any civilians killed at war?

[camanchero]

Yes a lot of the things that the IRA etc did were horrible but in retaliation to generations of similar and worse from the apartheid type regime from the loyalist/unionist estaishment!
It seemingly took this dreadful like for like retaliation to finally bring down that totalitarian unionist/loyalist junta and win equality for all people's - esp the Catholic Irish working classes!

It is still tragic that Gordon Gallagher had to die for this to happen.

Yes it was. Also tragic regarding the thousands of others that were killed during the war of the 'troubles' and tragic regarding those killed, persecuted (and eventually driven to retaliate )  over the generations prior to the civil right movement.
If unionists/loyalists hadn't been hell bent on denial of equality and insisted on maintaining the status quo by terror and brutality - the whole lot could have been avoided!

Does everything have to be tied back to the unionists? I mean what did you just add there apart from "if it wasn't for the unionists".

only when the 'blame' is thrown out repeatedly in threads such as this - if there is blame to be attributed then there is a wider picture.
yes terrible that this young lad was killed, but is he any different to any other kids from whatever side of the divide , or women or even men.

yes terrible waste of life - but the use of this poor kids memory to 'point score' is the usual carry on.
If people are going to start throwing stones, then a bit of reality and context may make them realise they are standing in a glass house !

So your reaction to "blame" being thrown about is to blame the Unionist? Don't you see the hypocrisy in that. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

think this is going over your head.
the 'blame' is the point - why cast stones. The family itself seemed to take this news and apology far better than some on here (seemingly yourself also) - while the poor feckers have every right to be angry and tell the IRA to go f themselves.
its the crass cheap point scoring manner that these topics are dredged up that is the sad part of it.
my point is people shouldnt be throwing stones in glass houses- thats both sides. if they all stopped then it would be far better. these stones hit the eyes that make them blind, not the people calling foul when the point scoring efforts on here start!

[Maguire01]

As someone who always wanted to see a United Ireland this thread just shows why a bit percentage of the people in the south want nothing to do with the six counties. If it was the other way around and it was a Nationalist child that was murdered I have my doubts the original poster would have made this thread but I know for certain that there would have been much more outrage from the Republicans on this board.   Bias from both sides creeps through.

R.I.P Gordon Gallagher, another pointless death.

Eh, unless i'm mistaken, Gordon was a 'nationalist'/'Catholic' child... not that it's really appropriate to give any 9 year old child such labels.