The Battle for Fermanagh and South Tyrone

[ONeill]

God on the case

[glens abu]

The Rhythm Of Time

There's an inner thing in every man,
Do you know this thing my friend?
It has withstood the blows of a million years,
And will do so to the end.

It was born when time did not exist,
And it grew up out of life,
It cut down evil's strangling vines,
Like a slashing searing knife.

It lit fires when fires were not,
And burnt the mind of man,
Tempering leadened hearts to steel,
From the time that time began.

It wept by the waters of Babylon,
And when all men were a loss,
It screeched in writhing agony,
And it hung bleeding from the Cross.

It died in Rome by lion and sword,
And in defiant cruel array,
When the deathly word was 'Spartacus'
Along the Appian Way.

It marched with Wat the Tyler's poor,
And frightened lord and king,
And it was emblazoned in their deathly stare,
As e'er a living thing.

It smiled in holy innocence,
Before conquistadors of old,
So meek and tame and unaware,
Of the deathly power of gold.

It burst forth through pitiful Paris streets,
And stormed the old Bastille,
And marched upon the serpent's head,
And crushed it 'neath its heel.

It died in blood on Buffalo Plains,
And starved by moons of rain,
Its heart was buried in Wounded Knee,
But it will come to rise again.

It screamed aloud by Kerry lakes,
As it was knelt upon the ground,
And it died in great defiance,
As they coldly shot it down.

It is found in every light of hope,
It knows no bounds nor space
It has risen in red and black and white,
It is there in every race.

It lies in the hearts of heroes dead,
It screams in tyrants' eyes,
It has reached the peak of mountains high,
It comes searing 'cross the skies.

It lights the dark of this prison cell,
It thunders forth its might,
It is 'the undauntable thought', my friend,
That thought that says 'I'm right!'

Bobby Sands MP for Fermanagh & South Tyrone died at 1.17am on Tuesday the 5th May 1981 RIP

[ardmhachaabu]

O'Neill, it was rumoured at one time that canavan had been approached by the shinners to stand for them and he turned them down, from what I heard

[Ulick]

O'Neill, it was rumoured at one time that canavan had been approached by the shinners to stand for them and he turned them down, from what I heard

Wasn't the same people that told you about Gerry's three holiday homes by any chance?

[Puckoon]

It was rumoured - in a local newspaper article a couple years ago if I remember correctly.

[ONeill]

Right, I'm sticking my fiver on Michelle. I'm putting a smidgeon of faith in the wavering SDLPers and non-voting republicans to turn out en masse and stick their axe beside The Gilder.

[ardmhachaabu]

It was rumoured - in a local newspaper article a couple years ago if I remember correctly.

You do

[magickingdom]

if it ends up a hung parliment in london and the torys win f&st will the SDLP (bold L for labour) be happy that they allowed 1 tory seat?

[Maguire01]

Once again, all the party has given the voters is a choice. The electorate will decide who to return. And if they think Gildernew is the best option, she'll win. If she doesn't win, it's because not enough people voted for her.

[ExiledGael]

As Gerry'd say  catch yourself on.
Once again, all the party has done is given Rodney Connor a real chance.
Someone needs to reign in McKinney's ego and I suspect the electorate will.

[Sandino]

A good last point Maguire if she fails to get elected its because not enough of the electorate have voted for her. You have provided a staunch support over the previous pages for the SDLP. Do you accept that the party is in terminal decline because in previous elections not enough of the electorate have voted for them? At most elections people make individual choices and if Connor takes this seat I doubt if I would ever vote SDLP again even under the PR system!

[magickingdom]

Once again, all the party has given the voters is a choice. The electorate will decide who to return. And if they think Gildernew is the best option, she'll win. If she doesn't win, it's because not enough people voted for her.

thats naive..

[stew]

Right, I'm sticking my fiver on Michelle. I'm putting a smidgeon of faith in the wavering SDLPers and non-voting republicans to turn out en masse and stick their axe beside The Gilder.

I think you will win that bet Shane, a couple of thousand defectors from the toothless sdlp will see her over the line, the shinners are very confident it will happen I can tell you that.

I never voted for them in my life but if I was living in that constituency I would vote for them this time around and not only that but the sdlp would never get my vote again, what a useless shower of hoors they are.

[Harold Disgracey]

The best of luck to my old mate Michelle. I hope she does it, a few stoops I have been talking to are now going to vote SF because of the stoops refusal to withdraw in FST including the biggest stoop I know.

[Maguire01]

A good last point Maguire if she fails to get elected its because not enough of the electorate have voted for her. You have provided a staunch support over the previous pages for the SDLP. Do you accept that the party is in terminal decline because in previous elections not enough of the electorate have voted for them? At most elections people make individual choices and if Connor takes this seat I doubt if I would ever vote SDLP again even under the PR system!

If the SDLP lose votes over this then that will be the price they'll pay for their decision. Maybe SF should have really tried to call their bluff and looked for a credible nationalist unity candidate who would take their seat at Westminster? Prove that they didn't just want to protect their own seat and were really only concerned about 'putting nationalism first'?