From Fine Gael website
Well.
Allen writes:
Just find this interesting… if you look at the history of the Fine Gael party on its official website, it omits any mention of the first leader of the party.
Hmmm.
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O’fluffy was a weak leader like enda. Says it all really.
i never knew about the national corporate party and the greenshirts. thanks wiki, now we have a proper moniker for renua :)
They’re still styling Duffy’s uniform
Below I present this winter’s latest Fianna Gael emblazoned community leaf collection bag.
Here it’s being modelled by the FG DSW candidate who never misses a photo opportunity!
Anne Marie Dermody:
http://echo.ie/images/Anne_Marie_Dermody__leaves.jpg
“Parliamentary” leaders
No. Leaders.
Great post. Learned a lot.
oh how blu was his shirt….
So. Things were clearly different in 1934 and given the fledgling state the party was is, he was ultimately and quickly removed as leader given his extreme views. I don’t believe you’re being entirely honest with these softs of posts…. From their foundations, every single political party in the State have significant skeletons buried in their closets…. None more than the new generation populist ones…
So, I’m curious, Broadsheet…. From the perspective of your editorial narrative, who should we all be voting for?
“None more than the new generation populist ones…”
Could you elaborate on that point? If you have the time.
It’s not terribly hard to figure out, Rory.But I’ll mention one thing…. It amuses me how the all-island entity that is Sinn Fein have completely different viewpoints on core issues on both sides of the border. That’s the populist part, Some of the skeletons are still buried in various forests, bogs and seaside scrubland around Louth, Armagh, Tyrone and so on….
No need to be condescending. I wouldn’t have classed Sinn Fein as new generation. You referred to new parties plural, so I wanted to know who you were talking about. Who else beside Sinn Fein were you referring to?
Also ignores the fact that the IRA was active at the time, intimidating the politcial opponents of FF.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eoin_O'Duffy#Retirement_and_death
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army_%E2%80%93_Abwehr_collaboration_in_World_War_II
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Great input as always Jonotti
I honestly don’t know how you find the time to come up with such insightful comments
You’re not on the same page Nessy.
Buff him out they said.
Not surprising, considering he was a Nazi sympathiser..
Like Dev, you mean?
That’s not a pissing contest that FG wants to get into. I’ve yet to find anything to top Oliver J. Flanagan’s “where there’s bees there’s honey, where there’s Jews there’s money”
How long have you been waiting to shoe-horn that onto a comment?
Dev signed a book of condolences upon Hitler’s death.
It is really hard to look past that.
But yea, Oliver J Flanagan, was a disgrace.
He also allowed British pilots back over the border while keeping all German fighter pilots in an internment camp in the Curragh. In fairness, I think the condolence was probably decided upon in the interests of appearing neutral while also being an opportunity to give the two fingers to the British..
O’Duffy was far more ideologically aligned with the nazi party.
He was also a Sinn Fein MP. Yeah I know, but if they want to keep pretending they are the same party as Pre-Treaty SF….
O’Duffy did have a seriously varied career
engineer
architect
auctioneer
rebel
TD
Chief in Staff of pre-treaty IRA
General in Irish NAtional Army
Garda Commissioner
party leader
proto-fascist activist
Bony arsed bog man
Weren’t they called Cumann na NGaedhael back then?
You’ll note the dates in the picture refer to the foundation of the Fine Gael party..