I love that picture of the men that saved free speech for us all from FF & IRA thugs. It’s one of my favourites. Thanks
— Cllr. Jim O’Leary (Dundrum LEA) (@jimdundrum) June 9, 2020
Fine Gael Councillor tweeted at 1.18am last night that he “loves that picture” of Blueshirts giving a straight-arm salute (usually called the uh… Nazi salute) at a rally.
Pretty sure Fine Gael’s TDs will need to start commenting on this, like now. https://t.co/eHBHJVTMaJ
— Carl Kinsella (@TVsCarlKinsella) June 9, 2020
Gott im Himmel.
#blueshirtlivesmatter
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Well, what does Dav say? I usually take my cue from him on such matters.
Huh – I guess he was right all along…
thanks lads
Carry on Dav!
Every Fine Gael-er admires fascism. It’s in their DNA.
Do you mean party members or people who have voted for them? From a historical point of view I regard it as a bit of an aberration. Those early Cumann na nGael governments from 1922-32 were extremely socially conservative but crucial in ensuring the establishment of a stable democratic state. What followed was an extreme reaction to their deadly enemies getting into Government less than a decade after losing a bitter civil war and, in many instances, abusing that new power. The blueshirts are a highly visible historical reminder of Fine Gael stupidity but no one pays much attention to the equally, if not more violent actions of FF supporters of the time.
A stable democratic state? The Public Safety Act 1931 was democratic? The Irish people voted out the Blueshirts in 1932 because they saw that Fine Gael wanted to turn Ireland into Mussolini’s other island.
IL Douche Bags
Never heard of that act until now – thanks.
Interesting read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_(Amendment_No._17)_Act_1931
The opposition Fianna Fáil party condemned the act and ended the emergency when it took office after the 1932 election. However, in 1933 it reinstated the emergency and banned the Blueshirts, and in 1936 the IRA was banned again.
@ Joe. Probably one of the most sensible comments to read online in a while.
Mind you was it not russel that went down on a u boat
Fine Gael meeting – https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/monaghan-1920-deadly-raid-brought-eoin-o-duffy-to-prominence-1.4037913
If you are ever up that way they have a really interesting Museum.
https://monaghan.ie/museum/
Superb photo and headline.
Superlative headline.
A few statistics from Cian wouldn’t go astray :-)
hahaha. yea i was waiting to see how he’d figure out a way to defend this. must be furiously flicking thru books in the library tryna find a way.
Will the Leo lad get a grilling on live radio about this.? Didn’t think so.
What the eff has this got to do with Leo, as opposed to Mary Lou kissing Gerry (I was never in the Ra) ass for years, and saying she would have been directly involved in the killings in the north if she was around? Sorry, I forgot, you know nothing about the shinners. Go on, answer the question. Or do your usual, attack me.
He’s a Fine Gael Councillor. Varadkar should be asked whether he should be dismissed from the party.
Early night for you me boy. Learn to understand what you read before trying to put something in writing.
In much the same way that SF and others continue to attack the FG and their blue-shirted past from 90 years back, I imagine Sinn Fein will struggle to banish the spectre of the balaclava, Kalashnikovs, Semtex, knee capping and the Disappeared from their more contemporary past. How many generations will that take?
Well, you’re the one imagining things, so Im sure you can imagine an answer to your post?
People have long memories. FG have their blueshirts, SF has blood on their hands, FF has 60 odd years of mostly bad government behind them and here we go round again. Labour and the Greens have their own troubles. I suppose the question is, to move forward, of these political entities, which sins are the most benign?
And still incapable of answering any question. With that great, “mature” and witty brain of yours, I thought you could take on all-comers. Sorry, I forgot, you call yourself goo, and never answer any questions. Says it all.
Roman . The salute. Not Nazi.
I think you are splitting Herrs there…
Oh very good!
One of the things Hitler did was deliberately appropriate symbols (such as the swastika), mythology, systems and other things to weave them all together to suit his purpose.
As a result, many things that were once symbols of hope and joy, or merely of bygone days, became symbols of hate and oppression.
lot of the kind if Floyd linked ideas and action we have been seeing have been total virtue signalling
this is not that and i have seen this guy commenting ,im fairly sure i engaged with him online too at some point and what a nasty individual .
Judging Miss Hitler would be right up his alley
https://twitter.com/PA/status/1270313591019909120
Jim might have taken sleeping pills and laxatives at beddy byes .
Rats from the flats is in the new series of Das Boot, coincidence? I think not!
I’m really surprised that, more that 24 hours later, the original tweet is still up.
…don’t be so hard on yourself…the splitting herrs joke was very funny!
FGers know no shame.
https://www.thejournal.ie/darren-scully/news/
While insensitive, he was correct – the tragedy occurred crossing from Turkey to Greece. The family wasn’t in mortal danger in Turkey.
Heil will follow
They can’t help themselves can they
True colours leopards changing spots ould dogs n’all that
Kinda reminds me of GE2016
And when I was telling people a vote for Michael Noonan was a vote for
Ara’ make yere own list