Where Is the IRA?


How can they look their sons and moreso their daughters in the eye?

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Where is the kkk? The mafia? Their all extinct.

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*they're * all extinct

Their=possessive=their dog is annoying
They're=they are the owners of that annoying dog
There =opposite of here= there is that annoying dog

(Misused homophones are one of my pet peeves)

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Its a little different. The kkk wants to suppress African Americans. The Mafia wants to make money in the rackets.

The IRA uses various methods but its goal is to expel foreigners and run its own country like they do in the south. The IRA is best compared to the minutemen who fought to get the British out of the colonies. The British are going, the British are going.

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Lets put the record straight shall we and have the REALITY. The IRA are vile terrorist no different to ones who took down the twin towers. The difference being the IRA represent THE MINORITY in northern Ireland. The MAGORITY of northern Ireland people want to remain part of the UK, if there were referendums, votes and so on, that would always be the case. The IRA know this so they decide to kill fellow Irish people (which was mainly the case). All this killing eventually led the some members of the IRA getting a bit of power for themselves, objective achieved the killings stop.

Ironically, The British where sent into Ireland to protect Catholics originally and the full independence was offered and rejected twice to de Valera.

The IRA are murdering scum, not some romanticised freedom fighters sat in pubs drinking guiness and playing fiddles.

Only those with no valid argument pick holes in people's spelling and grammar.

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Lol. Magority.

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well said

the IRA murdered irish people

the IRA sexually abused irish people

the IRA intimidated witnesses into silence

The IRA are murdering scum, not some romanticised freedom fighters sat in pubs drinking guiness and playing fiddles.

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The majority are the British sent into Ireland to take it from the Native Irish. I don't understand why you just don't give N Ireland back to Ireland, you're colonizers.

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The British Govt told the police and Army to pick up anyone causing trouble. Yes, the army was there to protect the Catholics but when they started rounding up people they only intered Catholics not one protestant was arrested although they were the ones creating the real violence. This was the main turning point in the troubles that eventually led to Bloody Sunday.

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So obviously you are perfectly fine with the fact that a minority (Catholics) were being oppressed in Northern Ireland? Discriminated against in jobs, housing, etc.? That says all I need to know about your opinions... @dmariat55's post was accurate.

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the IRA is best compared to the Vatican

The IRA is best compared to the minutemen

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Good question. This film is quick to portray claims from a biased Republican crowd as fact, yet we see no depiction of Martin McGuinness and his Thompson sub-machine gun, nor are the IRA snipers and nail-bombers depicted at all.

Poor background information also on the NICRA - this organisation was founded by leading IRA members as a mere temporary change in tack by under Republican "Wolfe Tone Societies" by using popular slogans at the time from the USA such as "Civil Rights" as another mere ploy to regroup, stir, and attempt to once more coerce the Ulster people into an Irish state against their will. In reality Ivan Cooper was merely used as a gullible fool taken in by the Republicans running the show.

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I assume the question relates to the film. The IRA were on the sidelines watching. The hard *beep* in the car. As Jimmy Nesbitt says at the end they had the best recruiting day they ever had. They just kept a watching brief.

Btw to the poster who trumpets the old chestnut that Northern Ireland has a Protestant majority that's because it was created for that purpose. So it signifies nothing. The old province is Ulster which had nine counties. Six are now in the North and three in the Republic.

So desperate were they to achieve their aim that the Northernmost tip of Ireland is in fact in Donegal which is in the South because it didn't fit in with their plans.

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Sinn Fein MP Martin McGuinness admitted he was the IRA gunman who sparked Bloody Sunday with a single shot, according to an IRA member, the Saville inquiry was told yesterday.
April 06, 2000
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/07/bloodysunday.northernireland

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