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GARDAÍ ARE INVESTIGATING after a man’s body was found in a car in Dublin city centre this afternoon.
The discovery was made shortly after 2pm today, when gardaí were called to the Parnell Street area.
The man is believed to have been aged in his early 20s.
He had had contact with homeless charity groups in 2019, but had been living at home with his family in recent months.
A post mortem is due to take place in the coming days and the results will determine the course of the investigation, a garda spokesperson said.
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Collins must be turning in his grave at what the likes of Haughley , Reynolds , Ahern , Kenny have done to this country.
You forgot Cowan
Who the hell is Cowen? , I remember BIfFO .
More ashamed of the misery that the IRA brought on his country.
Agreed – the IRA have made national pride toxic and have drenched the tricolour in the blood of children and innocents.
Definition of cool
Having a smoke while your man waves a gun in your face
Pure class!
Legend of a man
I think if that had of been 60 years later in Belfast and had of been Gerry Adams I don’t think people would of been saying things like “legend of a man” or “great bit of history” some people south of the border look at Irish history through rose tinted glasses…
What are your political views David?
Or if it had been 80 or 90 years later and Saddam Hussein had been talking.. You can change the context for anything, doesn’t mean it’s accurate!
Adams is No Michael Collins.
Well said David spot on.
Pathetic…….and typical.
Your right Tom, Adams is no Michael Collins.. After the Good Friday Agreement Adams didn’t order the assassination of his former comrades the way Collins did after the treaty was signed.. Collins death squads operated from oriel house and he personally appointed Men to murder his former comrades as he seen them as a threat.. Take Noel Lemass for example, abducted and tortured to death. His right foot was hacked off at the ankle and was never found.. A gruesome murder that would be similar to murders that happened during the troubles. However the men that carried out these killings south of the border are called “Heroes” but north of the border their called “Terrorists”
There were atrocities on both sides, Collins was commander in general of the FREE STATE army, the others you allude to were traitors of the state and regarding your comparison between Collins and adams sure adams was never a member of the IRA so we are informed on an ongoing basis by the shinners so he would not have been in a position that Collins was and anyway likening adams to Collins is contemptable.
@Doc Michael Collins was the Traitor…
Well said David spot on there be too many people stuck with the free state mentality even to this day.
@ david garland
Qualify that statement.
Gerry Adams stood on the side of the oppressed people of the north. mick sold us out……
thank you David…..the free stater don’t like to be told that they betrayed the people of the north…..
Do you actually think Collins sought the partition of Ireland? The man had fought the British empire and there no one in a better position to know what could be gained or lost from signing the agreement. It was, as he said himself, “the first real chance for Ireland”. The anti Treaty forces, Noel Lemass among them, took up arms against the democratic choice of the majority of irish people; they were the traitors. The brutal killings that followed were horrific, and many just plain murder, but don’t cod yourself by suggesting that they were anything but traitors.
@ jean martin
ml. Collins had no choice, he knew anything else would mean the slaughter of our people, that Traitor dev knew what the outcome of those meetings would be and would not go forcing Collins to go, being the patriot he was he went and got the best deal for this country at that time while still being aspirational for the future, Dev like all subsequent fianna failers, pardon the pun were nothing but sleeveens and you sir are the same.
You might want to read about Collins you ll see he was arming ira men in the north to continue the fight up there Collins was never going settle for less then the full republic the British were going invade if he did nt deal with the anti treaty ira remember the reason the ira split was dev s doing not Collins dev accepted the treaty after the civil war as dev said him self in time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it ll be at my expense
Spot on Enda. That’s why the British had him assassinated, they knew he was going to continue to be a major thorn in their side. They were very clever about it too. Most people believe he was killed by Anti-Treaty IRA, when in all likelihood he was murdered by a British agent, a “sleeper”. Collins was biggest test the British ever got, but they got their man in the end. They always do.
His death occurred during an IRA ambush, at Beal na mBlath, that much is a given. However, the circumstances surrounding the delivery of the fatal shot are far murkier. I genuinely have any amount of detail about this, but people mightn’t be interested and I’m a slow typer so my arm could fall off. All I’ll say is that there was a guy sitting beside Collins in the touring car that day. This guy had been in the British secret service in the WW1. Then he joins the IRA and becomes very close to Collins. After the madness here, he disappears into obscurity, only to emerge again, working for the British secret service in WW2.
Emmet Dalton if anyone wants to check it out. Mind you I’ve googled him before and info is scant. Surprise surprise.
Sonny o neill did admit to Collins brother johnny that he fired the shot that killed Collins also read after as he was leaving the ambush site he said to his ira comrades he had dropped the tall officer but as you know no one knows who shot Collins for certain
Info is nt scant about dalton he retired from the army because he did nt believe in executions as for the sleeper theory that mostly relates to a ex British solider jock mcpeack who was on the machine gun on the armoured car which kept jamming he deserted the free state army after the ambush and took the armoured car slive na mban with him to the ira
The ambush occurred as dusk fell, Collins fatally wounded at the end when it was nearly dark. No IRA man delivered a direct shot. Common theory is a ricochet. Details of cover up would suggest otherwise. Oliver St John Gogarty (yes him of Temple Bar fame) did the autopsy, and concluded that the wound was caused by a Mauser handgun (which Dalton carried) and not a rifle, which the IRA ambushers were using. So many other things. For example, they exhibited his hat in a museum for years, the one he was supposed to have been wearing that day. Turns out recently they discovered this hat was the too small for Collins. It had a bullet tear which supported the ricochet theory. It was a sham. Our two greatest leaders of the last 1000 years, Brian Boru and Michael Collins, both slaughtered by sneaky assassins.
What’s the problem with the view of David ?
Yeah the hat was a fake it was to small heard one story the hat he was wearing that day was found by a local farmer because it had brain matter still in it he buried it as for being shot by dalton Collins was out ahead of every one in his convoy dalton was still at the armoured car well behind Collins when Collins was shot a small wound to the front large at the back showing the bullet came from in front of Collins it’s also said a dum dum bullet caused the damage which the ira men were using in that ambush
As for the autopsy there is no records of one being done
No, Dalton was on his shoulder throughout the whole thing. He was taken out. He was gonna be a nightmare for them. Again. He supported the North, his organisation was very strong in Armagh and Down.
Dev was traitor look were we r now 98 yr later mick wanted a utd eire not 6 counties short
Wow..great piece of history there. Looks like he was firing into the crowd too.
Thats a fantastic post Christine. Thanks!
These are brilliant articles, what cool footage! Black and white and silent almost makes it better, resonates more. I agree about your man being a legend.. having a toke whilst the boys wave guns, like something out of a western.
If you farted beside Enda Kenny,
He’d Sh1t himself……
I did once, and he did :)
It was a little Sh*t and it became better known as Alan Sh*tter.
That’s exactly what happened. You must have been there too!
If only we’d had him for a bit longer…. Some man.
How can u twist the life of a man who spent the short time he had furthering the betterment of this country. Sure,now we can look back from our armchairs and say he did this when I would have done this… The man did what he thought was best for the country at the time and in that position.
Great Man – died far too soon. Pity he signed up to partition and fired on his own people to start the civil war with guns given to him by the British. Shame that his descendants in Cumman Na NGaedhal and Fine Gael thought that ‘stepping stone’ meant to uphold and enforce partition and become advocates of the status quo – shame they did not give enough consideration to the boundary commission in the years after the treaty as was Collins’ want… shame that it was Dev and not he that took the largest political office in the land.. and would hopefully not have allowed the church to gain such a stranglehold on the state and a bloody shame that yet again the British out-maneuvered an Irish delegation to the detriment of the sovereign Irish nation.
Pity that others decided that murdering people was good because…they didn’t like the words “stepping stone.”
Imagine Enda Kenny trying to talk to a crowd that size. He would need to wear a nappy
Pissing foreigners again, no idea what they are talking about!!!!! :-D:-D go troll somewhere else!! Michael Collins always will be a legend!!
Does any recording of him speaking exist? The technology was available at the time. Just wondering
No there s no recording of his voice
You can see his birthplace from our front door. Makes me so proud.
What would the big fella make of the state of Wallace and Flanagan , in the place he built with blood and sacrifice, sneering all the way to the bank. What have we turned it into .
Out of all the TD s you pick Wallace and Flanagan why them two
He would probably have shook the hands of Wallace and Flanagan for not bowing down and licking ass.
Pickart … Unwise to comment on stuff you do not comprehend
Devilera sold the Irish up the river, fast forward 90 yrs twiddle Dee and twiddle dom aka Adams and mcguinness have done the same to the nationalists up the north, sitting I’m the dail and other parliaments, the hero’s like Collins and his 6 patriotic comrades also the rest of men and woman who faught to get rid of the British who destroyed Ireland and caused s lot of death and poverty for the people of Ireland north and south wud turn in there graves. Being from a Catholic from Belfast iv seen first hand wat the British ar capable of doing and also hiding there atrocities, granted the ira have also done some also but they were the only protectors we had cause believe me when ur a Catholic u we’re a 3rd class citizen and we’re tortured by the British!!
Great video pity its in black and white tho
Lol
On this site you will experience abuse if you do not support certain Irish killers. This is a result of a combination of classical conditioning and cognitive dissonance.
That does not make any sense pickart, first of all re: cognitive dissonance, that’s a misnomer as there is no one here who is ambivalent about their views and regarding classical conditioning, do you actually know what it means in the context you are attempting to place it in. give up the amateur psychology lesson, people on here are a lot smarter than you think, well most any way.
I’ll be your friend Patrick, i could always do with another ass*ole in my life.
@Pickart I take back the spotty teenager comment. Your recent comment would suggest you’re probably a failed college student as you try to introduce nonsense psychology. You’re trolling and you know it.
@celtic Pickart Solny is an anagram of Patrick Lyons, P lyons is the tit who regularly comments here making an eejit of himself, he pretends to be a Northern Ireland protestant when in fact he’s more than likely an irish catholic locked in his room trying to figure out how to interact with other humans in the only way he knows. Same shite comments now day in day out for the last two years. What a tool.
Well spotted Chief!
No pickart you ll. suffer abuse because your an idiot
A classic pseud.
Yea eye of the tiger there chief.
@pickart I wouldn’t mind having a debate with you about the rights and wrongs of Irish history but your arguments are unsubstantiated rants.
Chief – you sir, are legend!
Collins, just another terrorist who should be confined to the dustbin of history.
Would ya look at trolly trollerson over here.
Pickart, by that rationale George Washington is a terrorist and the 4th July is dedicated to the acts of terrorism.
Trolling like a troller who’s just won first prize in a troller competition for being the trolliest
@Pickart Please give your definition of an Irish Freedom Fighter. I bet you’re some spotty little teenager who does nothing but Troll all day
In the national trolliest championship
My idea of somebody who ‘fights’ for a better society would be people like Feargus O’connor or Henry Popjoy.
Pickart, is that even a name?
Pickart that’s a disgraceful comment, the only pity is that Collins life was cruelly cut short, a different Ireland would have resulted rather than the Ireland influenced by that traitor Dev.
Ian. Iys patrick lyons resident troll. Used to troll here with a butchers apron as his profile pic
His name is Patrick !?!?
You can smell the queen lover’s!!if the troll’s knew their history dev sent him down the river without a paddle shower of Muppet’s.
Does anyone know what part of Cork city this video was shot in?
You can see the National Monument on the corner of the Grand Parade and South Mall briefly in the clip. I imagine he was speaking somewhere on the Parade
@garland ur a troll Ireland would of been a better place if Collins had of lived!!so go back under the rock you crawled out from clown.
Wonderful to see the huge number of women who were there
This is the Grand Parade in Cork
If people actually did their history, they would figure out that Ulster Unionists wanted to remain part of Britain. As the Unionists had way more control in Ulster than any other province in Ireland, as well as being literally up in arms (they received arms from Germany) at the thought of a free Ireland, they were willing to kill to stay part of Britain. Now the British government were willing to turn a blind eye on para military activies in Ulster. When Michael Collins went to the talks, his aim was a 32 county free Ireland, which clearly he didn’t get. He even stated he signed his death warrant as nobody would be happy about a 26 county Republic. Michael Collins was NOT happy with a 26 county Republic.
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