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Pope Francis to leave hospital after eating pizza with staff and responding well to antibiotics

Yesterday US president Joe Biden tweeted that the world “needs” Pope Francis.

POPE FRANCIS IS set to leave hospital in Rome tomorrow, after responding well to antibiotics, and even feeling well enough to share a pizza with staff who are looking after him yesterday evening. 

The Pope was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Wednesday after complaining of breathing problems, and being subsequently diagnosed with a respiratory infection. 

The Argentine pontiff, who had part of one lung removed as a young man, has suffered increasing health issues in recent years, and it was his second stay in hospital since 2021.

This morning, he had breakfast, read some newspapers and did some work in the private papal suite on hospital’s 10th floor. 

“His Holiness’s return home to Santa Marta (his Vatican home) is expected tomorrow, in the wake of the results of the latest tests this morning,” Bruni said today.

He said Pope Francis was set to preside over Palm Sunday mass in St Peter’s Square, which marks the beginning of Holy Week and Easter, Christianity’s most important holiday.

This means the pope will stay seated while someone else – likely a senior cardinal – performs the ceremony at the altar. The mass is due to be followed by the pope’s regular Sunday Angelus prayer.

Francis’ hospitalisation, just weeks after he marked 10 years as head of the worldwide Catholic Church, had sparked widespread concern.

He has repeatedly said he would consider stepping down if his health failed him, following the example of his predecessor Benedict XVI — but said in February that for now, he had no plans to quit.

Eating and praying

The Vatican initially said Francis was hospitalised for pre-planned checks, before later revealing he had been complaining of breathing difficulties.

In a Vatican issued statement, medical staff said late Thursday that Francis was suffering from an “infectious bronchitis which required the administration of antibiotics”.

The treatment resulted in “a marked improvement in his state of health” and he was well enough to eat, work and pray at the private chapel in the hospital suite.

The Gemelli hospital is the favoured choice of pontiffs to the point of being dubbed “Vatican 3″ by John Paul II, who was treated nine times at Gemelli and spent a total of 153 days there.

A Jesuit who seems most happy being among his flock, Francis continues to travel internationally and keep a busy schedule.

But he has been forced to use a wheelchair and walking stick in the past year because of knee pain, and admitted last summer that he had to slow down.

He said Thursday that he was “touched by the many messages” he was receiving in hospital, thanking on Twitter those praying for his recovery.

Among them is US President Joe Biden, only the second Catholic president in US history, who sent his “best wishes for his swift and full recovery”.

“The world needs Pope Francis,” Biden wrote on Twitter yesterday. 

  Resignation rumours

 Francis was admitted in July 2021 to the same Rome hospital for 10 days for a colon operation after suffering from a type of diverticulitis, an inflammation of pockets that develop in the lining of the intestine.

In an interview in January, the pope said the diverticulitis had returned.

His predecessor Benedict XVI shocked the world in 2013 by becoming the first pope since the Middle Ages to resign, citing his declining physical and mental health.

The German theologian died on December 31 aged 95.

Francis has said he would follow suit if he was unable to do his job, although he has cautioned that papal resignations should not be the norm.

He said in an interview in February that the idea was currently not “on my agenda”.

Yet a Vaticanist at the leading Corriere della Sera noted that with the pope’s hospitalisation, “speculation on the near future of his pontificate becomes less theoretical”.

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    Mute David Wool
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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:39 PM

    How would any sane person ever vote for Sinn Fein?

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    Mute Ben Connolly
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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:49 PM

    David wool you’re right we should all vote for FF and forget all about the mess they got this country into or maybe FG/L who continued to fu@k most of us right up the @rse

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    Mute Del
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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:51 PM

    Im sane. I Would.

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    Mute Supernova
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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:52 PM

    I’m sane and I’m proudly voting sinn féin. I’ve took my blinkers off years ago! No amount of scare mongering and propaganda will stop me voting them. Should be the same with any voter

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    Mute Mick Jordan
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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:54 PM

    At least the main stream parties are willing to condemn without reservation the murder of a Garda doing his duty for the people of this state.

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    Mute Brandy Ryan
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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:55 PM

    Anyone who votes for FF,FG Lbr ,its them who are not sane .

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    Mute David Wool
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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:55 PM

    Well the vast majority of the country would never vote for them thankfully. Imagine if they actually got into government like, the gardai and the army would stand down immediately

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    Mute Supernova
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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:59 PM

    Over 20% are going to vote for them.. You could say the majority of Ireland are not voting fine Gael 70% of them.. So your comment is delusional

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:01 PM

    Sane guy here giving my 2nd preference vote to SF. They are also the most popular party with people between 18-50 years of age, and technically the vast majority of the country don’t actually vote for any particular political party. FG won the last election with 2 out of 3 voters giving their first preference to someone else.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:01 PM

    You might be sane but it shows you have no moral compass. Imagine if this was a member of FG or FF that committed the crime you rightly so would be demanding justice.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:02 PM

    I’m sane, I will still vote SF. Certainly wouldn’t vote for the party that executed 77 Irish citizens in 10 a mon

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    Mute John Brendan Mullen
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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:05 PM

    Months, the party who took 18 prisoners out of jails in Tralee and blew them up at barricades at Ballyseedy Killarney and Cahirciveen, then there’s FF who also oversaw the execution of dozens of their fellow citizens and ex comrades in arms. So why not SF. ?

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    Mute Thomas Mac Donagh
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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:05 PM

    no person with any morals could ever vote for SF after this. truly disgusting. remember SF gave that monster a standing ovation

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    Mute JayK
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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:13 PM

    I’ll be voting Sinn Fein and Louise O’Reilly was right not to dignify the typical media hit piece about events 20 years ago.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:13 PM

    Agree David, most of their adherents are gullible fools.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:15 PM

    Murdering jerry McCabe was an act of war?I remember that day as if it was but a month ago…no IRA member claimed that at the time…it was all “wasn’t us guv” and “not us sir,we was mowing the grass at bodenstown at exactly that time”…… Between this and their plan to give every Asylum seeker full citizenship whether they want it or not….naw,I think I’ll go back to Fianna Fail…..

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:17 PM

    A vote for SF is a vote supporting the brutal murder of garda mccabe

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:19 PM

    Second preference my ass Jamming – ha ha ha #full blown shinner. And still can’t come up with an alternative govt or Taoideach #waffler.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:19 PM

    I’m no fan of SF but you couldn’t seriously link FF FG LAB with morals?

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    Mute Pepper
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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:22 PM

    Sf are also the travellers party, Joachin.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:27 PM

    @ Ollie from fianna fail “You might be sane but it shows you have no moral compass.”

    A member of FF talking about morals is like a leper talking about skincare. Your sainted former leader, hharlie haughey, was happy to try arm the IRA for his own political ends.

    Talking about morals and all that…..

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:29 PM

    It’s a pity we don’t have a decent political alternative in this country. Sometimes I think Sinn Fein have robbed us of a proper alternative to the status quo.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:33 PM

    Sinn Féin campaigned for the early release of Pearse McCauley after his murdered a servant of this State in cold blood.

    Sinn Féin supported this animal in prison.

    Sinn Féin celebrated the release of this animal at their Ard Fheis.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:39 PM

    why did SF feel the need to celebrate this evil murder at their ard fheis?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:40 PM

    It really has become anyone but SF for the upcoming election

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:48 PM

    @Diarmuid,
    I disagree fundementally with your views on migrants but I wholeheartedly agree and support your view on this beast and his thuggish fellow-travellers.

    It is outrageous that a sinn fein/ira candidate wouldn’t condemn a murder of an official of the State in the performance of his duties.

    Sinn fein/ira voters were given a glimpse of what they are really voting for.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:52 PM

    She just backtracked and has tweeted she “condemns it unreservedly”.

    Gerry must have been on the phone telling her what way to say as is usual for SF.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:53 PM

    Too late for that now, her true colours are there for all to see. Of course, she’ll have no shortage of sympathisers in SF itself. Perhaps, even a majority.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:58 PM

    The IRA army council must have told her to think differently

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:00 PM

    I’d like to hear her come out and deny she’s a member of the council too. She certainly thinks cop killing is grand and dandy.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:02 PM

    If Adams doesn’t remove her from the ticket ASAP, all hell should break loose. She should be out of a job so fast her ass shouldn;t touch the ground. A forced resignation is the only honourable outcome to this.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:05 PM

    Pepper you having a laugh? there’s a bigger chance she will be shafted for backtracking.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:13 PM

    The wheels of the SF/IRA wagon (I don’t mean Mary Lou) are coming off.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:17 PM

    And now she’s blaming the interviewer and co-panelists. What a pathetic woman. Fire her Gerry.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:24 PM

    Pauline Tully herself will be in hot water for her statement when asked why she married a Garda killer – ‘just because someone was in a war situation doesn’t mean on a personal level they are violent’. I imagine Garda McCabe’s widow will find that pretty revolting.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:27 PM

    All shinners are deluded if they think sinn fein are a credible option to govern the country. All the foreign direct investment would walk away.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:30 PM

    Pepper..agreed…she’s a millstone around their necks..she’s now memorable only for this idiocy…

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:34 PM

    These Thumbs up or down are Controlled by Govt moderators,love it

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:40 PM

    Endabots, get a fookin life youse sad, pathetic excuses, sitting at your keyboards climaxing over the bile youse write. What a bunch of morons, nothing better to do on a Saturday night than message each other about the latest chance of some sf bashing. Pathetic excuses with their faux moral outrage, the same idiots no where to be seen on stories describing how British death squads opersted with inpunity in the 6 counties for decades. Away with ye, hypocrites.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:40 PM

    Whatever it suits you to think, Brandy

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:40 PM

    Has dissident RNU senator Cahill denounced it?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:44 PM

    Heard the interview live and by God did she crash and burn. Surely has cost SF a few percentage in the polls.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:45 PM

    You are talking about the 6 counties. People down here in the Republic couldn’t give a toss what happened up there and heaven forbid if there is a unified ireland.. everyone is so tired of hearing the same old shite from all the shinners.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:04 PM

    Andrew. Put down the bottle and turn off the Wolfe Tone cd. Jump in the shower and sober yourself up or you won’t have the energy fro street fighting later tonight.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:05 PM

    Pepper…true…and I’m all for championing the marginalised and disenfranchised but when I think back to the poor Roma gypsies on the M50 at ballymun and sinn fein allied with Pavee pointless….

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:07 PM

    OK .ALL Illegal FNS to be given Irish Passport

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:09 PM

    Pepper, put down your buckfast and take off your sash. Street fighting? I’m a pacifist old chap, I’ll leave the street fighting to you loyal subjects.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:16 PM

    And now where is he…….

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:34 PM

    Normal rubbish from Jammin! Tell the guys in Parnell Square that they need to keep their candidates off the radio as they tend to show their real colours when asked to conderm the killing of a Garda!

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    Dec 6th 2015, 2:32 AM

    an election candidate has clarified that she does, in fact, condemn the murder of a Garda

    oh that’s good to know !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Dec 6th 2015, 9:43 AM

    how could anyone vote for SF after this?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:54 PM

    I don’t see why she won’t condemn it…..after all if it as the IRA say, it was a robbery that wasn’t anything to do with them then why not say Mc Auley was a psycho acting on his own…should be easy enough to condemn it.
    I don’t see why mc Auley was not done for murder instead of manslaughter…you can’t spray bullets into a car to wound…..you do it to kill.
    The killers of Gardaí should never see the light of day.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:02 PM

    All the witnesses ‘suddenly’ wouldn’t testify. I wonder why…

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:21 PM

    This is why Sinn Fein is not yet fit to be trusted.

    The killers of Garda MCCabe are homicidal, merciless and evil murderers. They are cowardly bushwhackers. They are truly bad human beings.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:25 PM

    “Anyone who gives Sinn Fein a vote, is voting against decency and for the killers of Gda Gerry McCabe.”

    Well that’s complete crap for a start. SF have been signed up to the good Friday agreement pretty much since I was old enough to vote, and are now signed up to the right2change principles.

    I am giving them my 2nd preference based on their policies, nothing more or less.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:31 PM

    So signing up to GFA wipes the slate clean? Moral bankrupts are suddenly good decent people?

    Nobody believes you’re not a rabid shinnertroll “For Connolly”.

    If you had any respect for James Connolly you would stop abusing his name for your own cynical SF/PIRA agenda.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:38 PM

    absolutely shameful for you and your ilk to use this murder attempt on a woman as a means to attack sf, and if you are a real woman I hope you never have to go through anything like that woman and children went through….and before you label me as a sf supporter i served 21 years in the df and i will never vote or support sf. daisy you and people like you are just as much an abomination as sf and fg/lab ff

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:42 PM

    I have to laugh at dermo and his 2 dimensional, 1 sided, ‘slate’.

    People who were involved in the conflict and lost friends and family were willing to ‘wipe the slate clean’ and work with each other with the blessing of the vast majority of people on this Island. I’ll take that ahead of the agendas of YFG/Labour youff teenyboppers

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:45 PM

    Showing your true colours now werejammin. There was no “war” in Limerick when McCabe was shot and SF agitated like mad for his killers to be freed under the very agreement you mention. One which I didn’t vote for. If this woman cannot condemn without hesitation the murder of a guard then she’s barely fit to be human, never mind actually in power. She’s a disgrace. And a vote for SF is a vote for those who would obfuscate when it comes to condemning murder.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:47 PM

    the mask has well and truly slipped from SF

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:47 PM

    Chickens are again coming home to roost for the shinners ,the electorate are not fools ,we remember the murderous indiscriminate campaign of the shinners/ira and we are expected to believe that Gerry Adams was only in the boy scouts when carring the coffins of his dead heros .
    They now expect us to believe that child abuse didnt exist in their regime and that their current economic policies will delever for ireland .
    Give us a break !!!.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:47 PM

    Derek, that’s for your post. I’m glad they’re fooling nobody with their faux outrage.

    Oh, and ignore the red thumbs. They have a habit of appearing en masse out of nowhere when a certain poster is around.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:47 PM

    Old Gordon…..KNOCK! KNOCK! late at night!

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:49 PM

    this most definitely will become a major election issue. Have the McCabe family made any comment?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:53 PM

    I don’t usually comment on sinn fein stories but this stavka/Goebbels/politburo type of obfuscation just winds me up…the IRA murdered this decent cop..express regret,accept responsibility and remorse…and mean it.maybe then the Irish citizenry could begin to reevaluate sinn fein…international history is littered with murderous gangs who were able to throw themselves on the mercies of their country folk and meet the conditions for redemption…people can be surprisingly generous..but not with obfuscating recidivists

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:53 PM

    Ignore the red thumbs. That’s it jammin., Head in the sand stuff. PR disaster for your kind. Shinners in real trouble. Won’t get the vote out. Won’t get transfers. Won’t matter at all. You’ve been well and truly found out on EVERY level

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:57 PM

    Louise O’Reilly has nowc belatedly clarified that she condemns the killing of Garda McCabe. In reality, it was not just a killing, but a murder committed by homicidal killers.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:58 PM

    Story constantly bumped to the top of the news feed now.. If this was a scandal at the hands of the government it’d be posted then articles galore containing nothing would be thrown on top it..

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:04 PM

    yes connolly i noticedthat..the red thumbs appeared like magic….must be something i said…if only the journal was as quick to dump the 3 people with multi accounts who have infested and destroyed this site

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:05 PM

    it is right that the media are highlighting this absolute disgrace from SF . Mask has being ripped off your mob

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:07 PM

    At the end of the day we are all Irish and should be proud of that fact, nobody owns the moral high ground. We have all suffered enough at the hands of terrorists, religious and other configurations. Lets just forget about that for now and thank God that peace prevails in this land.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:10 PM

    Probably going to have Pearse Doherty refusing to sign off on the banking inquiry report now as the deflection restarts.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:10 PM

    @ ‘joacin’ : “the IRA murdered this decent cop..express regret,accept responsibility and remorse…and mean it.maybe then the Irish citizenry could begin to reevaluate sinn fein…”

    The leader of Sinn Fein apologised, on Dail record, on behalf of the republican movement for the death of Garda Jerry McCabe.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:14 PM

    Note the wording, ‘the killing’. It was murder.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:15 PM

    Connolly 40 plus red thumbs appearing about a min just posted.. Yet all of the comments above you had only a few green it red thumbs. Weird

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:16 PM

    But did he condem it For Connolly ?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:16 PM

    i’d say its reflective of your disgraceful posts

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:18 PM

    People are outraged at the hypocrisy of Sinn Feinn on this issue, Supernova

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:20 PM

    We really have hit rock bottom if Sinn Féin are considered ‘an alternative’.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:22 PM

    Look. She was put in a tough position.. If she came out and said the murder was downright cowardly rte and every media outlet in the country would constantly be on sinn féin’s back saying “since you condemn this murder what about murdering of British soldiers loyalists paramilitaries and so on??.. Then sinn féin would have to say the Ira wasn’t needed.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:22 PM

    @for connolly. only the 17 years after the fact. You might also mention he didn’t ask for information or help finding the other 2 ira lads involved that have been on the run for those 17 years too.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:24 PM
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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:27 PM

    For……OK,so do they need to do more?maybe cull people like this lady who absolutely inflamed the Journal readership?I’ve never seen such passion to contribute an opinion…I never normally post on sinn fein stories…today I couldn’t help it…

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:29 PM

    the public are outraged at this disgraceful act

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:31 PM

    It’s not easy being asked questions and trying to elaborate in what your saying when your surrounded by brown noses when AL they’re interested in is political point scoring. The 20% + of people who are voting for them see this

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:32 PM

    She was right tho there is more pressing issues like site serve and homeless and housing and hse major issues if u ask me she was definitely ambused by establishment servants.Typical rte lies and propaganda.Surprise surprise ff fg labour the partys that sold us out bankers lapdogs.Ira mehole bunch of dinosaurs._.Sf independents for government right to change.._._.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:36 PM

    its great that the shinners have finally being exposed

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:36 PM

    34 thumbs and counting with it only posted within 1 min. I highly doubt loads of people were refreshing the story every second just to scroll down see my new comment and red thumb me all at once.. Strange Again

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:38 PM

    https://youtu.be/27UL3tZW1bk wait will vote theseclowns back in !!!!

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:41 PM

    I’m usually one to call tinfoil hattery, but there is definitely something fishy going on Supernova.

    Bobby, you can talk about a lot of issues, including the ones you mentioned, but it’s typical of SF’s campaign of DDD that issues that reflect badly on them are not allowed to be raised. Grow up.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:42 PM

    Yes indeed Supernova strange going on indeed.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:46 PM

    I’m occasionally one to throw on a tin foil hat.. But yeah it’s obvious something looks fishy regarding the thumbs, not that I care anyway I’m just saying

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:47 PM

    https://youtu.be/psFpg7FDS4I its wasn’t nice ambushing that lady on radio like that what do u expect from ff fg labour neo-liberals they just want to sell us out.Sf independents for government right to change._.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:53 PM

    Mk76 what age was she when it happened.Tell me where was fg ff and the guards when the church was raping all the children.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:56 PM

    She’s no ‘lady’ she’s a cop-killer apologist and is vermin IMO. She can be a lady to you all she wants.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:56 PM

    can SF ever be trusted again?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:57 PM

    FC “The leader of Sinn Fein apologised, on Dail record” However what Mrs McCabe is on record as saying what she wants is for him to condemn it, only this week she again reiterated that she believes Adams apology to be totally disingenuous and nothing more than posturing

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:04 PM

    Bobby Phelan and the sf whataboutery. Sf are the last ones in this country (along with the church) that can lecture anyone on pedophiles. I suppose you think it’s hilarious to use your sf Councillors words

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:07 PM

    Miss flip flop now condemns it, because of public outrage. Not because it deserves to be condemned but in case it costs her votes…………….

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:20 PM

    True colours Bobby. True colours.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:22 PM

    This is a ready avenue for sanctimonious drivel from lightweights who have no sense of recent history. Det McCabe should never have been shot and McCauley is a pschyopath. Gerry Adams and SF have apologised to his family http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-21268790
    This was another little round up on a young SF candidate by the old guard political parties with RTE and Claire Byrne (and lets be fair, she’s hardly a political heavy weight) doing as they always do – standing with the establishment.
    This was gutter journalism, embarrassing even by RTE’s standards.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:33 PM

    How far back would you like your rhetoric taken Diarmuid?
    Back to Connolly himself? WHo led his own 115 year old son into the Rising very much against his wife’s wishes?
    ‘near pathological hatred of the army and everything and anyone associated with it, including the Irish dependents of those soldiers injured or killed. The hatred is frightening in its intensity’
    http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/sean-o-callaghan-how-i-lost-my-faith-in-james-connolly-1.2443428
    Open your mind ffs, your simplistic version of right and wrong is embarrassing

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:35 PM

    Are you for real – did you not even read the headline?
    ‘Sinn Féin candidate says she ‘unreservedly condemns’ killing of Garda Jerry McCabe after criticisms’
    Is thaat not simple enough for you?
    This was gutter journalism, embarrassing even by RTE’s standards.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:49 PM

    Miss flip flops

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:50 PM

    Anyone who doesn’t use their real name has something to hid sort of thing Daisy?? LoL

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    Dec 5th 2015, 10:25 PM

    Your a horrible individual Jammin

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    Dec 5th 2015, 11:59 PM

    Supernova – did you not notice that over 22,000 views were taken on this story??

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    Dec 6th 2015, 2:50 AM

    @ Fiona deFreyne

    my uncle dismissed the murder of Garda Jerry McCabe

    he said “sure it was an armed escort”

    his disgusting attitude just one of the reasons i stopped talking to him

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    Dec 6th 2015, 9:35 AM

    poor shinnerbots cant red thumb facts away :D

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:49 PM

    She is representative of all SF, young and old. Follow the party line. Do they really believe people will just dismiss their past, move on? They wish. No moral compass in any of them…

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:54 PM

    It is possible that she could be minister for justice one day. Jesus wept!

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:02 PM

    Brandy, your village called. They want their idiot back…

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:07 PM

    why would she condemn it sure didnt SF give him a standing ovation to celebrate his vile acts

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:09 PM

    It’s scary to think that a Sinn Fein TD, that won’t denounce the murder of a Garda, could be Minister for Justice

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:19 PM

    just shows how morally bankrupt shinners really are

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:31 PM

    That’s BS O’Reilly; why would anyone ever want that idiot back?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:55 PM

    Brandy. That is not the SF party line. They are in full favour of immigration. So you maybe confused. Better you confer with party HQ before you embarrass them anymore.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:00 PM

    @brandy, either your an excellent throll or a neanderthal. Cant figure out which.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:08 PM

    Brandy….I don’t know how to break this to you but……this “lady” is an immigration advocate..open borders multiculturalism type of girl…for her 20k Syrians is only the beginning….

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:13 PM

    Then dont vote for then either .I am not a member of SF ,but after what these FF,FG,LBR Traitors have done to our tiny country ANY party is better than these lying bstrds

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:07 PM

    I’ve figured it out brandy. Your a neanderthal.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:08 PM

    Francis will be a hard act to follow…….yeah.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:52 PM

    That sums up Sinn Fein , I won’t be voting for them , rather have the same shower any day instead of people who actually think it’s ok to kill gardai

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:56 PM

    As if you were ever going to vote them anyway, I doubt your vote will be missed!

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:00 PM

    I always gave my vote to Brian Stanley , he was a great councillor but the fact they let this idiot on the radio and the fact they would say anything to get into power leaves me no choice , I really hope she gets punished by the party for this , it’s very bad publicity

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:13 PM

    So it’s the publicity that concerns you, not the fact that she won’t condemn the murder of a Garda. Well done.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:34 PM

    Yes it is , I have respect for our gardai , I cannot vote for a party that refuses to condemn a murder

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    Dec 6th 2015, 2:40 AM

    @ captain ireland

    i was on a site not so long ago when a SF supporter tried to justify the murder of Jerry McCabe

    do you know what they said?

    he was murdered for two reasons

    1 the gardai “murdered” an IRA member
    2 special branch opened a child’s coffin at a SF/IRA funeral

    that tells you everything you need to know about sinn fein supporters

    the lowest of the low imo

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:44 PM

    Who’s actually shocked though?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:18 PM

    another two fingers to the irish people from SF

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:32 PM

    Just like the repeated two fingers from FG and Labour. They are all the same Thomas.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:38 PM

    Don’t be fooled by their cynical media tactics, their tricolour waving, their political stunts, their “endearing” social media comments….

    SF/PIRA are opportunists who only care about their degenerate “movement”, not the people of this island.

    If they cared about the Irish people, they would not have supported a terrorist movement which expressly ignored the wishes of the Irish people for 40+ years.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:06 PM

    I have one simple question with a YES or NO answer. Was the Provisional IRA at War with the Irish Republic in 1996?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:09 PM

    Get Mary Lou out to RTE quick damage limitation called for Ms O’Reilly should have said OK to murder RUC not OK to murder Garda I think her SF career will be short

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:11 PM

    Yes.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:11 PM

    Has Eire been INVADED YES or NO.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:13 PM

    To further clarify, they deluded themselves into thinking the Irish state was illegitimate and that they were the true guardians of the elected Dail of 1919. This is typical Shinner of course. They demand inquiries and action to investigate any wrongdoing by the British or Loyalists in the troubles but deflect any call for similar scrutiny on themselves by claiming it was in the past and time to move on.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:17 PM

    On the contrary! O’Reilly’s ability to parrot the party line will see her rise through the ranks to become one of Gerry’s ventriloquist dolls… Just like MaryLou.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:22 PM

    Robert. Sorry my question was meant to be for those who support the SF stance on the McCabe murder.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:33 PM

    Brandy. NO. And the reason why is Eire as a country has only existed since 1922. Now if you mean the Island of Ireland (previously known as Hibernia) which was made up of individual Kingdoms and Tribal areas pre the 8th Century Viking invasions and then again in the 12th Century by the Norman French then the answer would be YES.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:59 PM

    No

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:14 PM

    @ Robert: Stop spoofing. SF are the only people who have consistently called for a peace and reconciliation commission where everything from all entities involved in the conflict can be brought into the public domain.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:20 PM

    Mick Jordan ,take a peek at your Passport OR driving license .They clearly say EIRE .Wake up .I am an Irish Nationalist ,I love my country.These days if one loves their Country ,they are Deemed a Racist .I really love my Country..Anyone else love their Country .

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:23 PM

    Yet SF leadership can’t condemn the murder of a guard, can’t accept that they have a murky past and can’t accept that they are still a party with terrorist members and sympathisers.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:33 PM

    Brandy…there’s a young lady who often drops into the Journal to contribute..her name is Fiona..give her a shout…hook up..you might actually cancel each other out.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:36 PM

    Brandy. What did I say I my First reply. Did I or Did I not say Eire has only existed as a state since 1922. Now as a citizen of the State that I will assume you are, you will have learnt Irish history in school. And in that History you will have learnt that the nation state known as Eire came into being when the British Empire signed the Peace Treaty giving independence to the Nation state of Eire.

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    Dec 6th 2015, 3:26 AM

    i remember Mary Lou defecting Liam Adams on The Week In Politics

    she emphasized the way abuse destroys a family

    she said something like “its an earthquake that rocks through a family ”

    as if that had anything to so with Sinn Fein’s painfully obvious cover up FFS

    liam adams = pedophile protected by the IRA

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:00 PM

    Typical Sinn Fein. They see democratic politics as a la carte. Electorate beware

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:07 PM

    We don’t have democratic politics in this state. That’s why FG/Labour are still in office despite wiping their backsides with the manifestos which put them there.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:10 PM

    just when you thought SF couldnt stoop any lower…

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:25 PM

    Frankly For Connolly that is democracy, the auld Bertie five year mandate, please God next spring all that shall change, radically……oops, forgot, this is Ireland!

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:10 PM

    Jammin – Its difficult for SF/IRA to understand democracy Go and look it up!.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:19 PM

    Powerabbey, are you electioneering for F.G. again?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:14 PM

    She said there were rights and wrongs on each side !. I would love her to explain what was Garda J. McCabe doing wrong on that faithful day.

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    Dec 6th 2015, 3:38 AM

    @ Tony Hartigan

    she is using people like Hugh Hehir to somehow justify the murder of a garda

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:52 PM

    “rights and wrongs on both sides”

    Which were the two sides, exactly?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:53 PM

    Lorem.. Yeah so the Ira were the only ones to murder.. Cmon like

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:59 PM

    Who were the both sides? Seriously?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:01 PM

    So supernova what did Jerry mccabe do in your war to justify his murder

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:05 PM

    In the case of murdering McCabe it was the IRA killing Irish citizens there to defend us as part of our police force. They were also robbing banks in the Irish state, but shur look, anything was justifiably to those vermin, and for this Shinner Louise O’Reilly, clearly it’s a little too ‘complicated’ for her.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:06 PM

    It was wrong! I’d be the first one to. Condemned cowardly attacks at the hands of the Ira during the troubles. But the weren’t the only ones. And I didn’t grow up in the troubles. Doesn’t affect me. I’m voting sinn féin here and now!!

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:08 PM

    Vote away. The rest of us do remember

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:08 PM

    just when you thought the shinners couldnt stoop any lower. utterly disgraceful

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:12 PM

    That’s your democratic right supernova thankfully the vast majority doesn’t hold your point of view

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:12 PM

    Supernova You say that as if it was a long time ago since sf were giving this man a standing ovation, all that’s all the current sf leadership supported him unquestionably and fully

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:14 PM

    The new generation will have sinn féin in power sooner or later. 50+ it’s just FF, FG, nó matter what they do. That’s worrying

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:16 PM

    Supernova, I don’t see any other party in this country being involved in and covering up murders. I don’t see any other party failing to condemn the murder of a Garda. Luckily, most people have and always will care more about these issues than a brief water charges controversy which has come and gone. Sinn Fein will always shoot themselves in the foot over their past while they continue with Adams at the helm.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:20 PM

    Thankfully most people can see through sf, I kinda feel sorry for people that get taken with their nonsense

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:21 PM

    SF still dancing on garda mccabes grave. utterly disgusting

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:24 PM

    I’d say most of their supporters wouldn’t be scoring too high on the IQ tests Tom. The only time they do a bit of writing is when signing on.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:53 PM

    Ah lads, Supernova will finish puberty at some point. Hopefully he’ll receive a decent college education and start to earn a wage. At that point, he might figure out that Sinn Féin aren’t the party for the ‘actually’ working man.

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    Mute Thomas Mac Donagh
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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:00 PM

    as each day passes the shinnerbots get more pathetic

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:27 PM

    Supernova claimed he will a preference vote to the social democrats in his constituency here recently and then said that the SD aren’t running a candidate in his constituency. Shows he level of intelligence in SF these days

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:49 PM

    @Micheal o Reily “I don’t see any other party in this country involved in the cover up of murders,” that’s not entirely true, for instance just recently the family of Seamus Ludlow have been pushing for an inquiry into his death but we didn’t see RTE interrogating anyone from FG over the cover up of his murder, that’s just one example of scores of murders and assassinations that occurred in this state that were hushed up by successive governments, Dublin/Monaghan bombings is another example. In this instance McCabes killers should have been charged with murder, the nature of the crime shooting dead a member of the Gardai they should have been exempt from the terms set up in the GFA and served their sentences to the full.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:11 PM

    Supernova…you are sure tenacious..gotta admire that.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:12 PM

    They were exempt from the GFA, educate yourself.
    It was SF pressure that had them out early

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:19 PM

    Delusional people often are tenacious.

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    Dec 6th 2015, 9:32 AM

    i will never stop telling the truth Megs, sorry if that bothers you :)

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:53 PM

    Imagine a Sinn Féin Justice Minister… or a Minister of Defence?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:03 PM

    Imagine that , he would pass reduced sentences on murdering garda

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:03 PM

    They seem to be doing ok in the 6 counties old Gordon. I voted for the Labour party in the last election and was totally sold a pup. I honestly feel that the electorate were lied to and fooled by Fine Gael and Labour so while what the IRA have done in the past was wrong Sinn Fein are clearly a political party and I will be giving them my vote.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:56 PM

    @paul mac

    And do you think sinn fein/ira wouldn’t lie to you before/during/after an election??

    They have built their success on lying.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:19 PM

    @ Larry. I’m no expert on anything Larry but if the DUP in the 6 counties can somehow get along with Sinn fein I really do believe that the established political parties in the 26 counties are genuinely worried about the shinners upsetting the status quo. Maybe I’m a dreamer but wouldn’t it be nice to believe that not all politicians are in it for the money.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:19 PM

    Money and power are equally intoxicating Paul.
    Sf would literally say or do anything to get into power, to push their agenda,
    THEIR OWN VISION of a united Ireland. I said it like that because it couldn’t possibly be a genuine united Ireland under a party that continually through the years have caused more divisions than anyone else.
    It doesn’t matter if you are a child abuse victim, the family of an innocent person killed by the provos etc etc, all irrelevant to SF in their hunger for power

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:34 PM

    Sorry Tom how often have you been in the 6 counties and if you have visited them have you seen the change? Sinn Fein have made a huge difference in the day to day running of the 6 counties. I live in Dublin but have a lot of family in the north of Ireland and I consider them as Irish as myself and my family. If Enda Kenny and Joan Burton can honour an Irish bomber O Donnovan Rossa maybe it’s time to move forward and see Sinn Fein as a positive move for the whole of Ireland. Maybe I’m wrong but as far as I can make out you won’t get rich by being a politician in Sinn Fein unlike the established parties who don’t need naming.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:48 PM

    SF/IRA are a disaster in the North. Conditions are worsening by the month.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:36 PM

    I live in Louth and often cross the border, while I agree they played their part in the peace process, I don’t feel a need to thank them for stopping killing and intimidating people

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    Dec 6th 2015, 2:44 AM

    @ Powerabbey

    some people (not me but) some people believe violence was a means to an end but sex abuse??

    no one can justify that

    sex abuse was the last straw for SF

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:55 PM

    Many members of Sinn Fein believed, during the ‘troubles’, that murder was an acceptable political weapon, ballot box in one hand, armalite in the other and all that. There is no reason to think they still don’t believe it and no reason to think they wouldn’t return to murder if they felt it was justified in their twisted minds.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:05 PM

    Except for the fact that they signed up to the good Friday agreement.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:10 PM

    is that the GFA where SF accepted the queen as head of state for northern ireland?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:10 PM

    “There is no reason to think they still don’t believe it “????????????

    Did you ever hear of the Good Friday Agreement? I don’t think that involves the Ballot box/Armalite strategy. I was lead to believe that it only involved the Ballot box or am I missing something?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:20 PM

    Werejammin is that the best you can come up with? Poor effort.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:27 PM

    Yes Brian, they murdered a Garda in an unprovoked cold blooded murder as he sat in his car. Many of them still refuse to condemn it, some of them continued to visit the killers in prison, one of them gave the killers a lift home when they were released. The comments by this woman today are symptomatic of their continued ambivalence to violence.

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    Dec 6th 2015, 3:06 AM

    @ Dermot Lane

    was Ronan MacLochlainn revenge for Jerry McCabe ?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:39 PM

    Storm in a teacup, ably stirred by RTE

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:45 PM

    You consider the murder of a Garda a “storm in a teacup”?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:45 PM

    Absolutely not a storm in a teacup. This is a reflection of the Sinn Fein mindset and ambivalence towards murder. Sinn Fein can only be considered as a legitimate political party when those involved in murder, those involved in the organisation and sanction of murder and apologists for murder are ousted from the party.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:46 PM

    What’s this with Joan Burton starting to criticise Fine Gael. I’m sure Burtons criticism of Fine Gael in the run up to the next election is more newsworthy.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:46 PM

    Don’t bother. We’ll let the colour of the thumbs deal with the idiocy of your comment

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:47 PM

    That’s wholeheartedly at rashers btw

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:49 PM

    Political point scoring.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:03 PM

    Yeah rashers, a storm in a teacup, I suppose like your sf candidate you think it’s hilarious

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:05 PM

    has that shinner any morals at all?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:08 PM

    Ray wouldn’t be much point scoring if SF just condemned the murder of a guard, seems they can’t even manage that!

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:57 PM

    And do you condem the murder Ray ?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:57 PM

    Not really Paul. Stop deflecting

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:00 PM

    No storm in a teacup rashers. This really illustrates for me the true moral compass that Sinn Feinn hold and I’m afraid it points to no morals at all.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:08 PM

    Michael I condem every murder.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:14 PM

    Brandy. Eire has never been invaded. Eire (also known as the Republic Of Ireland) as only existed as a single country since 1922. The Island of Ireland has been invaded several times in it’s populated history. The earliest known invasion was from the Passage Grave People, then the Picts, the Vikings, and the Normans. From the time of William the Conqueror until 1922 the entire Island of Ireland was under the rule of the Crown of the British Isles. So technically no part of the Island has been invaded by a foreign nation in over 800 years.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:24 PM

    That’s good Ray. It’s a pity members of Sinn Feinn don’t

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:31 PM

    So mick you mean there are NO Pakis,Nigerians,Polish,Romanians,Brazillians,Latvians,Lithuanians,Estonians,Vietnamese,Chinese,Indians,Syrians,Israelis,and many mamy more Foriegn Nationals who are holders of Bogus pieces of paper saying they are Irish.THIS AMOUNTS TO AN INVASION .Any comment Mick ,seeing that we are galloping towards Aborigine status .But hey Irish People are Racist ,so says the 100,000 Illegal Immigrants

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:55 PM

    You are obviously in full control of you faculties. The Europeans you mentioned are here by right as member citizens of the EU. The Chinese, Vietnamese Thais, Philippinoes, Malayas, Brazilians and Indians are all here because they have applied for and received work/residential visas and are net contributors to our economic growth. Many of who work in our over stretched health sector. I don’t think we have that many Israelis. Many of the Irish Jews have left to go to Israel. And as a total population all the above make up about 1.5% of our entire population. So invasion I would say no. If they are here (a) legally and (b) are actively contributing to the national economy, then they are more than welcome. Now if other other hand arrive as refugees looking for state handouts or are not actively contributing to the Economy then they are not welcome.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:03 PM

    Thomas the troll. Keeps popping up and saying the same thing over and over and over and ovef again. Journal would you just ban this troll.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:16 PM

    Cmon Mick Jordan ,you mean you dont see this Invasion of your own Country.You are BLIND ,by the way Whart Political Party are you from ,Pray Tell

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:23 PM

    I don’t have a Political party Brandy. I vote whom ever will do the best for me and mine. And as for being a Liberal that gave me a good laugh. I have been accused of being many things before, Racist, Fascist, Neo-Liberal, Right Wing Fanatic. But liberal now that is a first.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:40 PM

    Mick Jordan ,just kidding about the Liberal bit ,are you Aware that TENS of Thousands of Foriegn Nationals from Bangladesh AND Pakistan have Flooded into Eire from the UK in the last NINE Months .Francis Fitzgerald is Rushing through Emergencey Legislation to speed up Deportations.TEN YEARS TOO LATE .

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:46 PM

    Read again what I wrote about been legal and Illegal. If they come here after applying for and receiving visas to come here in their home countries they are more than welcome. If they arrive here illegally ie: have passed through the “First Safe Country” they arrived in without applying for asylum in that country then they are not welcome.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:58 PM

    So how does one Stop this Illegal Influx from UK .This is Serious my friend ,it is out of Control .The Irish Army should be sent to Protect our Borders UK are delighted to be Rid of these People This Claiming Asylum ,given Accommodation ,while our own People are Turfed out on to the Streets .History is Repeating Itself in Eire .Unless the Irish Protect its own Borders Home rule from Brussels ie Germany Must proceed ASAP..

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:25 PM

    One does what the Australians do. Deport them immediately on arrival.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 10:31 PM

    Mick Jordan – liberal….yeah,like me.

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    Dec 6th 2015, 9:45 AM

    have SF explained why they gave him a standing ovation yet? the irish people deserve an answer

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:50 PM

    Once again today my heart goes out to the McCabe Family on the loss of someone they treasured, to the other Garda on duty that morning who presumably lives the horror of it every single day and to all Gardai what deal with the likes of McCauley an such lowlifes on a daily basis. Anyone who fails to condemn the murder of an innocent human being has a skewed moral compass.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:54 PM

    Well said. Poor Mrs McCabe it must be so hard for her.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:07 PM

    While idiots like this are representative of Sinn Fein they won’t get within an asses roar of government.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:11 PM

    She can’t even distinguish between ‘I credulous’ and ‘incredible’. As for her use of ‘hilarious’ to describe the killing of a Garda – well that’s beyond incredible.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:14 PM

    It was very revealing.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:19 PM

    Robert Cousins what Party are you a supporter or member of ,cmon out with it ,my guess is FG .Correct me if i am wrong

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:40 PM

    So Brandy what you are saying is you have zero clue about you are waffling about.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:12 PM

    Mick Jordan kindly go for a walk around your Country ,you are now an Irish Minority in your own Country .Wake up man you are a White man in an African Country,but sure your a Liberalist

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:18 PM

    I don’t know where you live. But everyone where I live is Irish.

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    Dec 6th 2015, 3:37 AM

    @ Robert Cousins

    Adams body language on tv3 documentary The Disappeared was very revealing

    then SF regurgitating the anglo tapes in a pathetic attempt to deflect Adams cracking up

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:57 PM

    Typical SF they want to talk about everybody’s history but don’t every ask them about their members history if you do the bully boys come out

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    Dec 6th 2015, 3:20 AM

    @ Seán O Reilly

    SF supporters are bullies
    i learned that the hard way

    i was working as a machine operator in a factory in 2005
    one of my co workers was a SF supporter he asked me if I’d vote for Martin Ferris

    when i said i couldn’t after what he did to Jerry McCabe

    he made a “joke”

    he said that they’d be knockin on my door some night

    it made me skin crawl

    that anyone could make a veiled threat like that then laugh

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:01 PM

    Was she asked about the northern bank robbery as well?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:29 PM

    No amount of waffle or doublespeak can disguise the monster that is SF/IRA.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:53 PM

    Look at her latest tweets. She’s blaming the other panelists for her inability to condemn murder. Written by the SF press office…

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    Dec 6th 2015, 3:44 AM

    @ O’Reilly

    Mary Lou got herself thrown out of the Dail twice to deflect IRA sex abuse

    how anyone can do that and stay in government is a mystery to me

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:04 PM

    Louise O’Reilly, putting the Sinn into Sinncerity.

    How many hours did it take her to realise she unreservedly condemns killing gardai?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:45 PM

    Notice she used the word killing, not the word murder.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:54 PM

    What a bitc*

    I expect we will see an apology fro here once someone has a word like the IS comments a few weeks ago,

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:56 PM

    from here

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:31 PM

    I think this lady has made herself unelectable….personally I’d rather eat my vote that give it to her…oh and your use of the word”incredulous”is incredible and improper.just sayin……

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    Dec 6th 2015, 3:42 AM

    @ Joachin Peiper

    was Ferris unelectable after what he did to Jerry McCabe?

    was Adams unelectable after what he did to Jean McConville?

    was McGuinness unelectable after what he did to Frank Hegarty ?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:51 PM

    Continuing to raise the past and stir shit.. What’s new from Rte? Thankfully most sensible sinn féin voters such as myself are voting on matters that are affecting them here and now! All this anti sinn féin hate and dragging up the past is going to worse.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:54 PM

    I think the shit stirred itself when a convicted killer who SF lobbied for tried to kill his wife at Christmas ams he went to prison.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:54 PM

    *and

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:55 PM

    Yeah. How dare they challenge the past of a political party that’s asking ng for the public to put them into government. Shameful. Will anyone think of the SF cubs. Muppet…

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:59 PM

    It’s worrying that elected representatives won’t condone murder.

    Sheep.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:59 PM

    Lets say it was is the SF candidate that tick to walk into it………

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:02 PM

    Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams is a proven liar , he will be no different from Kenny

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:07 PM

    how could anyone vote for SF/IRA after this?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:57 PM

    That’s the paradox Captain Ireland. ‘Liebour’ are reaching popularity of paedophile proportions due to unrealistic promises yet these lads are saints for telling a few white lies about a couple of murders of innocent people that happened during their totally pointless struggle.

    Their ‘campaign’ was a total failure and it’s nothing to be celebrated. Rather the opposite.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:06 PM

    Thomas your full of shite.I heard fg cooked the books.Hows dinny

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    Dec 6th 2015, 2:36 AM

    @ Supernova

    sinn féin voters are voting on matters that are affecting them here and now

    a political party who can’t condemn the murder of a police officer doesn’t affect you ??????

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    Dec 6th 2015, 9:46 AM

    Can SF ever be trusted again after this?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:48 PM

    Sinn Fein doublespeak again. How is it that we never see or hear them recognise or praise the real Irish Army, yes the Army paid for and mandated to look after the security of the State. Maybe Sinn Fein has other intentions for the Army if and when they get into power.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:41 PM

    The IRA is a criminal organization, no doubt about it.

    Put aside the murders/”war killings”, which are controversial, for a minute.

    This is an organization who steals from others to fund itself. That fact alone means any member is a disgusting criminal who doesn’t deserve to call themselves Irish, let alone a patriot. How can anyone justify stealing from your own community in the name of nationalism!? Hypocrites

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:59 PM

    James, would you have said the same about the British army at the turn of the century in Ireland, that they facilitated the removal of Irish land from Irish people, that they took taxes for the queen on pain of death or imprisonment. History is written by the victors, all I see when any political party uses a citizens pain for personal gain are hypocrites.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:00 PM

    James The IRA as it exists today has no connection to sf. The dissidents involved in criminality are not SF. The british say that the IRA still exist but are not involved in criminality.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:22 PM

    Seamus are you saying the slab murfs of this world, that operate along the border don’t have any connection to the republican movement anymore ?

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    Dec 6th 2015, 3:55 AM

    @ James O Brien

    i take comfort in the undeniable fact that Sinn Fein will never be in power

    even when people are fed up and they vote in anger SF will never get in

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:01 PM

    She had her wrist slapped by Party HQ and told to retract her previous statement and Condemn the murder. Got to love the political squirming and 180 turns.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:45 PM

    She still didn’t call it murder, SF never do.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:12 PM

    Typical SF/IRA drivel

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:37 PM

    I noticed that Pauline Mc Auley,Pearse McAuleys ex wife while being interviewed today by Marian didn’t condemn her husband as a murderer of Garda Mc Cabe…Indeed she didn’t state that Garda Mc Cabe death was a murder. ….you reap what you sew….imagine wanting to marry a murderer and being surprised when he then tries to murder again…who was in denial….All Sinn FEIN members are deluded and in denial….it’s staggering how they expect our sympathy when their predicted consequences come true.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:03 PM

    She did Shin Fein no favours they should get rid of her out of the party . She definitely put me off voting for them . Her carry on was disgraceful she thought she was great not answering the question , and sucking up to Clair Byrne

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:14 PM

    Scratch the surface of most of them and you’ll find they are applogists for murder.

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    Dec 6th 2015, 3:46 AM

    @ Maureen Stanford

    IRA murder

    IRA abuse

    IRA drug dealing

    but she put you off voting for them??????????????????

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:32 PM

    Yeah she has now checked with Gerry and can confirm SF position.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:55 PM

    After the horse had bolted.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:48 PM

    Mary lou will stage another walk-out to deflect attention from this

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    Dec 6th 2015, 4:01 AM

    @ Jimmy jones

    she deflected Liam Adams

    she deflected Mairia Cahill

    she deflects her colleague Pearse Doherty supporting the bank guarantee

    ah sure why not deflect the murder of a garda

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:28 PM

    Oh look what did I saw an hour ago, somebody has told her issue an apology.

    She is not a bit sorry just some PR saving!

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:57 PM

    She had every opportunity to make her point whatever that was going to be. But she couldn’t answer a simple question yes or no as to wether she condemned the murder of Garda McCabe.
    This is the face of the new young sf candidates, just as hate filled as the old ones.

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    Dec 6th 2015, 4:11 AM

    @ mcbab

    i was happy for Lynn Boylan the night she was elected

    now she uses words like “regrettable”

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:26 PM

    Louise o Reilly….if the atrocious murder of Garda McCabe was an act of war it stands comparison with the Gleiwitz incident ( except for the money the Gardai were guarding).Google it.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 10:09 PM

    Nationalist, socialist, Irish, workers party is what SF purports to stand for. Translate into German and you get SF=NSDAP. They are outright fascists, Confirmed by radiointerview today and in comments by their sympathisers in this forum.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:53 PM

    Micheal Martin getting it wrong, again, again, and from another thread but, McAuley has never been convicted of murder, it was manslaughter, he served his time for this so get over it, I’m personally sorry it wasn’t murder and he wasn’t hanged for it bit that’s the result he got so don’t expect to get into government if you cannot get basic facts straight.

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    Dec 6th 2015, 2:46 AM

    @ Joey Gee

    witnesses were intimidated to force a verdict of “manslaughter”

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:53 PM

    Its all politics. She should have condemned it. As it is shes just given the blueshirts more amunition to have a go at sf. Why is she being asked questions about 20 years ago anyway?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:57 PM

    Seriously? She wants the public vote but don’t ask hard questions? Wake up…

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:15 PM

    Wouldn’t even call it a hard question. All she had to say was no she doesn’t condone it.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:50 PM

    It’s just over 6 yrs ago since Ferris went to collect him from prison, a little over 2000 days ago, not exactly ancient history Seamus.
    On the plus side he won’t have his own bungalow in prison this time
    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/pearse-mcauley-has-long-history-as-top-provo-30862863.html

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    Dec 6th 2015, 2:47 AM

    @ Tom Kenny

    i was watching Oireachtas TV sky channel 574

    Martin Ferris was in the dail he told someone to use their conscience ffs

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:56 PM

    “The murder of any person and the taking of human life is wrong.”
    So.
    Why does Clare Byrne need clarification?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:07 PM

    Because she wanted clarification in this particular case and didn’t satisfactorily get it.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:55 PM

    Silly question Tommy

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:09 PM

    Journal speculating again her wording was wrong ! Why should she admit to something she had no control over ! I gladly give SF my vote for years and many more to come

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:19 PM

    You obviously didn’t hear the show! Her response was contemptible, but a timely portent for those contemplating placing a tick against SF in the upcoming election.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:23 PM

    i would hate to be Louise O’Reilly when she gets the call from Gerry or Mary Lou today.
    Dont think we will hear her again on radio or TV for a long while.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:55 PM

    Why the French flag Sharon. Something to do with condemning cold blooded murder ?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:48 PM

    Its called respect !

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    Dec 5th 2015, 10:51 PM

    Others would call it hypocrisy Sharon

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    Dec 6th 2015, 3:31 AM

    @ Chauncey Gardiner

    reasons i will die before i vote for SF

    what Martin Ferris did to Jerry McCabe
    what the IRA did to Mairia Cahill and Paudie McGahon
    what Gerry Adams did to Jean McConville
    what the IRA enabled animals like Liam Adams
    what Martin McGuinness did to Miriam O’Callaghan
    the IRA sold drugs
    sinn fein supported the bank guarantee then denied it
    Adams took over a million from a position he never took

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    Dec 5th 2015, 10:14 PM

    They are robots , that’s what she was programmed to think at the time, she was then reprogrammed to think something else, simple, give the girl a break..

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    Dec 5th 2015, 5:52 PM

    No-one in sinn fein has done that to be fair about it.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:05 PM

    I don’t see why she couldn’t have just said that the murder was wrong and be done with it. Considering that it was nearly 20 years ago and that a fair share of the electorate weren’t even born then it was hardly going to have a major impact on her vote either way. The younger generation are more worried about getting a job and a place to live than events that should or shouldn’t have happened in the past. The IRA unit shot the 2 gardai in cold blood and should have been done for capital murder.

    The next question is will this election campaign be the usual crap of asking every SF candidate to condemn this and that rather than debate them on present day issues. Easiest thing for Gerry Adams to do is scare the crap out of every political party in Ireland by coming out and issuing a statement like

    ” We, Sinn Fein condemn EVERYTHING that you can think of. No matter what it is, we condemn it. Republicanism. Loyalism, Unionism, Nationalism, Britishness, Irishness, the whole lot, so there!”

    Now any chance we could deal with the way forward for the next 5 years?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:11 PM

    why did SF give him a standing ovation?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:32 PM

    I don’t know Tommy but seeing as you are spamming every single article on here with the same question repeatedly if someone actually gives you an answer then you might pass it on, there’s a good chap.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:44 PM

    why did SF feel the need to celebrate this murderer?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:53 PM

    You’re just an apologist for murder Brian Ward. The hypocrisy of Sinn Feinn supporters on this topic is sickening.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:06 PM

    Oh look another fake Facebook page! Well “Michael Farrelly” if I am an ” apologist for murder” who does my saying “The IRA unit shot the 2 gardai in cold blood and should have been done for capital murder.” tie in with that?

    Surely if I am defending a murder it isn’t a good idea to come out and say that those who committed the murder should have been jailed now does it? Nor would it be a good idea to say that I also believe that they should have gotten 40 years with no parole. http://www.thejournal.ie/pearse-mcauley-sentenced-2478979-Dec2015/

    I am obviously not very good at being an “apologist” now am I?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:16 PM

    Well Brian, for some reason the witnesses refused to testify.. A knock on the door late at night, it’s just Gerry canvassing.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:30 PM

    Funny because I thought that knock on the door late at night was a Fine Gael thing! Even Young Fine Gael are doing it now even though it is way past their bedtime.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:31 PM

    Ok, I take it back Brian but also saying things like “younger people are more interested in getting a job and a place to live” is demeaning the importance of the moral compass of people who resuse to condem this murder. By the way my Facebook account is real. Why do you feel the need to say its not ? Does it make you feel better in some way ?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:18 PM

    Michael take a look at some of the accounts on here and you will see that they are used by the same few people to try and pretend that there is more support for what they are saying than there actually is. Your account looks like the sort of thing that they use bit if it isn’t then please accept my apologies.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:55 PM

    I can’t help thinking Brian that is because that is what SF enter into they believe that it is the same for others. Actually I’d say both are at it.
    For the life of me I can never understand how people can start accusing other people of having multiple accounts, I don’t doubt they do, but how could anyone that didn’t have access to ip addresses possibly know ?

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    Dec 6th 2015, 3:23 AM

    @ Brian Ward

    your supporting /deflecting a party that support Garda murder speaks for itself

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:01 PM

    Sinn fein – if Menachem Begin..he of the Stern gang and Deir Yassin infamy and the interahamwe of Rwandan genocide infamy,could earn the forgiveness of many of their victims…so could you,but not by misrepresenting the atrocious murder of a decent Garda 20 years on…and I know I’m setting the bar high with Begin..

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    Dec 5th 2015, 10:14 PM

    Sorry Louise o Reilly…on mature recollection.. And I’m very certain you won’t know what this means but….today you committed political Seppuku on the Claire Byrne show.if there’s a next time…show some humanity.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:16 PM

    I think it’s ridiculous, I bet the fianna fail and fianna Gail would have fawned all over Nelson Mandela who’s anc killed people, fianna fail and the “old ira” killed people as did fianna gail in the past, perhaps the journal would do a piece on murders committed by them or are these subjects still taboo.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:23 PM

    Nice whataboutery Cupid.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:28 PM

    It’s just hypocrisy, our gov’t at the time refused to allow Jewish refugees in from Nazi persecution but allowed Nazis in to stay. It’s obviously just petty electioneering, pointing out each others faults, no change here methinks

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    Dec 6th 2015, 3:52 AM

    @ Cupid Stunt

    i shudder to think what will come out about Mandela some day

    if he has friends with Adams etc

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:59 PM

    Yes cupid, I wouldn’t have, but the British were the government at the time like it or not and people were generally ok with that. I’m sure if British people back then knew what was going on they would be disgusted, but it’s a lot easier to ignore a problem that’s not on your doorstep.

    Whatever about a British soldier who has no connection to the area and has probably been sent to Ireland for a reason (unfit mentally perhaps, psychological problems from previous deployments), I just find it worse that the IRA members who grew up here felt it necessary to steal from their own communities to fund their own causes.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:10 PM

    The oh so Intelligent media and politician class resurrecting the Gerry Mc Cabe murder condemnation connundrum for the 100th time . Should the man not be left rest in peace at this stage or is nothing sacred to these twisted rib politicians.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:33 PM

    Tell that to Gerry Mc Cabe’s wife Bernard

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:29 PM

    Tell what to his wife Michael, that the media and politicians are using the tragic death of her husband as some sort of an entrapment device because they are intellectually challenged and havn’t the ability to tell us why they are worth voting for but instead only point to horrors of the past to put us off voting for somebody else. It’s the truth .

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:39 PM

    Bernard because you say something doesn’t make it true

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:56 PM

    It doesn’t make it false either Tom.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 10:07 PM

    It does when only this week Mrs mccabe said she despises sf and doesn’t believe their apology is sincere but merely political posturing, so actually it is you that is trying to (falsely) use the mccabe family

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    Dec 5th 2015, 11:47 PM

    Well if I have used them falsely as you say,it was not my intention. My intention was to show my distaste for these types of political tactics that are reliant on a gullable public for their success, quite insulting really, maybe I should accept any narrative thats flung in my direction as gospel, would you like that Tom?

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    Dec 6th 2015, 3:50 AM

    @ Michael Farrelly

    Bernard reminds me of Eoin Ó Murchú

    a coward who supports SF while ignoring the lives it has destroyed

    he dismissed a photo of Jean McConville as “crap”

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    Dec 6th 2015, 9:31 AM

    You remind me of Phil Hogans friend ,what’s his name again ?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:38 PM

    There is no doubt it was a cold blooded murder. It makes you wonder how a man could kill another like this, why would he have such disrespect for those who uphold the law.
    could it be that growing up in the north he saw from a young age police brutality, maybe while walking to school he had been lined up against a wall and been beaten by british soliders (like I have seen). Maybe when he was 15 he was taken into a police cell and beaten black and blue and when his father came to the station to collect him and saw the state he was in and asked to make a complaint, his father was arrested for assaulting his son.
    Maybe when he was 12 sitting in the back of a car a udr man put a gun to his head and asked if he would like to die like happened to me.
    Maybe he has had close family members or friends shot and killed by the police or army who never served a day for murder
    Maybe he thought that the government and the security in the south of Ireland would help him his family and friends. Maybe he was disillusioned when he realised that both f.g and f.f were only interested in retaining the status quo and used the press and the gardai to supress the wrong deeds of the british security. Indeed the government the press and the gardai assisted the british security forces and their friends in loyalist paramilatries.
    Who knows why successive irish governments assisted the british and unionists so actively maybe they were just cowardly and afraid of the brits, maybe they were happy enough to have 26 pcs of the pie to rule with corruption, to bleed dry. Maybe they were afraid that if the truth were known republicans would actually have enough support to win power in this country and end their cosy cartel.
    Isnt it very similar to whats happening to this day the government, the gardai and the media pushing to retain the status quo.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 10:00 PM

    Oh now I understand gerry o donell, mcauley is actually the victim in this. Nothing new I suppose as SF don’t do responsibility, they’re much more comfortable as the victims, bless they’re little cotton socks

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    Dec 5th 2015, 11:33 PM

    of course tom f.g have always stood by their unionist buddies that they gifted the six county state to. where they had a majority and abused their control through the civil servants and security forces which they controlled. It was always hard to understand f.g’s inaction on loyalist violence and even their support for it didn’t they cover up their actions in the south when innocent irish citizens were killed. It’s hard to know if f.g’s actions were due to cowardice or fear if they admitted that was happening in the six county state that they created, they would have to admit they were wrong, either way they were happy to let thousands of innocent people die.
    so who do you think were the victims tom ? hundreds of ira volunteers died fighting without pay for irish freedom a handful of well paid gardai died while filling in time till they retired with a nice pension.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 11:43 PM

    ” a handful of well paid gardai died while filling in time till they retired with a nice pension.”
    Don’t you mean murdered by an IRA psycho. Gardaí don’t just ‘fill in time’ until their pension, they work doing a difficult job.
    Does this mean that in your wonderful ‘United Ireland’ that the police force would not be doing a worthwhile job…they’d be just ‘filling in time until they retire with a nice pension’?
    Seriously…you should just give up posting …you’re doing more damage to your ‘media image’ with every post.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 11:46 PM

    I wasn’t aware I had a media image.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 11:56 PM

    Your organisation has.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:08 PM

    Great. If your minimum standard for an elected politician is willingness to condemn the murder of a Garda in the line of duty, you can vote for her!

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:12 PM

    Must be an election coming up. Get ready for new evidence to appear in the Jean McConville case.

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    Dec 6th 2015, 3:58 AM

    @ Eamon Hughes

    yeah because expecting an election candidate to 100% condemn the murder of a Garda has to be nothing but a political stunt

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    Dec 6th 2015, 9:34 AM

    What fine examples of IRA SF republicanism Pearse McAuley and his supporters are.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:46 PM

    Its amazing that it comes down to this as far as I can see the troubles are completely over exagerated I mean only 2 people died Jerry mc cabe and jean mc conville if you had an innocent reltive shot by the police, the british army, the loyalists paramilitaries, the ira or die in garda custody then the journal are its loyal breed of commenters don’t want to know. Basically everbody else who died was skum.

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    Dec 6th 2015, 12:09 AM

    Don’t worry about it Louise, most salafist’s have the same trouble in denying Jihadist terrorism.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 11:56 PM

    He will get out of jail and become a councillor first then get elected to the dail and then he will start off by stealing ink cartridges, then he will start to become like the rest of them in the house and start lining his own pockets after securing jobs for his family and friends. It’s the Irish way.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:18 PM

    Where is the one about Joan out with the F.G. Knife wanting to pass the buck now…
    http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/1205/751519-politics/

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    Dec 6th 2015, 11:14 AM

    Noel Whelan had it in one. Sinn Fein’s moral compass does not sit comfortably with the majority of Irish People. Detective Garda McCabes killing was no act of war. No military convention supports shooting someone 12 times in the back. It was also outside the remit of Good Friday Agreement, and Sinn Fein having denied involvement and sneered at those trying to hold them to account, subsequently admitted the operation was approved by an ‘authorised officer’ . Who was the authorised officer ?The Murder charge was dropped when witnesses were intimidated, one served time in Jail, out of fear, rather than testify. Finally this was no one off operation as they say these guys had form. So after that how in Gods name can anyone fail to instantly condemn the killing of Det Garda Gerry McCabe.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 6:38 PM

    Uh oh

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    Dec 5th 2015, 8:49 PM

    No member of the gardai should be ambushed and shot and then made to look like a robbery gone wrong, no matter how much he liked beating up republican suspects while they had their hands cuffed behind their back.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:34 PM

    WTF are you talking about?…………McAuley never knew who the Gardai in the car were, he didn’t care…he shot through the back window, he never seen their faces. It wouldn’t have mattered to McAuley what Gardaí were in the car, he’d have shot them regardless. There is no justification for what he did. So stop trying to infer some weird twisted motive to excuse McAuley….he’s a fu(king psycho.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 9:57 PM

    WTF The gardai the press and ira all knew this action was not an attempted robbery but a personal vendetta, that was not sanctioned by the ira. But you believe what you want,

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    Dec 5th 2015, 10:56 PM

    So why did you feel the need to post a big long spiel further up in this topic about your own experiences and how they affected you….it didn’t make you want to go out and shoot Gardaí….or did it?
    If his act was not sanctioned by the IRA and was a personal vendetta why do SF not immediately when asked not condemn it and why did Martin Ferris pick him up from prison, surely you’d want to distance your organisation from psychos who would cause serious damage to your media image…at what stage do you decide this nut job is a liability?
    The IRA handbook…’The Green Book’…says you shall not fire on members of the Gardaí or Armed forces of the Republic, that you should drop weapons and try to escape, is that rule just for show or is it real and if so what are the consequences for breaking it….it doesn’t look like there’s any consequences from an IRA point of view. No bother to the IRA to shoot a mother of ten children or beat a 21 yr old to death for half an hour….but would the sort out a psycho running amok…no….they give him a standing ovation.
    Will you ever go and fu(k off!

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    Dec 6th 2015, 4:03 AM

    @ gerry o donell

    are you referring to sewage like Hugh Hehir ?

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    Dec 5th 2015, 7:59 PM
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    Dec 5th 2015, 11:32 PM

    Homeless at an all time high, no money for health care, still in vesting all our money in paying back foreign Banks and vastly overpaid FF/FG politician can only talk about the padt. Don’t het me wrong, any murder is an abhorable act and should be treated as such.

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    Dec 5th 2015, 11:49 PM

    I.ve read almost all 305 comments on this thread.. so much hatred. I.ve no comment to make.

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    Dec 6th 2015, 4:50 AM

    If this is a dream believe me i don’t wish to wake up,After 20years relationship with my lover Mohammed he just decided to have a divorce with me because he was having an affair with another lady and the lady told him to break up with me so she can come and take my position when Mohammed told me that he was no longer interested that he is tired of me i was like after 20years now you are tired of me so the next thing was a letter from the lawyer saying Mohammed said he needs a divorce when i saw the letter tears rushed out of my eye i composed my self and said wow this world has turned round against me.So i decided to try all my possible best until one day when i was listen to the radio where i saw people giving testimony on how there divorce was cancelled within 24 hours i was like this is same problem am having i just heard people testifying in the name of this great man called Dr Ogogodu for what he has done for them how he has helped them in bring back there lover i waited for the program to finish and they dropped Dr Ogogodu cell number and email,Immediately i gave dr Ogogodu a call and shared my problem with him he just told me not worry that he assures me that Mohammed will tell the lawyer to cancel the divorce within 24 hours really what Dr Ogogodu said came to past within the 24 hours was a call from Mohammed crying that he his just coming from the lawyers office that he does not need a divorce anymore that he wants me back home that he his sending that lady away so when he said that was so happy now Mohammed came home brought all document and told the lawyer that he his willing everything to me and that he wants me to be the right owner of everything he owns i was so happy,I bless the day i meant dr Ogogodu meeting him was never a regret please clean your tears dr Ogogodu is here to solve your problem you can contact him on ogogodutempleofsolution@gmail.com or cell number +2348078999655
    Name: Mrs Mohammed Heidi Country:London My Email:HeidiMohammed333@hotmail.com

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    Dec 6th 2015, 11:21 AM

    Dear Heidi.
    Dr Ogogodu’s assistant is Rachel. It was Rachel who was having hot passionate sex with your husband. As soon as you paid the money to Dr Ogogodu he told Rachel to drop your husband and find another victim.
    Perhaps in future, if you slip into something a little more revealing and didn’t wear the tent with the letterbox so much….Mohammed may not stray again.

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    Dec 6th 2015, 7:18 AM

    Not a SF supporter, but what is the difference between the party’s candidates being reluctant or slow to acknowledge things (or deny them outright) which have negative connections, when this is what FF, FG, Labour, Greens, PD’s have done and continue to do. SF use exactly the same kind of word games and strategies about Gerry Adams and the troubles as those other parties do about issues that are damaging to themselves (see any political interview or debate over the last 20 years). It’s politics in Ireland and it’s intellectually and ethically almost completely compromised to the point of rotting the listeners brain, heart and nervous system.

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    Dec 7th 2015, 1:33 PM

    “Not a SF supporter’s…”
    …goes on to sport SF.

    Conclusion: IS a SF supporter.

    End of.

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    Dec 7th 2015, 1:43 PM

    “I don’t support the Shinners…”
    Has anybody noticed that this is never said by anyone other than Shinners?

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    Dec 6th 2015, 11:01 AM

    Looks like there trying to put words in louise mouth here .Michael martin jumping on the band wagon too.

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    Dec 6th 2015, 9:26 AM

    THis was more Newstalk bias its
    becoming another agenda serving radio station

    A choice between Goodgrief or Duffy
    I dont support the shinners but she it was a gang up

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    Dec 6th 2015, 10:32 AM

    Another attempt by the political bullyboys and a complicit media to blacken SF. The people know the history and they also know what civil war politics has done to our country. Keep up , move on, it’s time for change.

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