Did you see that the Irish priest who compared Protestants to Nazis has been honoured with what is termed the "prestigious" Tipperary Person of the Year award? Father Alec Reid, a man who claims to have witnessed unquantified IRA decommissioning, has been singled out for this honour for what is entertainingly called his unremitting work "for peace." In a wonderful show of Irish inclusivity. the SDLP and Sinn Fein\IRA will also be present to applaud the Priest who sincerely BELIEVES that the IRA is incapable of criminality. What a shower of hypocrites.
ascending doves
Suitably clichéd ...
Posted by: Madradin Ruad | April 21, 2006 at 10:12 AM
hovering VULTURES....
Posted by: David Vance | April 21, 2006 at 10:14 AM
"Tipperary person of the year" that must rank alongside an award that someone I know told me she had won when she proudly revealed that she was voted Miss Bromley South !
Posted by: Colm | April 21, 2006 at 10:18 AM
What About Miss Bromley North?
Posted by: David Vance | April 21, 2006 at 10:20 AM
Both the Redemptorists and Clonard have interesting form.
Posted by: Madradin Ruad | April 21, 2006 at 10:35 AM
With Eddie McGrady sqealing like a stuck pig when the Police opened fire on a criminal, murderous nationalist bigots on a SDLP approved rampage and Alec Reid being honoured like this it is becoming clear that very large sections of the Catholic community don't want a Protestant about the place. Their ignorance and bigotry has been exposed.
They must be lauging themselves senseless that there is a body as stupid as the Orange Order standign ready to come to their aid by leaping into every dumb trap they set to keep the Unionist community tagged with the bigots label.
Posted by: NRG | April 21, 2006 at 10:35 AM
I do believe that Fr. Reid has done great work for peace but after the Nazi comparison his best contribution would be to keep his head down. His image in the Unionist community is a fact of life now. Giving him an award is telling them that their views and feelings are not important. Not good from a peace prize a committee.
He could always post here where Godwin's law has been abolished by the liberal establishment.
Posted by: Henry94 | April 21, 2006 at 10:46 AM
Giving him an award is telling them that their views and feelings are not important. Not good from a peace prize a committee.
a good point Henry. is Tipperary not traditionally a hard-line republican county ?
In which case our views and feelings ...
Posted by: Madradin Ruad | April 21, 2006 at 10:50 AM
Henry,
I think that is a very fair comment you make. Father Reid would be very welcome to post here...I am a liberal soul at heart.
Posted by: David Vance | April 21, 2006 at 10:57 AM
the fact that this mans divisionary rheatoric is completly unregistered in the mins of Irish high society is a measure of the terms they veiw us 'black and tans' in.
Posted by: jaun pablo | April 21, 2006 at 11:05 AM
David, are you liberal enough to bugger orf out of Ireland, taking the Crown with you.
Give us a bit of peace man.
Posted by: bogbrush | April 21, 2006 at 01:06 PM
Bogbrush,
I don't live in Ireland. I live in the UK. However, if YOU don't like that, maybe you should bugger off taking your brush with you.
Posted by: David Vance | April 21, 2006 at 01:18 PM
ah ! the irish patriots !
what a high minded struggle,
well worth 3000 people, id say.
Roman catholic gaels have every right to live in Ulster and express their culture and ideas in total safety and dignity.
but so do the royalists and where live is subject , gratefully and hummbly, to our dear Queen of Ulster.
Posted by: jaun pablo | April 21, 2006 at 01:24 PM
"Queen of Ulster"
I thought that was Mary McAleese :)
Posted by: Colm | April 21, 2006 at 01:26 PM
David how can leave, I when I'm the only voice of dissent left here, ( dunno where daytripper is ).
This is a website for one voice only, yours plus a few sychophantic backslappers.
I know you don't live in the UK, you're in the food business. I meant you've got Scotland and Wales, don't be so greedy.
Come to sunny brighton I'll make you up some jellied eels cockles and muscles.
Posted by: bogbrush | April 21, 2006 at 01:28 PM
not in our house, im afraid, mary would not be permitted to sit on my toilet.
and colm my boy, if you remember the other day,
im ulster's biggest queen :>
the above exchange between david and a bogbrush (i worried about poor david....) shows just what a lot of petty, tribalist crap our situation is anyway.
all i want from it is my Protestant people to be left alone and in freedom, Catholic Ulster could start the next industrial revoultion and id be very happy for them.
Posted by: jaun diablo | April 21, 2006 at 01:32 PM
"yours plus a few sychophantic backslappers."
your a tit.
mad, colm, adrian, alison, eileen, david, ernie, henry,andrew and all the gang vary widly in opinions, they come here to argue, for goodness sake.
Posted by: jaun pablo | April 21, 2006 at 01:34 PM
bogbrush
Proper jellied eels cockles and muscles are only produced by pearly kings and queens in the east end , not that poncy little town on the south coast!
Posted by: Colm | April 21, 2006 at 01:36 PM
Jaun
Good job there was a comma between mad and colm :)
Posted by: Colm | April 21, 2006 at 01:37 PM
juan
exactly
"all i want from it is my Protestant people to be left alone and in freedom, Catholic Ulster could start the next industrial revoultion and id be very happy for them."
That's what the Easter Proclamation says, and that's what I believe in.
I welcome you to a free, respectful, tolerant united ireland. Will even join you on a march or two, not 3500 of them though please ;)
Posted by: bogbrush | April 21, 2006 at 01:41 PM
colm
yeah your're right , its all good crap for the tourists though hey ;)
Posted by: bogbrush | April 21, 2006 at 01:42 PM
"That's what the Easter Proclamation says"
yes and the treaties for the indyins said shite like that as well,
your (Irelands) actions (as did the prospectors) speak differently and your constitution is a lie, not to sound crass, but hand on heart i wouldnt wipe my hole with it.
my definiton of freedom is not mercy or your suferance,
i demand for my people economic freedom (from our oppresor , yous ones.), cultural freedom and dignity, the right to self rule and personally determined unique destiny (nothing less for the nation , eh ?) and above all the right to obtain guns and defend ourselves (from yous) without answering to anyone to obtain a life free of terrorism or degradation, oh and our own laws would be nice to, santa. for these things i like to think id be brave enough ,(or like my UDR heroes, simply to defend our innocents) to die for. ,(or like my UDR heroes, simply to defend our innocents)
and yes, stuff the UN.
Posted by: jaun pablo | April 21, 2006 at 01:50 PM
juan
and what am I allowed as a say a catholic living in this "Ulster". Does my vote count? Do I get a say, or what?
Posted by: bogbrush | April 21, 2006 at 01:54 PM
yous made your points with bombs and bullets, I beleive......#(oh but not til after bloody sunday !! the full scale terror organisation just went poof into existance there and then.....)
Adolf Hitler was never democratically depossed. and was elected with a thumping popular vote.
so yes you get a say unless what your saying is murderous,
and theres a hell of a lot af cold graves out there this afternoon that say that what republicans say is or rather what they said about was equlity was balls, our ancestors took part in 1700;s rebelions, were aleinated by raceism and all we got off yous was misery and things (which still) need to be avenged.
Posted by: jaun diablo | April 21, 2006 at 02:00 PM
jaun
You're mad but you're wonderfull !
Posted by: Colm | April 21, 2006 at 02:04 PM