Anger over Sinn Féin mayor's 'glorification' of IRA members [Northern Ireland]

Belfast Telegraph ^ | May 20 2019 | Staff Reporter

[Olog-hai]

The newly-elected mayor of Causeway Coast and Glens Council has come under attack over his attendance at IRA commemorations.

Sean Bateson (26), who topped the poll for Sinn Féin in the Bann electoral area, was appointed mayor of the borough just days after being elected for his first term.

Over the weekend, social media posts emerged which showed Mr. Bateson — who is a supply teacher at Sperrin Integrated College in Magherafelt — posing for photographs at a memorial to two IRA men.

A Twitter post boasting about tearing down a Union flag — described as a “butcher’s apron” by Mr. Bateson in the tweet — also surfaced.

A report in the Sunday World newspaper also quoted a Sperrin Integrated parent as being concerned about Mr. Bateson’s role in teaching history there. …

[dfwgator]

Isn’t Sinn Fein a part of the IRA?

[NFHale]

Sinn Fein is the political wing of the IRA.

[Olog-hai]

They’re the IRA’s “political wing”. No different from other leftist paramilitaries with their “political wings” elsewhere in the world.

[dfwgator]

So why the shock, then?

[PGR88]

Ireland has turned over its laws to EU courts. Its immigration and borders to Schengen, Its turned over its monetary policy to the EU central bank. The EU considers Ireland a dumpy suburb of Brussels, and its become part of the infamous PIIGS. Post-modern Irish politicians are happily dismantling the Catholic Church and its 1000 year culture in Ireland.

Are there any “nationalists” still out there? The IRA is a joke

[mylife]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=M8Ei17kJbRQ

[northislander]

350 years of potatoes is hard to come back from...

[Olog-hai]

This is Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK.

If the IRA are “nationalist” in any fashion, then they’re national socialists.

“PIIGS” is a pejorative coined by the EU to cover their own guilt (they are a social market economy, remember); and it’s also part of the very Alinskyite nature of the EU itself.

[NFHale]

Because it’s the IRA, in general.

I guess we’d have to see who the “angry, outraged” tweeter was -probably someone that WANTS Northern Ireland to stay separated from the rest of the country.

[dfwgator]

The IRA are commies, and mostly atheists. Nothing “Catholic”about them (Just like the current Pope)

[Olog-hai]

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto, but it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. I shall not settle until I achieve liberation of my country, until Ireland becomes a sovereign, independent socialist republic.

Words of Bobby Sands written in 1978, an IRA commander who caused his own demise by hunger strike in 1981.

[DesertRhino]

The Brits treated Ireland like crap. They were very abusive and Ireland had to choose to accept it, or throw them out by force. I can see their point.

But why would you fight for almost 100 years to free Ireland, only to turn it over to the EU?

[Olog-hai]

That’s not the whole story. There were atrocities on both sides, but Ireland, as many British pointed out, kept changing their demands. The demand was for home rule right up to the point of the 1916 “Rising”; since World War I was going on at the time, the British forces were at their highest point of aggression and had no time for what they saw as a blatantly treasonous attack, although the end result was sympathy for the notion of independence after the “freedom fighters” (save Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera among others) were executed.

The Irish threw away their independence back in 1972 when they joined the EU, then called the European Economic Community. All gone. There was actually more freedom under British rule, especially after Catholics were emancipated and could return to the Westminster Parliament; they could control the fate of the entire British Empire but instead opted for pottage and perhaps what will amount to greater slavery than under the rule of the British over them that was originally granted by Pope Alexander III.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

While the Irish were busy squabbling among themselves, the Muslims and Africans were walking in the backdoor.

Ireland is probably lost. Between rise of secularism, abortion, third world immigration, and the collapse of the Christian faith, there is little hope that Ireland will survive other than as a geographic spot on the map. Probably no country has ever collapsed so fast of its own volition.
 

[dfwgator]

If it weren’t for Polish immigrants there would be no Catholics left in Ireland.

[Cronos]

Ireland has turned over its laws to EU courts -- that's false and shows a lack of understanding of the jurisdiction of the ECJ - the European Court of Justice only arbitrates on matters relating to implementation of and interpretation of regulations from the European Council and EU parliament. It does not judge on internal legal matters

Its immigration and borders to Schengen, -- this is hilarious and shows utter lack of any reading on the Schengen zone.

HERE is the map of Schengen countries

you notice that Ireland isn't part of the Schengen - show how has it "turned over its immigration and borders to Schengen"?????

Its turned over its monetary policy to the EU central bank. - this is partially correct in that the EU central bank does have a large say, but it is NOT "turned over" this is what they themselves say "The Central Bank contributes to Eurosystem monetary policy which aims to ensure price stability. Our Governor is a member of the Governing Council of the ECB, which meets every six weeks to review monetary policy. We are responsible for implementing policy decisions in Ireland as part of this decentralised structure. We also manage liquidity, which is vital for the sound operation of the banking system."

ts become part of the infamous PIIGS - you're about a decade late. PIIGS no longer exists - Ireland is off that list in every investment banks' portfolio. And even Portugal and Spain are no longer considered so dire. heck, even Greece is in better shape

Post-modern Irish politicians are happily dismantling the Catholic Church and its 1000 year culture in Ireland. - that is 100% true.

[Cronos]

Because there isn’t any “handing over to the EU” - the EU is a confederation of individual nations where each nation has a veto right and they each have more sovereignty than any state in the USA and less than the 3 countries in NAFTA, but are still independent.

They agree on rules and regulations jointly - in which states have veto rights. They negotiate as a group, which gives them a lot more punch - so a 5 million strong Ireland has more weight as part of the EU than out of it

The EU has benefited small nations - enabling them to promote their languages, culture and individuality and not be swamped by larger countries.

[Cronos]

It isn’t treasonous to ask for independence, otherwise would you call the American war of independence as treasonous?

In what way was Ireland “more free under British rule” compared to being part of the EEC?

[Mr Radical]

It is no accident that the IRA and PLO were close allies.