Especially when you get into your car and drive home after it haha dopes. They must have thought they were the total shit. I’m delighted those morons were arrested.

True. They seem to be quiet. But why did the Guards give them the opportunity to act like this. These skangers and toe-rags should not have been allowed to perform such a horrible spectacle on the streets of Dublin. They stop buskers who don’t know enough songs, but let thugs play army and fire guns at a criminal’s funeral. Crazy!

“why did the Guards give them the opportunity to act like this.”

Because armed men moving in on other armed men in a crowd is a wee bit dangerous.

“They stop buskers who don’t know enough songs”

Erm … that’s a rule being put in by Dublin City Council, it’s not a Garda enforceable law.

Armed men (guards) moving in on (illegally) armed men IS dangerous. but it also sounds like upholding the law to me. Should the guards shy away from thugs now? The precident this created is more dangerous!

There could conceivably have been innocent people in the crowd who would be put at risk. It would more than likely have ended up in a blood bath.

If that had happened the same people now calling for the guards to have doen something would now be asking why they didn’t hold off.

I fully agree with you. It would have been a disaster. But in the end these thugs got their way. I don’t like that! It should have been stopped before it even started.

“It should have been stopped before it even started.”

If the Guards had arrested a load of people travelling to a funeral, who at that point had done nothing wrong, that too would have caused criticism.

I’m assuming Darren, You’re basing your comments on the vast experience & tactical knowledge you’ve amassed through your years of armed law enforcement spent somewhere!?! Better to see these RIRA clowns hauled up one by one & convicted in Court through a professional & diligent Garda investigation than a running ‘wild-west’ gun battle in the street where innocent bystanders are injured / killed and the Gardai only apprehend a few!!

‘The precident this created is more dangerous!’

No precedent has been created. It has been a feature of Republican funerals for centuries.

Done nothing wrong Damocles? Possession of an unlicenced firearm is a pretty serious offence with a few years jail time attached to it. And the 1990 Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act gave the Gardai all the powers they needed to arrest these guys before the funeral.

As to where those who thought it was disgraceful that the Gardai did nothing during the funeral are, we’re all sitting here wondering if we’d have seen 200 Gardai in this operation if the entire country hadn’t gotten angry with the Gardai for not stopping it or if it would just have been swept under the carpet; and also, where the guns are (did they get them in the raid this morning?); not to mention, as stated in the first comment above, whether or not these guys will get a reasonable custodial sentence or a farcical slap on the wrist.

Any evidence they were carrying when they were travelling to the funeral? For all either of us know the weapons were transported separately.

As the events so far have unfolded it is clear that this was the intent of the Gardai all along, to watch and take notes and then swoop in later. It was reported that this was what they intended to do pretty early on in this affair.

The prosecution and sentencing are also, obviously, not a Garda matter, that’s what the judiciary are for. In any sane country the Policing body and the Judicial body are separated.

IMO, the Gardai have done exactly what they should do to protect public safety both at the funeral and ongoing.

Mark Dennehy, the whole country was not angry in fact a very small percentage of those who commented on this site thought the Gardai should have acted in a way that would have put lives at risk.

If this method of policing is used to police this type of funeral by the vastly experienced PSNI then why would the Gardai do it any different.

You have no experience of what you are talking about so maybe you should leave it to the people who have

Darren the number one goal of any police force is protection of life and if a policeman or woman acts if any way as to put innocent lives at risk then he or she will be held responsible. Do you think that these men just drove on up to the funeral with guns thrown on the back seat? Did they arrive in the house a day after the murder? Two days after the murder? We’re they walk out of the house in open view of everyone after the shots fired or broken down and brought away in different pieces by a number of different people? We’re they left in the house as the coffin was taken to the graveyard and taken away when everyone was gone? Just a couple of reasons as to why it’s not as easy as you make it sound

The Gardai still haven’t done anything. Waiting on the prosecutions.

@ Censored
It’s a major investigation into Dissident Republicanism not a drunken Public Order fracas outside the local Chipper on a Friday night!! It’s not like you just throw a few charge sheets at these guys so you can have your quick ‘prosecution’ !! There’s complex investigation files to compile & the DPP has to direct on it!

Not forgetting the retaliation from them….this is the start of something bad! #peace

Even if the Gardai don’t have enough to charge them with, these people will now be on the Gardais radar which might deter them.

The Gards around north Dublin know exactly who the IRA heads are. They’re always on their radar.

Ryan’o

retaliation should not scare off rule of law

No! I agree with you, But if people think these senseless feckers won’t retaliate then thats fair enough. And just to reiterate I’m all for #peace, but Neanderthal thugs such as this don’t. Like I said it could be the start of something bad. The less media attention to this subject the better IMHO.

I don’t know that u never executed anyone be you did become judge and jury with your comment. I can assure you i am no disillusioned youth, im 40 years old, and i dont think im fighting anyone, and i dont hav and old re style slogans or banners to hang, I also do not have an organisation. And i can positively assure you i never fed of the misery of anyone in my years.

Next i did not say anything about media comment and what there slanderous comments, i commented on you and your slanderous comments. And i would do no such favor to you to organise anything. I think a bit of that bird shit might of got in your eye there When you read my comment. How dare you make personal comments about me and accuse me of being part of anything. I just pulled you up on a few of your comment that where out of order.

And by the way you contradicted yourself again your just fighting your reasons and cause through facebook yourself by commenting here. So wipe the bird shit from your eyes.

Denise, your banners and 32csm tripe is all over your facebook page. My comments you call slanderous are in keeping with the media’s comments and any right thinking local for that matter. Stay up North, blinded by your own failings and stop commenting on a part of Dublin you know nothing about. I have lived in Donaghmede all my life, and my parents before me, and we will not tolerate Northern miss-fits dragging our community into it’s myre. Neither you nor Alan Ryan have or had anything to offer the normal clean living people of Ireland.

That is why my profile is on public im not ashamed of my believes, but i do not deserved to personally attacked by you, because i have to keep correcting your comments, which is obviously getting the better of you. And by the way im told its libel what your saying not slanderous. And if you silly enough in keeping with the media as in (The Sun saying the hillsborough survivers lied, then admitting they told the truth) thats your illusion.

I have never failed in anything i wished to achieve in my life, not that u know me to comment on that either. And if you live in Donaghmede all your life, why didnt you get out your door and protest this funeral, and if you live their why don’t you take down the flags. I’l tell you why your a small man with a smaller mind, who hides behind sites like this to pedal your libel comments. Your a key board warrior, who using facebook for your hate and fight.

Firstly, I hide behind nothing, unlike those who wear fancy dress fatigues and travel in the backs of vans. I am involved in the community I live in, as a drugs key worker, who has seen first hand the misery caused by the dealers and the so called freedom fighters. I have my complete profile blocked, except for my friends who know me well as we run drama classes based on comedy classics, hence Albert Steptoe.
I contribute to my community as do thousands of others in the hope we are making it a better place. What did Alan do? He lived well, drove an expensive range rover yet had no visible means of income.Was he a doctor, a councillor, a nurse maybe or a shopkeeper? No alas he was not. I’ll tell you what he did. He leaned on the dealers with his vigilante outfit for a cut of their takings and when they would not part with it, he had them beaten or shot. The CSM are good at that. 10 of them brave men stood in a barn in Monaghan last year and beat a young lad of 23 to death with crowbars. These are the brave men of Ireland that people like you look up to.

I don’t read the sun or know of your ramblings on Hillsborough. Your a typical csm head. You cherry pick the bits of peoples posts that you think offend you and your ilk and ignore the rest. The normal folk down here don’t take to the streets and throw rocks at the gardai either, we let them do their job. Look at the amount of negative feedback to your own comments. You see the quiet, normal respectful people see you for the sham you and your ilk are. The CSM and those who support it (you) are a washed out outfit and will not be let function in Southern Ireland.

I also forgot to add to that, you will tolerate whatever is thrown your way, as you obviously tolerated drug dealers all your life and also your hide behind a picture that is not of you on a so called fb page you only made today. I am a clean living person and i didnt come anywhere to offer anyone anything. You seem to have taking a liking to me for some reason, no one would blame you for that.

Oh and Denise, there is no display of hate or fight on my facebook page, unlike yours which promotes the CSM. My comments are my opinion, which I am entitled to have on those who promote CSM policy.

Please stop deflecting from your comments, why did you not protest at the funeral in your community? with your big opinions or take down the flags in your community? Your a funny man making up things about me personally as your going along, Your the one who said you in line with the media, well were blinded by the bird shit again the last two days when you have got a clue about hillsbourgh.

Thats the first time i was called a head and i assure you i am a quiet, clean living person, You can’t criminalize someone because of there beliefs and opinion. But i will not lower myself no more to your level in attacking peeples opinions and believes. I only corrected your comments and you personnally attacked me all day.
So why don’t you in time not now as a family is grieving, go up knock on there door and tell them your opinions seems as your in the area.

Denise, I neither like or hate you, I don’t know you. I do however hate the CSM and all it stands for, and will interact with those promoting it, like you do on Facebook. You engaged me in this exchange of posts, not the other way round, and you have ignored all items that did not sit with your thinking.
If you revert back to my very first post, you will see clearly that I pointed out the account was new, so if your expecting brownie points at this stage in the day in noticing that, good luck to you. If the CSM wish to be taken seriously, they need to engage with both governments and the people of Ireland who refuse to let them destroy lives. If they have valid intelligence on dealers, give it to the PSNI and Gardai and let them deal with it.

That won’y happen though will it? because the CSM reject both governments, and do not acknowledge either police force. Not much chance of building a real future for our kids then, north and south with organised vigilantism rife on both sides of the border.

Again Denise I draw your attention to the fact you have not corrected anything posted by me. You have given an opinion, you have all the way up there in Derry. You know nothing about Dublin and what happened in the locality. See that red thumb down sign on the right of each of your posts? Those are people who disagree with you. I am the one engaging with you, as you lead that engagement from my first post. I am again reiterating that I am not attacking you, I am drawing you out on your beliefs. If you stand by CSM then you stand by the murders they carry out in cowardly fashion. That is why Alan Ryan met a similar fate – he dealt in the same type of punishment himself. If the CSM are proud Irishmen, let them take off their berets, scarf’s and Chinese sunglasses – They should be proud to be seen as representing their countrymen. We should all know who these fighting Irishmen are!

Ah Denise give it up, Albert clearly wins.

Steady on the exclamation marks there! So called Provos? He was a member of the Real IRA who would despise the Provisional Movement and all it stands for. I think you are the one without the clue like many others commenting.

think ur in a different ere if i am rite the PROVOS sold out,,so it should be you to go and read your histroy

Here is the first angry little sheep, without a clue or a cause for it.

No person, political or religious organisation, or illegal paramilitary pack of savages, has the right to act as judge, jury and executioner in Ireland. The man who shot Alan Ryan did, and so did his victim. The shooter dealt Alan Ryan what he regularly dealt out himself. As the family say, he had a befitting funeral. The sad thing here is that a young 32 year old man is lying in a graveyard, along with hundreds of other young Irish people because of the scurge of drugs on this isle, and those who wish to make money from their distribution. The other sad thing is that killers like Colin Duffy can come down from the North and give a graveside oration in the hope that he stands in the sunset of those from 1916, to impress the young BEBO heads around him, with their online IRA profiles. It is a sad day that Ireland has come to this.

I believe that the Gardai did the right thing on the day, they stood, gathered intelligence and are now carrying out raids based on that intelligence today. Let’s see if the young ones who wore stupid thick Chinese made jumpers and sunglasses ( what is the big leather belt for – a sunglasses clip perhaps) at the funeral are so cool when separated across Dublin in different garda stations. They are not cut from the same material that the men and women of 1916 were, they will schit themselves, fold and rat each other out while in custody.

I hope justice is found all round. I hope Alan’s killer is found, and I hope those who he killed and are still missing, are found and returned to their respective families. As for 32CSM, feck off up to the battlefields of Armagh and Belfast where you thrive on misery. Take these young hoods of yours from Dublin and Wexford with you, and let’s see how long they last when they are surrounded by the real battle and it’s accompanying misery. Lastly keep your mudering son, Colin Duffy out of the Republic, he has no business down here, and next time might not get back over the border so easy.

Finally, I apologise if the above rambles a bit. I joined facebook so as I could contribute here, hence the new profile. I am 50 years old, not totally up with this social media stuff, but felt I needed to contribute. We have an opportunity of saving our kids and theirs from the clutches of the misery that only 32CSM and dealers offer – As a nation of parents and families, let’s steer the young ones away from these now, and let the gardai and the judges do their duty.

Well Alan his second paragraph may be open to correction but the first one is spot on that’d be the paragraph you overlooked

Knowing what we know about sun related skin damage , your right it’s a disgrace! :)

learned that from the training camps in columbia and africa!!

It’s not a good look, now, is it? At least “official” Mafiosos invest in tailored suits..

Dublin has always been a Republican city. Irish History doesn’t start in 1969. Republicanism as an ideology was founded by Wolfe Tone who was born in Dublin. The 1916 rising was led by a Dublin man, Padraig Pearse. The first chief of staff of the IRA was Cathal Brugha who was born in Dublin. He was also the first president of Dail Eireann in 1919.

So, are you saying that this sort of display should become a regular occurence? I have never seen or heard of shots fired at a funeral in the south before this one? Pointing out things that happened in the days of the Rising and the early formation of the state are hardly relevant in modern day Dublin.

Its relevant in the context of Republicanism existing in the city before the Troubles. The funeral on Saturday was nothing different than other funerals before it. Off the top of my head their was paramilitary displays at Martin Doherty’s funeral in 1994, Ronan McLaughlin in 1998, Dermot McGuirk in 1998 and Patrick Campbell’s in 1999. All of which were in Dublin and each one was a member of a different group. There was also the same response from the media and goverment at that time.

Sorry I forgot to answer your question. I dont think it would be a regular occurence as it doesnt happen at every funeral. Of the funerals above one was killed by criminals, one by the police, one by loyalist paramilitaries and the other was a very senior member of the group. I don’t support any armed group but if they want to bury their dead in that manner I have no problem with it.

Well thankfully, the majority of people in society and the Gardai DO have a problem with it. And listing other questionable characters who had “gun salutes” at their funerals doesn’t strenghten your position, it actually strenghtens mine and the rest of decent society.

Exactly the same point I made Andrea…. This could turn into something nasty, add into the fact that the guards are under staffed….

Alan: “I don’t support any armed group”

Yeah, sure.

I dont though Petr. Its counter-productive.

Haha. There’s a few plastic patriots on here too.
But there is a clear “type” of people who buy into this kinda crap.

Very strange – I only posted the above comment once, In one place. Bug in the system?

http://www.sinnfein.ie/contents/24385

There you go.

They may have rejected normal society, we haven’t.

You could apply that rule to any crime, there’s no knowing where it would stop. How about people who don’t pay their taxes? Have they “rejected normal society”?

No, never in history should internment be repeated. If someone is found guilty by a legitimate court of law then they should be imprisoned. If not, then they shouldn’t be imprisoned.

Internment never works.

This kind of news nearly reinstates ones faith in our law enforcement agencies! I just hope it’s not a publicity stunt though. People need to be charged and actually convicted before I’ll be completely convinced!

I think Pierce you could find your idea very popular. Great news. Was delighted to hear this on morning Ireland. Let’s hope more to come.

That would simply make martyrs out of overweight uneducated thugs. We have enough laws to convict these people for their moronic Dads Army bravado.

Points taken boys, like I said it wouldn’t be popular. These people aren’t the same as non tax payers because people who don’t pay their TV licence generally don’t go around shooting and intimidating witnesses etc.

We don’t live in North Korea just yet Pierce. You obviously have no understanding of Irish history if you think internment is a solution. In fact internment normally has the opposite effect of what was intended. For example most of those interned in the six counties in 1971 were not actual members of the IRA. A lot of them were though when they were released.

@pearse cant believe you even suggested that & the fact you got so many thumbs up shows your not alone.wonder how you would feel about internment if you were lifted?

Pierce – there is a vast difference between what this Mob stands for & what even the British would have done to halting the struggle for ordinary Civil Rights in The North in the sixties & seventies , in their illegal Internment.

These guys are running extortion & protection rackets , preventing the Garda from putting away the big time and the small time Drug dealing Gangs around Ireland , who are in turn murdering our Children & our Friends. by giving them a free run on the supply of various drugs on the Market.

This is done in their twisted ‘justification’ to get funds to make bombs to cause Murder & Mayhem in part of our Island of Ireland .

Their use of the word Republican or Real – is but a flag of convenience.

They would be so delighted if they were Interned – this , again , in their twisted Logic , they would perceive themselves as some kind of martyrs , instead of the Gangsters , which they truly are in reality!

I can’t believe it’s not the IRA:-)

Oh look another golf joke about the guards your full of them. You must be in big demand at the comedy clubs

You might want to tune the sarcasm detector Johnny ;)

To be clear, I wasn’t slagging off the police, I was slagging off the people who were very quick to slagging off the police by make comments this week about how the police were doing nothing because they didn’t take immediate and heavy-handed action at the time of the funeral. Turns out the had a plan, after all. Let them do their jobs and don’t be so quick to be a self-proclaimed expert.

Ah you got me, I retract my statement unless of course you are in high demand at the comedy club

Sadly not. When I try to tell jokes, small Babies cry and flowers wither :-)

There is no connection between the IRA and SF, oh wait a minute……

@Frank: what are you on about? Sinn Féin and RIRA have nothing to do with each other. If anything, RIRA would see Sinn Féin MLA’s and TD’s as enemies and have issued death threats to them. Sinn Féin are a political party, their armed wing, the PIRA is no more.

Don’t be silly. There’s no connection between Sinn F?in and the RIRA. Sure SF condemn eveything they do! And have condemed the paramilitant display at the funeral.

All I want to know is can I still buy the ‘undefeated army’ t-shirts from Sinn Fein’s website??

The answer you will get on that is that it is on the SF bookshop which is not connected with SF. Which by the way is total Bollics.

I think some people should stick to the X Factor or whatever their comfort zone is when commenting online. Otherwise you just look foolish. Adams and RIRA lol

I believe the bookshop is linked on the Sinn Fein website or at least it used to be

They hate s/f and have treatnd to kill them for feck sake it’s like saying all the labour heads that were involved in IRA (official) in the 70s were best mates with the Provos ……… Your wrong s/f are doing a good job

If you don’t care for the replies, don’t bother posting anything. Seems to me that you are the one that thinks you’re above everyone else.

Tough luck he got what he deserved and that’s a fact

Are you actually serious Alan?

Yes.

They just did raid the homes of the drug dealers

How many people do you think should have been arrested for alan’s murder?

I’ve seen plain clothes Garda arresting drug dealers on O’Connell Street.

So have I but there is always people there or on the boardwalk selling drugs. How hard can it be to stop them destroying the boardwalk? Had two French friends over last year and they went to town by themselves for the day and the told me about how freaked they were on it. The state that boardwalk is in cant be justified!

They might be taking the same approach the Dutch police do. They know who’s doing it and they know where to find them and how to control them and they know that if they arrest them there’ll be another one along in 10 minutes and they can’t put half the inner city in prison.

Whaich actually isn’t all that unreasonable. It isn’t great but all the same.

Better to focus on wider issues like the people who supply the lower level dealers.

The Dutch police let them do it in the red light were all the low life are. What about the decent human beings that pay for the sh!tebags to live having the right to walk around a nice area in piece? Why aren’t they let do it around some run down area instead of the area thats meant to promote the city?

Felix, I can only really speculate on their policy, you’d really have to ask them.

Sometimes I just get really pissed off at how they can freely make other peoples lives hell. You cant even walk around the northside now with a cigarette without being hassled.

Obviously we’re getting way off topic here but what I’ve always liked about the “Do you have a cigarette for me?” crowd is the way they abuse you after you refuse. It’s like “Well I wasn’t going to give you one, but now you’ve sworn at me well I’m reconsidering …”

I’ts an everyday occurance.

Firstly Felix I agree about the Drug Dealing/Junkie/alcohol related problems in the City Centre but you have to remember that the Gardai are only half the system and I could guarantee you that all them dealers have been lifted and charge regularly only to be released again. It’s as demoralising for the guards as it is for u

So we should just accept it? No way. That’s why I hate them with a passion!

Sorry wrong place

Sorry wrong place

Sorry wrong place

You could be right Alan, but if some of those who were raided, are actually charged, it won’t feel or look like a PR exercise. A few years in jail for membership of an illegal paramilitary organisation is not for the faint hearted and certainly not one for soft disillusioned twentysomethings. I am hopeful of charges being pressed and a clear message goes out that this crap will not be tolerated anywhere in the South of Ireland. 32CSM needs to realise their day has come and gone – all that’s left is bitter twisted old farts who recruit from the bowels of society – they have nothing to offer only a one way ticket to jail or the graveyard.

@ Alan, out of interest, what could the Guards do that you wouldn’t criticise as inaction or just a PR exercise?

@Nikolas If you want to see how the police almost destroyed the RIRA a decade ago check out ‘Black Operations – The secret war against the RIRA’ by John Mooney. Have a look at his timeline on twitter to see what he thought of today’s operation. An inept PR driven exercise that the police involved themselves know is pointless is how he described it. Ultimately the only way to get rid of armed groups is by involving them in political discussions. Using the judicial system against them is only a stop gap measure.

@ Alan – I don’t really understand why you’re saying. We don’t live under military rule, so the judicial system is our primary and only system of law enforcement. The Guards must act in accordance to the judicial system, which is a very good thing. I haven’t read the book you mentioned, thanks for the tip, but if the guards were acting outside the governance of the judicial system, surely they were acting outside their remit and were involved in an illegal action? The guards are not a military force, they are civilian. Irrespective of the morality of breaking the law to catch law-breakers, if they had ignored procedure, the courts would have no choice but to throw the case out and let the criminals go free.

I didn’t mean the police should operate outside the judicial system. My point is that using the judicial system against groups like the RIRA is only a temporary fix. It was bringing the Provos in from the cold politically that ended their campaign not any action by the police. Obviously the police will be used as a short term solution but it wont make much difference. Each side will have its successes and setbacks but it just continues. I suppose that doesnt relate directly to today but it was just a general point.

As an aside I dont know the people involved personally or support their viewpoint. I just think its a disgrace that the police raided the home of Alan Ryan’s grieving mother this morning when they have not raided any homes over his actual murder.

One thing Alan is right about Nickolas is “Black Operations” a great read. What Alan may not understand is the Black Operations” work is still going on today regardless of the merits of today’s operation

Of course I understand.

@ Alan – thanks for clarifying. And I agree. Judicial action alone only tackles the symptoms, not the cause. Dissident organizations cannot exist with support, and they gain support from people who feel that they have been marginalized and disenfranchised. These are the people who need to be brought back into the fold. Without their support the “hard cases” will mostly wither and due, or at least become irrelevant. Surely that was the thinking behind the process that lead to the Good Friday agreement. Now all I have to do is find a copy of that book.

@ Alan – I wouldn’t be so hasty about your judgement if the police, though. You’re saying that you’re disgusted by the imbalance in their priorities, but we don’t actually know how hard the are working on finding the killer. For all we know they’re quietly following a path to find him/her, and murder is murder, irrespective of who the victim was. Let the police get on with their investigation, and withhold judgement until the investigation is complete and a result is given. Just my two cents.

Alan pls keep your “fight” up there in great britian. we in the republic don’t care, and those who do, drive up the m1 and move to great britian. simples

Yeah, because it’s obvious Louise minihan knows what she’s talking about

What’s obvious is that the Guards care more about protecting the state and the political class (which is what they are doing with these raids, whatever your opinion of the people they are raiding) than they do about protecting the people who they are supposed to be serving!

when is the last time they conducted such robust raids on the dealers who practically run Limerick city kid?

More what-aboutery. These people are criminals. I have no problem with these raids, and I think they’re directed at the right people. Hopefully they’ll step up their activity in Limerick as well.

Shows your naivety, if you think the Garda will now launch some sort of state-wide crackdown on criminality

the raids are in response to the Garda being made left powerless by a crowd at the funeral, not out of any social duty to kerb criminality

Kerron, I have been reading many of your posts on this site for a few weeks now and I must say you obviously like reading what you type. You get asked questions by other contributors, however rarely answer them, you do that much ducking and weaving. I think it’s time you took your head out of the WIKI pages on republican history, as an awful lot of what you quote here is just wiki extract.
I am going to bring you up to date on a few things you might not find in wiki.
1. Paramilitarism in all it’s forms under Irish law, is outlawed
2.The Ryan family were no innocents – criminals who are now facing the full rigours of the law along with their so called patriotic family of supporters.
3. Limerick is doing quiet well – 28 members of the 3 criminal gangs involved in it’s demise are behind bars, serving lengthy sentences.
4. The gardai are now showing EIRIGI, 32CSM and whatever imitation army outfit you support, that they are the law in this land and will round them up like all good sheep need to be.

As for your comments and contributions across these pages, I would consider you nothing more than a well educated but delusional troll. You come on, spout your 1798 to 2011 Irish history with muddled references and hope that the rest of us will be impressed and out of step with you. The best thing you can do for Ireland, is cop yourself on, put away your Carroll’s Souvenir Paddie’s day whistle and embrace the new Ireland that millions of us want.
“Tá do lá a dhéanamh”

Wikipedia? don’t make me laugh

“the new Ireland”? you just made me laugh. What an impressive sight this new Ireland is! Two failed, crumbling, corrupt states and all the sheep in the world like you to spout empty platitudes (with no historical precedent) to attempt to lend legitimacy to them.

kerron pls as I’ve said here numerous of times keep your “fight” up there in great britian. us Irish people in the republic of Ireland don’t care, really don’t care. we have 26 lovely counties here in republic of ireland, lovely. move up to britian to continue your fight, oh and make sure you bring your passport, its a different country up there ya know

Go and flip some burgers

Might be why he got shot then.

how did you get onto a republic of Ireland website??? your british, leave this to the Irish people pls

Ah yeah, the same old blame the guards craic.
Change the record. It’s getting a bit boring now.

It’s actually libel not slander.

I pride myself on being a republican. The peaceful way of self determination is the only way. A united Ireland can only become a reality by democratic means only. These people need to go the peaceful way.

The ideology of rIRa is misguided. The guards are there to go after drug dealers what are Ryan and those lads getting involved for. They are not republicans if they dare confuse confuse fighting drug dealers with uniting Ireland. I’m sorry but that won’t wash. That is the job of the . If they arnt doing it satisfactorily then government should e. simple as. Get behinds earful self determination or disappear into anonymity.

Grammar not the finest in my comment below.

He’ll be forgotten next week, mate.

Hey Sean, is that a Tricolour you have as your profile pic? I can’t really make it out as there’s a piece of dirt in the way.

Remembered for being an idiot that was wiped out like the pest he was to society. Sometimes hitmen hit the right man!

So you address me directly and it’s not directed at me?

Why not let them knee cap the odd drug dealer while they’re at it Adam?

A gun salute is reserved for people who have served their country. This thug did not.

He also didn’t have the right to a flag on his coffin.

They were never an army, just a terrorist organisation

What rights do you need exactly to have a flag over your coffin? #serious

They were all out of ‘thug for hire’ flags!!

Sorry Billy, I accidentally green-thumbed your rubbishy tripe.

My bad!

Got a great laugh out of that. Didn’t realise a few Celtic jersey wearing kids throwing rocks at the psni was “fighting the British” Rocks for brains.

Billy, why don’t you be good wee lad now and grow a pair of.., prefrontal cortical lobes.

His people in the 6 counties??? He didn’t have any “people in the 6″ His family are from North Dublin!!! And what republican movement? – the ones hiding behind Chinese made jumpers and keepers of plastic guns? my god, Armageddon will surely come now that this movement is on the rise. Your a funny man Billy, keep eating the tripe they are shovelling you.

Billy watching too much war films I think !

Ah **** off ya tool

Well said!

What?