Every Republican should have a problem with people who are using the Republican mantle for self gain

I wouldn’t put eirigi in that category at all.

They won’t go away you know

Guilty of what? being Irish Republicans?

If they are put away, it wouldn’t be the first time people are being persecuted for their political convictions and being jailed by both failed states on this island

Guilty of being terrorists. Don’t act the fool.

leave the dealers alone lads ! chase dissidents its easier

Same people Chris, allegedly.

“Guilty of being terrorists”

send the Garda on a swoop of the next NATO conference then. The actual terrorists of this world are drone-bombing Asia and Africa on a daily basis.

We are not talking about NATO. Plenty of people agree with you on that but we are talking about Irish terrorists that the gardai have jurisdiction over. The same people who like to murder pregnant women. Remember them?
If that’s the best argument you have Kerron, then there is no point us having this discussion. It’s childish and immature.

The best argument I have? The definition of terrorism is the crux of the whole argument.

Why brainwashed spivs decide to follow the definition of a terrorist (e.g the UK, and by proxy its neo-colony here, calling the IRA such) laid down by states that are in fact terrorists is beyond me.

On the one hand you admit that plenty of people would agree with NATO being defined as terrorists, yet on the other you call a national liberation movement (the IRA) who took on one of the NATO powers (UK) terrorists. Can both be terrorists somehow in your warped logic? or is it that anyone who commits violence is a terrorist?

You throwing about the term terrorism without thought on its actual definition of terrorism is what is immature, as is your use of a tragic death for point scoring.

Yeah, I have warped logic. While you support people who murder women, children and Gardai. The people of this country don’t, and never will, support dissidents.
You can spout as much crap as you want, that won’t change. Just look at the “huge” numbers eirigi get at their rally’s. All 20 of you’s in your track suits and Man U jerseys.

this wouldn’t be the first time I’ve been persecuted because of my name. This will be promptly reported to the relevant authorities, lol

I see that most people are red-thumbing you John.

Your wit, playing on my name, is obviously lost on them. They just see “well said” and see red :-/

it’s a far away republican

lol good comeback.
That would be the relative authority you presumeably dont recognise, being an organ of the failed state.

That’s a bit rich now isn’t it when the man who was with Ryan when he was shot, by his own admission, wouldn’t even cooperate with the Gardai in the first place. Ye can’t have it every way.

haha, I meant the Journal.ie site mods

I also don’t recognise them. Up the Continuity Cyber Republic!

What so witnesses not co-operating gives the Garda carte blanche to drop the investigation like a hot potato?

Witnesses don’t co-operate in a variety of different incidents of crime, it happens all the time! But I’d say the Garda were all too happy to use that as an excuse to shrug off serious commitment to catching his killers

Kerron – Irish Republicans voted in overwhelming numbers to accept the terms of The Good Friday Agreement .

These dissidents are no longer Republicans of any ilk , in my humble opinion.
Some are resigned from the Republican Movement, who chose not to recognise the merits and obvious potential of preserving life and having an all Ireland settlement .

Calling oneself a Republican and acting in reality as an extortionist and propagator of gangsterism , does not qualify I’m afraid.

That’s fair enough Eddie. If people are involved in such activity their credentials as Republicans are in doubt.

The point though is that many of those being arrested are not involved in such activity and are only scapegoats and easy targets because of their politics

Kerron, you are right, just because an eye witness to a murder wont co-operate with the Gardaí does not mean that the case can be dropped, but if at every turn the Gardaí are met with silence what are they expected to do? Pull information out of thin air?

Also, it is unlikely that Gardaí making arrests in Limerick would be investigating Alan Ryan’s murder in Dublin, that would more than likely be dealt with by Dublin based detectives.

Anyway,it is the job on AGS to protect the state and the people within it, arresting those involved in an illegal organisation part of whose aim is to destroy this state would be part of their remit. It is called crime prevention and protecting good,innocent people in this country.

Kerron

This is not the Free State. This is the State.
You need to grow up and realise that we all stopped playing Mammies and Daddies and Cowboys and Indians and Soldiers when we were somewhere around ten or eleven years of age.
Join the big people’s world and participate normally and fully. It’s much more fun than pretending you’re someone of importance when the opposite is the case.

Paddy what does that even mean? just a load of empty crap.

“join the big people’s world”. I live in the real world. It’s one where any objective analysis of this Twenty-Six County state shows it as a failed and corrupt entity, and that entity is protected by a political police force.

Well CorkLanger at least we agree that the objective of these groups is to destroy the state. The only question I’d be asking you, is what is so f-ing great about this failed state that is worth protecting??

It’s actually a right in this nation to use English and Irish versions of your name. Although Kerron doesn’t recognize that right.

Sean: A right in this state, not nation. There is no nation-state in Ireland yet

Frank: Not only do I claim the dole with two names, but I also have two pass ports and two identities which allows me to commit crime on a global scale and get away with it in each country at least once.

@Patrick that is just a ridiculous statement. The Irish people are renowned for their conservatism but basing 2012 political views on an event in 1919 is sheer lunacy, and you know it. We live in the 21st century the past is gone its time to move on. The absurdity of that kind of logic is comical and to base a political ideology on it makes it even more preposterous.