A lot of talk about Sinn Féin recently and the IRA campaign in more recent times. They killed a lot of people with bullets and bombs.
It's the stance of some southern parties like Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil that is a little hard to stomach about this. They attack SF over their links with murder and mayhem in the recent past yet if you look at the origins and birth of their own parties if anything they were far more violent and indiscriminate in their targets.
Fine Gael, for example, laud Michael Collins yet by the definition of how they attack Sinn Féin you would almost think Collins was some bystander that never killed anyone. On the contrary he both killed and ordered the killings of very many people in the war of independence and before that too and in the civil war.
Then look at Fianna Fáil and De Velera and Frank Aiken. The latter directly responsible for numerous deaths and the former starting a civil war!
So I am wondering what is the difference? They attack Gerry Adams yet don't seem to understand how their own parties came in to existence or choose not to remember.
It's fair and deserved criticism of Adams in recent times but the SF retort of "what about you?" is also fair game in my opinion.
What do you think?
I don't think distance in the past changes anything tbh.
To me FF and FG were born out of violence. They were once all SF.
You could say the IRA (B) in 1919 had a huge popular mandate to carry out their war but to me that is where the difference ends.
It's the stance of some southern parties like Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil that is a little hard to stomach about this. They attack SF over their links with murder and mayhem in the recent past yet if you look at the origins and birth of their own parties if anything they were far more violent and indiscriminate in their targets.
Fine Gael, for example, laud Michael Collins yet by the definition of how they attack Sinn Féin you would almost think Collins was some bystander that never killed anyone. On the contrary he both killed and ordered the killings of very many people in the war of independence and before that too and in the civil war.
Then look at Fianna Fáil and De Velera and Frank Aiken. The latter directly responsible for numerous deaths and the former starting a civil war!
So I am wondering what is the difference? They attack Gerry Adams yet don't seem to understand how their own parties came in to existence or choose not to remember.
It's fair and deserved criticism of Adams in recent times but the SF retort of "what about you?" is also fair game in my opinion.
What do you think?
I don't think distance in the past changes anything tbh.
To me FF and FG were born out of violence. They were once all SF.
You could say the IRA (B) in 1919 had a huge popular mandate to carry out their war but to me that is where the difference ends.