The 30th Anniversary of an IRA murder

[Creeping Death]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gEMTc9uRzE

On the 23rd of August 1979 the newly elected British Prime Minister Margeret Thatcher and the British Military announced it was winning the war against the IRA. Two days later on the 25th of August 1979 3 members of the British Royal Family and 18 British soldiers were dead from an IRA action:


"This operation is one of the discriminate ways we can bring to the attention of the English people the continuing occupation of our country."

Press release statement from the Irish Republican Army of Liberation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_McMahon)

[Beorn]

I find it very apt that people who celebrate murders aren't very good at maths either. ;)

1979 + 20 years = 1999.

[Creeping Death]

Ah yes 30 years my how time flies, a fantastic feat of IRA ingenuity and bravery on the multiculturalist occupiers.

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[Beorn]

I do have to laugh. You keep wrongly applying the multicultural tag to those British when the Irish are now supporting multiculturalism wholesale.

[Treffie]

Ah yes 30 years my how time flies, a fantastic feat of IRA ingenuity and bravery on the multiculturalist occupiers.

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Woohoo! How very brave they were - biggest bunch of cowards at the time, as soon as something blew up, they scuttled over the border. As my father once said, `We should just go over the border and take them.`

[Orange&BlueBear]

I really don't understand how the murder of Lord Mountbaton helped the so-called cause of 'Irish Unity'. Lord Mountbaton was a man who supported a United Ireland and in 1972 offered an Irish Ambassador help in achieving it. He was a old man who kept on holidaying in Southern Ireland for years and had his holiday home in Sligo right beside the border with Northern Ireland, the deaths of two pensioners and two teenagers one a Irish Roman Catholic from County Fermanagh didn't do anything to help the struggle for a United Ireland, republicans are slowly starting to understand that murdering British soldiers and children doesn't get them anywhere all it does is harden peoples attitudes towards them and makes the idea of a United Ireland actually ever being achieved an even more of a distinct possibility than it is at present.

Even the murder of British soldiers from people in Republican areas wasn't always supported, the Official IRA got chased around the Bogside and Creggan by women after they took out a young Roman Catholic British soldier who was home in leave from his mothers house in the Creggan and shot him dead, hundreds of Roman Catholic women were on the streets in outrage against the murder of the young man. Same with the recent attempts to murder a Roman Catholic Policeman on the streets of Londonderry when he was in the process of dropping his child off to school, the PSNI officer from the Bogside (You know the place that Foley calls Free Derry, the place with a mural called FREE DERRY that was painted pink for the gay pride celebrations in the City), that attempted murder and the attempt to blow up a young Catholic PSNI trainee officer in Ballymena and the attack on the home of a Catholic PSNI officer in another republican heartland in the City side of Londonderry left many Roman Catholics outraged by their actions, and even within the last few weeks ordinary Catholics from Ardoyne have been voicing their opposition to the attacks on the police in Ardoyne by republican youths.

There is no chance of militant Irish Republicanism achieving anything that could be deemed to be in the interests of Irish Republicanism.