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Frostieballs wrote: ↑23 Aug 2024, 05:16

CaptainSpacerod wrote: ↑01 Oct 2023, 23:12

liamlion wrote: ↑01 Oct 2023, 21:45

Nothing more brave than normal working men arming themselves and fighting back against an oppressive, invading force when you are heavily out financed and out gunned.

I'm sure that if England was invaded by a foreign army who violently upheld sectarian abuse such as gerrymandering and facilitated murder, you would uprise and fight back, no?

The real terrorists were the crown forces including the RUC, UDR and British Army who all carried out cowardly acts of terrorism. They created the environment that led to the creation of the PIRA. Oppression breeds rebellion.

Undoubtedly there were bad deeds done on both sides. Probably best not to get into all that on a boxing forum.

Let’s agree to disagree

Bad deeds done on both sides…. Not at the outset.

I’m English, but my partner is Irish.

It’s only recently, on my travels to Ireland, that I began to realise the full extent of our actions as a nation.

It grabbed my attention so much that I have now started to read around the subject (and other atrocities we have committed around the world).

Out treatment of the Irish over the last centuries has been horrific. You could argue it borders on genocide. The stealing/exporting of food during the Potato famine is particularly eye opening.

None of this stuff was taught to me in school.

Horrific acts were committed on both sides during the troubles. I don’t justify any of them. But there is zero doubt who the original aggressor was.

It’s also worth saying that when Republicans sing or shout ‘up the Ra’ they generally aren’t referring to the modern day IRA in my experience, but the original resistance.

KiwiRider wrote: ↑23 Aug 2024, 16:44 A more defensive approach would be good.
Only he (or a bad scan) can decide when to hang them up. So learning some better techniques to avoid damage is good, and Conlan is a smart guy, he will learn.
Khan forged out an excellent career, Conlan can keep earning for a little while yet if he wants to.

banjo wrote: ↑23 Aug 2024, 12:10 My surname is McDonagh and i'm 100% pro Britain, served in the Parachute Regiment, the Irish shot at the Paras first on Bloody Sunday, every country we invaded we improved, so yeah we're the best.

Cask wrote: ↑30 Aug 2024, 22:19

banjo wrote: ↑23 Aug 2024, 12:10 My surname is McDonagh and i'm 100% pro Britain, served in the Parachute Regiment, the Irish shot at the Paras first on Bloody Sunday, every country we invaded we improved, so yeah we're the best.

It's been admitted by your own Government that's not true, ONE retaliatory shot was fired and it was a member of a rival faction to the Provos. The Parachute Regiment carried out Bloody Sunday and Ballymurphy massacres, they got their comeuppance at warrenpoint, same day they got Pedo MtBatton.

even the Paras laughed at the gallows humour that was sprayed on the walls after (13 gone but not forgotten, yet we got 18 and Mountbatten) the Parachute Regiment shot an English tourist with blind panic fire during Warrenpoint and tried to claim he was IRA.

Soldier F fired a bullet up a prone man's rectum, deliberately to destroy his insides with maximum damage, another one of them got his head shot through in South Africa as an Apartheid State mercenary

JamesPhilips wrote: ↑31 Aug 2024, 10:09

Cask wrote: ↑30 Aug 2024, 22:19

banjo wrote: ↑23 Aug 2024, 12:10 My surname is McDonagh and i'm 100% pro Britain, served in the Parachute Regiment, the Irish shot at the Paras first on Bloody Sunday, every country we invaded we improved, so yeah we're the best.

It's been admitted by your own Government that's not true, ONE retaliatory shot was fired and it was a member of a rival faction to the Provos. The Parachute Regiment carried out Bloody Sunday and Ballymurphy massacres, they got their comeuppance at warrenpoint, same day they got Pedo MtBatton.

even the Paras laughed at the gallows humour that was sprayed on the walls after (13 gone but not forgotten, yet we got 18 and Mountbatten) the Parachute Regiment shot an English tourist with blind panic fire during Warrenpoint and tried to claim he was IRA.

Soldier F fired a bullet up a prone man's rectum, deliberately to destroy his insides with maximum damage, another one of them got his head shot through in South Africa as an Apartheid State mercenary

Mountbatten was (allegedly ) a nonce who preyed on kids at Irish orphanages. So a big up for rubbing him out.

tigermoth87 wrote: ↑23 Aug 2024, 01:02

liamlion wrote: ↑01 Oct 2023, 21:45

Nothing more brave than normal working men arming themselves and fighting back against an oppressive, invading force when you are heavily out financed and out gunned.

So brave and fearless! Takes a real man to blow up two kids.