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The Voice of Violence
Republican Sinn Fein, who organised the "counter-protest" (read riots) against the victims march in Dublin on Saturday had this to say:
"The scenes witnessed in Dublin today only serve to illustrate how out of touch the 26-county political establishment was with the depth of opposition to the routing of a loyalist march through Dublin.
The people of Dublin have shown their rejection of the ideology of sectarian hatred and bigotry represented by those who organised this march. The routing of such a march through Dublin was a completely irresponsible act with scant thought given to the consequences or the dangers it posed to people."
Follow up:
Let me roughly translate:
"The scenes witnessed in Dublin today only serve to illustrate how out of touch republicans are with some of their fellow Irishmen from Ulster with the depth of hatred towards Irishmen marching through Ireland's biggest city.
[Some of] The people of Dublin have shown their rejection of law and order and exposed a dearly-held ideology of sectarian hatred and bigotry expressed through
those who organised the riotsus. Having Irishmen and women march through Dublin was a completely irresponsible act with scant thought given to the consequences or dangers posted to people by us lobbing bricks and bottles at them and setting cars alight."
The sheer cheek that they yesterday replaced their previous homepage with a photo of a few odd-looking chaps with a banner talking about "Uniting Catholic, Protestant and dissenter." They clearly don't have much of a sense of irony.
By the way, as a slight aside for the benefit of Southern readers, I fully appreciate that the views of the lunatics above are not entirely representative of the population of the Republic. Not to be funny or anything, but please consider that the next time you hear about dickheads like this and might be led to tar unionists with the same brush. Not that everyone necessarily would, but it would be an easy mistake to make from down there, especially when that's what Sinn Fein (and Sinn Fein) want you to do.
Oh and same goes for these dickheads and using that brush on Northern Ireland fans.