quote:- The Irish - americans also had a problem with non-Catholics and there was a famous case in Washington of an officer, a Belfast Protestant, having to be reposted because of resistance from the local community. One would have thought that the Irish-Americans would have been glad of such admittedly tokenistic diversity, but as I was soon to find out they wren't always such a sophisticated bunch. Unquote. Eamon Delaney; An Accidental Diplomat.
"I do not, I never have and I never will recognise the colonial State of British-occupied Ireland ... I want to state publicly and unequivocally that I am in sympathy with the IRA - indeed sympathy is too weak a word ... I cannot join them in the fight for freedom of my country, but the very least I can do is speak up for them when they are being slandered and vilified by unscrupulously vicious propaganda. The oppressors of Irish freedom call the IRA terrorists and murderers, but I call them by their proper titles; I call them freedom fighters, I call them heroes; and I venerate their dead as martyrs for Ireland." [2]
Father Sean McManus.
So much for objectivity in journalism - as defined by you .
Here's Fr. Sean again. Demonstrating " finger on the pulse " analysis.
YouTube - Anti-Catholicism 5
Just because the Irish Times- published in the 21st century - doesn't dedicate the MAJORITY of it's pages to has-beens and never-weres doesn't make it a rag. It seems
to have abandones its sectarian origins. What a pity that the republicanism of Tone , Emmet , Davis, Parnell has been abandoned to narrow minded whingers.