Does the Southern people care what happened to the Northern Nationalists?

[absconded]

Its seems that the Southern media and people never get outraged if a Northern Nationalist gets murdered, but it becomes wall to wall coverage if anyone from the Unionist side is murdered by Nationalists! Surely both are equally wrong!?
Or are Northern Nationalists lifes not worth as much?

Certainly murder by both sides is wrong.
And every right thinking person whereever they are will have nothing but sympathy for victims, family and friends etc.

The professional journalist with the northern background who has posted here may well be right in certain aspects, but in my opinion and judging by what I have read in posts by northerners on P.ie, the media in the Republic is way too soft in challenging your hardline subversive beliefs.

It´s abnormal in the 21st century that so many people could support a political party with such strong terrorist links. Can´t you see that.

[iartaoiseach]

But very little about Mr McDaids murder!
I wonder why?

I saw a fair bit about it down here. what do you want a pullout supplement?
as a matter of interest how many nationalists have been killed by unionists in the last year? Mr Mcdaid I already knew about.
SF didn't get it in the neck when the soldiers and the polish lads were shot- that was because everyone knew it was not SF or the IRA. I think that there is usually more confusion when a catholic is attacked because loyalist paramilitaries are splintered in to all types of factions so finding out who actually did it is not easy- any comment on that?

[hurling_lad]

But very little about Mr McDaids murder!
I wonder why?

The column that Kevin Myers wrote on that murder comes to mind immediately - a full opinion piece on a murder is unusually high media exposure.

[iartaoiseach]

Please check Eldritchs post and you'll see why!

sorry didn't realise you boys were involved in a cage fight all day there. i'll keep me nose out.

[SamVimesBoots]

It's mostly a Dublin thing to be honest. Lived in Dublin for 5 years and there was plenty of the random insults from complete strangers previously mentioned. "Black Nordie b'stard, go back to your own country" etc. From random strangers walking down the street or in a shop!

Lived in Galway for 7 years and it was utterly different, it never came up at all, in any form, it was simply accepted that you were Irish like anyone else.

I still say if we re-partitioned but gave Dublin back to the Brits and took possession of the Six and called it quits, everyone would be much happier with the result.

[st333ve]

It´s abnormal in the 21st century that so many people could support a political party with such strong terrorist links. Can´t you see that.

'Had' is a word you should try using.

Its abnormal that you think SF are a terrorist party, they got very little support during the troubles and its voters today are certainly not voting because of the past, the members of SF today are actually past IRA members who split from the rest of SF and supported and worked for ceasefire and delivered decommissioning.

There was a conflict here and its over, people up here can put it behind us easier than people in the south who still think SF are running around with semtex like in 1970.

FF developed in the same way, after conflicts in many countries across the world similar things have happened.

[st333ve]

The column that Kevin Myers wrote on that murder comes to mind immediately - a full opinion piece on a murder is unusually high media exposure.

I wouldnt blame someone for overlooking a Myers article, I wouldnt wipe my arse with his 'journalism'.

*EDIT
After now reading the article it comes to the same old conclusion, SF are to blame for the PSNI being 'soft'.
Usual southern crap, Loyalist attack and kill someone and they just have to blame some republicans, anyone will do.
Reading the southern media about the north is like reading the loyalist forums, same mentality.

The PSNI wernt 'soft' they were collaborating and facilitating terrorists.
Myers actually managed to pin blame on SF for these thugs, now thats revisionsim even the British couldnt manage.
I wonder what Myers could do with this in order to blame SF..
http://www.politics.ie/northern-irel...imidation.html

See what youve done now, you made me read a Myers article and now I'm mad.
Im going to watch TV for a while to cool down.

[Eldritch]

Oh don't act so suprised Dublin has a history of being a pro-British area, Dublin castle was the symbol of british colonialism for far too long.

[iartaoiseach]

Oh don't act so suprised Dublin has a history of being a pro-British area, Dublin castle was the symbol of british colonialism for far too long.

to be honest it sounds like stupidity not pro britishness. I see you are in texas. been back much lately?

[Eldritch]

I've visited relatives over there several times I wasn't born in Ireland fyi (I'm from Houston).