Originally Posted by Cruimh

And of course anything from Danny M has to be taken with a very large pinch of salt - His fall from grace in SF was never explained. Was he a Canary?

Tell us all Cruimh.

OP

Originally Posted by between the bridges

In the mid 70's a IRA prisoner used the pen name 'Brownie' to publish articles in the Republican News...

“Brownie” wrote: “Rightly or wrongly, I’m an IRA volunteer and rightly or wrongly, I take a course of action as a means of bringing about a situation in which I believe the people of my country will prosper”.
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What, only a humble volunteer?

I demand a recount

Originally Posted by between the bridges

In the mid 70's a IRA prisoner used the pen name 'Brownie' to publish articles in the Republican News...

“Brownie” wrote: “Rightly or wrongly, I’m an IRA volunteer and rightly or wrongly, I take a course of action as a means of bringing about a situation in which I believe the people of my country will prosper”.

Fast forward to 2018 entering stage left Danny Morrison, who was the Sinn Fein publicity director who coined the phrase of the ballot box and the armalite together...

In The Irish Times Danny Morrison wrote in a gushing tribute to Gerry Adams. He wrote: “I have known Gerry Adams 46 years. In 1975, as editor of Republican News, I asked him would he write a weekly column from Long Kesh, which he did under the pen man Brownie.”

Read more at: https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/op...ersy-1-8457033

Moi is sure many others share my shock at this heinous slur and await Djarrygando suing Danny boy for slanderous libel...

Would you not take up masturbation....by which I mean in the quiet of your own bedroom.....as opposed to here...?
We get it.....your hilarious contributions are a mixture of bravado and fear....you have a bucket list which probably consists of hoping you die before a united Ireland comes....but coming it is.....now away and peel the spuds....

Originally Posted by ticketyboo

Would you not take up masturbation....by which I mean in the quiet of your own bedroom.....as opposed to here...?
We get it.....your hilarious contributions are a mixture of bravado and fear....you have a bucket list which probably consists of hoping you die before a united Ireland comes....but coming it is.....now away and peel the spuds....

The lift definitely doesn't go to the top there. A few sandwiches short of a picnic. A village without an idiot etc.

In the 80's The Phoenix used to refer to Vincent Browne as Mad Dog Browne as there was supposed to have been a story linking him to a firearm.

For a minute I thought this was it.

Originally Posted by JimmyFoley

What fall?

Ahem! Sandy.

An organization that was composed almost entirely of white people and in the main white men thought it would have a lark by writing from the perspective of brownie.

It's a sick joke.

Originally Posted by ticketyboo

Would you not take up masturbation....by which I mean in the quiet of your own bedroom.....as opposed to here...?
We get it.....your hilarious contributions are a mixture of bravado and fear....you have a bucket list which probably consists of hoping you die before a united Ireland comes....but coming it is.....now away and peel the spuds....

Hi tickeymoomoo, every Fred moi posts draws a ranting attack from ye, but ye never manage to address the actual content of the OP's, yer a sad little hypocrite who would do well to remember moi's laughing moi's bollocks off at every post ye make, cheers...

Originally Posted by FOURGREENFIELDS

The lift definitely doesn't go to the top there. A few sandwiches short of a picnic. A village without an idiot etc.

This from somewan who thinks that Four Green Fields is one word written in capitals, duh...

Originally Posted by mr_anderson

But that was only during the dirty protests

Lots of brownies