Adams in Sinn Fein leadership vow

[Fianna Fáiler]

Adams in Sinn Fein leadership vow - Yahoo! News UK

It seems Gerry has no intention to stand down and will go on forever like Ian Paisley. Sounds like Sinn Féin is turning into "The Gerry Adams Party".

[Eldritch]

Sinn Fein's just the DUP wrapped in a tricolor, they're two british lapdogs pretending to be at odds with each other.

[breakingnews]

Who's going to replace Adams if he stands down - Martin Ferris? I don't think so. Mary Lou can't get even get elected to anything. He'll be there for another few years.

[turdsl]

There is a party here which has brought the country to disgrace, They shouted Up Dev, for 60 years and they still survive.

[Eldritch]

Dev actually had some principles and didn't plunge Ireland into a war against their wishes; the same can't be said of the shinners.

[Eldritch]

[derm0t]

Dev actually had some principles and didn't plunge Ireland into a war against their wishes; the same can't be said of the shinners.

Uhhhmmmmm.........

Irish Civil War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Pro-Treaty Sinn Féin party won the election with 239,193 votes to 133,864 for Anti-Treaty Sinn Féin. A further 247,226 people voted for other parties, most of whom supported the Treaty (although Labour's 132,570 votes were ambiguous with regard to the Treaty[citation needed]). The election showed that a majority of the Irish electorate supported the treaty and the foundation of the Irish Free State, and that the Sinn Féin party did not represent the opinions of everyone in the new state, but de Valera, his political followers and most of the IRA continued to oppose the treaty. De Valera is quoted as saying, "the majority have no right to do wrong".[13]

[Eldritch]

Contrary to popular belief Dev didn't cause the civil war.

[Digout]

Adams is a goon and is destroying the party.

[Eldritch]

"Though nominally head of the anti-Treatyites, de Valera had little influence. He does not seem to have been involved in any fighting and had little or no influence with the military republican leadership - headed by IRA Chief of Staff, Liam Lynch. De Valera and the anti-Treaty TDs formed a "republican government" on 25 October 1922 from anti-Treaty TDs to "be temporarily the Supreme Executive of the Republic and the State, until such time as the elected Parliament of the Republic can freely assemble, or the people being rid of external aggression are at liberty to decide freely how they are to be governed". However it had no real authority and was a pale shadow of the republican Dáil government of 1919–21, which had provided an alternative government to the British administration. In March 1923, de Valera attended the meeting of the IRA Army Executive to decide on the future of the war. He was known to be in favour of a truce but he had no voting rights and it was narrowly decided to continue hostilities. On 30 May 1923, the IRA's new Chief of Staff Frank Aiken (Lynch had been killed) called a ceasefire and ordered volunteers to "dump arms". De Valera, who had wanted an end to the internecine fighting for some time, backed the ceasefire order in a famous speech in which he called the anti-Treaty fighters "the Legion of the Rearguard", saying that "the republic can no longer be successfully defended by your arms ... Further sacrifice on your part would now be in vain and the continuance of the struggle in arms unwise in the national interest. Military victory must be allowed to rest for the moment with those who have destroyed the Republic".