Originally Posted by SevenStars

Generally upper middle class in Dublin refer to proletarians as scumbags...Is that what you mean by refering to Vol Brendan Huges as a scumbag? Yes he was working class. Have you ever considered the depth and length of the sacrafices made by people in the occupied six counties in the struggle against colonialism and oppression there? Can you not at least admire the nobility of the sentiment that he expresses?

If you had grown up in the same circumstances as Brendan Hughes how would you have reacted? Can you place yourself in his shoes or does you imagination not stretch that far?

Originally Posted by Trans-Siberian

You are an ignorant person and have proved on my occasions on htis forum that it is you who are the scumbag.

Originally Posted by Aristodemus

Do you actually believe this bilge or are you writing it to get a wind-up? The "sacrifices..by people in the occupied six counties...colonialism". Anyone would think you were referring to India in the 19th Century. The reality on the ground is that the people of the six counties are the most cosseted and pampered of any in the UK.

Originally Posted by picador

I look forward - in a ghoulish sense - to reading Moloney's interpretation of what The Dark had to say. As 2nd Battalion and then Brigade Staff he was in a position to know where the bodies lie buried - and not just in the metaphorical sense.