There is something funny about how the correction is sort of a point in Israel’s favour. Crowe gets up, says that Israel is worse than the Brits and we all go ‘well actually…’
MardykeBoy on
This is the intelligence level that our legislators are at.
These are the people tasked to solve the housing catastrophe that they created.
Fun-Associate3963 on
Crowe added: “I, too, studied history in college.
Facepalm.
Calum_leigh on
He’s in Ennistymon constantly. A town…..BURNT DOWN IN RETALIATION TO A AMBUSH BY THE BRITISH,WHERE CIVILIANS WERE EXECUTED AND THROWN BACK INTO BURNING HOUSES .
Lazy_Pack676 on
“I, too, studied history in college”

JONFER--- on
Such a stupid statement to make in the first place!
Ploon92 on
Apology and record corrected is all he can do now, but this gaffe & mad statement will stay with him well beyond that.
NewryIsShite on
A “Republican Party” Minister…..
Floodzie on
This guy needs to read up on the reprisals in County Limerick (which affected my family)
BobbyKonker on
Who is paying him to say these stupid things?
Seany-Boy-F on
This, this is the standard of individual that gets to decide what happens in this country…….
National_Play_6851 on
The headlines really took his comment out of context.
“What is happening is not a war anymore; it is ethnic cleansing, genocide and, more recently, the weaponising of food,” said Crowe.
He then added: “The British army was a bad actor on this island for many centuries but even in the worst of days, when its cities were being bombed by the terror organisations of the IRA, it never retaliated by bombing and shooting the civilian population of Ireland.”
To me saying that they weren’t “bombing and shooting the civilian population” is not the same as saying they never shot civilians – the term “civilian population” implies the whole population. He was saying they didn’t engage in ethnic cleansing by carpet bombing and mass murdering the entire population in the way Israel is today.
Which he clarified in his apology, but I thought it was pretty clear when I first read it. That doesn’t make for clickbait headlines and bad faith performative outrage from the opposition though.
Ok_Specialist3202 on
Ironic considering cathals experience with RAF operations
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I heard you’re a West Brit now Father
Fucking idiot.

Bloody Sunday.
Never forget.
They should just drop the fada at this stage.
There is something funny about how the correction is sort of a point in Israel’s favour. Crowe gets up, says that Israel is worse than the Brits and we all go ‘well actually…’
This is the intelligence level that our legislators are at.
These are the people tasked to solve the housing catastrophe that they created.
Crowe added: “I, too, studied history in college.
Facepalm.
He’s in Ennistymon constantly. A town…..BURNT DOWN IN RETALIATION TO A AMBUSH BY THE BRITISH,WHERE CIVILIANS WERE EXECUTED AND THROWN BACK INTO BURNING HOUSES .
“I, too, studied history in college”

Such a stupid statement to make in the first place!
Apology and record corrected is all he can do now, but this gaffe & mad statement will stay with him well beyond that.
A “Republican Party” Minister…..
This guy needs to read up on the reprisals in County Limerick (which affected my family)
Who is paying him to say these stupid things?
This, this is the standard of individual that gets to decide what happens in this country…….
The headlines really took his comment out of context.
“What is happening is not a war anymore; it is ethnic cleansing, genocide and, more recently, the weaponising of food,” said Crowe.
He then added: “The British army was a bad actor on this island for many centuries but even in the worst of days, when its cities were being bombed by the terror organisations of the IRA, it never retaliated by bombing and shooting the civilian population of Ireland.”
To me saying that they weren’t “bombing and shooting the civilian population” is not the same as saying they never shot civilians – the term “civilian population” implies the whole population. He was saying they didn’t engage in ethnic cleansing by carpet bombing and mass murdering the entire population in the way Israel is today.
Which he clarified in his apology, but I thought it was pretty clear when I first read it. That doesn’t make for clickbait headlines and bad faith performative outrage from the opposition though.
Ironic considering cathals experience with RAF operations
https://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/irish-politician-shat-all-over-by-sharp-shooter-seagull-while-cycling-in-dublin/