Comments on: Sean South commemorations held in Limerick

By: houro

houro — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:04:47 +0000

In response to ” LimerickScot`s ” comments regarding sean south being a
“murderous thug”, i assume therefore that he also considers Wolfe Tone ,
Robert Emett, Patrick Sarsfield, Michael Collins etc to be murderous thugs.
Did all the above ( and thousands more besides ) not fight in the name of
freedom for Ireland from the scurge of British greed and oppression. Or
does Mr. “LimerickScot” suggest that we should have just accepted our
meagre lot rather than fight for our rights….To quote Michael Collins—
” war is murder, sheer bloody murder”… and we never wanted war- just
peace and freedom !!!!

By: bensonandwedges

bensonandwedges — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:13:00 +0000

I knew the man who wrote the song, a limerick man himself, from janesboro i think

By: Clarina

Clarina — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:44:42 +0000

Fair enough, wasn’t really giving out but thanks for your reply.

By: Squid

Squid — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:07:18 +0000

Imple really, the first provided more information on their ceremony than the second.

By: Clarina

Clarina — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:04:32 +0000

A little late reply but found it that odd that even when one group pulls less than 40 attendees and in doing so get the bulk of the story while the other group who pulled just over 200 get a mere mention at the end of the story.

By: Pat

Pat — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:05:17 +0000

garden Says:

“Its high time that some of the lazy time servers are cleared out of the council ”

Interesting choice of words.Pat do you think you should go back and rephrase that!

Sure Garden, I’d be happy to rephrase my comments above as follows….Its high time that the people of Limerick voted out the current crop of lazy, ignorent city councillors and instead voted in people who actually want to work for their community!

By: THETRUTH

THETRUTH — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:37:35 +0000

The fact of the matter is there would be no free state in the north or the south of ireland if it was not for the actions of the people of ireland who formed the irish republican army and sinn fein(im not talking about the scumbags who are around now) who ARE concerned about the living,and in FACT DEFENDED THE VERY RIGHTS OF THE LIVING BOTH IN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH OF IRELAND.

Is mise le meas,

if you can figure out what that means … lol

By: starkie

starkie — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:32:24 +0000

I have always been baffled as to why peole made a hero of a man who set out to kill people when the same people condemn the other more recent IRA.

By: boxerdog

boxerdog — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:23:14 +0000

TIOCFAIDH AR LA

By: Limerickscot

Limerickscot — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:18:52 +0000

ok, so undying fame surrounds his name.
because he bollexed up a mission in Non-iron.
and his mission was to go and kill people who were pretty much doing a paid job of work and probably happened to believe something different from him.
In my opinion there’s too much romance attached to tales like this

there’s nothing remotely heroic about setting off on a mission, intending to ambush men who were sons, fathers husbands. Nothng herioc at all, unless i am missing something.

to be clear, i am of irish descent, i have my life in limerick and i love the city, i’m a catholic, and i beleive ireland should be 1 country polictically, geographically and in every other context. but commemorating someone who in any other city in any other society would just be termed as a murderous thug – i cant see the benefit.

the earlier comments are spot on re SF – too much living in the past, quoting and dancing round decades of activity, that hasnt really brought about the required result.