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▲ 35 r/irishpolitics

Please stop blocking the roads, it’s not right to punish ordinary people

Could people please stop blocking the roads people are trying to get to work, trying to go home and just trying to get on with their daily lives.

Could anyone involved please explain why you are doing this. This sort of disruption doesn’t do anything but block up the roads for everyone. Punishing ordinary people because of your disagreements with the government isn’t an acceptable form of protest.

I mean with all respect, could someone involved/supporting these protests please explain how this helps?

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u/Tim_Browne17 — 12 hours ago
▲ 42 r/Palestine

The Song of Liberty

Here is the Song of Liberty by the Wolfe Tones.

This Easter the song is so relevant for all the suffering in not just Palestine, but in Iran, Sudan and all the other nations of the world that live in poverty and war.

May everyone have a blessed Easter. Free Palestine.

Lyrics:

Stand beside me, for peace and for liberty

For freedoms denied to many nations

With sad emotions

For borders that run through these lands

And the hope that wish justice and peace

They will be free

Free the Earth of weapons of war

Of death and destruction

Sure, the strong deny the weak when

It's justice we see for all

With sad emotions for people's

Of these troubled lands

And the hope that all nations at

War will soon find past

For united we stand

Linking our hands throughout this world

Out great chains of love will not be broken

We are singing this song

Hoping our hearts cannot be wrong

With the love for all struggling peoples

For I hate to see children crying

We must stop all their sorrow and dying

Stand beside me for peace and liberty

With a hope that our nations at

War will soon find peace

It's a wish that all lands

Will find justice with peace

We will sing you this song, just for you

Liberty

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u/Tim_Browne17 — 3 days ago
▲ 38 r/FuckNigelFarage

Farage-Style Fascism spilling into Ireland

I’ve made this post to display the rise of Farage-style ideology in my hometown of Drogheda.

I would have posted this on r/ireland but I was banned there after a dispute with the moderators over my political beliefs.

See in the first image is a monument erected near Southgate Shopping Centre in Drogheda Co. Meath. This was erected last year inspired by mythology. Notice how the top of it is similar to the common Islamic symbol of the crescent and star.

There is an interesting history behind this symbol in Drogheda. During the Great Hunger it is said the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire wanted to send aid to Ireland to help the starving Irish. His aid however, would have one upped Queen Victoria’s contribution and he was blocked from sending most of it. Defying British orders the Ottoman’s sent the aid anyway sneaking it in through the port of Drogheda saving countless lives. Since then Drogheda has adopted the Ottoman symbol of the Crescent and Star as the symbol of the city to honour. See Pictures 3 and 4 where it is displayed on the town’s crest at the top and in the local football team’s crest.

Despite this some uneducated fools covered the crescent and star at the top of the monument and vandalised the monument further with a Christian cross on the bottom. (Seen in Picture 2).

No group has claimed responsibility for this vandalism, cowardly avoiding any criminal consequence.

Since then it has become obvious that one of the many “fly the flag” groups that have come about in Ireland are responsible as on nearby lampposts the Irish tricolour from Temu has been attached to said lampposts. (Sound familiar)

Nigel Farage has inspired this movement. In fact the most notable active far-right leader in my area, Herman Kelly the leader of the so called “Irish Freedom Party”, was a member of UKIP during Farage’s leadership. Kelly has publicly backed the “Great Replacement Theory”.

It saddens me as an Irish Nationalist and a Catholic that the symbols that stand for hope, peace and unity are now being used by Farage-style groups to promote Irexit and ideology that mimics the British colonialism my generations of ancestors fought against.

Fuck Hermann Kelly and Fuck Nigel Farage.

u/Tim_Browne17 — 4 days ago