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eric cartman said:
It is about the troubles in N.Ireland and their fight for independence just like the Scottish national anthem.
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Have you missed the last 10 pages...

For me (and others) It's about members of an illegal terrorist group...this has been explained loads if times why some people take offence at it.
 
eric cartman said:
How does it cause offence if there is no sectarian lyrics though?
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Because people are bell ends.

Apparently it is not against the law to try and offend folk by saying "**** the Pope" but espousing resistance to the criminalisation of a legitimate political positions is illegal.... Absolute bollocks.
 
For their rights as Irish soldiers...

What army was that? A legitimate army?
 
pud said:
In your eyes.. Yes. That's because you gave a different pov...

Answer the above, Irish soldiers ...if what legitimate army..
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No Pud. Not in my point of view. It is a fact that you are wrong.

It is not about the IRA.

The right of Irish soldiers is about the cause of Freedom. Not a specific army. See the Irish anthem to illustrate the point.
 
second hunger strike began on 1 March, when Bobby Sands, the IRA's former commanding officer (CO) in the prison, refused food. Unlike the first strike, the prisoners joined one at a time and at staggered intervals, which


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27 October 1980, republican prisoners in HM Prison Maze began a hunger strike. Many prisoners volunteered to be part of the strike, but a total of seven were selected to match the number of men who signed the Easter 1916 Proclamation of the Republic. The group consisted of IRA members Brendan Hughes, Tommy McKearney, Raymond McCartney, Tom McFeeley, Sean McKenna, Leo Green, and INLA member John Nixon.[SUP][7][/SUP] On 1 December three prisoners in Armagh Women's Prison joined the strike, including Mairéad Farrell, followed by a short-lived hunger strike by several dozen more prisoners in HM Prison Maze. In a war of nerves between the IRA leadership and the British government


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I've read it all ...it's connected to republicanism, Irish war and the ira...the army to which these soldiers where linked to. They organised the strikes...
 
If you can connect this all to football, I can connect it to terrorism...
 
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