How many people secretly support the old IRA?

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Sshhhh! It's Podge and Rodge

You mean the IRA who blew up innocent people attending a memorial in Enniskillen?
You mean the IRA who were involved in extortion rackets and drug running?
You mean the IRA who blew up innocent people in pubs in Guildford and Birmingham?
You mean the IRA who kidnapped innocent civilian people in the Republic of Ireland and subsequently shot dead members of the Garda Siochana in the ensuing rescue attempts?
You mean the IRA who blew up a boat one day in Sligo killing Mountbatten but also maiming and killing innocent locals who were working on the boat?
You mean the IRA scumbags who indiscriminately shot Detective Sergeant Gerry McCabe in his car in Adare, riddling his body with bullets, his murderers being subsequently cheered at a Sinn Fein Ard Fheis?

NOT US!

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jimmyw

In Ireland the word's "old IRA" have a very different meaning to the IRA of the 1970's and 1980's.
The "old IRA" fought the war of independence from 1919 to 1921 and was supported by a huge majority fo Irish people.
The IRA of the 1970s and 1980s was effectively a splinter group known as the Provisional IRA (knicknamed Provos) that had split from a version of the IRA that had split from a version of the IRA that had split from another version of the IRA that had split from the Old IRA. It had a very small minority supporting it albeit had sizeable support among Catholics in Northern Ireland as a result of the anti-Catholic apartheid style system of government that existed in that part of Ireland in the late 1960's and early 1970's

Soul Jacker

Podge and Rodge said it all.

Incidentally what the hell happened in 1990 to differentiate the 'old' IRA and the 'New' IRA? The Provo's started their terror campaign in the late 60s so your question makes absolutely no sense.

If you want to get an idea of how many people supported the Provo's in the North have a look at how Sinn Fein polled pre-1998 (11%)

In the South SF are now so popular they lost their status as a recognised political party in the Dail because they only won 4 seats.

So I would guess they're few and far between.

I should be doing something else

I don't support the IRA or any other terrorist organisation.

Leaine - I agree with you - The fundamental aim at the very beginning was to stand up and give a voice for a people who were being treated deplorably, but somehow it turned into something else along the way.

Eddie F

Get real...
Don't tell me you fallen for all that freedom fighter nonsense???

The IRA are bunch of thugs, who under the banner of 'freedom fighters' moved and supplied drugs throughout the land!!!

Please don't insult my intelligence with all the romantic baloney!!

Remember the two kids that got killed in warrington?? Collateral damage I believe???

Yeah... Real hero's!!!!

Wise_guy

the term "Old IRA" in Ireland is the IRA during the war of Independance, the PIRA in the troubles in Northern Ireland were the same group from the beginning of the troubles to the end in 1998, so the PIRA after 1990 were the same as before 1990, but they were NOT the same as the IRA in 1919 - 1921, those were the real freedom fighters.

â™¥ Lucy â™¥

I'd never support them even though I'm 13

irishboy2008

I support the IRA that fought for our freedom from slavery...not the terrorists!
I support anything anti british too though lol

stoned4life

I do...and I wound call the IRA terrorists id call them freedom fighters...id call england terrorist's (not the people the government)...

800 years of murdering irish people

caused the famine

have gone to war with 3/8s of the world

They are the most hated country in the entire planet

Tid

The very very old IRA, yes, I would support them, as I would with Wolfe Tone and his united Irish men. But somewhere along the line, the IRA got too big for their boots, and women and children got involved, and innocent people locked up etc. No, i wouldn't support them now.

ash1

i support the ira from the war of independance back in the early 1900s..

the PIRA - i dont know, there was a lot of people killed thru their campaign, but the catholics of northern ireland were very poorly treated back then. Its hard to say i support the IRA as they were back at the start of the century when it was people in the now republic who were being treated badly, but then say i dont support the PIRA when they were trying to free northern ireland and the catholics being poorly treated up there.
On the one hand its horrible how many people were affected by the killings, lot of innocent people died. But would anything have changed in N Ireland with peaceful protests...look at bloody sunday, peaceful protests didnt work there.

To be honest, i think the British govt have to take the majority of the blame both times -it was their treatment of catholics as second class citizens in their own country and their stubborness that led to both. Too many try to be pc about it now and make out it was all the IRAs fault, but forget what they were actually fighting for. How would the country be now if they had never stood up to the british. The british govt were responsible for a lot more deaths than the IRA were.

Im just glad its over now, and everyone has the opportunity to try to move on and make things better than they were.

Leaine Ni Loingsigh

If you mean the IRA as in those who fought in the Civil War and War Of Independence, then yes, I fully support those hero's.
As for the 70s and 80's, well, they fought for what they believed in. I'm not saying they went the right way about it, or that I support all their actions. They fought for the same reasons as Pearse, Connolly, Cennant, Mac Diarmada, Plunkett, McDonagh and all the other lads did, why then do you look at these men aspatrioticl heros, and the modern fighters as terrorists?
Really, I support what they are fighting for, but not necessairly how they aim to achieve it.

linda m

Good question..... Yes I do, definately, but nowadays it's taboo to say that out loud!!

Hundreds have died fighting for a free Ireland, and now it's like the fight has been given up.

Tiocfaidh Ar La

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Tiocfaidh ar la

AobhrÃl

Me. The Civil War, War of Independence etc I've seen it six times and I always cry at the Michael Collins movie, as for the fifties onwards... well I think alot of it was necessary to make a point about inequality in the North, but not so much the bombing in Britian, but on the whole yeah, and I lost family through those in NI and Britian.
However I would not welcome them back unless of course the English invade again or something.
And however many ugly connotations it has I do believe in Tiocfaidh Ã¡r lÃ¡- agus go luaithe

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