On the 'Audacity' of Family Matters & ILIR
So the brothers - in - law, O'Dowd and Staunton are at it again. I gave up reading the Irish Voice years ago. Only the gullible would take it seriously. These ILIR people live in their own little world removed from the rest of us. There is more credibility in the National Inquirer.
AOH Officer Rockland County
Pat, a chara,
Wonder who the source of the story was. Hard to imagine someone making an error like that about their own brother-in-law!
Veteran Irish Northern Aid Activist, Bronx, New York
Patrick:
Well written.
As you have emphasized over these last few years, the issue is so sensitive the current environment requires that rectifying Irish immigration difficulties be done through quiet discrete diplomatic lobbying and not through the anarchistic, boisterous, leftie hysterics to which we have been treated by ILIR. However, as you imply there is no money to be made or profiles to be burnished from "quiet, discrete, diplomatic lobbying".
Irish American legal eagle, Westchester County, N.Y.
Hurley:
Deport all illegals, Irish included! And as for you, you should be shipped back in irons to count sheep in New Zealand! Only joking! Legalize the Irish and overturn Teddy Kennedy's law. Blast the Kennedys, anyway! As for ILIR, O'Dowd, Staunton and company, as they'd say on the other side, you have them sussed!
Irish American Kerryman, Queens
On Jack Meehan
Patrick,
I, too, was very offended by the two columns in the Irish Voice by the way they disrespected Jack Meehan. Jack is an expert on Immigration and a staunch supporter of my friend Malachy McAllister. Thanks for standing up for Jack.
Regards,
AOH Officer, Nassau County, N.Y.
I have had the personal experience of knowing President Jack Meehan for many years. I consider him a very close friend. I have known him since he became a member of Division 14, Watertown, sponsored by another Past National President, Jack Connolly. I have watched Jack, as he became more and more involved with this organization, which he admires and loves. To me his service and devotion are unmatched and they are most sincere. I do hope that others will see and recognize what Jack is and who he is, a truly devoted figure to represent us all. Slainte,
AOH Member, Boston
On Daniel O'Donnell . . . er. . . O'Connell
Hi Pat:
Really enjoy the blog. Looked at the Google ''REBEL SECTION'' ADVERT. JUST LOVED THAT. NOTED ONE HILARIOUS ITEM, A PICTURE OF THE LIBERATOR DANIEL O'CONNELL. BY MISTAKE THEY ARE SELLING IT UNDER THE NAME, GET THIS, DANIEL O'DONNELL. THE DONEGAL DUDE IS REALLY TOO GENTLE TO BE COMPARED TO O'CONNELL. HOPE YOUR ALL HAVING A NICE SUMMER. - 1980s Roscommon Immigrant, Queens, N.Y.
On Sinn Fein's Refusal to Fly the Tricolor in Dungiven
FRANCIE BROLLY HANG YOUR HEAD IN DISGRACE!
How must the Lynch family feel? How must the families of all the Hunger Strikers feel? This speaks volumes! How can they talk about "a united Ireland in 2016", yet they oppose hanging a tricolour? Give us a break!
After 30+ years of attending protests, visiting Republican Prisoners, watching the 1981 Hunger Strikers suffer and die, knowing how their families suffered..........this is mystifying !!!??? (Well, not really I guess... but some how it still is!)
After all that was done for Francie Brolly and his family by supporters in New York; what could change a man's values and principles ?!?! ( Where have all their principles gone? And what do they stand for ?)
Francie Brolly should hang his head is shame! He is a disgrace to all things Irish & Catholic and all things Irish Republican! Our families having been good friends for decades.... I would cross to the other side of the street if I saw him today. It just goes to show how money, power, and position can corrupt a persons' values. 30 years ago I never thought Francie Brolly would become a sell-out and an anglophile!
GOD SAVE IRELAND! This is my daily prayer.
Veteran Irish Republican Activist, Bronx, New York
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This narrative of the situation is more enlightening than Veteran's:
Controversy surrounds Tricolours in Dungiven
From the Derry Journal
29 July 2008
By Staff reporter
Sinn Fein MLA Francie Brolly has said there needs to be a debate about how the national flag is flown, amid controversy over the number of tricolours in Dungiven for the commemoration of the death of hunger-striker Kevin Lynch.
Mr Brolly said bunting should be used instead of flags.
Organisers of last Sunday’s parade said they were surprised by the comments from Mr. Brolly as there had never been issue with the flags before.
Mr Brolly said: “At particular times of theADVERTISEMENTyear, as we commemorate the hunger strikers and all of our patriot dead, it is understandable that the flag is displayed and flown in their honour. However, it is the manner in which the flag is displayed that is cause for concern.
“The national flag should at all times command the highest degree of respect. While I accept that some organising committees, such as the one in Dungiven, ensure that any flags erected by them are only flown for the duration of the commemoration, this is not always the case.”
Mr. Brolly said it is too often the case where the national flag is dishonoured, “not only by being displayed on lamp posts, telegraph poles and even trees, but even more dishonouring is that flags of particular football clubs are flown above the tricolour on the same pole.
In Dungiven, Irish tricolours are flown along the Main Street to mark the death of INLA man Kevin Lynch (25) from Park who died in 1981 after 71 days on hunger strike.
Mr. Brolly said the tricolour should never be used as a means of intimidation or of marking out territory.
“The national flag is a symbol of peace and national reconciliation and anyone displaying it for any other purpose not only dishonours the flag but the memory of our patriot dead and the ideals for which they died.
“Other ways of honouring our patriot dead with the display of the Tricolour need to be considered, such as requesting property owners along the route of any procession to fly the flag from their premises for the duration of the commemoration.”
Mr. Brolly said the tricolour should never be used as a means of intimidation or of marking out territory. He added: “The national flag is a symbol of peace and national reconciliation and anyone displaying it for any other purpose not only dishonours the flag, but the memory of our patriot dead and the ideals for which they died.”
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