Now that the very open secret is out about the Queen's impending State Visit to the Irish Republic (one of extremely few countries to which she has never been, and look at the other ones), see here:
Newtownshandrum Junior B Hurling Team 2010 With the Junior B trip to Las Vegas only 2 months away the local Fianna Fail Cumann have come on board with a novel fundraiser. If you buy a ticket for 10 Euro, you enter a draw to win the chance to meet Brian Cowen and the Queen when she visits Dublin next year. Fantastic prize so everyone buy your tickets and all proceeds go to the Junior B holiday fund.
Why not? Britain set up Fianna Fáil. No one else could have engineered that 1926 secession from Sinn Féin, which duly went on to hang the IRA. Sinn Féin has never tired of pointing out the uncontested fact of this matter.
Likewise, only Britain could have engineered the 1933 merger of the Blueshirts, Cumann na nGaedheal and the National Centre Party, complete with a commitment to Commonwealth membership (which in those days necessitated retention of the monarchy, and a very high degree of integration in foreign policy and defence), albeit for a United Ireland as the ultimate aim.
Fine Gael went on to be outmanouvered into declaring the 26-County Republic that neither it nor anyone else then wanted as such, but it got its own back when it came to the choice of the first President, himself an antidote to the strange, ahistorical virus that deludes people into associating the Irish language with Nationalism.
And the Irish Labour Party has always been funded very largely, and of course entirely openly, by trade unions which exist throughout these Islands and are headquartered in England, usually in London.
Ho, hum. Fianna Fáil raises funds, both for itself and for its local hurling team, by raffling tickets to meet the Queen. Well, of course it does.
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Deluded conspiracy theory crap!
ReplyDeleteFianna Fail was set up by De Valera in light of the assasination of Kevin O'Higgins. Up until the O'Higgins assasination (which took place on his way back from Mass), people could run for the Dail but boycot it on the grounds they would need to take the oath of allegiance.
After the O'Higgins assassination a law was passed making it obligatory for those running for the Dail to sign a legal declaration that they would take the oath as a condition of their nomination. To breach this promise would be a criminal offence and the election invalid and the candidate banned from running in future elections.
The Irish High Court ruled that you did not have to say the oath - merely sign the declaration. This De Valera did in 1927 with his hand over the oath's wording.
Keep telling yourself that, dear. Sin Fein never has. Not that they are any longer in any position to comment, of course.
ReplyDeleteFianna Fail now funds itself by raffling tickets to meet the Queen. As fully befits the historic hangmen of the IRA.