Gerry is top class. No how the RTE tried to get him or McGuinness they were always prepared. He apologizes as far as he can.. he explains himself 100% clear
How in the hell is RTÉ anti-irisn just because a presenter asks some tough qs to a man who has condoned the slaughter of fellow Irish men and women and children??. No ones more anti irish that the Ira and Gerry Adams.
I remember Gerry standing up in the Dail Years ago Enda Kenny was Taoiseach at the time and Gerry said to Enda Taoiseach - You have been a TD for 36 Years - Name your top 3 Achievements Enda could NOT NAME ONE........
I came here from a previous video i watched of gerry and there is one thing i can say from watching both, this man is a very very clever and calm speaker, no wonder the ira let him do most there interviews hes so clever in the way he amswers all his questions, and this is coming from a protestant talking here
Royal Family. So standing 'holier than thou' in this context is hypocritical, because support for Hitler came from all quarters of British society as well. And if I remember, Margaret Thatcher, that so called great advocate of libertarian philosophy, was a personal friend of none other than Augusto Pinochet. You seem to forget, again conveniently that Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein being Fascist is an oxymoron. It just does not equate. Why don't you just admit that you use the term 'Fascist'
Miriam is just rediculous. In her 50's with little house in the Prairie hair. Like a lot of people in RTE she is a total airhead. She, or any other presenter never treated loyalist murderers like she treats Sinn Fein representatives. No concept at all that it was a war. Gerry commanded this interview as usual. Her best moment was when she said "killing isnt always murder, I used to be a lawyer" Time to take out the old law notes and dust them down Miriam.
Can yiu name a loyalist murderer that she interviewed? Nor a loyalist murderer without googling? Why, are you equating Gerry to murderers? Why do that?
There were other replies if you see them? In Europe, there were widespread protests after Sands death. 5000 Milanese students burned the Union Flag and chanted Freedom for Ulster during a march The British Consulate at Ghent was raidedThousands marched in Paris behind huge portraits of Sands, to chants of 'the IRA will conquer'. In the Portuguese Parliament, the opposition stood for Sands-just europe. Its not a true democracy when you have gerrymandering and when its not one man, one vote
The control of the Catholic church is being eroded ... Enda Kenny gave a great speech explaining this. There is no way we are going back to the control that led to paedophilia, the Magdalene laundries and the bigoty that prefers women to go to England for abortions because it doesn't upset their piety ....
@@garyfletcher1910 you sure your not talking about the British government and the British army? Because if you want to talk murder the British army did it all murder butchery slaughter degradation depravity you name it the Brits did it. Google Brits under investigation by amnesty International for murder in Iraq and Afghanistan for over 200 innocents that we know about
@@garyfletcher1910 m8 you need to read more get educated like I did your living in a dream world like i did for a while here is a tip want we learnt in school about our wonderful British empire was a joke and never ever believe the bbc especially when it comes to what we did in paddy land
@@garyfletcher1910 If you study history for a living I'm princess Diana. Judging my your level of intelligence I'm starting to believe your not the brightest of your gene pool. But look on the bright side at least you brought me down to your level and got me to respond you pathetic fool. Back to bed now for you
You're quite right. The church had nothing to do with the burning of 8 million women as witches. The church has never been miscogynist. The church has nothing to do with paedophile priests and magdalene laundries. It's all lies put out by the 'west Brit' media. Oh, and yes, the church is central to our Irish identity.
@@seantoner7392 Rev Ian paisley, Peter Robinson, Gregory Campbell, Jeffrey Donaldson, Sammy Wilson, Rev William McCrea to name but a few.Big Ian and his vanguard movement alongside big poots as well. Bigots one and all.
@@baillie677 Robinson, Wilson and Donaldson are all twats but I've never seen a single one of them defend loyalist violence, not once. As for the Rev, well yes he was a thug but he's dead, and when he was alive he was quustioned many times by the media. But Wilson and and the rest of them never condoned unionist violence, unlike adams and mcguinness, who repeatedly condoned obscene acts of terror and murder, kidnapping and torture.
@@baillie677 well of you could kindly send a link to footage or to a document proving they ever defended loyalist violence or terrorism then I'd be happy to admit I'm wrong.
@@johnnotrealname8168how is the term west Brit utterly meaningless? Means as much now as it ever did and herself as well as tubridy are perfect descriptions of the “west brit” “an Irish person who sympathizes with or favors the culture or political interests of the British”
its only a word that means nothing, him condoning the murders has a way deeper meaning to the victims families, why the focus on that stupid word sorry, its literally mean nothing from any human that uses it, the never truly mean it anyway lol, condoning a murder is saying it was wrong and never should have happened..
...toadies. I may remind you the Britain has been prosecuted at the Court of Human Rights for human rights violations in NI. So before you come on here and start throwing around words like Fascist and war criminals, I suggest you go and find out what they really mean in the eyes of the international community, because quite frankly, you have no idea what you are talking about.
He should never did this interview with Miriam he had denied it and she keeps repeating the same questions and doesn’t accept his answers and she doesn’t know 100% he was in the IRA if she did she wouldn’t ask and he wouldn’t deny and he’s said for years why he believes DP said what she said but again he’s saying that’s what he thinks,he can’t know 100% why anyone says anything and her repeating the same things n expecting different answers is tiring I really don’t understand why he did this I’m sure he has better ways to spend his time and he’s condemned all murders numerous times .
I've watched many Adams interviews and this is certainly the most uncomfortable I've seen. He's usually cool and measured but seemed rattle at many points here.
@@longmemory1620 I welcome your comments and as a Northern Unionist if we can actually get rid of SF I believe a UI is much closer and I would shake your hand (covid permitting)....play tunes and drink - you have Jamiesons, I have Bushmills....and then swap bottles for more singing. Take care and best wishes.
@@ck1643 lol watch it again…if that were so how come the rest of you are whinging and complaining bc she put him in his place 👏…big time….in fact I love it so much I’ve watched it twice…👍
@@bellascott6478 good for u for watching it again... Take a clap👏 I'm not whingeing and complaining.... Its a fact of life that any sinn fein politician gets a rough ride by all the west brit Dublin media outlets with the old mantra "old IRA good, new IRA bad".....but the thing is, they are more than capable of answering any question that is put to them.... Its only a matter of time.... In power in the North and very soon to be in power in the south.... Then the FF/FG carve up will piss their pants
@@ck1643 you and ppl like you are the reason there will never be peace..you don’t actually want peace . You’re happily typing like a keyboard warrior to a girl on here in a threatening way
Philomena is the biggest film in Ireland at the moment - the church taking children away from 'unworthy' mothers. Probably you are still watching John Wayne and Maureen O Hara ....
but none of these were being done by the NI government if the british government had been able to control their soldiers there would have been no need for the violence on the level that there was and if they had been able to control there police for and protect catholics then there would have been no need for the IRA, if the british government had prevented bloody sunday if they hadn't have introduced internment, then maybe. As it stood the irish simply seen it as fighting violence with violence
There's a 2001 documentary on RU-vid called Provos: Endgame (4 of 4) (Peter Taylor, 2001, BBC) in which Brendan Hughes is interviewed. He says he thinks the war is over and has run its course (47:17). Yet Gerry Adams seems to think Hughes was an opponent of the peace process. In Voices from the Grave, Hughes admits to ordering the bombings in Belfast city centre on Bloody Friday, but claims that there was no intention to kill anyone [sic]. If he was not only in a position to order those bombings but also capable of trying to dodge moral responsibility for the inevitable deaths, perhaps he was also in a position to order Jean McConville's killing then capable of pinning the blame on Gerry Adams, knowing that even if Adams knew it was Hughes, he couldn't say so, because by doing so he would have to admit knowledge of IRA operations. ???
Gerry Adams is accused of absolutely everything bad that happened in Ireland. It would be impossible for one person to do all the Gerry Adams is accused of doing. Brendan Hughes, by his own words had serious mental health issues after years of imprisonment under horrible circumstances, and by his own words he suffered from paranoia believing that many of his former comrades were now British agents. While he never said the same about Gerry Adams, it is clear that Adams was one of the people among many that Hughes distanced himself from. Along with Brendan Hughes Dolours Price also suffered from mental health issues and for reasons unknown developed a dislike for Adams. It is possible, knowing how badly these two suffered that they cannot be taken as absolutely accurate without other evidence of Gerry Adams misdeeds. I have seen so many attempts to utterly destroy Adams that I agree with Bernadette McAliskey that we are sick beyond sanity of hearing how bad he is. At the time she mentioned Martin McGuiness along with Adams in the same vein, but. since Mr McGuiness tragically died, he is forgiven and only Adams is maligned in this fashion.
@@ATLmodK hi Kathryn I agree 700 percent with yu ie yu are absolutely correct if the weather changed people would blame Adams ie you will never ever ever ever ever hear miriam referring to all the massive amounts of innocent people who were murdered by British soldiers ie its all 1 way traffic
@@jackietreehorn5561 hi how are yu I hope yur well its about time we heard people like miriam o callaghan highlight and refer to all the innocent people who were murdered by British soldiers we never ever ever hear miriam referring to anything of that nature if the weather changed adams would be blamed for it
@@monrush her organisation was responsible for it so why not she get grilled like Adams does about the IRA. Remember the IRA had no support from the Irish up in the North until the British starting masacaring people, burning catholics out of there homes, no jobs and no housing for them. Then when they went out on the cival rights marches the Irish were beaten off the streets from the RUC which was 98 percent prodestant. The Irish had every reason the pick up the gun up there. They tried to change things peacefully and they were met with brutal force so they had to respond with brutal force of there own which ended up in a neethless 30 year war
@@jericho9653her organisation was responsible for the Irish potato famine???I think she was born over 60 years later... Can we stop glorifying the IRA and the "struggle" the IRA were nothing but a bunch of murders and thugs. They had no great cause.
@@monrush there cause was to drive the British out so there wouldn't be any repeats of the great famine massacre when the brits exported all the food out of the country while the Irish population halved in 5 years. How many Irish are the British responsible for kill down through the centuries. How many innocent people have died around the world from the hand of the British army??? The British were not wanted in Ireland ever hence constant uprisings against them to drive them out which thankfully the old ira of the 1920s managed to do when they drove the brits out of the south of Ireland. If Russia invaded Britain and subjugated Britain to extreme brutality lasting centuries and halved Britain's population are you saying the British wouldn't be within there right to take them on and get Britain back for Britain?????
(contd.) often burned out of their homes by Republican hardliners. Perhaps you will dispute it, but these are verifiable facts. A simple question may be asked of these people: where are they now? Mostly, they have left a country where they did not feel welcome. In the modern day, many Protestants fear a similar process would happen in our province were we all banded together. Common Republican slogans like ''Brits Out!'' do little to reassure us of benign intent, given that we are the 'brits'.
You say 'nobody denies' the wrongdoing of the paedophile preists. You are either extremely ignorant or a liar. The church long denied it. You downplay the abuse of children by saying "only 1%" of priests are paedophiles ... how many children is that abused? You say this is 'fart in the wind' .. not to the victims it isn't. I say. well done to the media for exposing the cover-ups of the church.
You will never ever ever ever hear miriam refer to all the killings which were committed by British soldiers if the weather changed miriam would blame the i r a
gerry is president material look where he rose from, and againdt the unionist british and southern brits he still became the unelected president of nstionalist ireland, a testament to character
Miriam O'Callaghan Born in FOXROCK ( Rich south east Dublin bitch ) not in Poor land in South Armagh or South Down or Co. Tyrone or Co. Antrim, poor land where the Native Irish mostly live as the Thieves STOLE and murdered to get the BEST Land. Early life Her father, Jerry, was a senior civil servant in the Department of Energy.[citation needed] Her mother, also Miriam, was the daughter of a garda sergeant.[citation needed] O'Callaghan studied law at University College Dublin, where she also completed a post-graduate diploma in European Law.[citation needed] She was the second child in a family of five.[citation needed] Her brother Jim is a member of the Fianna Fáil leadership team and a barrister.[7][8] Her first television appearance was an advertisement for Avonmore Milk in the 1980s. she has 8 children to two males 2nd one is a cason from belfast. 1st was a mc gurk from tyrone. she likes the north of Ireland males !! Wonder why ?!! no CORK Man would go near that "" Thing "".
Like the respect you show? Calling people 'west Brits'!!! Saying the Irish identity is based on Catholicism!!! Yeah, right. Big respect. Huge respect !!
1. I don't think that Gerry Adams, a Socialist, would condone what the Argentinian Junta did during The Dirty War when mostly Socialists were targeted by the Junta, and it was Socialists that made up the majority of " Los Desaparecedos " As for Adams supporting Galtieri, I really don't think the Argentinian Junta would want support from a left wing organisation. 2. You conveniently forget that support for Hitler in British society did not end with Mosley, but went all the way up to the ..
typical D4 journalist....if u lived on the border in the 70`s 80`s 90`s love, you might have better manners and let the man explain more without your subjective interruptions all the time!!!
Jack would you be willing to have a sensible & civilised debate. my points are these. 1. Ireland as one country could cater for all people on this island, weather you be catholic, protestant or desender(sorry can't remember how to spell it). 2. In my sincerest opinion. britain discriminates against irish culture & has not & will never have any right to rule over any part of this island (I know you'll disagree). 3. Under one education system, one currency, one healthcare system and peoples right
"by definition, any killing of another human being by another human being is murder" is an incorrect statement as a matter of law. A murder is an unlawful killing of a person with malice aforethought, express or implied. There are many lawful killings and there are many other killings without malice aforethought, none of which fulfil the definition of "murder".
kevrs2 Look, I'm not passionate about Gerry Adams or the Troubles one way or another, but if we all have different understandings of the same words, then bliii dliii ldiii gdiii gooo. Take any meaning you want from that!!!
We also tend not to refer to people in warzones as being 'murdered'' since we accept that their is a breakdown of law and order and Combatants are seen as legitimate targets including collaborators..
There was a referendum in 2002. You are right there is no abortion on demand, but there isn't even abortion on demand in England (where most Irish women go for abortions). No doubt that's all part of a plot by 'west Brits' to put strange ideas in the minds of Irish women who should do what they're told .....
Protestants started moving to Ireland, and specifically the north, 1600s and pre. At that time, over 4 centuries ago, there were mass population movements, settlements and colonisations going all over the world, especially from areas of higher population density to lower, and in those days in many places the instruments of state were not as strong as they are today or didn't exist at all,so the new and settled communities made their own laws and structures. In fact all parts of the world, including Britain and Southern Ireland, and Italy, and Spain, and Germany...were at some time or another subject to new settlers. That's how Ireland got 'Christianised' in the first place. Stop blaming and appreciate that all have a legitimate right to exist and work to create a new Ireland/NI.
You said, and I quote "They [the people you call 'west Brits'] attack everything that gave Ireland its identity including the Irish Catholic religion..." You cite Ian Paisley as a similar case to you. And I agree he is. My problem is using terms to insult people, like Miriam O Callaghan, who is simply doing her job in asking Gerry Adams about people killed by the IRA. Calling her a 'west Brit' doesn't give the answers the Irish people are interested in having.
Did you not hear about the 'yes' vote in the recent abortion referendum? The Irish people no longer follow the Catholic hierarchy in the way you expect them to, and they do not agree with your views.
Actually protestant violence and a biased state led to all this, depending on when you see the start of the troubles, could be the formation of the UVF, or the civil rights march on october 5th 1968, the battle of the bogside or the deployment of the army, all fuck ups by everyone but the nationalists. By the way i didnt say the nationalists didn't start it, i said that if the brits had prevented bloody sunday and internment then there wouldnt have been a need for violence on such a scale
When the IRA said it was disbanding it gave an apology to its victims,allthough it may not be much comfort to those people who were affected it did say sorry,,and i dont have a problem with sinn fein having to answer ANY questions,,but what is very annoying is the double standerds that sections of press esp RTE set when ever they go near the subject of sinn fein,as i pointed out 99% of political parties on this island have a history with the gun in irish politics and for...cont
Oh for God's sake wake up. He's a murderer and don't use the excuse he suffered. He sanctioned people to death and he needs to be accountable. He and his like will never represent me as an Irish person. Violence is NOT the answer.
The death of Sands did not spark "condemnation" around the world. The IRA hunger strikers were responsible for the boost the IRA got after that not the British. Nationalists were not oppressed. Yes there were inequalities but these were dealt with by the Brits. They lived in a democracy and were perfectly able to use peaceful means to pursue their objectives.
Gerry adams is an amazing man the shite and the abuse that that poor man had to endure especially from irish politicans is totally and outrightly disgraceful ie its well time we heard people referring to all the innocent people who were murdered by British soldiers
Those people had no idea what they were talking about. They were taken in by the emotion of the issue. How many of those people even understood the conflict? There was one man one vote from 1968 onwards i.e throughout the troubles. The electoral boundaries were changed throughout the conflict. Even Bobby Sands was elected. There was democracy!
@@jonoessex it wasn’t just about voting rights it was also to do with housing and jobs just take a look at o Neil who tried to make reforms he was ousted by unionists for being too liberal
So Catholicism is an integral part of the Irish identity? As is not allowing abortion for say victims or rape or incest? (they can go to Britain for abortions if they can afford it). Better to drop such notions ....
I wish he would have stopped calling her by her Christian name she is like every other free stater. Knows absolutely nothing how life was and is as a nationalist north of the British border with the rest of Ireland.
Criticising the Church's silence over paedophilia and the Magdalen laundries is not 'anti-church' ... it is pro life and pro choice. Calling people 'west Brits' is not clever. It is the reflection of a tired old ideology that Irish people are fed up with. And frankly I am bored listening to you.
has there onesided view of the history of the struggle for freedom for ALL on this island,,people like you seem to have no problem having complete and utter double standerds,as i said of course there were actions carried out by republicans that were wrong,,and the IRA have said sorry for there actions,but the patriots of 1798,1916,1922,and up to the GFA and the IRA ceasefire are no diff at all,,they all were irish patriots ,so take of the rose tinted glasses please.
Again i point out to you that you are unable to make a your point without acting like a spoilt little kid,,you seem to resort to name calling rather than debate the topic,,,sad,,very very sad.Why not try making your comments and views like an adult,,if you are able to.
@samwalsh8299 collins and his successors sold the irish Catholic people of the north out and left them to be discriminated against murdered and beaten of the streets when they complained about their lot
And i do not have any idealised versions of irish history,and who are you to say there is no debate,,your right and everyone is is wrong unless they agree with you..i know what that kind of outlook reminds me of,,, i was pointing out what total double standers that are directed towards Sinn Fein by FF,FG,and labour and the biased RTE and sections of dublin media.So now can you debate the views i just expressed without carring on like a child a name calling or is that just to much to ask of you.
And yet again you just go back to childish name calling,,where did you see in any of my comments that i denied what the IRA done,,can you point out where i said that..My point was and is that the IRA used the very same methods and tactics that those before them did,,and class one a hero and the other as terriorists is total double standerds,,and ill also add that the british army,RUC,and mi5 also used the very same tactics as the IRA did during the troubles,yet again ,,,cont
Marches were banned in order to prevent sectarian violence. If you live in a society which is imperfect you do not have the right to violently overthrow it as a first resort. You use peaceful means of bringing about change.
Defined in Bernard Share 'Slanguage' as 'Irish man or woman professing, or assumed to profess, loyalty to the Republic's former occupiers, or apeing their manners' ... That would not therefore include Miriam O Callaghan is in an insider of the Republic's establishment. I suspect you are using it in a different sense: 'Anyone who questions Gerry Adams'.
merely continuing the fight to bring Ireland into a united state, which is where it should be. It was originally a united nation until the English interfered and it must be returned to its original self. The toadies in the South who do not want it have allowed themselves to become puppets of the English. Why allow the English to divide the Irish people? When East Germany became reunited with West Germany, to form a united country, many in the West were hesitant because of the economic cost, but
He is the elected leader of Ireland, whether you like it or not. Your cheap allegations of homosexual activity sit uneasily with your lack of criticism of the church over paedophilia ... allowing abortion in cases where the woman's life is at risk is a good thing.
The church can bring many positives - but power corrupts and the church was given too much power in the free state. Part of the reason it was given such power - and child sex abuse was covered up etc, where was the 'pro-life; argument then??? - was the argument, used by you, that Catholicism is an integral part of the Irish identity. Many Irish people are not Catholics. Your appeals to Paisley to back up your 'argument' merely shows how bigotries on different side reinforce each other.
You people in the north are brainwashed. Ye are controlled by a separate country, that's embarrassing. In the year 1171 ireland King Henry deemed himself king of ireland. Before this, Ireland was irish, United. Ireland remained under British rule until 1922, until we got our independence. The conclusion to this is, ye were irish in before 1171 during 1171 and after 1171. For example, if Germany decided tomorrow to invade ireland and keep it as one of their own, would that make is German? of course not. obviously this is an unrealistic example due to the circumstances but the principle still stands. Ye were irish, are Irish and forever will be irish, whether ye like it or not. Tiocfaidh ar la.
“You people in the north “ ?Remember the father of Irish Republicanism,Wolfe Tone was a Northern Protestant. Also,only part of Ireland got its independence. Stereotyping is lazy and most times ignorant.
You people in the North Did you just watch the same video I did? Because there was one Irish Republican from the north and one euro shill from the south
Nobody ever ever ever ever ever ever hears miriam referring to all the innocent people who were murdered by British soldiers if the weather changed miriam would blame the i r a wake up miriam it takes 2 to tango
the brits said one thing and did another, introducing internment and interning only catholics and torturing them, the guilford four for example, ive seen a few of your comments like writing under the wind that shakes the barley that it was ira propaganda, your not irish, you weren't here but the british commited attrocities just like those in the wind that shakes the barely.
Well you got your revenge with Ne Temere in the South which is basically genocide of everything Protestant. Hope you feel better. Sell that to those in the North and even Donegal.
GB was bailed out by the IMF in the late 1970's you know . . and that was with their own currency not a shared flob like the Euro has turned out to be. So its not like they are any different.
So not a 'pure' Irish person. Who would be an example of a pure Irish person by the way? Someone who can't speak a word of English? Or just someone who supports Sinn Fein?
Paedophile priests were protected by the church. That's a simple matter of fact. The church helped create a culture where people kept quiet about such things and the victims were not heard ... that God this evil has been exposed by, among other things, a media you call 'west Brit'. Behind the fantasy you have lived in has been terrible abuse ...
Well , at least you now acknowledge some Irish people are protestants, that's progress of sorts. Not get your head round this: some are now Muslims and some are atheists and this doesn't make them any less Irish. And if you think there have been no paedo priests in France or Italy then you are as out of touch with those countries as you are with Ireland ... A change is gonna come.
Jack don't you understand that the whole 32 counties of ireland should belong to everyone living in this island. I'm assuming You disagree that ireland is one country yet agree that scotland, wales, cornwall & england are one island & one country. don't you realise the hypocrisy lol
I'm not talking about people's faith, I'm talking about the Catholic church, which you said was so central to Irish identity ... Philomena is on all over Ireland - check here wwwDOTodeoncinemas.ie/films/philomena/14635/
I apologise for the fragmented manner in which my response to you has appeared. I inadvertently clicked on the wrong key and lost the order in which my responses were made to you, so my paragraphs may appear disjointed. But you will no doubt get the gist of my response.
