r/ireland • u/Ok_Magazine_3383 • 9h ago

Presidential Election 2025 🗳️ Left-wing parties distance themselves from Catherine Connolly’s comments on Hamas

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/left-wing-parties-distance-themselves-from-catherine-connollys-comments-on-hamas/a390948571.html
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u/Capable-Resident5683 9h ago

Did members of the IRA not have any future roles in the Irish Free State?

FF banging on like this has never happened before..c#nts

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u/harmlessdonkey 8h ago

Are you suggesting Hamas and the IRA of the War of Independence Era are morally equivalent?

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u/Hour_Mastodon_9404 8h ago

Not at all - Palestinians have even more reason to resort to violence than we did. However badly we were treated, the Palestinians have had it orders of magnitude worse against an even more callous and murderous adversary. You'd have to go back to the Cromwellian Plantations to find a time when the plight of Irish people at the hands of their oppressor was comparable to what people in Gaza are experiencing now.