Dear reader, this isn’t complicated.
Moreover, you should really question the motives of anyone who says that it is.
Irish actor Liam Cunningham, in typical Irish self-deprecating fashion, describes his craft as an actor as “playing dress up”.
He’s internationally known for this role in Game of Thrones.
Full disclosure, I’ve never seen an episode.
He first arrived on my cinematic radar 20 years ago as Dan, the train driver in Ken Loach’s
The Wind That Shakes the Barley.
This scene in particular sums up so much about Ireland’s greatest generation.
I wrote to Liam after this and told him that my grandfather Joe had been a guard on the railway during those times and had carried dispatches from his unit, the West Mayo Brigade, up to GHQ in Dublin.
He was trusted to meet with Mick Collins personally because my grandfather’s brother-in-law, Michael Derrig, had been in Frongoch with the man from West Cork who would invent a new form of warfare that could confound a seemingly omnipotent empire.
History forgotten is a betrayal.
History remembered is a weapon.
My late aunt Mary made sure her affairs were in order so that her nephew in Donegal would get this after she passed.
Óglach Michael Derrig.
Who fears to speak?
Liam wrote back to me and said that his performance as Dan was “a love letter to those guys”.
I believe it is love that propels his activism for Palestine.
For those who think this conflict in the Middle East is just too complicated and best left alone, then they’re wrong.
Very wrong.
At best, they are ignorant of the reality that is happening on the ground in Gaza and the West Bank.
At worst, they’re fully aware, but for reasons of cowardice and venality, they look the other way.
This apologia from Robbie Keane doesn’t work.
If you’re in a mass grave, stop digging.
As usual, Yogi Junior nails it.
“Robbie Keane went to work in an Apartheid racist ethnostate. He knew it was all of those things when he went there.”[1.05]
His new venture into the Tim Blogosphere is also worth a look.
There can be no doubt about the connecting tissue between Maccabi Tel Aviv and the Zionist New Model Army currently carrying out a genocide in Gaza.
Their fans do a line in racism that would make some of the Ibrox klanbase blush.
I believe that appointing Robbie Keane as Celtic manager will be the biggest betrayal of what the club was founded for that I can imagine.
Dermot Desmond cannot be ignorant of that.
If this appointment goes through, then he simply doesn’t care.
Liam Cunningham’s Ireland is one that remembers what we endured and WHY we resisted.
Desmond rose to business prominence in the age of Charlie Haughey, in many ways the father of the neo-liberal explosion, AKA the “Celtic Tiger”.
That gave us negative equity, ghost estates, NAMA, and the Troika.
It’s not a period ot be proud of.
My Ireland is one that contains Liam Cunningham, President Connolly and GAA Palestine.
Robbie Keane made his choice.
He shouldn’t be ours.
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The Coalition of the willing is responsible for bringing more death and destruction to the middle east than Zionist Apartheid Israel…by a long long way.
Should we stop signing players from those countries who facilitated and assembled at the behest of GW Bush and the United States for their grand “war of terror”?
The only people left to employ would be those who inhabit sentinel Island
As the US was the major player maybe we should sack Carter Vickers and Trusty.
We had 6 Israelis in our squad who all served, or will serve at some point with the IDF.
Not a peep was heard.
Where does it end on who we see fit to manage our team?
Keane was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Hell. If we are going to sack him before he even gets the job lets do because he’s Irish and Ireland allowed The US and the Coalition of the Chilling to use Shannon Airport for refuelling and transit operations during the brutal invasion and Bombing of an Iraq and Afghanistan
The whole thing reeks of selective outrage to me. It really is quite pathetic.
I have tried to keep my judgment on Robbie Keane to purely footballing matters. Based on his footballing credentials, I came to the conclusion that the club should be looking elsewhere for their manager.
At the same time, if he was to get the gig, I will find it really difficult to accept him because of the time he spent managing in Israel. Some are saying that people who oppose the move are virtue signaling.
I am not virtue signaling. Something about the whole saga doesn’t sit right with me and I feel no need to apologise to anyone for that
Dermot Desmond has been good for Celtic at times, but he has also been bad for them at times. This is one of the bad times imho.
As always Phil on the money, Hail ! Hail !
Pogon Szczecin knows the score, so should everyone else. The Genocide and Infanticide macabi celebrate is illegal the world over. UEFA and FIFA are complicit through their inaction.
Well said