Ógra Shinn Féin at Trinity College in Dublin may be decommissioned after it mounted a hate mail campaign against über-Brit Margaret Thatcher, taunting her about her deceased husband.
The university 's Sinn Féin regiment is now effectively banned from the campus until after Christmas as a result of the gaffe, according to today's Irish Daily Star.
The e-mail in question was circulated around campus urging students to join the hate campaign- one chilling line apparently referred to the IRA'S attempt to assassinate Thatcher in 1983, saying: "We'll get the bitch yet."
The identity of the Volunteer who wrote the e-mail is a mystery, but it was sent from a well-known Sinn Féin society member's college e-mail account.
A Trinity College spokesman said an 'internal disciplinary investigation' had been carried out and oficials would not be rubber stamping or funding any Ógra Shinn Féin events in the college until after Christmas.
It is not yet known whether the troops involved will face court martial. Nor whether it was done by rogue members or sanctioned by the Army Council.
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Sinn Féin Juniors Banned From Trinity
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What a nice logo they have.
As much as I liked the article, you are wrong about the courts martial. That would involve legal process. Any punishment will be decided over a brew, and carried out down an alley, and will involve lots of pain and blood.
All in the name of Irish freedom.
hehe, easter lily or a petrol bomb?
I'll plump for the petrol bomb option, baby ra
That logo is the old one El Mat
The new one is less appealing
http://img114.exs.cx/img114/908/ograposter2xq.jpg
Chris: Just like Ogra then? :)
Parnell: "Chris: Just like Ogra then?"
- heh-heh
Chris: "The new one is less appealing"
- so Chris, are you saying that a petrol bomb as the logo for the youth wing of a political party apparently dedicated to achieving their goals through 'exclusively democratic means' is more appealing than a non-militaristic one?
Surely it sends out a mixed message to would-be supporters who abhorred IRA violence, but are prepared to give SF a chance?
And surely you can't condemn loyalist rioters petrol bombing police and vehicles (and nationalist homes) when you see the petrol bomb as a legitimate means of protest.
The petrol bomb may have been de rigeur in 1972, but surely it's anachronistic to wish to identify with it in this day and age.
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