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Shame on you Mary Lou for honouring a Nazi collaborator

category national | politics / elections | opinion/analysis author Tuesday June 08, 2004 00:29author by Interested Party Report this post to the editors

Is Mary Lou McDonald Proud to Share a Platform with an IRA bomber to honour Nazi Collaborator and IRA Chief of Staff ?

Eoin Ryan TD Asks the Question.

Less than 9 months ago Sinn Féin’s European Election Candidate in Dublin Mary Lou McDonald stood shoulder to shoulder with Brian Keenan, a convicted IRA bomber, to ‘pay respect’ (as described by An Phoblacht) to Nazi collaborator and former IRA Chief of Staff, Séan Russell.

Both McDonald and Keenan delivered passionate speeches at the foot of Russell’s statue in Fairview Park at a ceremony to honour his memory just last August.

Does Mary Lou have no shame? asks Fianna Fáil's European Election Candidate in Dublin Deputy Eoin Ryan TD.

Keenan was the leader of the notorious Balcombe Street Gang and has been linked to one of the Trouble’s most vicious atrocities – the slaughter of 10 Protestant workmen at Kingsmills in South Armagh. He is also reported to have masterminded a coach bombing in which 12 people lost their lives on an English motorway . He is a very senior figure in the IRA.

Less than two months ago Keenan showed at an Easter 1916 rally in Monaghan, that he hasn't been mollified by the peace process. “If the British army and the police and all their death squads, can arm, train, reinforce and bring in electronic devices, more troops, more helicopters and more guns, well, they shouldn’t be surprised if the IRA won’t go away, and long may it continue,” he told the gathering.

The people of Dublin and Ireland should know the kind of company Mary Lou McDonald keeps.

And what of the person McDonald and Keenan gathered together to ‘pay respect’ to, Séan Russell – a self proclaimed ally of Hitler, Nazi Germany and former leader of the IRA.

McDonald thinks nothing of speaking at commemorations to honour a Nazi collaborator and his contemptible memory. Mary Lou McDonald please explain to the people of Dublin, Ireland and Europe why you stood shoulder to shoulder with a brutal IRA bomber less than nine months ago to honour a friend of the Holocaust.

Shame on you Mary Lou and your warped principles.

Séan Russell voluntarily went to Berlin at the invitation of Adolf Hitler and enterd into an alliance with him as the Holocaust was getting under way, yet Mary Lou McDonald, a European Election candidate is not at all embarrassed to claim him as part of her heritage.

As Europe gathers this weekend, on Normandy’s D-Day beaches, to honour the memory of those heroic men and women who sacrificed their lives in World War II to liberate Europe and defeat the horror of Nazism, I ask Mary Lou to let the people of Dublin know what she stands for.

The EU grew out of a determination that Europe would never again experience the tyranny of a dictator like Hitler. You say you want to be a MEP, yet nine months ago you celeberated the memory of a Nazi collaborator. Russell, like others who freely aided the Nazis, are reviled today across Europe, and rightly so.

It is also to the enduring shame of our City that we continue to allow this statue of Séan Russell to remain standing. In democratic Europe, Dublin remains the only city that still contains a statue honouring an ally of Hitler. Dublin City Council must act immediately and free our city of the EU’s last remaining monument to a servant of the Third Reich.

Mary Lou McDonald, I challenge you to explain how you can represent Dubliners' interests in Europe while you honour an ally of Adolf Hitler.

You are asking the people of Dublin to send you to Europe - I believe they deserve an explanation, concluded Eoin Ryan TD.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   sinn fein in link to terrorism shocker!!!     pc    Tue Jun 08, 2004 00:56 
   The full story     Jim Monaghan    Tue Jun 08, 2004 10:58 
   Russell was not a Nazi     George Gilmore    Tue Jun 08, 2004 11:49 
   Did Ryan Kill Russell?     jimmy magee    Tue Jun 08, 2004 12:13 
   Re. The EU grew out of a determination .....     EU Observer    Tue Jun 08, 2004 12:30 
   Not more trite anti-SF propaganda     Royston Beady    Tue Jun 08, 2004 12:36 
   Not forgetting ....     EU Observer    Tue Jun 08, 2004 12:36 
   SF     Insider    Tue Jun 08, 2004 13:24 
   Too true ....     der völkische beobachter    Tue Jun 08, 2004 15:33 
 10   Reply to Insider     Tom Barry    Tue Jun 08, 2004 17:44 
 11   Reply to insider     Section 31 is dead    Tue Jun 08, 2004 17:48 
 12   The funny thing is .....     dan breen    Tue Jun 08, 2004 19:59 
 13   Re. Adams, McGuinness, Ferris and company would have thrived in the Gestapo.     dr. strangelove    Tue Jun 08, 2004 20:12 
 14   Some Balanced Discussion about Seán Russell     John Meehan    Tue Jun 08, 2004 20:34 
 15   Facts as plain as the nose on your face     JamesFlynn    Wed Jun 09, 2004 00:22 
 16   Legion of the Rearguard !     e. de valera    Wed Jun 09, 2004 01:07 
 17   SF Scumbags     Insider    Wed Jun 09, 2004 09:53 
 18   Re. Paedophiles ?     judge knott    Wed Jun 09, 2004 10:20 
 19   And by the way .....     judge knott    Wed Jun 09, 2004 10:31 
 20   Reply to insider     Section 31 is Dead    Wed Jun 09, 2004 11:04 
 21   Yeah what about Dublin-Monaghan ?     judge knott    Wed Jun 09, 2004 11:45 
 22   Well done insider ...     judge knott    Wed Jun 09, 2004 17:17 
 23   Okay, I take the point     Insider    Wed Jun 09, 2004 17:56 
 24   We're perfectly happy,,,     Croppy Guy    Wed Jun 09, 2004 18:43 
 25   Re. anti-republican ???     judge knott    Wed Jun 09, 2004 21:02 
 26   Ha Ha Insider     Russell Abu    Sun Jun 13, 2004 20:27 
 27   Aye indeed     Judge Knott    Mon Jun 14, 2004 00:42 
 28   Pray tell ...     Judge Knott    Mon Jun 14, 2004 10:50 
 29   This debate is over     Section 31 is Dead    Mon Jun 14, 2004 12:08 
 30   31 and Judge Knott     Insider    Tue Jun 15, 2004 17:03 
 31   Insider     hee hee hee    Tue Jun 15, 2004 18:46 
 32   Thank you insider ....     Judge Knott    Tue Jun 15, 2004 21:30 
 33   RDS count     Insider    Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:18 
 34   sinn fein etc     voice of reason    Wed Jun 23, 2004 15:22 
 35   Reply to 'Voice of Reason'     Makhno    Wed Jun 23, 2004 18:30 
 36   voice of reason     historian    Wed Jun 23, 2004 18:44 
 37   sean russell     voice of reason    Wed Jun 23, 2004 18:45 
 38   Reply to Voice of Reason     Seamus Robinson    Thu Jun 24, 2004 12:15 
 39   Voice on no Reason     Tom Barry    Thu Jun 24, 2004 12:20 
 40   Irish Anti Nazis in WW2     disprin    Thu Jun 24, 2004 14:47 
 41   Disprin     historian    Thu Jun 24, 2004 15:14 
 42   Disprin?     Makhno    Thu Jun 24, 2004 16:21 
 43   Mary Lou & Sean Russell     Voice of Reason    Fri Jun 25, 2004 16:33 
 44   Commemorations     Disprin for Mahkno    Fri Jun 25, 2004 16:34 


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