McGeough on Radio Free Eireann

international | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis Monday January 08, 2007 16:59 by Bronterre O'Brien

Gerry McGeough answers his critics ?

On Saturday, January 6/06 Gerry McGeough was on Radio Free Eireann, WBAI, New York City. Host of the show, Sandy Boyer, warmed welcomed his 'old friend'.
McGeough recited his resume and his credentials as an Irish republican. He portrayed himself, with the help of the show's hosts,as just a devout Catholic and Irish patriot who has been slandered by an English magazine.
He described those who criticize him as a 'hornet's nest of degenerates' led by Gerry Adams.
He said that the magazine article which called him a fascist has been discredited. He didn't say by whom or where. Those who criticize McGeough are part of a 'kick-the-pope bandwagon'.
Niall O'Dowd, said McGeough, is a Blueshirt with two brothers in Fine Gael. O'Dowd in the Irish Voice reprinted some of the Searchlight article. O'Dowd was merely echoing his master's voice- Gerry Adams.
So there you have it, McGeough is merely a devout Irish Catholic nationalist who is being persecuted for his faith and patriotism by degenerates led by Gerry Adams, with the help of English discredited journalists and Blueshirts. McGeough is just a republican dissident targeted by the Provos for his views.

McGeough was however on the the Sinn Fein Ard Comhairle five years after the Belfast Agreement. So his dissidence is not based on opposition to this Anglo-American attempt to settle Ireland's England problem. McGeough, on the show , announced that he is
seriously thinking of standing for election for Stormont. Apparently there is tremendous grassroots demand that he run, and Gerry just won't be able to resist.

Good news too for Gerry's magazine, circulation is rapidly increasing everywhere.

The show's hosts, John McDonagh and Sandy Boyer, never asked McGeough about his support for Justin Barrett, nor about his documented neo-nazi connections.

Neither did they ask him about the contents of his magazine. For instance the November issue of Hibernian contains this gem: " the liberal Establishment seeks to protect and maintain at all costs the nihilistic spirit of the Enlighenment, which Masonic legacy underpins that dissolute and crumbling artifice we call Modernity. "

This is the voice of political, social and cultural reaction. Its most extreme manifestation is nazism and fascism. It is the political philosophy of Gerry McGeough. It is directly oppose to everything which Irish republicanism historically stands for.

Those who promote and facilitate this political position, McGeough and his cronies at Radio Free Eireann, should not be viewed as being within the great progressive tradition of Irish republicanism. .