Let me explain Boxing.
I box the head of Barboza and get sidelined for 14 months.
Barboza beat Catterall and Jack's next fight back is headline Vs harlem eubank for 6 figures!!
Im not bitter when I write this but this is the power off having a promoter.
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We are delighted to welcome Marty Bradley
Marty signs from Bangor where he was enjoying a fantastic season, picking up supporters player of the month in November
Another local lad who returns to West Belfast, we look forward to working with him
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Khabib shows love to Ireland after Usmanโs win over Paul Hughes:
โWe love you guys because you guys support our brothers in Palestine.โ ๐ต๐ธ๐ฎ๐ช
Peter "Pepe" Rooney.
Always Remembered on his anniversary.
One of Irelands Finest โ๏ธ๐ฎ๐ช
๐ถ He was proud and gave the gun salute when we honoured Bobby Sands. And again with Joe McDonnell.....๐ถ
The Easter Rising was a failed terrorist insurgency and it ought to be remembered as such. It was a futile and hopeless insurrection that resulted in disaster, destruction and death for so many involved.ย
Shamefully, Irish extremists have reinterpreted and exploited the โRisingโ to inspire a legacy of Republican blood sacrifice and armed struggle which has plagued this island for over 100 years.
The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), those responsible for the โRising,โwere far from heroes, saints and role models. They were a small group of socialist elitist fanatics who sought to physically impose their radical ideology on Ireland despite the wishes of a moderate constitutional majority.
An example of their marginal status is the fact that over 200,000 Irishmen voluntarily signed up to the British war effort, whereas less than 1,300 took part in the IRBโs infamous insurrection. Which do you think was a greater reflection of Irish society as whole?
The โRisingโ terrorists misjudged that more Irish men and women would support them in their military campaign as it unfolded. However, the dismal numbers that turned out on Easter Monday, which had originally meant to be Easter Sunday but for the confiscation of imported illegal arms and arrest of Roger Casement on Good Friday, meant that the entire mission was doomed to fail - and fail it did. Within a week the radicals had surrendered and they were imprisoned awaiting trial.
The swift, abrupt and fierce response by the British Army generated support for the weaker and amateur insurrectionists. So too did the hasty trial and execution of the main plotters. But ultimately, the โRisingโ would sew the seeds for future conflicts in Ireland, including the War of Independence, the Irish Civil War and even the modern Troubles.
The truth of the Easter Rising is now substituted for Republican legend and romanticism. The failed insurrectionists are elevated into Irish folklore and memorialised in such a way that reinterprets their radical terrorism as something to be inspired by. Terrorists are now viewed as founding fathers of the state even though an independent Republic would not be realised for over 40 years after the โRising,โ and it when it came to pass it would look nothing like the socialist state James Connolly and Patrick Pearse envisaged.
Every year at Easter, aspects of Irish society revisit the outdated and irrelevant victim-story which wrongly asserts the British as evil oppressors while at the same time proclaiming extremists as saint-like revolutionaries.ย
In a baptism of anti-British hate, new generations are indoctrinated into a divisive, anti-British, victimhood mindset justifying the physical force tradition within Irish Republicanism and providing cover for the heinous, immoral and discriminatory killing sprees that Republican extremists have engaged in for over a century.
The Easter Rising should be remembered not for its success but for its failure. Not for its romanticism but for its horror. It marks a major moment when the gun was first fired to answer the Irish question at the start of the 20th Century.
Its legacy and impact on this island is not one to be proud of for it has been used to justify every IRA terrorist campaign since which has went on to claim the lives of so many innocent people.ย
Remember the Easter Rising but remember it for the right reasons.
Breaking: An Army veteran is to be charged with the murder of a man and the attempted murder of six others in Belfast during the Troubles https://t.co/amFJQn8CEl
Delighted to be shortlisted for the Aisling award for outstanding achievement in sport!!!
As a proud Belfast man I'm over the moon... looking forward to attending the event
Well done to all who have been shortlisted ๐
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