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10-12-2017, 02:42 PM
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Why no mainstream reports ?

Jeremy Corbyn wins International Peace Prize

News is news after all...............is there a bias ?

Sean MacBride Peace Prize For some background to the prize.
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10-12-2017, 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Bruv ->
Jeremy Corbyn wins International Peace Prize

News is news after all...............is there a bias ?

Sean MacBride Peace Prize For some background to the prize.
Hi

Sean Mc Bride was a Chief of Staff of the IRA.

A useless award from a biased Organisation.
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Hi

Sean Mc Bride was a Chief of Staff of the IRA.

A useless award from a biased Organisation.
Funny that does not seem to be mentioned in his background information.
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10-12-2017, 03:33 PM
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Funny that does not seem to be mentioned in his background information.
"In 1919, aged 15, he joined the Irish Volunteers, which fought as part of the Irish Republican Army, and took part in the Irish War of Independence. He opposed the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty and was imprisoned by the Irish Free State during the Civil War.[3] On his release in 1924, MacBride studied law at University College Dublin and resumed his IRA activities.[4] He worked briefly for Éamon de Valera as his personal secretary, travelling with him to Rome to meet various dignitaries.
In January 1925, on his twenty-first birthday, MacBride married Catalina "Kid" Bulfin, a woman four years his senior who shared his political views.[5] Bulfin was the daughter of the Irish nationalist publisher and travel-writer William Bulfin.
Before returning to Dublin in 1927, where he became the IRA's Director of Intelligence"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se%C3%A1n_MacBride
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Good call out Swim

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_pri...ide-facts.html

"MacBride had nevertheless had a violent past. His father was killed in the Irish struggle for liberation from Great Britain, and he was only 13 when he joined the IRA. He took part in the concluding battles with the British before the Irish Republic was founded in 1921, and in the civil war that followed. MacBride backed Eamon de Valera in the latter's refusal to accept Northern Ireland's continuing union with England. In the 1930s, MacBride broke with the IRA and qualified in law. He defended IRA prisoners in Irish prisons who had been condemned to death."

http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/h.../sean-macbride

"Born on January 26, 1904, in Paris, France, Seán MacBride was the only son of Major John MacBride, and revolutionary and feminist Maud Gonne. After his father was executed following the Easter Rising of 1916, MacBride was sent to be educated in Ireland where he joined the Irish Volunteers. The young MacBride was imprisoned several times for IRA activities and was chief of staff of the organization at age 24.

Shortly after returning to Ireland, MacBride began to follow in his parents' revolutionary footsteps. He lied about his age in order to join the Irish Volunteers, an underground army fighting to drive British colonizers out of the country. In 1918, at the age of 13, MacBride was arrested by the British. Before the end of his career with the Volunteers, and later the Irish Republican Army, he would be sent to prison twice again, in 1922 and 1930

Despite arrests and imprisonment, MacBride stayed with the IRA, and at 24 years of age became its chief of staff. He also worked as a journalist and studied law at the National University in Dublin. He was admitted to the Irish bar in 1937, at which point he left the IRA. Even though he denounced the group's increasingly violent tactics, he continued to defend IRA members in order to show the world how horrible and harsh Irish jails were"


Nice one "Jezbollah" !!

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10-12-2017, 08:16 PM
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Oh the irony.
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10-12-2017, 08:41 PM
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An Irish patriot..............suddenly patriotism is a bad thing ?
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People change if we can't allow them to then get awards not much point changing Mandela a great great man, but he wasn't exactly an angel in his youth. Ghandi changed a lot in his life time, it was a learned wisdom he espoused.

Would we say they weren't allowed awards for their incredible work ?
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People change if we can't allow them to then get awards not much point changing Mandela a great great man, but he wasn't exactly an angel in his youth. Ghandi changed a lot in his life time, it was a learned wisdom he espoused.

Would we say they weren't allowed awards for their incredible work ?
Always making excuses for people Julie!

If Hitler were alive today and had done a load of things for world peace would we bestow him with honours given the atrocities of the past?

How about the ISIS bombers? If one of them repents and does some "good stuff" should we celebrate with peace prizes? How might the victims feel about that who are permanently loss their loved ones?

So an award based on a former IRA Chief Of Staff. . . . maybe you can understand why mainstream media isn't interested.

In all honesty our old Jezbollah Corbyn needs to distance himself from his past and reprehensible IRA sympathies as far as possible. This isn't going to help.

And perhaps that's the real reason why it's not in the mainstream press!
 

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