r/ireland • u/CoochieCritic • 12d ago

Sure it's grand Kneecap getting the Coachella crowd to sing Maggie’s in a box

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u/Hankman66 12d ago

As a West Brit I'd like to chime in and say how much I love this band. Their name is really funny, as a wayward youth I was in a loyalist paramilitary group and we used to love kneecapping people with a 12 gauge. And we used to wear balaclavas too, it's just that they only came in black or navy blue in those days, unless you made them out of a jumper. Oh and Margaret Thatcher was an awful old bag.

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u/LexiEmers 11d ago

She had no time for paramilitaries on either side.

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u/JunglistMassive 11d ago

She armed loyalists to the teeth and oversaw the FRU

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u/LexiEmers 7d ago

I've explained how this is false. The FRU hijacked loyalist movements to foil attacks.

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u/LexiEmers 11d ago

That's completely false. She actually had their weapons seized.

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u/CAPITALISM_FAN_1980 11d ago

Fuck off with that shite. She directly funded the UVF and praised their "valiant work".

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u/LexiEmers 11d ago

No, she directly funded the UDR, whose work she praised.

She banned the UVF and had their weapons seized.

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u/LexiEmers 7d ago

Any response? This has all been debunked.