The dubious political legitimacy of the Irish statelet

The irredentist IRA narrative always went as follows;

1.The second Dail was not properly dissolved;
2.The TD's who voted “no” to the Churchill/Collins deal handed over sovereignty of the Irish state to the IRA army council;
3.The IRA army council is the legitimate government of Ireland

That therefore allowed the IRA run a justice system in parallel to those by the states that claim sovereignty and jurisdiction over the divided island of Ireland . The IRA claims to jurisdiction and sovereignty, they argue, trump those of the British and Irish states

Of course, absurdities frequently emerge. Two wings of the continuity IRA each claimed to be the real government some years ago; and while the Provos were in the game, they “executed “ (murdered )an ex-member in a Belfast bar – and then in turn offered to murder the murderers. The Provos retired in 2005 to suck Brittania's withered paps.

Nevertheless, there is a weight of evidence in favour of the argument that the Irish statelet is simply a vehicle for the suppression of the Irish people, who have proven by our international success in emigrant communities that we are very able indeed. The companion blog to this documents a situation wherein an illegal disciplinary statute was used for a full decade in a state university, causing loss of livelihood and indeed life itself. There is no enforceable corporation law or indeed copyright law in Ireland; at this point, the statelet makes few bones about the fact that it is a colony, designed to shovel Irish workers' money to mysterious “bondholders” after a self-appointed “elite” in Dublin takes its cut. Soon, of course, it will sell off its forests to keep the scam going

The irredentist IRA narrative always seemed to be too facile. Now, however, the only person I have seem in Irish public life with any integrity is Colin Duffy, who has just undergone a 3-year internment for a “crime” he did not commit. The “crime” - stopping young Brit squaddies from terrorizing Afghanis

The export of money, the destruction of Irish culture and so on, taken in combination make it seem that the inheritors of the mantle of Terrence MacSwiney – the only mantle worth inheriting – oppose the rapacious and deeply evil Irish state.