Northern Irelands First Ministers went to USA to ask them to invest in N.I.... WHY?

Question

http://members.lycos.co.uk/inac/
As you can see USA HAVE been investing here for YEARS..
QUOTE "Almost throughout the troubles, despite divisive splits over policy, Noraid has been raising money for Sinn Fein in the US. In the 1980s Noraid raised about $300,000 a year for Sinn Fein and a few years ago a New York fundraising dinner raised over $100,000. Today a similarly high profile event could raise many times that.
In 1982 Noraid co-founder Martin Flannery told a New York court he had supplied money for IRA arms since the late 1950s. Mr Flannery, who emigrated to America in 1927 after fighting for the IRA’s north Tipperary brigade in the civil war, said the bulk of the IRA’s arms and money since 1970 had come from America." (Irish News 23/2/2000)

Answer 1

Richard T the famine didn`t come from the English stealing the food it came from Potato blight which had come to Ireland from North America .OK a lot of food went to England but if it hadn`t those people still would have starved because they had no money to buy food the same way English or any other peasant's starved all over Europe when they had no money that was the what life was in those times
and back to the question the slogan for those rally`s was buy a bullet kill a Britt .
does it strike anyone as odd that after years of failed peace talks a peace agreement was finally reached by Tony Blair just after the American funding of the IRA was stopped and just before Tony Blair lied through the back teeth to back up George Bush`s illegal invasion of Iraq
The good thing is that after years of being manipulated Ireland is now listed as one of the best countries in the world to live in and above both the US and the UK

Answer 2

Nothing wrong with NORAID - without it, the Brits would never have been forced to make the unionists sit down at the table with us and share power.

America, we thank you.

Note to Kenygurl: Is you who are incorrect - you need to do a bit of reading on the 'famine' - http://www.irishholocaust.org/

Answer 3

i ought to declare, even although I regard the tricolour as my flag and regard the Union Jack (that's mentioned as that the two btw) as foreign places to me, the best judgment of flying the tricolour at Stormont does no longer look to function up. As G W reported, if and together as there's a united eire might that propose that they had proceed flying the British flag at Stormont (if it keeps to be as an in depth-by potential of assembly) alongside the tricolour by potential of way of certainty a factor of the community nevertheless identifies with it? i do now no longer think of of many Republicans might discover that suitable and that i do now no longer think of of i might the two. on the nicely suited of the day this component of ireland maintains to be shrink than British jurisdiction and that's no going to regulate by flying the tricolour alongside the Union flag at Stormont. in all probability Stormont ought to be made greater desirable independent by in user-friendly terms flying St. Patrick's flag on that's extremely very own like in Belfast for St Patrick's day yet I heavily doubt unionists might adjust to that.

Answer 4

well said RICHARD T .. i agree with him in principal.. you should get all the facts before you ask such a question and make the statement... sinn fien i do not support but freedom i do.. the english have been and are just as unjust to us here in Scotland even now..

we want our freedom as well .. we would fight as well

Answer 5

I went to the site................I remember reading about the 4 million Irish who died starving to death while food was exported to England..................
I like NORAID.I dislike the English.....All Ireland should be free....

Answer 6

Well, that is certainly wrong. it should have been stopped along time ago. i do not know if we can under the law but it is immoral.

Answer 7

There is only one first minister.
But strange "bed fellows".