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Not sure if you’re far enough in yet but the scenes with Penelope Wilton are just brilliant, she’s an excellent actor.

No. For obvious reasons.

Here’s an idea Soviet Statue Graveyard

Thank you grandfather O’Day

Baden Powell wasn’t just a Nazi sympathiser though and actually it’s his exploits in Africa that is the major reason people are calling for his statue to come down. But you just gloss over that if you like.

More catholic Irish men died fighting the Nazis as soldiers in the British Army than died fighting the British army in the republican cause. So absolutely the nation as a whole wasn’t behind the Nazis.

Exactly. You don’t walk around Germany seeing statues of Nazis and people arguing we should leave them up because he was good to his mum.

Boris forgot to pay the gas bill.

Did you actually read what I posted in my initial reply to you?

It’s almost as if Ireland didn’t have a hung parliament in the last general election which was in itself a reflection of disdain not just for Eamonn de Valera but his legacy.

He’s actually not well liked in many if not most parts of Ireland, especially in younger less gammon headed generations. It may well happen yet and for more reasons than you list. But you’d have to know your Irish history past straw man argument, whataboutery, fishing for likes from your racist...

If that’s his angle then he’s missing a huge slice of Mandela’s legacy. I remember the library photo they used to show on the news of Mandela while he was incarcerated, presumably it was his mug shot from when he was arrested before being sent to jail. I know what he did prior to that but the...

What’s your argument for removing images of Nelson Mandella?

I think it’s right that certain sitcoms are dropped at least while the adult conversation is happening. We need to acknowledge that lots of them if not most haven’t aged well due to the language and insinuations in them. 2 of my favourite sitcoms historically are rising damp and porridge, last...

There should be museums on slavery in the ports, towns are cities where the trade was mostly conducted full of statues, road signs etc of the people that conducted the trade, it should be a complete history on the slave trade, who sold them in Africa, who brought them in Africa, where they were...

The problem is she’s completely missed the point. The issue is far bigger than this one event. There’s been a couple of high profile cases aside from this incident very recently. There was the two rednecks that killed a black jogger and would have gotten away with it as the police couldn’t be...

Because it’s not the 70’s anymore.

Eddie Jordan was a famous Richardson mate rather than a CCFC fan. Christian Horner on the other hand is a proud CCFC fan.

It’s got people talking and that’s a good thing. Some people in this country need to hear an adult conversation about our countries history and the history of those in charge in those periods who have statues. I remember watching QT last year when the very well documented involvement of...