McCartney sister takes a "bite" out of President Bush
Irish Voice:
Catherine McCartney certainly knows how to bite the hand that recently fed her and her sisters. On St. Patrick’s Day President Bush opened his door to the sisters and closed it to Sinn Fein after the tragic murder of their brother Robert in a Belfast bar. The sisters’ campaign to see justice done has had a huge impact in Europe and the U.S., and deservedly so.
Despite Bush’s generous gesture it appears Catherine, a lecturer in history and politics in Belfast, formed less than a stellar opinion of Bush during their visit to the White House.
In an interview with The Village, a weekly magazine in Ireland, Catherine was outspoken about the American president. “On a personal level I find it very, very difficult to put ‘Bush’ and ‘justice’ in the same sentence. But I was trying to work around that,” she said.
“That man, as you know, doesn’t even have a clue as to where Ireland is on the map, but it was getting to the ones behind him…people who have an impact. Not Bush himself.”
Hmm. That hardly seems fair. Bush has been to Ireland twice since his presidency began and has certainly had several discussions on the Irish peace process with Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
McCartney is revealing the bias that seems such a part of the animosity that people in Ireland have to Bush — but it is surprising given how much he has done for the McCartney campaign that she voiced it so publicly. It is hardly likely there will be a White House invite next year.
It seems that Catherine McCartney hates American Republicans just as much as she hates Irish ones.
posted by Diarmid @ 10:21 AM
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4 Comments:
Even though it was only a few Irish republicans who were responsible for the murder of Robert McCartney, the McCartney sisters have been behaving as if everyone in the entire Irish republican movement had taken part in the killing. The IRA provided the sisters with the names of the men responsible and even offered to kill the men.
And offering to kill killers is an acceptable response?
The IRA are gangsters and thugs. They dominate their own areas, keeping their own community down, that is when they're not out attacking other communities.
And it wasn't just a few republicans, it was the senior republicans in their area. Just because this is the only event that was widely publicised doesn't mean it was the only one. In fact this sort of attitude among the thugs that they are above the law is exactly what's wrong with Northern Ireland. Because they have the backing of a private army, they believe and act like they are untouchable.
Republican terrorists have more in common with loyalist ones than they have separating them.
I totally agree with Catherine^s comments about President Bush.
He may have been to Ireland twice since his undemocratic arrival in the White House but Catherine is right about him not knowing where to find it on the map. Anyone who heard him refer to "Northern Irelanders" could be in no doubt that this ignorant man^s knowledge of Ireland is as negligible as his interest in it.
I congratulate and admire Catherine McCartney and her family for their courage on behalf of their late brother. He was blessed to be so loved by his sisters.
I congratulate and admire Catherine McCartney and her family for their courage on behalf of their late brother. He was blessed to be so loved by his sisters.
The IRA told the McCartney sisters who killed their brother and even offered to execute the killers. The McCartneys are not interested in justice, just in attacking Sinn Fein.
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