Talk:Continuity Irish Republican Army
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The Second Dáil was not legally an 'all-Ireland' parliament. Its membership was technically chosen in the election to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland chosen under the Better Government of Ireland Act, 1920. Politicians elected to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland were allowed to sit, but their full status was disputed. The Second Dáil ceased to exist in 1922 and has had no relevance whatsoever to modern Irish history, nor has anyone who sat in it. The people of Ireland, north and south, having been electing TDs, MPs, MLAs, etc for over eighty years. Continuity Sinn Féin's claim to legitimacy, based on a long gone parliament whose membership is long dead is plain ludicrous, but then that is what the 99% of the people of the island of Ireland think Continuity Sinn Féin is, a ludicrous bunch of non-entities who could be laughed at if they stopped thinking that they had a right to 'kill for Ireland', when Ireland has in every single election held in living memory had said the opposite. Of course the real reason this rediculous continuity 'movement' don't contest elections is that in reality they'd have a snowballs chance in hell of ever getting elected to anything. JTD
- Agreed Blorg 21:09, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- These comments are not appropriate to this talk page, for the same reason User:Kyle's comments are inappropriate to Talk:Million Dollar Baby. Joestynes 07:38, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
CIRA should redirect to Canadian Internet Registration Authority
I propose that CIRA redirects to Canadian Internet Registration Authority. Upon doing a google search for CIRA (http://www.google.com/search?&q=cira&sourceid=wikipedia), I found that the Canadian Internet Registration Authority was first on the list.
I might have missed it, but I couldn't find the continuity irish republican army among the first 10. To the best of my knowledge, CIRA is more commonly used for the Canadian Internet Registration Authority than the Continuity Irish Republican Army. I'm fine with making CIRA a disambiguation page. -Frazzydee|✍ 23:54, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- I'd go with a disambiguation page. Neither has predominance. Joestynes 00:29, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Splits
The Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) is an Irish Republican paramilitary organisation from which the Provisional IRA split in 1986 in a dispute over the attendance of the elected representatives of Sinn Féin
This is POV, and a minority POV at that. Although Republican theology is necessarily obscure, any reasonable observer would hold that the CIRA split from the Provos rather than the other way around, as the CIRA represented at best a tiny minority of IRA members. --Ryano 10:45, 24 May 2005 (UTC)