RSF Rent A Protest

I had the misfortune of hearing the first ten minutes of the Pat Kenny Show after the news on RTÉ this morning and, wouldn't you know it, the topic was about THAT match at Croke tomorrow. The vice-president of Republican Sinn Féin, Des Dalton (who sounds like a Wild West outlaw) was on complaining about the match and how it was a disgrace that God Save The Queen will be played, blah, blah, blah.

Does this prick not have anything else to worry about? The health service is a shambles, high politics is corrupt as it's ever been, you need to be Richard Branson to buy a house and all RSF can do is moan at the fact that a song about a German granny and her in-bred offspring will on the loudspeaker at Croker. Obviously RSF are very adept at reading the pulse of the nation.

Cast your mind back about 18 months or so to the Love Ulster rally in Dublin. While I have no truck with the right-wing, drug dealing, pimping, racist loyalist scum that wrap themselves in a Union Flag (and I would personally love to see Willie Frazer in a wooden suit), the blame for the riots on that day lies solely with RSF and their Celtic jersey-wearing hangers on. If they, and the media (that includes the wankers that work at the Sunday Indo) had paid no attention to the Love Ulster rally whatsoever then we wouldn't have had a pitch battle riot in the nation's capital and RSF could have had the moral high ground. But no, they had to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and hand Frazer and his sectarian fuckwits the kind of publicity coup they could only dream of. RSF let this country down badly that day, and now they're planning to do the same with 25,000 England Rugby fans tomorrow. I have no doubt that our guests will be well behaved and will expect to be treated in the same manner as Irish fans are abroad, and that includes playing their national anthem. While the rest of Ireland is moving on, RSF still think it's 1916.

So please Des, do us all a favour, and fuck up.