O.K. Good people of Ireland. I don't know how ya'll feel about Bobby Sands. Can anybody give me opinions?

Question

I was young when all of the demonstrations were going on,but 15 yrs later I was asked this same ? I know how i feel! How do ya'll feel?

Answer 1

i think any activity against British Rule back then was good activity to be completely honest. But lets not start up the whole Free Ireland debate again...it only gets messy!!!

Answer 2

A piece of shite scumbag murderer who couldn't be dead enough. It's just a pity the rest of the murdering tramps hadn't followed his example. Murder will NEVER unite a people, it can only cause devision. The tramps in the ira have only prevented unification.

Answer 3

We'll never forget you....Jimmy Sands

Answer 4

I would have to say that Bobby Sands was and is a hero in Ireland.  Ok he did do a whole lot of wrong but he did it for the name of his country.  He did deserve to be in Jail but didn't deserve the treatment he got while there.  He gave up his life for what he believed in and in that way did alot of good for his country as a whole,  people of Ireland united for a short while (during the days of his starvation).  Thankfully today there is less killing and more talking.  Hopefully one day we will have a completely united Ireland.

Answer 5

he was a man who gave the ultimate sacrifice for a cause he believed in. a real martyr for ireland and a hero of mine and many other irish nationalists. he achieved a huge amount for irish catholics who for years were being butchered and dehumanised by those villains from across the water. bobby sands r.i.p.

Answer 6

he was an  IRA  bomber and murder and should have been in jail , because he starved himself to death means nothing , a lot of people could not care less , and it saved the gov; a lot of money to keep him and his family

as said below , why do people have to bring these things up we are not taking about them , is there nothing nearer home you could take an interest in

Answer 7

My heart bleeds now as much as it didn't then.

Answer 8

He went on strike over demands on prisoner rights and made himself a martyr in the process, in the riots that followed his death a milkman and his son were killed as their vehicle was stoned by nationalists, so I wonder what sort of impact he thought his death would really make and who would be an innocent victim because of it, in a way I feel sorry for him, sorry because he believed that giving up his life would further his cause when in reality it made both sides more determined to carry on the fight in which innocent people were indiscriminately killed by some of the same methods of terror we see today on the streets of Baghdad.

There is peace in Northern Ireland today, which will always be strained at best, but I don't think Bobby Sands sacrifice can be attributed to this, other than the sad waste of his life.

Answer 9

as always one mans villain is another mans hero, every country has its hero's, enough said