I tweeted yesterday afternoon after the below statement by the Taoiseach that the best bit, in my view, about his wishy-washy but carefully calibrated condemnation of Irish rap trio Kneecap, is that he’s upset with the idea that they might support the terrorist organisations Hezbollah and Hamas:
The irony here, you might note, is that Kneecap’s support for terrorist organisations is not actually in doubt. Consider this: They wear balaclavas. They say “up the ra”. They named themselves after an IRA terror practice inflicted mainly on Irish nationalist catholic youths, where those who fell foul of the provisional IRA were held down and shot through the knees, resulting in permanent and irreversible maiming. Their entire aesthetic is an homage to one of the most objectively vicious terrorist organisations that these islands have ever known. There is no need for “clarity” on that, and yet the Taoiseach has never sought it or remarked upon it.
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