Re: little man [WAS: OT: Teatime]

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:06:10 +0100, Charles Riggs <chriggs@éircom.net>
wrote:

If I'm not mistaken "lads" is used somewhat like "guys" in Ireland
except, of course, they are male. My points is they can be of nearly
any age although they'll be of roughly your own age or younger. I hope
that made sense.

You could be mistaken, Charles. "Lads", or "the lads", is quite often
a reference to members, sympathizers, and hangers-on of the IRA.

Just today, in a soc.culture.irish thread under the subject of "The
Sopranos resembles the IRA" the following post appears:

What a fooking magnificent return of the inside deviations of a family
that puts survival of their kind foremost.

Comparisons/Contrasts with "the lads", anyone?

In another post in the same group:

That was Limerick, and there are more stories I could tell you about
how the Lads were looked on as heroes, but to get to the point:

Show me documented evidence that the majority of the comunities where
the IRA act as "police" to sort out the scum that prey on that
community, would rather that the Lads didn't do anything, and that the
RUC woud?

In many cases the Lads would be more effective at policing because
they know their community in a more intimate fashion than the RUC ever
did.

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Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL
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