Was Mickey really an IRA sympathizer in the 90's?
 

This is what Wikipedia says about his funding of Joe Doherty to receive asylum to the USA.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Rourke

I've got to be honest if this is true then ITV have seriously crossed the line with his casting.

It's like Jim Davidson, Michael Barrymore, or the Asian girl that liked to cosplay as a Nazi all over again.

It surely can't be hard for BB to find controversial Celebrities that haven't committed crimes or champions genocide, surely?

And apparently in 2006 he was pro the Iraq War.

That was very common in the US. Even those in Congress supported (with money) the IRA. They’re usually people of Irish descent. It was considered a mainstream position in the US in the 90s.

And they're what I would call disturbing individuals that shouldn't be celebrated on UK TV.

A lot of plastic paddies from the U S donated to NORAID. A bunch of losers who wouldn't of lasted a day on the streets of Belfast, Londonderry etc.

Oh it must be so romantic
When the fighting's over there
And they're passing round the shamrock
And you're all filled up with tears
"For the love of dear old Ireland"
That you've never even seen
You throw in twenty dollars
And sing "Wearing of the Green
Each dollar a bullet
Each victim someone's son
And Americans kill Irishmen
As surely
As if they fired the gun

This about sums it up. Every out of touch Hollywood celeb has their little projects that they don't know much about but like to throw money at anyways because it makes them still feel tethered to Earth somehow. His green didn't end up having any effect anyway, so his idiocy doesn't bother me that much. As a HM, I'll continue to judge him mainly by the behaviour he demonstrates in the house, which, though flawed, I find likeable and entertaining in the main.

…(…I think…)…that whatever funding/donations he may have made were made on a humanitarian basis as opposed to support of the IRA…?…that’s what he’s always said and maintained so I presume that’s how it was ….

Fair point.

It definitely makes me view him through a much more cynical light now though, I'm going to be eagle-eyed with him from now on.:suspect:

The IRA got most of it's funding from the USA. It made people in the UK very angry at the time. You only need to look at St Patrick's celebrations there to see the level of support they had

Donations to Noraid were in no way humanitarian, just wanted to make that clear.

Fair enough.

So the American motto is basically "it's okay for certain terrorists to be terrorists, as long as the target isn't them."

I wonder what Mickey thought of 9/11? Or any of the Americans who were funding and supporting the IRA at the time.

I bet they wouldn't have liked someone from the UK to have financially supported Bin Laden/Al Qaeda at the time.

Hypocrites.

This. ^