Choose one to protect you. The others are coming to get you.

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  1. Lemass, has the most experience in battles (lied about his age to fight in 1916, was one of the 12 Apostles that took out the Cairo gang and fought in the Civil War). Dev was a commander and allegedly cracked up during the Rising plus he might betray you. Cosgrave Sr was involved in 1916 as well but don’t know much about what he did. The rest were lawyers and teachers mostly so they wouldn’t be much good to you.

    Lynch though would be a dark horse though from his hurling days, would be pretty athletic and hard.

  2. Dev or Lemass as they were actual fighters Lemass considerably more so but Dev was a bit of a unit in his prime. Haughey had fca experience and was a decent athlete so he’s probably 3rd choice followed by Martin due to football experience and he’s fairly tall and in great shape for his age now.

    I just love the idea of John Bruton trying to intimidate anyone.

  3. As much as I’d despise him, I’d have to say Bertie. I just get the impression he’s a cockroach of a human being, so if he was to protect you he’d find some way to creep and crawl his way out of a tricky and tight situation

  4. Sail off in Haugheys yacht. None of the rest funded the navy particularly well, I’m away scot free

  5. Lemass because he has easily the most combat experience or Haughey, cause that motherfucker was so good at dirty underhanded shit and has experience gun running, he’d probably turn up with a fucking minigun

  6. I’m picking Bertie, when you are a minister of finance and not have a bank account is a special move that I want to know.

    I know the rest are coming for me if I’m financially secure it will help my chances.

  7. Charlie Haughey to protect. Involved in arms selling to the IRA so he’s connected in the right way and if not at least I’ll die in luxury paid for at the taxpayers expense

  8. Definitely Lemass. As a 16 year old he accidentally killed his brother while cleaning his revolver. Conflict hadn’t even started yet on the island and young Sean already had a revolver. Most lads his age were polishing their hurleys. He was polishing his revolver.

    A few months later he just turns up at door of the GPO in the middle of the rising with a shotgun (I presume the police had confiscated his revolver for the safety of the general population) and ended up in the thick of the fighting around the GPO. Probably kills a few soldiers. He is still 16. He wasn’t even old enough to go to the Somme. Yet here he is fighting his way through to the GPO and then fighting his way up Moore Street as part of an attempted breakout by the diehards.

    Next he is one of Collins “Apostles”. He is an experienced assassin at the age of 20. He took part in the shootings on Bloody Sunday and probably many more assassinations.

    He is one of the anti-treaty lads who seize the four courts. Eventually fights his way out of that seige and ends up in a flying column in active combat with free state forces. He is eventually captured but the civil war ends before he can be executed.

    And all this at an age when most of the others on the list were still in college.

    And we get Leo…..

  9. Bertie, if they are coming to get me, they would get him in the cross-fire. Although he would probably double cross me to help himself

  10. If you mean a physical fight, Leo. He’s the youngest, quite tall, and into fitness. Next choice would be Haughey, because he would fight dirty, and Lynch because he could use his GAA skills to win.

  11. I’m going for Cork Hurling Legend Jack Lynch mainly because I could ask him what it was like to play the game with Christy Ring

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