This whole paragraph doesnt even make sense.

Supposedly, de Valera made the demand that "labour must wait", that the organised labour movement in Ireland must sit back and wait for militant nationalism to achieve an independent Ireland before socialist and labour demands are brought to the front. He supposedly announced this at a big Sinn Féin convention in 1917.

He, and other conservative revolutionaries, made the claim that an Ireland free of Britain would inevitably be a more equitable society for workers. So this was the pan-class approach of some Sinn Féiners. All classes would put aside their own interests in order to seek independence. Many people have remarked on how Ireland has had some of the most conservative revolutionaries in Europe and this, "labour must wait", has been used as a partial explanation.

My belief is that this allowed conservatives to establish a state that wasn't that much better for workers than the country Britain ruled before 1922.

Anyway, you sound like an American libertarian trying to win an imaginary debate on a technicality! I know that r/me_ira doesn't specifically state that its about the PIRA but I said it was MAINLY about them. There are 25 or so posts on the front page and 18 are about the PIRA while the rest are just general anti-British jokes.