Righter of wrongs, able to leap buildings in a single bound, devilishly handsome, bon vivant know it all and general all round legend.
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The reason that loyalist bonfires have become bigger and bigger still in the last two decades is reflective of the diminishing of unionist hegemony and the ascent of nationalist confidence.
They’re not expressions of culture & tradition, they’re sticking plasters for insecurity.
What's the best county in Ireland and why?
For me it's Donegal. Stunning beaches, rugged mountains, wild untamed coastline and memories of chasing Dublin girls at the Gaelteacht
'Yo!! off the fuckin' road'
Whatever happened to the right of access to all on the King's highway?
Seriously, who do these pretendy soldiers think they are, telling cops to move off the road?
The arrogance and supremacy is striking
Breach of the peace and assault.
Even in loyalist terms putting someone who should be studying for his A levels up as a spokesman to warn of the threat of violence over an international agreement was an absolute, monumental fuck up.
Not to mention pretty manipulative and cowardly.
Hundreds of children's toys, to represent the children killed in Gaza by Israeli bombardment, brought by marchers at the stop the bombing march in Belfast today:
Jim Wells on Talkback claiming the P/U/L community don't go to Queens University because of the appearance of Irish language signage and GAA tops etc?
Wait until he hears about its name.
Just listening to the comments on Talkback there regarding the effects of cancellation of exams on the mental health of schoolchildren.
This was built literally next door to our secondary school in West Belfast and no one ever inquired about our buckin' mental health!
'Northern Irish' isn't a nationality, at best it's a regional UK identity like Scousers etc.
The state of Northern Ireland isn't and has never been a 'nation' despite what the 'four nations' revisionists would have you believe.
A crappy football team does not a nation make.
Some are outraged at John Finucane, MP speaking at an IRA commemoration in South Armagh this weekend.
Is there any difference in offence to that and this?
If there is please leave a comment explaining your opinion
Just listened to Anne Travers on Frank Mitchell there and as a victim she's entitled to feel how she feels.
Am I also entitled to take offence at anything that represents the British Army as they assaulted and harassed me and (tens of) thousands like me as teens and young men?
Isn't the deathly silence around the Orange Order's anti Protocol petition project a bit suspect?
It's almost as if for some reason they wanted to forget about it.
@JohnMurrray
I've four kids, three have graduated from university, two with Masters degrees, and the fourth is starting her fourth year in veterinary medicine in September.
If wanting my kids to spend their time studying rather than stacking pallets makes me grumpy then yes, I'm grumpy.
British State paying out £1.5m in collusion claims in open court one day and being found to have a deliberate policy of torturing innocents the next?
Not a good look.
Emma Little Prengally has just claimed 'many unionists have problems with the Protocol' on Talkback.
As a barrister no doubt ELP recognises that 'many unionists' isn't a majority.
'The BBC understands that Tesco and two other major supermarkets are now sourcing almost all their sausages locally for sale in Northern Ireland'
Unionism are against local producers?
'Irish patriots' calling SF 'traitors to Ireland'
Remember in the nineties when all those 'Irish patriots' were living in the North and had their homes fortified with metal grilles and steel drop bars because they were being attacked by people trying to kill them?
No?
Me neither
@StephenNolan
We've had Covid related nursing homes, weddings, Bobby Storey's funeral stories ad infinitum for months now.
One can only wonder why Nolan hasn't 'given a platform' to a grieving mother seeking answers to the events surrounding her child's death and the investigation into it.
I'm reading here of people complaining that one of the penalty takers for the England team last night was only nineteen.
Wait until they hear of how when I was younger there were nineteen year old Englishmen walking around the streets of my city with automatic assault rifles.
I spent 3 years at university doing an LLB, another year doing an LLM and a further year doing an LPC.
They were sleep deprived years of blood, sweat & tears.
I wonder how long the
#poundshoplawyer
academic course of study was?
It speaks volumes about the place we live in when a narcissistic big mouth with no verifiable academic qualifications can question the professional integrity of widely respected academics and professionals and be facilitated by a polarising gutter press and has been politicians.
1/ Unionism seems to think that reunification of Ireland will simple be the North tacked onto the rest of the island and the status quo will continue. It won't, a UI will have to be negotiated to include a free health service and the guarantee of unionist identity etc.
I'm reading here about the 20th anniversary of the horrific Holy Cross 'protest'
How in the name of good fuck did anyone think that screaming obscenities, throwing balloons filled with piss and a blast bomb at wee girls going to primary school was a good idea?
Hmmmmm, isn't 'Northern Irish culture' a bit of an stretch?
I see what seems to be a hybrid of Irish and Scots' Highland dancing,
(Paddys pretending to be Jocks, as another commentator said)
'Northern Ireland' cultural appropriation maybe?
I read that for the first time ever, the All Ireland Final is being broadcast live across the BBC.
Surely a slap in the face insult to unionism?
Is the BBC now just another Republican appeasement vehicle?
These two wee Belfast weemin' walking past the Gramophone Shop on Donegal Square and they hear music coming from it.
'That's Nat King Cole' says one.
'Who is it then?' says the other.
I'm just reading here that a young protestant lad was beaten in a sectarian attack in Ardoyne last night by a group of cowardly scumbags.
Let's hope the young lad recovers soon and that these human wastrels are quickly taken off the streets.
Has anyone been following the saga of BBC Newsline broadcasting the 'Sweet Caroline' sectarian chant sang in a pub watching the Euro match at Windsor last night?
Some incredible gas lighting going on from the BBC, Do they really have that much of a brass neck?
'It's a weird argument made by unionists. They tell us we can be Irish in the UK, Irish in NI but apparently their Britishness would disappear in a united/new/agreed Ireland.
It's a strange one, right enough'
'Frost came to Newry to meet businesses, among them Deli Lites, a fresh food supplier in Warrenpoint, which sells 70% of its products over the nearby border to the Irish Republic. We told him business is really thriving, but he wasn’t listening to us'
It's pretty amusing when Brexiteers accuse Ireland of being 'ruled' by Brussels as it attests to their imperial mindset perfectly.
'Rule' is what Britain did with the Empire. It's what the UK did when it imposed its union on Ireland.
To govern WITH others is completely different
Serious question:
Could someone please explain to me how two dozen spides following a pretendy military band through an Armagh village is going to scupper an international deal between a sovereign parliament and an intranational bloc?
Tacky, embarrassing & pathetic.
You know what Holy Cross did 20 years ago?
It made sure that primary school kids from Ardoyne would never ever be told to sit at the back of the bus again.
Can someone explain in practical or utilitarian terms unionism's opposition to bilingual street signs in Irish & English?
Will it make unionists any less unionist or affect their lives in any way?
Superb human being.
Alone, strong and defiant, confronting the head the balls head on and telling them precisely what they are.
I'd vote for this woman to be President of the world.
Colum Eastwood got a bit of stick for refusing to publicly debate the claims made by another person on radio yesterday.
I wonder will Kate Hoey get the same stick for refusing to publicly debate the claims she made on radio today?
I've often heard the argument that the Irish national flag is offensive to some sections of unionism because it was 'hijacked by the IRA'
If that's the principle being argued could it not also be applied to nationalism & the union flag and poppy symbols and loyalist terrorists?
Much controversy about Mary Lou suggesting the IRA campaign was justified
Who knows what way things would have played out had the NICRA not been batoned off the streets, loyalists hadn't tried to raze West Belfast to the ground in 1969 & the UWC strike hadn't wrecked Sunningdale?
I wonder how many who were involved in the terrorising, harassment and abuse of innocent primary school girls' 'protest' in 2001 are involved in the Protocol 'protests' in 2021?
Reading a fair bit of stuff on 'making NI work' for all.
The partitioned state could have been a success from inception had unionism not decided that they wouldn't 'make NI work' for a sizeable minority who aspired to Irishness for it's first five decades.
Too little too late.
Unionism ruled the northern counties as a personal fiefdom for 50 years. 35 years ago Unionism was screaming 'Ulster Says No' and Belfast City Council was a bear pit for the handful of SF councilors there.
Things have irreversibly changed and will continue to change
Surely I'm not the only one that finds it strange that the IDF supposedly has all this intelligence on where Hamas are allegedly hiding all over Gaza yet they don't know where the hostages are?
Is it just me that's noticed the new found proliferation of 'work together to make NI better for everyone' soundbite from unionism?
Now that unionism has lost it's hegemony in the northern counties do they think they can guilt trip nationalists into suddenly becoming unionists?
The PSNI is trying to PIIC the Police Ombudsman's report into the Ormeau Rd massacre before it's released. What possible 'sensitive information' could it contain?
Political policing hasn't gone away and it gets murkier & murkier.
#dirtywarinIreland
The more I listen to Brexiteers the more I'm coming around to the idea that Brexit was as much about attempting to break up the EU whole as it was anything else.
Their hatred for the EU runs incredibly deep.
Lost confidence in the place where unionism had a one party government for fifty years?
I think he means lost faith in unionism no longer being a majority.
Some bloke on Twitter furiously demanding to know who the former Belgian PM, MEP and EU Brexit Coordinator thinks he is.
Really, the Dunning Kruger self entitlement of loyalism is boundless.
Who do these people think they are? Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom & it is the UK’s responsibility to take whatever steps required to safeguard its interests. Megaphone diplomacy from EU, feigning love for the BA again with no regard for the fact they’ve broke it.
I've read a few tweets today completely baselessly claiming that Féile events are awash with drugs.
Now, while I'm not naive enough to think that some events are drug free, these claims are patently untrue.
I think psychologists call it projection.
I've read that some of those protesting against asylum seekers being hosed at the Loughshore Hotel in Carrick have concerns that they may have a criminal background.
Carrick is of course where the South East Antrim UDA is headquartered.
You couldn't make it up.
Serious head the ballism from DUP councilor Tracy Kelly (Kelly isn't Irish?)
Wait until she hears about Ballygomartin, Ballysillan, Malone, Ballyhackamore, Cregagh, Gilnahirk, Tullycarnet, Ballynafeigh etc and the Red Hand Commando mural that used to be in Glenwood Street.
DUP councillor tells the News Letter:
'The mention of anything Irish triggers bad memories in unionist communities, and bilingual proposals are like a hand grenade for good relations':
I may be going out on a limb here, but should people not learn to master basic, primary English language syntax before offering their expert opinions on intricate legal nuances & appropriate application of legislation?
Isn't it quare craic that elected politicians from down the road are 'foreigners' who should 'keep their nose out of Ulster' while Stetson wearing cowboy hick God botherers from 3,000 miles across the Atlantic are VIP guests welcome with open arms?
Ruth Dudley Edwards questioning Roy Greenslade's impartiality, integrity & ethics in the media is like Count Dracula questioning blood sucking leeches.
Is there some legislation or legal precedent somewhere that states while loyalists are exercising their 'right' to march on a public thoroughfare that no one else is allowed to use it?
I suppose that the paradox of remembering historic genocide while endorsing current genocide and ethnic cleansing will have that effect on some people.
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