They did make a complete show of themselves. Gerry Kelly, David Forde and the guy in the crowd (Chris Donnelly?) were the only ones who seemed like they could articulate an argument.
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They did make a complete show of themselves. Gerry Kelly, David Forde and the guy in the crowd (Chris Donnelly?) were the only ones who seemed like they could articulate an argument.
There isn't a facepalm picture big enough. The accent as well, Christ.
We need a bit of snow. Protesters and riot police will have a jolly snowball fight then everyone will go home and live happily ever after.
I don't live at home anymore but woke up this mornin to a shitload of posts on FB about people ranting and raving about this programme last night so knew something had gone down. Seen a few clips on YouTube etc and it is quite embarrassing.
But the worst bit is the last few weeks when I have gone I to work and had to explain to my work colleagues when they ask why NI is always on the news now and why are people rioting etc...the look they give me when I tell them it's all about a flag is incredible and embarrassing. They simply can't believe it.
To be honest looking from the outside in now the whole place is a joke. I have No plans to ever go back there to live.
Snow Surrender!
Need to bring back compulsory national service.
Snow excuse for such a bad pun.sorry
What, so the Unionists join the Brits and go the Afghanastan while the Nationalists join the FCA and learn to make a top cuppa?? I could see a lot of young Unionists claiming Irish Identity of that was the choice!
I don't disagree with that as a general statement, but it would need both sides to participate otherwise you're giving military training to lots of young protestant men and that's not necessarily a good idea.
I think the discipline instilled will help but i think the cross community aspects of meeting, working and talking with people on the 'other side' is of equal if not greater importance.
Snow excuse for such a bad pun.sorry
What, so the Unionists join the Brits and go the Afghanastan while the Nationalists join the FCA and learn to make a top cuppa?? I could see a lot of young Unionists claiming Irish Identity of that was the choice!
National service isn't conscription, well it is, but it's not as if you'll go to a warzone, a lot of the TA don't, some do but they want to and have to try to get a spot.
It doesn't have to be military service.
I regularily hear a promo on the radio over here encouraging US investment in NI because of the well educated and smart workforce.
and then I read about these idiots rioting
Community representatives took the flags down yesterday and they got put back up again today. It's obvious to anyone that they want a reaction to try and fit this twisted, 'oppressed protestant' narrative they are trying to cultivate. I sincerely hope that nationalists in the bogside are switched on enough to not give them that satisfaction. Let the world see them for the bigots that they are.
Well in fairness they (the Loyalists) are planning a civil rights march in Londonderry stroke Londonderry on the day of the very anniversary. Buses been organised to take them DOWN to Derry from Belfast
We have some real arseholes on this island. However we must stride to work and co-operate with each other.
It's as if they feel they're not 'truly British' so over compensate by sticking up flags, buntons, graffiti and other various paraphernalia everywhere physically possible.
The same can of course be said about the Nationalist Community, to a lesser extent.
The same can of course be said about the Nationalist Community, to a lesser extent.
I reckon this could be solved over night and it was called as it is.
The Queen and Great Britain to say they want nothing to do with NI from 2015, Republic of Ireland to say they wish nothing to do with Northern Ireland and as cuch change their name to Hibernia from 1st an onwards.
Then let the shit get real.
The Queen and Great Britain to say they want nothing to do with NI from 2015, Republic of Ireland to say they wish nothing to do with Northern Ireland and as cuch change their name to Hibernia from 1st an onwards.
Then let the shit get real.
Jamie Bryson's book has got some good reviews.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Four-Men-Had-dream-narrow/dp/1478334843/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Four-Men-Had-dream-narrow/dp/1478334843/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
I regularily hear a promo on the radio over here encouraging US investment in NI because of the well educated and smart workforce.
and then I read about these idiots rioting
Well those idiots wouldn't be the well educated workforce that promo was talking about. Half of them can hardly fill out a dole form.
this reviewer just absolutely destroys him.Works of classic literature such as this one are proof, if any was needed, that there is a God for Jamie Bryson truly is a gift from the highest heavens. When one considers the true heavyweights the history of the literary world, such as Homer, Shakespeare, Dickens, Joyce et al., one's only conclusion upon reading the work of Bryson is that he will go down in history to be remembered in the same breath as these greats, that is if he doesn't go on to eclipse them entirely. He in fact takes up the mantle from Joyce with what to the layman, would be misuse of punctuation, but is in fact a revolutionary and devastatingly powerful literary device. Likewise his invention of new words, or rather, re-invention, words that I didn't know needed new spellings have been re-imagined in this book and the English language is better for it.
A tale of four men, each sharing a passion for The Rangers FC, a football club established in Glasgow in the summer of 2012, the storyline soars, with Billy bringing great joy to the club and its fans. A future feature length (hopefully an extended series) for sure.
Like all of the main characters in Four Men, I too had a dream, and in that dream, vivid as it was, Jamie Bryson really achieved true greatness worthy of the expectations outlined in his amazon biography. If he fails to match, nay better, the feats of Churchill and Gandhi, I will be very surprised. He has already outdone the great JFK in that I feel his semi-immortal skull to be so thick that not even gunfire could penetrate it. In fact, said biography is so well written that one would almost believe that it was penned by the great man himself. Perhaps Jamie was both interviewer and interviewee. While Nixon had his Frost, perhaps the only match for Bryson is in fact Bryson and it is my hope that one day he will hold the posts of First and Deputy First Minister in my native province simultaneously. Only he is capable of such a feat. I see a move from there to British PM, it is a mere formality at this stage.
At the end of his interview with himself, Jamie likens himself to our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ and I feel that this is the only comparison worthy of the great Bryson, it is only a matter of time before Jamie's achievements will make Jesus' pale in comparison. While Christ rose from the dead, I feel that Jamie is one step ahead in that he just won't bother with the dying bit in the first place, thereby saving a day in the process. We want more Bryson!
Just going to leave this here:
Not really sure what to say to that...
Wow thats.......wow
Loyalists > Scousers.
Theres rhetoric and then theres trying to self identify with a race that was systematically destroyed to a fraction of its original size. The galling thing of course is such genocide on a smaller but not less significant scale happened on this very island in the mid 19th century. It boils the blood that these people paint themselves as victims.
That Loyalists against Democracy page is brilliant.
''Good news for a rainey friday. The violation of those living in Communities Under Nationalist Threat has been reconised by Amnesty International. We urge all supporters of LAD and any victimised peoples to get in touch ASAP to tell them about the brutal treatment we indure on a daily basis from the forces of Sinn Fein/PSNIRA and the British Courts. Also the biased media stuff too (Stephen Nolan ect)''
''Good news for a rainey friday. The violation of those living in Communities Under Nationalist Threat has been reconised by Amnesty International. We urge all supporters of LAD and any victimised peoples to get in touch ASAP to tell them about the brutal treatment we indure on a daily basis from the forces of Sinn Fein/PSNIRA and the British Courts. Also the biased media stuff too (Stephen Nolan ect)''
Oh wait, they actually did contact Amnesty International.
On Friday the 18th of January I interviewed Willie Frazer, unionist activist and leader of FAIR, an organisation that works with people whose relatives were killed by violent nationalist groups. His profile has risen recently due to his involvement with the Union Flag protests in Belfast, and he made waves in the Republic when he announced that he was organising a group of unionists that would come to Dublin and stage a protest outside the Dáil. The following is the text of our conversation:
You are most well-known for your work with the organisation FAIR. Could you briefly explain what FAIR does?
FAIR is a victims’ organisation that represents innocent victims from along the border area. It also has been heavily involved with other victims’ organisations in all parts of Northern Ireland. We are probably the biggest victims’ group in the whole of Northern Ireland.
Another organisation that you have been linked to more recently is the Ulster People’s Forum. Can you explain to me what the Ulster People’s Forum is?
The Ulster People’s Forum has come out of the frustration with what is going on in Northern Ireland. The flag… Well the flag was basically the straw that broke the camel’s back. But certainly it is not the only reason for what has taken place. There are numerous things. And especially the whole issue of how victims are being dealt with. That’s being overlooked, but that is one of the big problems. And there seems to be a continuous demonisation of anyone from a unionist or law-abiding background. And Sinn Féin IRA are out there to re-write history, and to do that they have to demonise us.
Do you have a specific position within the Ulster People’s Forum?
I am the spokesperson for it. I was asked to be the chairperson, but I turned down any committee role. I just have too much on.
You have been quoted in your capacity as spokesperson for the Ulster People’s Forum as calling for a return to direct rule. What was the idea behind that?
Our own government has failed us. Basically, something is not working. They will say that under direct rule it would be worse. Well if it is worse at least we can’t be blamed for voting for it. At the minute, the DUP continually say to us that this is what the people voted for. Well it’s not what the people voted for.
When people argue that the Union Flag has been taken down by democratic means, you disagree with that?
Yes, I disagree with that because basically what has happened is that over the years the DUP, and before that the Unionist Party, built up their own wee empires in places such as Castlereagh. They were happy to take power away from Belfast council and move it to Castlereagh council. Castlereagh should come under Belfast council boundaries.
“If it wasn’t for constitutional reasons I would put the guards in charge of policing up here”
What is your opinion on the violence of recent weeks over the Union Flag row?
We have called continually for protests to be peaceful. And in fact, 99% of them are peaceful. The media seems to have missed the fact that so many of the protests are peaceful. On one night, there were 75 protests in Northern Ireland, in different villages and towns. And there was no bother.
There is a video of you on Youtube sayingthat protests over the flag will always be peaceful “except when certain elements who are working for the British government get in and create violence.”
Well if I said it that way I probably meant that whenever people attack peaceful protesters they will defend themselves. I was talking about elements within the republican movement… but also elements within the police force. Not every police officer though, because 99% of them are good.
Are you saying that members of the PSNI have purposefully incited violence?
Yes. I’ve seen it myself.
How have they done that?
Well, for example, if you hit a woman who is standing on the street who is seventy years of age… If you hit her with a baton…
Is this recently?
Yes, in the last few weeks. That’s only one. I’ve seen a lot of women being beaten to the ground.
By police officers?
By police officers.
Is that what you meant by “certain elements who are working for the British government”? Police?
Yes… Well there’s that, and as well… a certain element that are trying to create a bad image of these protests.
How would they be working for the British government? Who are they?
They’re creating the violence to try and turn the… They know there’s great support out there for people that have taken to the protests. The support among the majority of the Unionist community is way above anything they expected.
Just to focus on that quote… You’re saying that the British government is paying people to go out and cause violence in peaceful protests?
Well I can’t prove that they’re actually paying them. What I am saying is that the peaceful protests are working. Where there is violence there is more than one reason for it. Some of it is down to bad policing. Some of it is down to republicans coming out and attacking peaceful protesters. Some of it is down to bad people on the loyalist side who see an excuse for creating violence. But also it has to be asked… Why did they create violence? There were people out there causing violence. And nobody knew them! It turned out that they weren’t from the area at all!
In The Telegraph on the 12th of January, Terry Spence, the leader of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland is quoted as saying “We’ve got no doubt whatever that this is coming from the UVF”. Do you think there has been UVF involvement in these protests?
Well I know for a fact that the UVF is not organising it. But I’d only be a fool if I said that there weren’t people from the UVF involved, because they live in those communities. It’s a bit like Alex Maskey saying that if he had been down the Short Strand he’d have been out throwing stones. He’s an MLA… You know, a republican MLA… So to say that there wouldn’t be anyone from the UVF out doing the same you’d want to be a hypocrite.
But you think it’s unorganised?
It’s definitely unorganised. I’ve been about for a long time and I’ve seen quite a few riots during my lifetime and some of the people with me are ex-police officers who were actually on the other end of the riots.
Fionola Meredith writing in the Guardian called those causing rioting over the Union Flag “a band of opportunists savouring their newfound notoriety”. How would you react to accusations that you have used the Union Flag row to boost your own media profile?
My media profile has always been very good. If I was just interested in a media profile I would only have to come out and sing the praises of the powers that be and I would be the best thing since sliced bread. The reality is, the flag is what we were murdered for. So I see no opportunists. And I will not be called an opportunist. My family was butchered for that flag… and what that flag stands for.
I want to talk about the Dublin protest that was called off after a meeting with the guards. What was said to you in that meeting that made you postpone the protest?
Well we are still going to go ahead with that. The guards basically said to us: “Listen. You’re entitled to have your protest, and we will uphold that right. But if you work with us perhaps we can get it done in a more peaceful way and there will be as little disruption as possible.” And you can’t argue with that.
Do you have any idea when the protest will go ahead?
To be honest with you I was supposed to get back to them [the guards] this week but I’ve been so busy that I haven’t. So, as soon as. As soon as it suits the guards, we will go ahead with it. There was no point in pushing on with that… To be honest with you, if it wasn’t for constitutional reasons I would put the guards in charge of policing up here. Only that wouldn’t go down too well. It’s their approach. There’s no political policing with the guards, as far as I see it.
First it was reported that this protest would be a march to the Dáil to demand that the tricolour be taken down, and then people said that it was also for documents to be handed over about collusion between the Irish government and the IRA. Are you still adopting this two-pronged approach?
The flag part is a tongue in cheek attitude. It was always about the documents. It was always about the collusion. This has being going on for a number of years. We met the Taoiseach a number of months ago and he made promises to us and he broke them. They have to learn that we are not going away.
What promises did the Taoiseach make to you?
Well he promised us he was coming to… We gave him a document when we met with him… with the families who were connected to 110 murders.
110 murders?
Yes.
Are you saying that the Irish government knew about 110 murders?
Yes… There were people… involved. Just to give you an example… We know for a fact, and it is in Irish government documents, that the Irish government authorised the Irish army to give 500 weapons out of the army barracks in Dublin in 1972 to the IRA around the border. We want to know why that was allowed to happen. That’s not hearsay; that is fact. If he can come down here and call up an inquiry into Pat Finucane, we want an answer to that. We want to why they did not arrest the men who hijacked the minibus in the Kingsmill massacre, when they knew the name of the men involved.
If the documents are the most important part of your protest, why do you need to also make a tongue in cheek demand that the flag be taken down from the Dáil?
It’s to let people know down there. People in Dublin are saying “What’s the issue? What’s the big thing about taking your flag down?” Well we’re saying, “OK well you take yours down then.” And it seems to have annoyed a lot of people. And I actually agree with the people down South. I can understand why they’re very annoyed. Because we’re very annoyed up here. Remember we were told after this agreement… After swallowing a very, very bitter pill…
What agreement? The Good Friday Agreement?
Yes. We were told that that was it, that we were part of the United Kingdom. We weren’t told that there were going to be more changes… Or a continuous erosion of our culture, of our Britishness…
Do you think that increasing poverty and unemployment have created a climate of boredom and restlessness that has caused a return to violence?
To be truthful, it hasn’t caused as much harm as the fraud that is going on in within government departments in the North that are run and controlled by Sinn Féin IRA. Hundreds of millions are going missing… Because of the actions of ministers…
Can you give me an example of money going missing?
Yes. The Land Registry… I’ve got the officer I reported it to a number of years ago, and the documentation. One of them was a senior IRA man. As a matter of fact, three of them were senior IRA men, who had defrauded millions. If they had acted then, not only would they have saved the country millions, they wouldn’t have caused a fine of 70 million from Europe. But it was not in the public interest to follow it up. It’s the same with this horsemeat. We have it on public record that we raised that five years ago.
About horsemeat?
Yes.
Who raised this?
The victims.
FAIR?
Yes. And I can introduce you to the investigating officer that I reported it to.
Why do think it didn’t come out then?
Because senior IRA men were involved in it.
The IRA were involved with putting horsemeat into beef products?
Yes.
Why would they do that?
To make money. It’s the same with cows that have to be sold within a certain number of months after they’re born. Basically old fat cows that are 30 months old have been put into the food chain because the republicans have the means of getting it in. And a blind eye has been turned to it. This is the kind of thing that’s going on that we’re sick of… There is a blind eye being turned to so much fraud so that they don’t upset the peace process. That is what is creating the problems here.
You are most well-known for your work with the organisation FAIR. Could you briefly explain what FAIR does?
FAIR is a victims’ organisation that represents innocent victims from along the border area. It also has been heavily involved with other victims’ organisations in all parts of Northern Ireland. We are probably the biggest victims’ group in the whole of Northern Ireland.
Another organisation that you have been linked to more recently is the Ulster People’s Forum. Can you explain to me what the Ulster People’s Forum is?
The Ulster People’s Forum has come out of the frustration with what is going on in Northern Ireland. The flag… Well the flag was basically the straw that broke the camel’s back. But certainly it is not the only reason for what has taken place. There are numerous things. And especially the whole issue of how victims are being dealt with. That’s being overlooked, but that is one of the big problems. And there seems to be a continuous demonisation of anyone from a unionist or law-abiding background. And Sinn Féin IRA are out there to re-write history, and to do that they have to demonise us.
Do you have a specific position within the Ulster People’s Forum?
I am the spokesperson for it. I was asked to be the chairperson, but I turned down any committee role. I just have too much on.
You have been quoted in your capacity as spokesperson for the Ulster People’s Forum as calling for a return to direct rule. What was the idea behind that?
Our own government has failed us. Basically, something is not working. They will say that under direct rule it would be worse. Well if it is worse at least we can’t be blamed for voting for it. At the minute, the DUP continually say to us that this is what the people voted for. Well it’s not what the people voted for.
When people argue that the Union Flag has been taken down by democratic means, you disagree with that?
Yes, I disagree with that because basically what has happened is that over the years the DUP, and before that the Unionist Party, built up their own wee empires in places such as Castlereagh. They were happy to take power away from Belfast council and move it to Castlereagh council. Castlereagh should come under Belfast council boundaries.
“If it wasn’t for constitutional reasons I would put the guards in charge of policing up here”
What is your opinion on the violence of recent weeks over the Union Flag row?
We have called continually for protests to be peaceful. And in fact, 99% of them are peaceful. The media seems to have missed the fact that so many of the protests are peaceful. On one night, there were 75 protests in Northern Ireland, in different villages and towns. And there was no bother.
There is a video of you on Youtube sayingthat protests over the flag will always be peaceful “except when certain elements who are working for the British government get in and create violence.”
Well if I said it that way I probably meant that whenever people attack peaceful protesters they will defend themselves. I was talking about elements within the republican movement… but also elements within the police force. Not every police officer though, because 99% of them are good.
Are you saying that members of the PSNI have purposefully incited violence?
Yes. I’ve seen it myself.
How have they done that?
Well, for example, if you hit a woman who is standing on the street who is seventy years of age… If you hit her with a baton…
Is this recently?
Yes, in the last few weeks. That’s only one. I’ve seen a lot of women being beaten to the ground.
By police officers?
By police officers.
Is that what you meant by “certain elements who are working for the British government”? Police?
Yes… Well there’s that, and as well… a certain element that are trying to create a bad image of these protests.
How would they be working for the British government? Who are they?
They’re creating the violence to try and turn the… They know there’s great support out there for people that have taken to the protests. The support among the majority of the Unionist community is way above anything they expected.
Just to focus on that quote… You’re saying that the British government is paying people to go out and cause violence in peaceful protests?
Well I can’t prove that they’re actually paying them. What I am saying is that the peaceful protests are working. Where there is violence there is more than one reason for it. Some of it is down to bad policing. Some of it is down to republicans coming out and attacking peaceful protesters. Some of it is down to bad people on the loyalist side who see an excuse for creating violence. But also it has to be asked… Why did they create violence? There were people out there causing violence. And nobody knew them! It turned out that they weren’t from the area at all!
In The Telegraph on the 12th of January, Terry Spence, the leader of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland is quoted as saying “We’ve got no doubt whatever that this is coming from the UVF”. Do you think there has been UVF involvement in these protests?
Well I know for a fact that the UVF is not organising it. But I’d only be a fool if I said that there weren’t people from the UVF involved, because they live in those communities. It’s a bit like Alex Maskey saying that if he had been down the Short Strand he’d have been out throwing stones. He’s an MLA… You know, a republican MLA… So to say that there wouldn’t be anyone from the UVF out doing the same you’d want to be a hypocrite.
But you think it’s unorganised?
It’s definitely unorganised. I’ve been about for a long time and I’ve seen quite a few riots during my lifetime and some of the people with me are ex-police officers who were actually on the other end of the riots.
Fionola Meredith writing in the Guardian called those causing rioting over the Union Flag “a band of opportunists savouring their newfound notoriety”. How would you react to accusations that you have used the Union Flag row to boost your own media profile?
My media profile has always been very good. If I was just interested in a media profile I would only have to come out and sing the praises of the powers that be and I would be the best thing since sliced bread. The reality is, the flag is what we were murdered for. So I see no opportunists. And I will not be called an opportunist. My family was butchered for that flag… and what that flag stands for.
I want to talk about the Dublin protest that was called off after a meeting with the guards. What was said to you in that meeting that made you postpone the protest?
Well we are still going to go ahead with that. The guards basically said to us: “Listen. You’re entitled to have your protest, and we will uphold that right. But if you work with us perhaps we can get it done in a more peaceful way and there will be as little disruption as possible.” And you can’t argue with that.
Do you have any idea when the protest will go ahead?
To be honest with you I was supposed to get back to them [the guards] this week but I’ve been so busy that I haven’t. So, as soon as. As soon as it suits the guards, we will go ahead with it. There was no point in pushing on with that… To be honest with you, if it wasn’t for constitutional reasons I would put the guards in charge of policing up here. Only that wouldn’t go down too well. It’s their approach. There’s no political policing with the guards, as far as I see it.
First it was reported that this protest would be a march to the Dáil to demand that the tricolour be taken down, and then people said that it was also for documents to be handed over about collusion between the Irish government and the IRA. Are you still adopting this two-pronged approach?
The flag part is a tongue in cheek attitude. It was always about the documents. It was always about the collusion. This has being going on for a number of years. We met the Taoiseach a number of months ago and he made promises to us and he broke them. They have to learn that we are not going away.
What promises did the Taoiseach make to you?
Well he promised us he was coming to… We gave him a document when we met with him… with the families who were connected to 110 murders.
110 murders?
Yes.
Are you saying that the Irish government knew about 110 murders?
Yes… There were people… involved. Just to give you an example… We know for a fact, and it is in Irish government documents, that the Irish government authorised the Irish army to give 500 weapons out of the army barracks in Dublin in 1972 to the IRA around the border. We want to know why that was allowed to happen. That’s not hearsay; that is fact. If he can come down here and call up an inquiry into Pat Finucane, we want an answer to that. We want to why they did not arrest the men who hijacked the minibus in the Kingsmill massacre, when they knew the name of the men involved.
If the documents are the most important part of your protest, why do you need to also make a tongue in cheek demand that the flag be taken down from the Dáil?
It’s to let people know down there. People in Dublin are saying “What’s the issue? What’s the big thing about taking your flag down?” Well we’re saying, “OK well you take yours down then.” And it seems to have annoyed a lot of people. And I actually agree with the people down South. I can understand why they’re very annoyed. Because we’re very annoyed up here. Remember we were told after this agreement… After swallowing a very, very bitter pill…
What agreement? The Good Friday Agreement?
Yes. We were told that that was it, that we were part of the United Kingdom. We weren’t told that there were going to be more changes… Or a continuous erosion of our culture, of our Britishness…
Do you think that increasing poverty and unemployment have created a climate of boredom and restlessness that has caused a return to violence?
To be truthful, it hasn’t caused as much harm as the fraud that is going on in within government departments in the North that are run and controlled by Sinn Féin IRA. Hundreds of millions are going missing… Because of the actions of ministers…
Can you give me an example of money going missing?
Yes. The Land Registry… I’ve got the officer I reported it to a number of years ago, and the documentation. One of them was a senior IRA man. As a matter of fact, three of them were senior IRA men, who had defrauded millions. If they had acted then, not only would they have saved the country millions, they wouldn’t have caused a fine of 70 million from Europe. But it was not in the public interest to follow it up. It’s the same with this horsemeat. We have it on public record that we raised that five years ago.
About horsemeat?
Yes.
Who raised this?
The victims.
FAIR?
Yes. And I can introduce you to the investigating officer that I reported it to.
Why do think it didn’t come out then?
Because senior IRA men were involved in it.
The IRA were involved with putting horsemeat into beef products?
Yes.
Why would they do that?
To make money. It’s the same with cows that have to be sold within a certain number of months after they’re born. Basically old fat cows that are 30 months old have been put into the food chain because the republicans have the means of getting it in. And a blind eye has been turned to it. This is the kind of thing that’s going on that we’re sick of… There is a blind eye being turned to so much fraud so that they don’t upset the peace process. That is what is creating the problems here.
they should have asked him about the rumors that the moon is made of cheese. Fenian cheese.
It would be funny if those weren't believable responses. It's more depressing.
I'll be going into town on the day of their protest, not to make trouble, or to confront them in any way, but to watch and laugh from afar, when they realize that we very rarely have our flag up anyway.
Garda member shot dead on the border in Dundalk in a raid at a credit union.
Investigations regarding possible terror links up north ongoing.
RIP.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0125/364600-garda-louth-shot/
Investigations regarding possible terror links up north ongoing.
RIP.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0125/364600-garda-louth-shot/
feck sake. RIP
20,000 families, including mine, panicked around the country, afraid they were going to get bad news, unfortunately one did.
For what?
For what?
Sounds familiar. Pretty much like the last incident??
Also, RIP to that Guard.
Also, RIP to that Guard.
RIP to that Guard. Almost went and joined the guards before I decided to go to America. They would have taken me too being the big culchie that I am.
His head is full of horseshite.
Interesting
One of the more prominent loyalists from this flag campaign, Jamie Bryson, is caught in this video punching the air as the so-called 'peaceful protesters' put a catholics windows in.
Skip to 2.28.
Skip to 2.28.
the local flag salesmen must be loving this particular protest.