News from the North

I'm not sure why anyone is surprised at pro-IRA chants a Wolfe Tones gig of all things - some of the pro IRA content might just have been their back catalogue being played. The real issue there is whether they should have been booked for that event at all.

is this a 'hey lookit what themuns is up to' thread?

No, not much of this sort of petty nationalism gets through on official media channels like RTE here. Or if it does, it's buried in 'regional news' which passes most people by. Trying to think - last election we had 'Up The Ra' from SF TD David Cullinane on being elected and this was well reported. For my sins, I've listened in to some of SF Ard Fheiseanna and the leaders speech - complete with expressions of best wishes to suspected bombers and so on and these are noted. There's the odd flare up in the Dail with government reps and SF TDs throwing allegations and insults back & forth. These get reported.

We tend to hear more stuff reported about loyalist violence and threats to the protocol and so on. We hear a lot about DUP intransigence. I suppose the likes of RTE mainly broadcast what they think their customer base wants to see & hear.

As the next election approaches, I'd expect to hear a whole lot more about Sinn Fein and their rise from the 'ballot box in one hand and the armalite in the other' to the ''ballot box in one hand and the armalite hidden behind the back'. A lot of questions about who really pulls the strings in SF and where the centre of gravity of the party lies.

The sort of stuff the OP lists off can be found in the Republic and many forms of social media. But we don't hear about much of it up north.

I got bad news for ya downcow, nobody knows or even cares what's going down in the south arse end of Kerry either.

You forgot to mention the UVF flags also for sale.

Sorry to say this but you have no idea how boring I find Northern Ireland. Grew up listening to it, just switched off in every sense. I have absolutely no interest in the place.

Why not? I came in thinking some interesting news was breaking. They're entitled to comment on their disinterest.

Personally I think we hear enough to know the score above.

And the Para flags for sale during the Derry March.

Most people here condemn sectarianism where ever it comes from. There are just a few people who only appear here to condemn anything they see as Irish commemoration or celebration and call it 'sectarian' when it isn't.

Maybe when the OP comes on here willing to get rid of everything the Irish find offensive and the sectarian stuff we might begin to get somewhere.

Nobody I know has any issue whatsoever with Unionism celebrating it's past or it's links with the British Army as long as it isn't sectarian or taunting.

I'm sure DC, unite was a typo. You obviously meant reunite.

See, this is what happens downcow when you set up a sectarian statelet with an Apartheid regime to back it up for 70 years, you get nothing but trouble. You'd be better off leaving, now that you've finally twigged that trouble is happening.

How long did it take the DUP leader (who seems obsessed with showing deference to Jamie Bryson bizarrely) to condemn the bonfires which included hanging effigies of three female political leaders? And the Kill All Taigs signs (oh and face painted kids with same message)

Other unionist leaders like Jim Allister surprise surprise used the opportunity to target the alliance...which do you think is worse? Honestly? Yeah an unequivocal condemnation would be good....

Exactly and any wonder the nationalist community are sceptical when it comes to the PSNI.

Given the rumoured links in this case....and a lot of others.

But don't worry one of the officers involved in the below have been suspended on full pay for two years that will teach him.

I never hear you screaming about crime rates downcow, just sectarianism, crime is everywhere, especially in actual big global city centres such as Dublin. At least you wouldn't have to worry about sectarianism in Dublin, they got Europe's biggest obelisk dedicated to the Duke of Wellington down in the park, you'd be grand in Dublin man. You could tent up beside the obelisk, you'd be totally safe.