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Can't criticise police too much, for a start the protesters are claiming 'heavy handedness' when in reality cops have done fa other than soak the c***ts with the water cannons. I think the idea is to try and sit it out, not give them any excuse to really kick off and hope that they remember Christmas is only two weeks away and forget what they're gurning about. Pragmatic as you can get in this situation.

Hopefully they can do what was done after the london riots (and i remember seeing it done after some riots in the ardoyne) where they used cctv a month or 2 later and lifted the worst culprits when things had calmed down.

With all the division thats going on its nice that everyone seems to have found common ground in the census - as far as i can tell most people seems to be able to look at them and decide that it is good for whatever their opinion is and that everyone else is reading them wrong

And to read that a WPC had a petrol bomb thrown in her car...  there was a time not many moons ago when a nationalist child only had to go out to the local shop for a loaf of bread and a pint of milk to be murdered by "security" forces.  Hmmmmmm.  Wonder why she never drew her weapon and shot the wannabe murderer.

Thats some hyperbole.

Exaggerated to an extent, yes, but it's very noticeable how these rioters are being treated with kid gloves as opposed to what would happen up in Ardoyne or the likes, do you not think so?

+1 - they can do what they want, how many arrests has there been, how many of these will come to anything!!!!

34 arrested over the weekend, 26 charged.
this is pretty much in line with recent riots of both sides ars far as i can see.

And to read that a WPC had a petrol bomb thrown in her car...  there was a time not many moons ago when a nationalist child only had to go out to the local shop for a loaf of bread and a pint of milk to be murdered by "security" forces.  Hmmmmmm.  Wonder why she never drew her weapon and shot the wannabe murderer.

Thats some hyperbole.

What was the story about renaming the RVH?
I didn't catch the story, have just people complaining about it.

Gerry Kelly was using it to point out how much Britishness there is around the wee six and the Unionist get hung up on the flag

That would explain it. I thought from some of the reactions he wanted to rename it.

Im sure some would - I remember some going on about renaming Queens to UCB when I was there.

I saw a tweet the other day "First the UDR, then the RUC, now the Union Flag! Defend our culture!".

I had a look at twitter about this stuff - some of the stupidity was amazing.

I think a legend too.

You've got to make the most of what you've got and he sure did. Not the greatest ability wise by any stretch of the imagination but for sheer effort you could barely match him. Did left back and left midfield in 2002 as Ian Harte was useless.

One of the worst footballers ever to pull on a republic shirt, zero pace limited ability amazing how he got so many caps.

Thats harsh - he was better than the other options in most of those caps, and he never shied away for playing for you.
Some people are demanding - they cant all be paul mcgraths or roy keanes.

So let me get this straight. Making jokes today about events that happened decades ago allowed those events that happened decades to happen?

I dont agree with that line of argument.
I did think there would be more substantive comment on the serious nature of the alleged crimes rather than an attempt at frankie boyle-esque humour by everyone.

What an odd team Udinese are. They looked world beaters in the earlier game

Think di natale only playing a bit part weakened them - he very nearly scored with about his only meaningful touch of the ball too.

feck sake lads there was a 9 year old allegedly abused here and its barely mentioned amongst the weak jokes.

When the US secretary of state arrives in town, that is kind of a big deal.  Certainly bigger than a bloody flag.

Of course its more important than a stupid flag, but it is it more important than trying to sort out whats actually happening which is far beyond that? Ignoring it cos clinton is here is hardly ideal.

EG,100 percent accurate in your description of said loyalists, but what about the UUP/DUP winding said loyalists up and inviting them onto the streets with the inevitable consequences?

this is the typical "politics" of NI isnt it.

Hardy you could try  uninstalling the chrome again then try running a tool like ccleaner - it has a tool which will try to check the registry for rogue entries etc.

Kill List is on Film4 this week............ Thursday I think.
Curious film with a very odd /dramatic ending. Would recommend a look at it. Have selfish reasons for recommending it as I don't know anyone else who has seen it and wonder how others feel about it.

I thought it was pretty good, creepy feeling to it.

White ribbon was good -  very strange


Watched "as if i am not there" the other night - set in the bosnian war about a captured bosnian woman. Very bleak - directed by an Irish woman as well.