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GAA Discussion / Re: Armagh v Donegal (Sun 12th June, Clones, 4pm)
« on: June 12, 2022, 04:29:23 PM »
Crazy 2 minutes!
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Gallsman, nobody is claiming that there are not sick f**ks in all walks of life, but if you are trying to specifically discuss their prevalence within "our side" then that implies you are talking about examples of sectarianism directed against "the other side" - if not, then its surely a bit weird to feel a need to mention that they are on whatever side. The level of sectarianism we seen in that orange hall simply isn't a feature within nationalism and there's nothing progressive about pretending it is.
This loyalist culture where supremacism is taken for granted is really disgusting. I happened to be in Castlederg Co Tyrone about a month ago. A quick Wikipedia search tells me the town is 60% Catholic and 40% protestant. The place was festooned with loyalist flags, the place is red, white and blue from top to bottom. It takes some sense of entitlement and a complete disdain for your neighbours for this to happen. This supremacism needs to be challenged at every opportunity
https://gript.ie/the-disgraceful-dart-attack-sentence/
Some video - another proud moment for the nation. Times gone by these lads would have got a serious kick in the hole. You can say the lads didn't mean the girl to fall, one of them looks contrite the other who did it, couldn't give a shit.
These lads are free to pray where they want to and I'm not aware if anyone trying to censor them.
Mind you instead of blocking public space they could use any of the 5 or 6,000 Catholic Churches around the Country.
Not a good day so far for the SDLP. As some have said (and as I've been saying for weeks) their tactic of attacking SF at every turn was just astonishingly naïve. SF voters should have been low hanging fruit for SDLP transfers but Colum Eastwood's strategy seemed to have been to turn SF voters off giving his party a transfer. Absolute lunacy. I've no doubt that them canvassing alongside a constant stream of FG/FG/Lab TDs did nothing to endear them to nationalist/republican voters. There's a healthy cynicism (to put it mildly) in northern nationalism for FF/FG/Lab TD's and their use/abuse of the north when it suits them and on social media it was fairly plain to be seen that parading a succession of these TDs around the doorsteps was another deeply misguided strategy. It'll be a major kick in the teeth for them to lose Nicola Mallon if that's how it turns out but I suspect their biggest cold sweat will be at the seeming collapse of their vote in South Down - one of their two traditional strongholds. Makes you suspect that they have another problem specific to that constituency - my own guess being that people in the area have been turned off by their former SDLP MP Margaret Richie now sitting in the house of lords and calling herself Barroness Ritchie.
Elsewhere, SF look like they will come through relatively happy - looking good to hold two seats in Foyle where many predicted a loss. Stephen Donnelly of Alliance seemingly polling well in West Tyrone which could come at the expense of SF's third seat, that of Maolíosa McHugh.
Is this game on BBC NI??
I had the misfortune of encountering this ballbag at university and you are correct. He didn’t try to hide his bigotry then either. Nothing has changed. He thinks he’s the dogs balls, everyone else rolls their eyes.Some of the “high profile” loyalist bloggers. There seems to be a new clown in town - some guy called Moore Holmes? He has appeared on Nolan and bbc radio this week saying loyalists are being censored as he speaks on the bbcMoore seems to have styled himself as the front man for intellectual young loyalism but I'd say like the rest of them he hasn't 2 brain cells to rub together.Some brains between them.
(Yeah some attitudes on here like it’s never over etc wrt vaccine passports. What do they say now. )