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Martina Anderson, the IRA and her Disappeared Victims

https://irishpeaceprocess.blog/2019/05/20/martina-anderson-the-ira-and-her-disappeared-victims/

f**k didn't know Jamie Bryson was on the board

Just leave it as it is and start at focusing on making the weaker counties competitive. Fermanagh is a prime example. Made up of mostly water and the rest Protestants, they still manage to get their house in order and play to their potential.

I don't get why this game is live and the likes of Down Armagh wasn't.

Probably not a bad thing. No home ground, the next best thing is live tv exposure.

Given that an MEP will do zero to advance the case of Nationalism or Unionism does anyone want to make the case why there 1st preference will be the top performer in the role if elected?

@DaireHughesSF has just tweeted a good summary of why Anderson should be 1st preference. Outperforms DUP/UUP combined over the last 5 years

Can't really add anything that hasn't been said. Entertaining but more because of two poor-ish enough teams

Jarly Og and O'Neill the two standouts for Armagh, Harrison and McKernan very good for Down. Debutants on both sides all put in good shifts.

On the incident with McGeeney, McKernan was acting the candyman all through the match slabbering away in players ears and demonstrating the lack of class one can only expect from someone from Burren so I have no qualms with Geezer giving him a gentle reminder to f**k up. Maybe not the best example for young fans watching but I'm sure the players didn't mind

You make it real easy to despise Armagh. Hope Cavan destroy yis.

Enjoy the qualifiers our fella

Can't really add anything that hasn't been said. Entertaining but more because of two poor-ish enough teams

Jarly Og and O'Neill the two standouts for Armagh, Harrison and McKernan very good for Down. Debutants on both sides all put in good shifts.

On the incident with McGeeney, McKernan was acting the candyman all through the match slabbering away in players ears and demonstrating the lack of class one can only expect from someone from Burren so I have no qualms with Geezer giving him a gentle reminder to f**k up. Maybe not the best example for young fans watching but I'm sure the players didn't mind

Team named

1. Blaine Hughes
2. Patrick Burns
3. Aaron McKay
4. Paul Hughes
5. Ryan Kennedy
6. Brendan Donaghy
7. Aidan Forker
8. Charlie Vernon
9. Jarlath Og Burns
10. Aidan Nugent
11. Ethan Rafferty
12. Jemar Hall
13. Rory Grugan
14. Rian O'Neill
15. Jamie Clarke

Whether that's the team that takes to the field on Sunday remains to be seen

The bar is set pretty low when it comes to politicians here so I don't see what the obsession is with Martina Anderson other than a bit of old fashioned Sinn Fein bashing? They're all pretty shite as individuals and politicians, she definitely doesn't have the monopoly in the department

A banner supporting Soldier F in Lurgan now too.

There was obviously sufficient evidence for Soldier F to stand trial for killing innocent civilians, and the law will now take its course.

If a banner was erected in Derry in support of those who killed Lyra McKee, I'd imagine everyone in the country would condemn it.

So what's the difference with Soldier F? Why are these banners allowed to remain draped in town centres?

I honestly don't know why those rags aren't being cut down in the middle of the night. What sort of printing company agrees to even make a banner like that?!

Why aren't the coppers taking them down in broad daylight as soon as they go up? To show those who put them up that the law will take its course with Soldier F, and that these banners are insulting to those murdered on Bloody Sunday? Where's the Chief Constable of the PSNIRUC in condemning these banners?

Nothing ever changes with those in charge of this shithole.

Because they're spineless c***ts, they'll happily post all the PR shite of the day on their Facebook pages bleating about how hard a task they have in lifting 18 year olds with a bit of cannabis on them or seizing some boy racers 306, or sending in the cavalry to Kilwilkie to lift all 5 partipants in the dissies Easter parade... but to actually comment on those sickening banners means they have a responsibility to remove them and that actually might entail a bit of hard work. You can guarantee I'd anyone was caught removing them though they'd get slapped with a "breach of the peace" charge

I know fine rightly a lot of them won't like it, and they're welcome to move to Britain if it is that unbearable.

Should that have been the attitude of Unionists towards nationalists?

"You're welcome to move down south if you find Northern Ireland so unbearable."

Well the thing is, many people from the north *did* move, many were forced to do so.  That was and still is the attitude among some of the more loyal citizens in NI today. Luckily, Unionists will never have to face what Irish nationalists endured back when they ran the show in the north. So if they don't like the democracy the option to flourish in post-brexit Britain is always there for them

[What I would expect to change would be the flag and anthem,]

The OO is already funded left, right and centre as are the hundreds of flute bands that stomp the streets every summer. I would not want that to change in a united Ireland. What I would expect to change would be the flag and anthem, though I don't ever see there ever being any consensus there. Ulster Scots should also be looked after, in line with whatever demand there is to support it

What's the point? New anthem and flag, Unionists will recognise neither because they won't be in the union no more. Accepting those two things goes against everything a unionist stands for.

In the same way that nationalists wouldn't recognise a new flag and anthem for NI because it goes against everything they stand for.

The point is accommodating unionists. I know fine rightly a lot of them won't like it, and they're welcome to move to Britain if it is that unbearable.

The OO is already funded left, right and centre as are the hundreds of flute bands that stomp the streets every summer. I would not want that to change in a united Ireland. What I would expect to change would be the flag and anthem, though I don't ever see there ever being any consensus there. Ulster Scots should also be looked after, in line with whatever demand there is to support it

On the whole 50+1 thing, unionists are simply going to have to like it or lump it. The thing is, things will never be as bad for them in a United Ireland as they were for nationalists in the northern state and therefore scaremongering of violence is pointless. Unionists will be welcomed into a United Ireland. Likewise anyone who wishes is welcome to move to Britain.

Going to have to lump it?
Anyone who wishes is welcome to move to Britain

The very definition of welcome. Does this fit with SF's shared space or shared future or is it completely at odds with political nationalism and political republicanism?
How will it work with continuing power sharing in NI within a united ireland?

Forget Sinn Fein for a moment if you can, it's *MY* view of a shared future.

I can't abide loyalists at the best of times, and I'm sure you can't either, whether you care to admit it or not. I'm at the stage now where I care less and less for them and their community. Ordinary decent Unionists I have no issue with, they should be always be accommodated and have their concerns addressed in any future unified state.

I'm not a politician, I don't have a blueprint of how loyalists are going to seamlessly fit into a UI because I don't give a rats arse about them. Hopefully they'll follow the example of Arlene (the leader of the party that does diddly squat for them but they vote for in their droves anyway) and make like a tree.

Mourinho would be brilliant. His record speaks for itself.

That said I quite like Lennon and it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if he was to stay on.

On the whole 50+1 thing, unionists are simply going to have to like it or lump it. The thing is, things will never be as bad for them in a United Ireland as they were for nationalists in the northern state and therefore scaremongering of violence is pointless. Unionists will be welcomed into a United Ireland. Likewise anyone who wishes is welcome to move to Britain.