DUP halts £180k Glens community funding over '1922 IRA names on gates'

[JPGJOHNNYG]

LAD on the issue

https://www.facebook.com/BELFASTLAD/?fref=nf

[Applesisapples]

There seems to be a misconception in the nationalist community that unionists should view the IRA as a benign freedom fighting non sectarian force.Not commenting on the morality or otherwise,but if you try to put yourselves in unionist shoes they see a force that killed their sons and daughters in the RUC,or innocents in Enniskillen etc.

I again don't see why politics and sport should mix.The outgoing Ulster GAA Chief Danny Murphy has emphasised the continuing need for outreach by the GAA particularly in the North and pointed out a number of initiatives he was involved in.This outreach will not be facilitated unless the GAA divests itself from all political linkages

Tony from this answer we can see clearly your Unionist credentials in their untarnished glory. Of course we all know that the UVF is an honourable outfit, the North was not created at the point of orange guns, and Carson was not a terrorist but a hero to be lauded by one and all. You like your fellow unionists can not accept that nationalists have a story to tell as well, you can't accept that parity of esteem means accepting the stories, tradition and icons of the other community. Hence we have the procession of sectarian decisions by unionist controlled councils. This is your Northern Irish Identity Tony in a nutshell. All nationalists are terrorists all unionists are freedom fighters GTSQ.

[Applesisapples]

IRA from the 20's is a completely different entity from that which emerged in the 60's as we are all aware.

I don't like this line.

The IRA in the 20s used pretty much the exact same tactics as those from the 60s onwards. They murder more state police, were involved in sectarian murders and the killings of informants but the mainstream media like to sweep these factors under the rug. If anything the IRA had more of a reason to exist during the troubles.

Exactly, so if that was wrong then so was Pearse, Carson, Craig Connolly etc...

[Wildweasel74]

DUP still voted against it, what was the crying c***ts excuse now. I see funding has been given to  paint over loyalist murals again, sort remember this happening before and them been repainted over after it with another loyalist mural.  Just take the some approach with the gates, take them off and revisit the issue again after the centre has been build