Belfast rioting over removal of Union Jack

[fingerbob]

We're not as Irish as Cork and we're not as British as Finchley.

What rubbish. Both Ireland and the UK are diverse places. There's no single template for being Irish or British.

I didn't say they weren't. I'm specifically talking about the identity of the population of the north, which usually gets divided into British/Unionist and Irish/Nationalist and that there is a lot more to it than that. We share a lot more than we differ on. I'm fully aware that you can get a range of sub identities within the two and didn't think I'd need to explain that.

You said we're "not as Irish as Cork". That's rubbish. What makes Cork more Irish?

It was just an example.
I could have picked any place. If you want to be that particular, go on ahead.

You could pick any place in Ireland and it still wouldn't make sense.

To be honest, I don't even know what your point is. I was just using it as another side to the phrase 'as British as Finchley' and thought that was obvious.

[Minder]

It might be a bit far fetched but I wonder is the recent disturbances linked to reports that the current tranche of EU Peace funding, due to end in 2013, for our local "community workers" won't be renewed.

Loyalists are orchestrating it, the same boys that will receive the funding.

[Last Man]

It might be a bit far fetched but I wonder is the recent disturbances linked to reports that the current tranche of EU Peace funding, due to end in 2013, for our local "community workers" won't be renewed.

Loyalists are orchestrating it, the same boys that will receive the funding.

Heard that a few weeks ago Minder but didnt make the connection, you're on to something there.

[Square Ball]

I see two 13 year olds and a 14 y.o were lifted yesterday for rioting, we know whos fault that was.

PUP ? @OfficialPUP

The blame for all of what has happened across NI this week is firmly at the feet of the IRA.


At least we know whose fault it is now.

[mayogodhelpus@gmail.com]

Why don't they just fly a flag with this on it?

[give her dixie]

Coalisland Crowd Storm Brackaville Demanding Removal Of Flag

http://tyronetribulations.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/coalisland-crowd-storm-brackaville-demanding-removal-of-flag/

Inspired by the goings on at the City Hall in Belfast earlier in the week, a group calling themselves the Coalisland Restoration Appreciation Party (CRAP) have stormed the Brackaville Social Club tonight, demanding that the Brackaville Owen Roes flag hanging from the guttering is removed before Monday morning or they 'take her down' themselves. CRAP spokesman, Jab Herron, claimed they were willing to tolerate the flying of the flag in the midst of the local club's failed assault on the Ulster title but now that it was at an end, there was no reason to keep it up.

"It's bloody ridiculous. Brackaville is really the outskirts of Coalisland. We call it inner-city Coalisland where the shanty town type families scrape together a living by doing odd jobs like collecting golf balls. Now and again we do tours out to Brackaville for the Primate Dixon ones to show them what happens if you don't do your sums and learn the english. Recently, we discovered that a few Brackaville residents were making forays into Coalisland under the cover of darkness. They were probably drinking the slops in bars or hanging around the back of Landi's for scraps. We need to be vigilant about that. However, this flag flying craic must stop. Sometimes we have to travel through Brackaville to get to other places. We don't need to see those dirty flags goading us. Provocation, all from a movement to follow a team bate by a river in Armagh."

Brackaville Disaster Fund spokesman, Harry Gillis, sees it differently.

"Them fcukers would paint over us if they could. We are Brackaville. We are a people. This great run that the Owen Roes lads performed was a real lift for the community. Ok, we've had to start us a disaster fund to cover the expenses of every family in Brackaville heading to the final last week, but we can survive without tourism from the Island. We have the golf course and a lock of other lads doing stuff like welding. Them hoors are just jealous that we had Sean McNally, probably the best footballer in Tyrone ever after Iggy Jones. We shall not be moved. The flag stays. No surrender."

CRAP have given Brackaville 48 hours to comply or they will dam Barrack Street, cutting off vital supplies like soda bread and the Irish News.

one night i tried to navigate my way to stewartstown, i had never been so far into east tyrone in my life, this was f**king scary, omagh... the people are nice, coalisland.. i literally counted to ten and prayed, its like the poor mans crossmaglen, stop, i take that back, when one vistits cross, its a sense of pride you feel, even as a down man, cross is JUST real. coalisland is a f**king dump. dungannon is a f**king dump, Omagh is ok, the only place i have ever been in Tyrone where i felt a sense of solidarity was carrickmore.

Who were you  courting in Stewartstown ?

Charlie, you have wrecked my buzz as just last week I moved from Coalisland to Dungannon. Need to look out for a house in Carrickmore now........

[charlieTully]

Drunk online. Never a good idea. U get a nice place in the pondarosa?

[Maguire01]

We're not as Irish as Cork and we're not as British as Finchley.

What rubbish. Both Ireland and the UK are diverse places. There's no single template for being Irish or British.

I didn't say they weren't. I'm specifically talking about the identity of the population of the north, which usually gets divided into British/Unionist and Irish/Nationalist and that there is a lot more to it than that. We share a lot more than we differ on. I'm fully aware that you can get a range of sub identities within the two and didn't think I'd need to explain that.

You said we're "not as Irish as Cork". That's rubbish. What makes Cork more Irish?

It was just an example.
I could have picked any place. If you want to be that particular, go on ahead.

You could pick any place in Ireland and it still wouldn't make sense.

To be honest, I don't even know what your point is. I was just using it as another side to the phrase 'as British as Finchley' and thought that was obvious.

My point is, you insinuated that Cork is more Irish than Northern Ireland / Northern Ireland is less Irish than Cork. Neither are true. There are, no doubt, huge differences between people in Cork and people in Belfast, but neither is more or less Irish than the other.

[SuperMac]

Ulster has awakened !!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M7xAGvBqdc

[charlieTully]

and another one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqvGIhWu1aE&feature=player_embedded

[fingerbob]

We're not as Irish as Cork and we're not as British as Finchley.

What rubbish. Both Ireland and the UK are diverse places. There's no single template for being Irish or British.

I didn't say they weren't. I'm specifically talking about the identity of the population of the north, which usually gets divided into British/Unionist and Irish/Nationalist and that there is a lot more to it than that. We share a lot more than we differ on. I'm fully aware that you can get a range of sub identities within the two and didn't think I'd need to explain that.

You said we're "not as Irish as Cork". That's rubbish. What makes Cork more Irish?

It was just an example.
I could have picked any place. If you want to be that particular, go on ahead.

You could pick any place in Ireland and it still wouldn't make sense.

To be honest, I don't even know what your point is. I was just using it as another side to the phrase 'as British as Finchley' and thought that was obvious.

My point is, you insinuated that Cork is more Irish than Northern Ireland / Northern Ireland is less Irish than Cork. Neither are true. There are, no doubt, huge differences between people in Cork and people in Belfast, but neither is more or less Irish than the other.

Well in that case, I disagree with you.

[red hander]

Respect our flag: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-20652968

What drugs are Ruth Patterson on?

"I don't condone it but I refuse to condemn it". What a lovely wee Prod she is.

Ruth has always been a bigoted harpy, and she has always been a complete and utter idiot

[ONeill]

and another one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqvGIhWu1aE&feature=player_embedded

I thought I'd never see a funny one of those again. Not bad at all.

[give her dixie]

Drunk online. Never a good idea. U get a nice place in the pondarosa?

Tis a beauty Charli. Just need the DLA car to complete the move.......

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

In 400 million years the planet earth won't exist.

Nonsense: you're 4.5 billion years out, approximately! 

Not in terms of life on earth. I don't fancy a boiling Lough Neagh.

Right, so please retract either your logical flaw and/or your terminological flaw: human life on Planet Earth is not Planet Earth! 

(And life on Earth will exist long after we're gone.)