Drumcree Is Over!

[heganboy]

That's a pity, Gerry rice was such a good wide receiver its a pity to see him go down this route

[Rufus T Firefly]

I remember in 97 i think it was, i was home for Inch's wedding, we were very lucky even to get back out of the place, i remember going up by the ring road and trucks cars burning, hoods stopping cars and setting fire to them, rioting up by the shambles etc. When i got back to Birmingham the house had been burgled. What a weekend.

Maddog, are you sure that rioting wasn't motivated by young ladies distraught that Inch was single no more?   

[Fishbat]

The irony is that when they take their collarettes off and revert to normal civilian life, some OO members are among the nicest people you could meet. My folks were actually personal friends with the former District Master (now deceased), and have business dealings with other members as well.

Mob mentality.

Ive always seen them as sheep, obv a more cuddly image.

i think of them as Crows gathering in a barley field

Was a nasty period alright, ran into one of their roadblocks - we were "escorted" back to the barricade to see where we got through, was quare craic going the back roads to try and miss other roadblocks.

No march down Garvaghy Rd ever again - they were fine with women and children being bate off the road and everything else that happened those times, so they can stand up at the chaple til doomsday

[Maguire01]

*i.e. the shit stirrers in both sides of the community. 

Indeed there is.

[rosnarun]

well it looks like there is no appetite for reconcilliation  on this board.
I really fear these unresolved issues will come back to bite again. esp with the tone ofn many of the posters tone. all it takes is a spark.

I don't think that there's not an appetite for reconcilliation on this board or further afield. There's just a serious mistrust.

Look at 1995. The residents let the Orangemen march down the Garvaghy Road. The only preconditions were:

1) It wasn't a victory for either side and
2) Dialogue between the Portadown Orange Order and Garvaghy Road Residents to sort out an arrangement for 1996.

What happened?

The Orange Order didn't want to meet and denied a compromise took place.

And............ well who could forget this



So ros, don't dare say there isn't an appetite. They've been burnt once and don't want it to happen again.

My mam still spits chips about that.   A quiet, unassuming woman but show her that and she goes livid.  I suppose having an uncle die in the Tan war doesn't help.

but time moves on both those guys are now history . as a southerner i have no idea of what it was like at that stage but do you want the threat of this hanging over ye forever?

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

What about letting them go down in the middle of the night/very early in the morning, when all the locals are still in bed. Don't let them play any tunes - that would wake everyone up. Is that not a compromise?

That one was actually tried on the Ormeau Rd and Greard Rice hastily organised an all night street party for the residents to coincide. A plague on both their houses.*







*i.e. the shit stirrers in both sides of the community. 

Soloman, lets not forget what happened on the Ormeau rd, and what happened when they did get down - 5 finger salutes! B a s t a r d s!