It Must be Marching Season

[RedHand88]

What are the chances this will ignite serious disorder?

The time of day would hopefully reduce the risk a fair bit.

[gallsman]

The only problem with the peaceful protest argument, is that that's also a massive PR win for the bastards. There are no "good" solutions or options here if, as seems almost certain, the march goes ahead.

1) Knock seven shades of shite out of one another

"Those intolerant taigs couldn't wait to attack us when all we were doing was going about our lawful, quiet and minimally disruptive business"

2) Peaceful, sit down protest or similar

"Those intolerant taigs couldn't wait to be a nuisance to us when all we were doing was going about our lawful, quiet and minimally disruptive business"

[Armagh18]

Trains from Lisburn-Portadown cancelled last night. Threat on the line apparently

[general_lee]

Official Protestant coalition trying to bus loyalists in from Belfast 

[gallsman]

3) Find a way to get the the march banned on a technicality

"The intolerant taigs are so bigoted that they seem to overturn the decision by any means necessary of the body that we have been forced to accept, illegally, for the past 28 years"

It is very, very hard to see how, whatever happens this weekend, Orangeism, Allister and Bryson etc don't make huge political capital out of it. Carla Lockhart, who has frequently been mentioned on this board as someone who could increasingly come under electoral pressure, will go all out to try and use it to consolidate her base.

[imtommygunn]

Lockhart is going nowhere. She teamed up with binlid and it worked for her.

It is a no win situation for nationalism.

[Wildweasel74]

I dont know what age alot of you guys are, but you learn. You dont realise when push comes to shove, near all protestants will vote to stay in the UK. In my workplace in my area of work, only 4 out 26 in senior positions are Catholic(me been 1 of the 4) in this day and age that should be impossible. This parade will get bigger each year, time brought forward, already 95% of parades are allowed here. This outfit are living in the past, they never change, still the same mentality from 30yrs ago. I realise now Stormont never work. But at the same time, i dont think theres ever going to be enough nos for us to get a united Ireland.

[Milltown Row2]

The best option outside of it being banned, deck the place with tricolours with the Wolfetones favourite songs blasting out, kids Irish dancing on the streets

Be rest assured though if all goes peacefully then there will be no reasons for other banned parades to be let down everywhere else.

For a while I thought the place was getting better but, and I've said it plenty, social media has dragged us back about 30 years in a very short time

[imtommygunn]

There will ever but not for a good while.

I am of the age where I was a young adult in the first drumcree and it was my first summer job which was in a very non nationalist environment shall we say... I have seen bigotry like it in a long time since. Drumcree does not evoke good memories for me. People died over it. It was a shameful time that should be left in  our past but the lid has been lifted now. It disgusts me.

Also all you read about is would this be what happens in a new Ireland. 95% of parades go through with no issues and there are loads of them. Whole thing is sickening.

[Wildweasel74]

That p***k Nolan been giving alot of these boys profiles, they shouldnt have, with such a low % vote and boys like Bryson.Holmes who no vote at all. But Sinn Fein, SDLP give him a bigger profile by previously going on the show too.

[God14]

Essentially what it boils down to, is that if the parade passes peacefully tomorrow, then there will be a bigger parade guaranteed next year
And previous contentious parades the same
Parades commission have opened a can of worms here. What an absolute mess they have created

Could you turn the road into a car park? 1000 cars parked on it this evening

[trileacman]

Sadly The solution to this is violent protest. A outbreak of disorder and violence would show the parade commission that this march can't go off peacefully and result in it being banned again.

This is how f**king stupid the solicitors on the parade commission are. Their decision means that the Garvaghey Road residents are actually encouraged to violently oppose the march. Why we put legalistic pricks like this in charge of serious decisions is beyond me.

[gallsman]

Sadly The solution to this is violent protest. A outbreak of disorder and violence would show the parade commission that this march can't go off peacefully and result in it being banned again.

This is how f**king stupid the solicitors on the parade commission are. Their decision means that the Garvaghey Road residents are actually encouraged to violently oppose the march. Why we put legalistic pricks like this in charge of serious decisions is beyond me.

Which would be a narrow, local victory for the Garvaghy residents and an untold calamity for nationalism everywhere else. Allister, Robinson, Bryson etc WANT  violent disorder, which they will legitimately able to claim was started by the taigs having a go at "honest god fearing men" simply going about their traditional, legally validated business.

[Armagh18]

Sadly The solution to this is violent protest. A outbreak of disorder and violence would show the parade commission that this march can't go off peacefully and result in it being banned again.

This is how f**king stupid the solicitors on the parade commission are. Their decision means that the Garvaghey Road residents are actually encouraged to violently oppose the march. Why we put legalistic pricks like this in charge of serious decisions is beyond me.

As much as you'd love to see them beat off the road and as much as it's what they deserve, you're only playing into the hands of Lockhart and Bryson etc, they'd love nothing more than to be able to say those dirty fenians can't even let a few men walk up a road peacefully.

[AustinPowers]

That p***k Nolan been giving alot of these boys profiles, they shouldnt have, with such a low % vote and boys like Bryson.Holmes who no vote at all. But Sinn Fein, SDLP give him a bigger profile by previously going on the show too.

Nolan is a shit stirring c**t. Bringing these vermin  on his show , raising their profiles, and his own,  and bringing  their bigoted views to a wider  audience. His  career thrives on  division and tension.  Fat p***k