James Galway?

[Rossfan]

Lar thinks Ireland ends 4 miles west of Bealach A' Doirìn

[Denn Forever]

For Lar.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-33020329

[cuconnacht]

Sorry didn't realise there was a thread already on this,I rarely check past the first page.Lar you really need to keep up to date with what happens all over this island.Ireland doesn't end at Dundalk or Lifford

Im sure he knows the limits of his own country you amadan,a link at the start of new fearonesque would be handy to figure out what your blatherin on about,its not  beyond ya.That jersey ya stole off TG4 gone to yer head or what ya lucky ballax?
OH nice one  Breffnian.

[Hardy]

Chuaigh an pointe thar Lar.

[BennyCake]

I think it's the thoughts of a man who has moved away from Norn Iron and a fresh perspective in a different country has made him think different. Had he continued to be surrounded by hatred, bigotry and them vs us, he would've thought differently.

I think you'll find that with slot of people who get away from Norn Iron and mix with people from the other side and realise how narrow minded they once were.

Stephen Rea said a few weeks ago the Ulster Scots thing was basically a made up culture. Living away from Norn Iron, he obviously has seen sense. How many loyalists living here would admit the same?

[T Fearon]

Still it was brave of Galway to air his views and not mouth the usual platitudes about "great changes" etc.In my view more people objectively analysing the faults of their own tradition, instead of the other side,can only be good

[Hardy]

Fire away then, Tony.

[moysider]

Respect to James Galway. Shammy Wilson needs to get himself a good lawyer if he wants to go the legal route. Or anybody else does. The man's rant's are all well recorded. It s not rocket science. I hope his estate take a case. Or Shammy.
Yeah, the old psycho mellowed when the days started drawing in, but the damage was done. He was arguably responsible for starting and continuing a mess that lasted 30 years. His motivation was similar to the racism that sustained apartheid in SA.
It s a bit unreal that long after the British saw the crap in India and elsewhere was morally bankrupt (in fairness, Gladstone tried to do something about it a long time ago), Paisley was tolerated and indulged so close to home.

Of course it could be argued he was only voicing the sectarianism of the people he was representing. If he didn t do it some other revernd would do it. No doubt.

I d love to see it going to court. Hope it does.   

[Lar Naparka]

You doting Lar?
There was a thread on this yesterday

Know what Ross, after reading some of the replies to my question, I think you are not the only one who attended the same school of thought as Tony. You know the one where logic is a subject to be avoided at all costs.
When I clicked on this section of the site on Saturday evening, I found this thread near the top of the page.
Tony Fearon on James Galway? Of course I had to read it, two headers unconventional characters of the highest order. I expected something a little different to what could pass as sensible discussion and I wasn't disappointed.
Now how the heck was I supposed to know that there was a thread on the same subject already posted? Tony's one was near the top of the pile and Fiodoir's was nowhere to be seen. Mater of fact, Tony admits that he didn't know about it either.
I f that wasn't bad enough, some nutters posters here think I don't know what's happening in Norn Iron because I hadn't read Galway's interview on the BBC website. 
You are definitely not on your own in present company.  More than the national average of headbangers hanging out on this board, I tell ya.

With regards to what this topic should be about, I think Galway was dead right. I remember the early years of the Troubles clearly and Paisley did more than most to stir up hatred and fear amongst the Loyalist element in the northern community.
Sammy has to be bluffing. If the Paisley family or anyone else think they would succeed in a civil action, they should contact a psychiatrist ASAP.

[Main Street]

One might be tempted to concede  though (after disarming them of their firearm certificates) that the paisley juniorites do keep providing us with some moments of hilarity.

"Plans to award Sir James Galway the Freedom of his native Belfast have been blown out of the water following his angry outburst against former First Minister Ian Paisley

The man with the golden flute

[AZOffaly]

Who's better? James Galway or the Mayo Clinic?

[Denn Forever]

Will David Trimble be allowed  back to Belfast either?


http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/regional/trimble-without-paisley-there-d-probably-have-been-no-troubles-1-6784836

[moysider]

Will David Trimble be allowed  back to Belfast either?


http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/regional/trimble-without-paisley-there-d-probably-have-been-no-troubles-1-6784836

This is like post-Stalin Soviet Union or China after Mao!!! Putting distance between them and the old ogre. They ve no dignity or integrity. Likes of Trimble and fat boy Shammy  rode in on the coattails of Paisley. Paisley deliberately provoked division for 30 years.

I remember the general strike in the 70s that he initiated to stop Sunningdale. Before that he organised opposition to the civil rights marches in the late 60s. You could argue that he, more than anybody, created the Provos. He was a great incentive for anybody to go radical. Every bomb and bullet was music to his ears. He created a scenario of resentment and violence that sustained his relevance. Whether it deliberate or incidental because of his unstable nature is something his biographers will differ about I think. I don t think he behaved like a 'normal' person behaves - not even a politician. The fact that such a person can have such a say in a society for so long is depressing.

Even his rant against Pope JP2 in the European parliament (anti-Christ and all that shite) was just posturing and playing to a radicalised vote base.


 

[BennyCake]

The fact that Paisley was in the limelight for so long says a lot about the mentality of a lot of Protestant people in the North.

[omaghjoe]

Looks like his legacy is well and truly tarnished by the methods he used even by those on his own side