FAO Arlene Foster

[Bulwinkle]

I wonder if she will have any views on this:- http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CEKxNVrY6VM or http://www.nwipp-newspapers.com/FH/free/294417217159263.php



UNIONISTS in Fermanagh are being intimidated amid all the excitement ahead of the county's GAA match against Armagh, it has been claimed.
Hundreds of tricolours, GAA flags and bunting has been erected without consultation ahead of the game which is to be replayed this weekend.

DUP minister Arlene Foster said she has been contacted by residents concerned about the flags, which they have described as "quite excessive".

"The tricolours went up in Lisnaskea before the Twelfth celebrations. It was almost designed to say, 'we have not gone away'," she said.

"I have no problems with the green and white bunting," she said.

"People are not content and mostly the discontent is about the tricolours."

She said everyone can understand the desire to celebrate, but there was no need for the tricolours, which have also appeared in Maguiresbridge, Lisnaskea and Tempo.

Ulster Unionist MLA Tom Elliott said he had also been contacted by a number of concerned people.

Mr Elliott said: "The initial complaint was about Belmore Street in Enniskillen, where bunting was placed across the cenotaph, the town's war memorial.

"People are saying it should not have been put across the memorial and that there should be more respect."

Mr Elliott personally checked the location and said the bunting had not been attached to the war memorial.

Another complaint he had received was about tricolours in the Lisnaskea area with the Fermanagh flag alongside.

"Most people would have respect if it was done in a respectful way, not in an intimidatory way," said Mr Elliott.

"There is a need to strike a balance. They could have chosen not to have it flying across the cenotaph."

Across the county there have also been reports of the destruction of green and white flags, the sporting colours of the Fermanagh gaelic team, and a car painted green and white was burnt out on the Enniskillen to Derrylin road on Sunday.

[Orior]

Just another example of unionist arrogance/intolerance.

[fred the red]

Id doubt arlene will be looking at this thread!!

[Hurler on the Bitch]

Shower of criminals descended from horse thieves - any wonder they were expelled - banished - from the Scottish Lowlands!

[Owenmoresider]

Pathetic stuff from them on that video, humanity would be better off without them. And don't OWC play in green and white anyway?

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[sammymaguire]

one minute we are congratulating the protestant kids for playing hurling, the next moment, Arlene Foster is crying about the colours and furore that comes along with Fermanagh's first participation in an Ulster final for practically a generation!

did she care to mention the antagonising UVF flags and Union Jacks all over most of the 6 counties for 6-7 weeks of the year, EVERY year! b1tch

[GrandMasterFlash]

No harm lads but should this thread not be in the non-GAA (football and hurling) thread??

[Onion Bag]

f**k she has little to be at, if she would go and get her finger out

[mylestheslasher]

Everytime I come into Enniskillen from Cavan I get to see a load of union jacks and loyalist flags on poles before you come up to the bridge. Arlene mustn't have got complaints about that I suppose. Those ones on the videos are some pack of retards - the state of them, not a brain cell amongst the whole lot of them. But I think Irene does have one valid point, why would you put up tri-colours to celebrate your county reaching the Ulster Final. I never see that going on in the 26 counties (or at least very rarely). I think they should just stick to the Green and White of Fermanagh and the likes of Arlene should relax a little.

[Will Hunting]

No harm lads but should this thread not be in the non-GAA (football and hurling) thread??

Do you think this issue has got nothing to do with GAA?

[mhacadoir]

http://www.nwipp-newspapers.com/FH/fhhomepage.php/

arlenes not the only one - look at the headline in the digital edition. apparently MLA Tom Elliott is glad to see them lose because "if they won, some of them supporters, you couldn't stand them."

nice

[Hardy]

Francie Brolly, for one, agrees with her.

[brokencrossbar1]

I agree that there is no need for the tri colour to be displayed, but to say it is intimidating is a bit too much.  It is no more intimidating than the union jack being displayed in towns.  To be honest it is more a sign that people are insecure about their own identity that they feel intimidated by a flag.

I agree with Brolly in that it is disresepctful to have your national flag up every lamp post in the area.  Have a single one raised on a flag pole if you wish, but do it the way it should be done with proper regard for the symbolism related to it.

[orangeman]

Francie Brolly, for one, agrees with her.

Who was Francie Brolly representing ? Martin Mc Guinness ? Who is Martin representing these days