Love Ulster Parade.
There is riots in Dublin today as the Love Ulster Parade took Place. Metroblogging Dublin has been covering this unfortunate Event.
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There’s nothing about why people are rioting (due to rival republican and anti-republican demos) and the fact that alot of the damage was down to O’Connell Street beig in the middle of a renovation programme hence a lot of material laying around just waiting for whomever to pick it up. Finally, were there riots because of the Love Parade? The post seems to suggest thats the case, but was it?
I didnt write the post, I am letting people know about it… I have no idea.
This wasn’t an annual event - it was a one off. The ‘Love Parade’ was a march by Orangemen and other hardline unionists trying to raise awareness about innocent people murdered by the IRA over the years - and also, being Orangemen, an opportunity for them to stir shit down in Dublin.
The protesters were republicans, who had no doubt travelled in from far and wide, looking for an excuse to smash up some Prods/Police/Cars/Anything You Care To Think Of.
Find out more in the usual places:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4752102.stm
These riots help show the main reason why there should never be a united ireland! If these rioters act like this when a peaceful parade is organised to remember those killed, why should anyone arrange a meeting with them? if this is the feeling of the country of the republic of ireland, then why are their government sticking their nose into foreign affairs in northern ireland?? surely these riots highlight why there will never be a united ireland - because the two different countries have two different sets of people, way of lives etc etc. How now can Sinn Fein sit in a government and ask for a united ireland? we now have peace and want it to stay that way, we don’t want to let these scum bags from the republic anywhere near our precious northern ireland and reduce the quality of life we now enjoy. thanks for proving this point!!
I’m not sure I would agree with the first comment on this page. I am from the North and I have friends (best friends) from the South. We are not different at all. Simply being divided for so long has had a slight impact. But this division only seems long term - in the scale of history, it isn’t that long at all and I think a few years united could easily brush aside a century of unnecessary trouble.
Furthermore, it is a minority of knobbers that cause hassle for the rest of us who can live happily with each other. On the note of a united ireland, I feel like I should be saying No because of history and that I am protestant (simply because I was born one - no other reason), but in reality, I think that a United Ireland could be good for us all in the medium to long term. For example, look at how (given a united team) we can work together to win. Sport is a microcosm of the real world. It can be done. I am not saying it is easy but better than continuing to hate and kill each other.
I agree with David. I believe a united Ireland is what’s needed for everyone on this island. It is imperative that the definition of what it is to be ‘Irish’ is wrestled from republican louts who respect no laws but their own. like most Dubliners, i was disgusted by these ignorant thugs and their disgraceful behaviour. Being Irish means different things to different communities on the island whether it’s catholic, protestant or the rest of us. It is nobody’s right to claim irishness for themselves and the manipulation of the Irish identity by so-called republicans is as disgusting as their riots.
I envisage an Ireland where people can happily call themselves an combination of green, orange, white or indeed a mixture of all three!
Let’s get this straight. The Provos hierarchy are too intelligent to get involved in riots. There’s no gain.
The people who perpetrated this endeavour into idiocy are nothing but thugs, and scumbags.
The Orange men? deliberately set this up. They wanted to show up our nation as a bunch of thugs. Done deal. We’re known as alcoholics and streetfighters. Short tempered. Idiot bogtrotters. We proved it last weekend.
Why was it that the cops never figured out this would happen. Has the center of Dublin now become the Beirut of the ’70’s and ’80’s?
Wake up and smell the coffee everyone, you’re being dragged along by the nose.
Dublin is quite a cool and chilled out place….But it’s a bit much to expect a blatantly sectarian anti-Irish celebration of colonial imperialism to be allowed march triumphantly past the building that symbolises the Irish victory in the war of independance against those same forces,…..insane!!!!
The Irish were the very small and outnumbered oppressed.They did not invade The Empire of Great Britain.Remember this,please ;-)
Oh,and Andy…You were born in Ireland whether you like it or not.Britain is across the sea and no amount of wishfull thinking can make it any other way.You might choose to be politically British in your ideology,but you were born Irish…You were born Irish,you chose to be British…So let the world know the truth and stop playing the victim.You were given every chance to ‘a citizen’….’ordinary’…’a human being’…but you and your tribe spurned that preferring instead to try and hold on to your privileged position as colonial lords which is absolutely out of the fucking question in the 21st century…..But you can march down O’Connell street any time you like in a sectarian,triumphalist parade celebrating colonial conquest and I and millions of police and the Entire Army will beat the people of Dublin back as you pass the GPO,the seat of the revolution drenched in our family’s blood.
Dubliners are generally sympathetic to your cause and despise the northern ‘IRA’.You have awoken a sleeping giant with such provocation as you intended to do.But don’t forget my old son that we kicked the arse of the greatest empire the world has ever seen on these streets….Do you really want to draw attention to those few counties that the English have abandoned.They won’t come back,It’s a done deal…And it’s not smart to grab a tiger by the tail!!!