Originally posted by jimmymahon:
Can you imagine my shock when I failed to find any reference to this on the RTE website? A cynical person would say that RTE would rather ignore this sort of thing as it only gives validity to those terrible republicans....Of course, we all know that couldn't possibly be true.

Originally posted by ciderman:
The irony of these fckers singing "why don't you go home"

Originally posted by theface2010:
Lads this seems to be new news to a lot of ye. I sometimes wonder how much a lot of people down south knows about what it is like living in certain parts of Northern Ireland-they didn't wage a war for 30 odd years because the unionists were too nice to them. RTE may paint all northern Catholics as troublesome terrorists running around with bombs while their orange counterparts were harmless oul boys who just liked the sound of a flute but the reality is a little different.

Originally posted by jimmymahon:
Can you imagine my shock when I failed to find any reference to this on the RTE website? A cynical person would say that RTE would rather ignore this sort of thing as it only gives validity to those terrible republicans....Of course, we all know that couldn't possibly be true.

This message has been edited - 18-jul-2012 @ 09:51

Originally posted by srb:
Just a group of pathetic individuals to be pitied more than hated. Have to endure this celebration of 'culture' every summer.
The thing is the 6 county statelet isn't, never was or ever will be a country. It has no government (a legislative assembly isn't a government) so therefore each summer, we are treated to a display of 'culture' that amounts to putting up 'flegs', marching up and down dressed like imbeciles to crap bands that play their songs of hate because they want to assert their authority in a country that doesn't exist. To set this up we have bonfires which are in reality an excuse to get off your nut, listen to crap rave music, burn tires therefore poisoning yourself and the area around you and burning flags of other nations, soccer teams, GAA clubs etc because you are 'Bradish' and 'The Peepil'Unionism is a strange animal. A siege mentality if you will, where the natural reaction is to hate others as you have no distinct culture or identity of your own, so you plagiarise others and try to pass them off as your own, latch onto some warped idea of Britishness and carry it off with a sense of deluded supremacy. Hey presto, you have northern unionism/loyalism.
Of course this is all aided and abetted by those in power, NITB (orangefest anyone?), the continual reference to 'Northern Ireland' at every opportunity (clearly trying to normalise the term by brainwashing), broadcasters relaying this all back on TV as a fun family day out (looks great craic swigging buckfast at 9am then collapsing into your own vomit by 3pm).
So the above band are just a microcosm of this. They will never change as they are, believe it or not, terrified of the changing world so this is their natural reaction, perma-rage. Again, to be pitied and laughed at more than hated. Now, if only they learned to clean up after themselves.

Originally posted by staycalm:
Take off the blinkers there lads and ye might find a few videos on youtube where the angels are engaging in mindless violence over the last week or so. Im not condoning what the orange order do, but some lads here think that they are the only ones who do anything out of the way up North at this time of year