Three Orange halls were vandalised in Co. Londonderry last night. One of the halls targeted Killygullib has been repeatedly attacked. UPDATE The OO has said 50 halls have been attacked in the last three weeks of which nine were in Co. Londonderry. UPDATE A UPRG Spokesperson is claiming that there has been a growth in attacks in the city area as well.
With perhaps the longest title of any book I’ve read this year, The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East gives an insight into the lives of people living in Middle East through the eyes of journalist Neil MacFarquhar. MacFarquhar’s father was a chemical engineer [...] read our review »
Which reminds me…. Platform for Change’s driving force Robin Wilson has produced a corrective to the notion that the lessons of the NI conflict are easily exportable. Like myself, Robin is associated with the Constitution Unit. He introduced his new book in a CU blog which I here reproduce. The water crisis in Northern Ireland [...] read our review »
More as a trailer than a review – as it’s out on Thursday– I draw attention to Fintan O’Toole’s latest polemic “Enough is Enough – how to build a new Republic“. Fintan has been promoting the book vigorously on this side of the water, on Radio 4’s Start the Week and here at greater length [...] read our review »
Cahal is obviously a troll.
I’m still waiting for someone to tell me where this londonDerry place is… Is it near freeDerry?
Yes Outsider, I live under a bridge.
Believe it or not, most nationalists and a good few unionists hope the OO will go the way of the AOH, IRA, UDR (and all those other extremist groups) i.e. to obscurity.
They are holding the north back. Picking at the old sectarian scab every summer, never letting it heal, keeping the wound festering.
But hey, that’s considered normal in the six.
‘Oh very cute indeeed BogExile – the “protestant terrorists†had a reasoned plan – whereas the “catholic†ones were just haters of “othernessâ€.
When in fact they were all just sectarian. ‘
Hang on Circles! How have a ascribed ‘reason’ to what I see as ‘incomprehensible cruelty.’ If i did I didn’t meaan to in the generally understood sense of the word which excludes all orange and green sub-human executioners who should be understood less and condemned more as time elapses.
Maud’s Gone:
I’m still waiting for someone to tell me where this londonDerry place is… Is it near freeDerry?
Tedious agit-prop. I assume that the closest you have been to ‘derry’ your side of the Atlantic is via Stephen King.
How droll Maud, atleast the Cahal/maggot troll is entertaining.
OK BogExile – maybe it was late and I was reading too much into it.
Although i’d say the most scarey thing about the executioners is that they were all too human.
Cahal
Around 250,000 people at the last election considered themselves as Unionists and voted as such, there was over 1/2 a million people at the twelfth supporting and partisipating, so your assumption that most Unionists want the order to disappear is false.
Sorry to disappoint but up here in Fermanagh the order is doing extremely well with many lodges receiving and influx of new members, reports from Tyrone are also very good.
“your assumption that most Unionists want the order to disappear is false.”
Where did I say most unionists? Please don’t be putting words in my mouth.
Having a large(yet rapidly decreasing) membership doesn’t really bestow respectability you know.
“At its peak, Klan membership exceeded 4 million and comprised 20% of the adult white male population in many broad geographic regions, as high as 40% in some areas.” Wikipedia.
You may have a point though, perhaps sometime in the very distant future the OO will morph into a Christian organization that condemns violence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/823511.stm
It is good to see the good citizens of Co Londonderry show the Orange Nazis the flame of light. But why only three?
Matpainter: Reader i think your example of DAADS is a joke.
Are you refusing to answer the question? Who were DAAD? Specifically – do you accept that the IRA used that cover name to deny responsibility for killings because it suited them to do so?
Madpainter: and because the attack was done to protect the people that you are saying should turn the perpotrators in.
Incredible – are you now condoning Kingsmills? How did it protect anyone? If you think that is the case, why should the IRA not be involved? A dozen heavily armed men kill a bus load of Protestant workmen. Who else would it be?
Madpainter: Republicans dont go to the police because…
Would you handle sectarian killers of Protestants any different from sectarian killers of Catholics? Is that the Republican thing to do?
Reader
Incredible – are you now condoning Kingsmills? How did it protect anyone? If you think that is the case, why should the IRA not be involved? A dozen heavily armed men kill a bus load of Protestant workmen. Who else would it be?
Steady on there mate, I now these sites lead to exageration but try and keep it with in the realms of believeability
Sean: but try and keep it with in the realms of believeability
OK Sean – tell me what I said that you don’t believe. There were two surviving witnesses to Kingsmills.
Or if you are wondering why I said ‘condoning Kingsmills’, then note where I quoted Mad Painter’s comment: “…the attack was done to protect the people…” If a Loyalist had said such a thing to justify a sectarian atrocity you would have been outraged, wouldn’t you? I thought I was quite restrained, under the circumstances.
the other Sean
Of course I would be outraged if you said that about a protestant paramilitary because they already had the real military on their side killing innocent catholics why would they need a paramilitary
its the dozens of heavily armed IRA and the Bus full of innocent prods that you allude to that I was calling an exageration
I fully admit that it was a tragedy and an atrocity but it was 10 people not a half a hundred it wasnt 65 prods lined up infront of a shallow trench with a bullet behind the ear.