“there is a small number of people intent on dragging us backwards..”
Local Sinn Féin councillor Dessie Ward was reasonably quick to condemn the attack on Seagoe Orange Hall, in Portadown, in the early hours of Thursday morning – one of a number of attacks noted yesterday. So what exactly was a member of Ógra Shinn Féin, the party’s youth wing, doing on the roof of another Orange Hall, in Newcastle Co Down, in the early hours of Friday morning.. Adds It’s not clear from the Newsletter report which date this occured on, it may actually have been last Saturday morning.. ie before yesterday’s statement was made.
Dec said: “I’m just highlighting that the acts of single individuals cannot reasonably be tied to the policy of the party they are aligned to, which appears to be the general thrust of this thread.â€
By that logic, you won’t be complaining about loyalist paramilitary banners at Orange parades I take it?
Gonzo
What part of apples and Oranges don’t you understand? I won’t be complaining if individual members of the OO are members of the UFF/UVF/LVF. However I will be complaining if the OO actively celebrate that fact.
Interested
you seem a little sensitive to some of the more ‘humorous’ comments made here
Care to explain that statement with examples?
Hardly a surprise when supporters are putting together videos like this – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY9_X1wWRhI
whats the vid?
I consider the OO a parody of itself to be honest.
Do the right thing and expell the wee child, almost as stupid as the numpie that mooned the Senegalese govenor, sometimes i think the only ulster tradition is that of stupidness.
In the video, 30 seconds in:
“Brits beware! (Image IRA unit) Or we will DESTROY you!” (Image Shankill Bomb Aftermath)
Somewhat undermines the old chestnut that the reference to “brits” is about the army.
And later on in the vid – “Smash Stormont!” Er, didn’t they get the memo?
Also, “PLO IRA, Brothers In Arms” shortly followed by footage of those well known PLO supporters Hamas.
What age are these OSF characters?
Look the person who ever did that video obviously isn’t in ogra sure they wrote they discription as an observer and commenting on the youth of Ireland.
Joe – how come it’s got the OSF logo at the start?
I remember stating quite recently that these attacks on orange halls were planned by republican elements only to be told otherwise by our enlightened militant republican contributors on this site.
There have been too many orange halls destroyed as of late and the sectarian thugs behind it need to be put behind bars.
Maybe the headbin was part of the unionist outreach team.
SF- What a joke…
Maybe OSF were volunteering to fix the roof… Just shows you the bin lids that are in that organisation.
Let’s all pray for the poor wee flying Provo. I thought that Ogra Shinn Fein was running an anti-suicide campaign. Before wanting to help other teenagers they might want to look after their own. This young fellow needs to be counseled through whatever is troubling him. Seriously though, is this the start of a new anti-Orange campaign? Waves of young Provos will now be hurling themselves off Orange halls on the basis that if enough people suffer the authorities will close all Orange halls down to avoid further carnage.
The other possibility is of course that this is a new Provo suicide campaign in the spirit of the 1981 hunger strikers. I hear that this guy was too fond of his food to take the hungerstrike route like skinny Bobby Sands and skinny Francis Hughes, so he preferred to get his suicide over with quickly. If they are intent on suicide, long may it continue.
The Orange Order drags us back further than any random of act of graffiti ever could.
Can’t remember any Loyalists dying for their cause. Remember bigoted Protestant preachers though, a lot of bigoted triumphalist marches, Catholic civilians getting their throat cut on their way home from nights out. Better stop there, don’t want to cross into the unchartered territory of remembering Protestant killers, same ones the government largely turned a blind eye to. A history of institutionalised discrimination and bigotry. Curfews. Internment. Bloody Sunday. Loyalist mobs. RUC. Silly Republicans… Sorry, forgot, its not about one-up-man-ship anymore
Ten points to anyone who may be able to point out why Catholic youths might attack the meeting place of an anti-Catholic, triumphalist, state-loved organisation? An organisation that embodies the struggle of Catholic nationalists from the past up to the present day? WELL DONE. Sorry, forgot, Protestants can riot for days straight to march up a Catholic road, but Catholics meanwhile have the right to – you guessed it – shut up and not get offended