why on earth are your group not commited to a peaceful resolution to the issues of northern ireland? have you not seen and learnt that armed struggle will get you no where? and now your supporters are rioting yet again in lurgan because they don't like the out come of three local republicans being sentenced for their activities. when are they going to learn that if you play with the big boys and play by big boys rules then at some point you are going to be punished like a big boy. why not just be men about it and take your punishment on the chin? what has the death of those 2 teenage soldiers in antrim achieved other than polarise both communities against you. are you not aware that the majority of northern ireland, form both communities just wish to live in peace and are content that at some time in the future, probably the near future, that north and south will be united again. and can you also not see that at this present moment in time if the south were to take on the north it would send them back to the dark ages economically? just look at what east germany did to west germany, once the biggest economic power in europe. ireland would economically self implode. unemployment would be through the roof, the health service would self destruct, followed by education and so on. in that respect you are just like george w bush. you have no exit strategy, you have no plan to combat the issues that will arise from a united ireland once it becomes so. what are your policies on health, education, infrastructure, environment? why don't you grow up and realise that there is no support for an armed struggle any more. at the moment the people have emerged as the winners of the last 30 years, not the IRA, not the UDA and not the british state. just the people, and the people are currently stating to you that they want no more pain or hurt or death. sooner or later there will be a referendum about unification and that is what you should be campaigning for. but you also forget that a huge part of the roman catholic population of northern ireland wish to remain british as they understand what they have got to lose if they join the south. in the midst of a recession people are not really interested in politics at all, nor whether they live in the north of ireland or the republic of ireland, all they are interested in is work and family and maintaining the two. tell me, how do your policies llok out for them in that way? i am british who was married to a roman catholic from the glen road in belfast, infact, several members of her family were in the IRA and i was fortunate enough to drink in the greenan lodge with them and see things from another side. you know what the most important thing to come out of my meetings with them was? at the end of the day we are all christians and we are all human beings, we have a lot more in common than divides us, once we'd got past the irish and british banter we all got along fantastically. if only you could do the same and give the poor people of ireland a break from terrorism.
^^^Good and thought provoking post. I feel that these people are very one dimensional and to even think about issues like education, health, the economy is beyond them.
It looks like people from their communities of Lurgan are not listening. When people do not listen they use force to make them listen and terrorise them. To put it simply, they are nothing more than FASCIST!
Their leaders groom young males about romantic images of the IRA.
We can't afford the North yet and the time and will of the people are not ready for a United Ireland.
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Theres a lot of protesters there!
lol. What a joke!
why on earth are your group not commited to a peaceful resolution to the issues of northern ireland? have you not seen and learnt that armed struggle will get you no where? and now your supporters are rioting yet again in lurgan because they don't like the out come of three local republicans being sentenced for their activities. when are they going to learn that if you play with the big boys and play by big boys rules then at some point you are going to be punished like a big boy. why not just be men about it and take your punishment on the chin? what has the death of those 2 teenage soldiers in antrim achieved other than polarise both communities against you. are you not aware that the majority of northern ireland, form both communities just wish to live in peace and are content that at some time in the future, probably the near future, that north and south will be united again. and can you also not see that at this present moment in time if the south were to take on the north it would send them back to the dark ages economically? just look at what east germany did to west germany, once the biggest economic power in europe. ireland would economically self implode. unemployment would be through the roof, the health service would self destruct, followed by education and so on. in that respect you are just like george w bush. you have no exit strategy, you have no plan to combat the issues that will arise from a united ireland once it becomes so. what are your policies on health, education, infrastructure, environment? why don't you grow up and realise that there is no support for an armed struggle any more. at the moment the people have emerged as the winners of the last 30 years, not the IRA, not the UDA and not the british state. just the people, and the people are currently stating to you that they want no more pain or hurt or death. sooner or later there will be a referendum about unification and that is what you should be campaigning for. but you also forget that a huge part of the roman catholic population of northern ireland wish to remain british as they understand what they have got to lose if they join the south. in the midst of a recession people are not really interested in politics at all, nor whether they live in the north of ireland or the republic of ireland, all they are interested in is work and family and maintaining the two. tell me, how do your policies llok out for them in that way? i am british who was married to a roman catholic from the glen road in belfast, infact, several members of her family were in the IRA and i was fortunate enough to drink in the greenan lodge with them and see things from another side. you know what the most important thing to come out of my meetings with them was? at the end of the day we are all christians and we are all human beings, we have a lot more in common than divides us, once we'd got past the irish and british banter we all got along fantastically. if only you could do the same and give the poor people of ireland a break from terrorism.
^^^Good and thought provoking post. I feel that these people are very one dimensional and to even think about issues like education, health, the economy is beyond them.
It looks like people from their communities of Lurgan are not listening. When people do not listen they use force to make them listen and terrorise them. To put it simply, they are nothing more than FASCIST!
Their leaders groom young males about romantic images of the IRA.
We can't afford the North yet and the time and will of the people are not ready for a United Ireland.
I think the guy standing there with the Celtic jersey just personifies how completely ignorant the general participants in this group are.
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