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Originally Posted by DavidBOC

As I said before, I don't have a horse in this race but I am not sure the people in RoI get all that worked up about the Orange sorts. A couple of years ago I was in Ulster, Donegal Town to be precise, in July and half the people in the town were either wearing dark suits with sashes peeking out of a pocket or shirts with "lol No. (something" embroidered on the chest. Had to have been some sort Orange event nearby. No one in the town seemed upset. The closest thing I heard to a harsh word was a woman with two men in Lol shirts saw little boy in a cowboy hat with a toy gun and said "Isn't that typical of them, giving a boy a gun" She said it in a loud voice but the only response was a lady nearby laughed on hearing that and wandered off.

Due to a work schedule for many years that required that I work every July 4th and I would take my vacation shortly afterwards in Ireland. Needed it as the 4th was a 16-18 hour workday. I would usually spend 2 weeks in Donegal in the same beautiful village on the coast and afterwards travel a bit. I discovered that a lot of people from NI would vacation in Donegal at that time, some to avoid any problems that might arise from parade plus a couple in which the wife has asthma or something. Apparently it is a custom in NI to burn piles of old tires at that time and the heavy smoke in the air bothered her breathing.

Junder has a point, the LOL south of the border tend to keep themselves to themselves as the activites of their brethren up North tends to draw ire. Everyone down south remembers Drumcree christ no one can listen to Tina Turner's "Simply the Best" anymore without vomiting.

A few years ago a number of Orange groups went to Dublin to march in what they termed "Love Ulster" parade. Its route passed the Garden of Rememberance, where her Majesty laid a wreath last year, passed the GPO, the site of the declaration of the Irish Republic in 1916 and then to the Irish Parliament. The route proposed was provocative, hence the shinners organised every arm chair republican, thug and general Dublin scumbag to come out to oppose the march.

The result, the Orangemen had to get back on their buses while the Irish police protected them from the mob, who ran a running battle and most of the city was left looking like London last summer. Most of the trouble makers present couldn't give a shite about the North they saw it as opportunity to riot but in saying that if the LOL ever want to be openly accepted by the people in the south, a Gok Wan style image make over is required.

Originally Posted by MuddyOldEngineer

They could always draw on the lessons learnt from the RUC/PSNI experience in dealing with lawless areas

Considering it would probably be reuniformed RUC/PSNI.they would probably not notice any difference.

I do like the way that Junder complains about the PSNI and 50% recruitment. and still expects them to resign en masse because of a United Ireland. I seriously doubt if the prod PSNI members will resign. And what then? Do the incensed loyalists only shoot Catholic ex PSNI men or assassinate protestant members of the Gardai?
The mind boggles.

Originally Posted by GeoffreyBarrack

Junder has a point, the LOL south of the border tend to keep themselves to themselves as the activites of their brethren up North tends to draw ire. Everyone down south remembers Drumcree christ no one can listen to Tina Turner's "Simply the Best" anymore without vomiting.

A few years ago a number of Orange groups went to Dublin to march in what they termed "Love Ulster" parade. Its route passed the Garden of Rememberance, where her Majesty laid a wreath last year, passed the GPO, the site of the declaration of the Irish Republic in 1916 and then to the Irish Parliament. The route proposed was provocative, hence the shinners organised every arm chair republican, thug and general Dublin scumbag to come out to oppose the march.

The result, the Orangemen had to get back on their buses while the Irish police protected them from the mob, who ran a running battle and most of the city was left looking like London last summer. Most of the trouble makers present couldn't give a shite about the North they saw it as opportunity to riot but in saying that if the LOL ever want to be openly accepted by the people in the south, a Gok Wan style image make over is required.

Correction to that, most of the troublemakers came from the North (on different buses).

Originally Posted by Biscuits_Brown

Correction to that, most of the troublemakers came from the North (on different buses).

How dare you Sir, I demand you withdraw that comment. I assure you the people of Dublin are more than capable of rioting and looting their own city without any assistance from their neighbours. Perhaps there may have been an element of republicanism from the North in attendance but I don't recall anyone from North of the border being convicted arising from the rioting.

Originally Posted by skid2

Considering it would probably be reuniformed RUC/PSNI.they would probably not notice any difference.

I do like the way that Junder complains about the PSNI and 50% recruitment. and still expects them to resign en masse because of a United Ireland. I seriously doubt if the prod PSNI members will resign. And what then? Do the incensed loyalists only shoot Catholic ex PSNI men or assassinate protestant members of the Gardai?
The mind boggles.

The devil is in the detail...if unification were on the cards why keep two police forces ( PSNI and Garda ) ?

Whatever the comments here is the reasoning. Adams and fenio cronies are forever battering on about transparancy in the most impossible hope that UK intelligence services are going to open their files to them, but what they really want is the opposite so that they can hide behind their pasts. There has long been an undeniable overall desire among republican men to have sex with young people, look at the scandal of the priesthood currently going on and also wasn't Geroid himself involved in raping one or his neices? or was that his brother ? I forget but moving swiftly on the Sinn Fein party wants to lower the voting age to 16, this is the first rung of a slippery downwards spiral into making young people more responsible for there actions including acts of a more intimate nature at age of say 13 or 14. Of course the decent UUP party will have none of it but we are regarded as colonial oppressors enforcing antiquated british laws against the human rights of the irish people. As one member here said "its all a question of breeding", hit the nail on the dong in my view. So logically the sooner the fenio wenios get the red light to breed from younger more impressionable stock then the sooner we will get voted into a republic which in the distant future could become a mecca for rich sex tourists.

Originally Posted by Wonk_Mog

So logically the sooner the fenio wenios get the red light to breed from younger more impressionable stock then the sooner we will get voted into a republic which in the distant future could become a mecca for rich sex tourists.

Sounds good to me, when's the referendum?

Originally Posted by Wonk_Mog

Whatever the comments here is the reasoning. Adams and fenio cronies are forever battering on about transparancy in the most impossible hope that UK intelligence services are going to open their files to them, but what they really want is the opposite so that they can hide behind their pasts. There has long been an undeniable overall desire among republican men to have sex with young people, look at the scandal of the priesthood currently going on and also wasn't Geroid himself involved in raping one or his neices? or was that his brother ? I forget but moving swiftly on the Sinn Fein party wants to lower the voting age to 16, this is the first rung of a slippery downwards spiral into making young people more responsible for there actions including acts of a more intimate nature at age of say 13 or 14. Of course the decent UUP party will have none of it but we are regarded as colonial oppressors enforcing antiquated british laws against the human rights of the irish people. As one member here said "its all a question of breeding", hit the nail on the dong in my view. So logically the sooner the fenio wenios get the red light to breed from younger more impressionable stock then the sooner we will get voted into a republic which in the distant future could become a mecca for rich sex tourists.

CDT anyone ?