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Post by jonksy on Apr 10, 2023 18:16:55 GMT
I see that the Republicans are kicking off in Londonderry - so much for the GFA solving the problems.. This what happens when people fight for the cause instead of the solution.
Fears of more violence in Londonderry as gangs of masked youths wait outside cemetery armed with petrol bombs after setting police van on fire during attack on 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement ahead of Biden's visit
As the parade progressed towards the City Cemetery, the police Land Rover came under attack, with masked youths throwing petrol bombs and firing fireworks before it drove off in flames. The parade culminated at the republican plot in the cemetery, where speeches were heard.
Police appealed for calm after their officers came under attack during the dissident republican march, while figures across the political spectrum condemned the 'deplorable' scenes of chaos and violence.
It comes ahead of US President Joe Biden's arrival in Northern Ireland tomorrow as part of the celebrations to mark the Good Friday Agreement, the historic peace deal signed in April 1998.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11956953/Masked-protesters-throw-petrol-bombs-police-attacked-Londonderry.html |
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Post by Ripley on Apr 10, 2023 19:23:18 GMT
I have to wonder why Westminster isn't ordering the DUP to show up and do their jobs. As elected officials, they're collecting salaries, aren't they?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2023 20:53:50 GMT
I have to wonder why Westminster isn't ordering the DUP to show up and do their jobs. As elected officials, they're collecting salaries, aren't they? Oh really? For what purpose? To try to show to Biden the false impression that everything in Stormont is working now? The DUP have made it perfectly clear that the Windsor Framework does not actually deliver what Sunak said it does. Why should their opinion and rights be stifled? |
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Post by Ripley on Apr 10, 2023 21:06:38 GMT
I have to wonder why Westminster isn't ordering the DUP to show up and do their jobs. As elected officials, they're collecting salaries, aren't they? Oh really? For what purpose? To try to show to Biden the false impression that everything in Stormont is working now? The DUP have made it perfectly clear that the Windsor Framework does not actually deliver what Sunak said it does. Why should their opinion and rights be stifled? No, nothing to do with Biden. Everything to do with the fact that these elected officials are being paid to not show up to do their jobs. Surely they can show up AND express their opinions? |
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Post by Pacifico on Apr 10, 2023 21:15:59 GMT
I have to wonder why Westminster isn't ordering the DUP to show up and do their jobs. As elected officials, they're collecting salaries, aren't they? The GFA - sorry if you no longer like it's provisions but that is what everything is based on. Of course you could have followed the DUP and opposed the GFA in the first place..  |
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Post by Ripley on Apr 10, 2023 21:19:56 GMT
I have to wonder why Westminster isn't ordering the DUP to show up and do their jobs. As elected officials, they're collecting salaries, aren't they? The GFA - sorry if you no longer like it's provisions but that is what everything is based on. Of course you could have followed the DUP and opposed the GFA in the first place.. Why would you think that I don't like the provisions of the GFA? I have said no such thing. |
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Post by Pacifico on Apr 10, 2023 21:30:01 GMT
The GFA - sorry if you no longer like it's provisions but that is what everything is based on. Of course you could have followed the DUP and opposed the GFA in the first place.. Why would you think that I don't like the provisions of the GFA? I have said no such thing. Well you have suggested overriding the tenets of the GFA and Westminster directing the actions of the Unionist representatives in NI. Sounds suspiciously like direct rule which the GFA was supposed to get rid of. |
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Post by Ripley on Apr 10, 2023 21:41:55 GMT
Why would you think that I don't like the provisions of the GFA? I have said no such thing. Well you have suggested overriding the tenets of the GFA and Westminster directing the actions of the Unionist representatives in NI. Sounds suspiciously like direct rule which the GFA was supposed to get rid of. I am not at all suggesting direct rule. I am suggesting that the DUP get to work doing what they were elected to do. For how long should they collect salaries whilst doing nothing? What a great sinecure that is. |
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Post by buccaneer on Apr 10, 2023 22:40:02 GMT
I see that the Republicans are kicking off in Londonderry - so much for the GFA solving the problems.. This what happens when people fight for the cause instead of the solution.
Fears of more violence in Londonderry as gangs of masked youths wait outside cemetery armed with petrol bombs after setting police van on fire during attack on 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement ahead of Biden's visit
As the parade progressed towards the City Cemetery, the police Land Rover came under attack, with masked youths throwing petrol bombs and firing fireworks before it drove off in flames. The parade culminated at the republican plot in the cemetery, where speeches were heard.
Police appealed for calm after their officers came under attack during the dissident republican march, while figures across the political spectrum condemned the 'deplorable' scenes of chaos and violence.
It comes ahead of US President Joe Biden's arrival in Northern Ireland tomorrow as part of the celebrations to mark the Good Friday Agreement, the historic peace deal signed in April 1998.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11956953/Masked-protesters-throw-petrol-bombs-police-attacked-Londonderry.htmlIf this had been Unionists the world and their dog would be beside themselves. |
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Post by jonksy on Apr 11, 2023 0:44:23 GMT
This what happens when people fight for the cause instead of the solution.
Fears of more violence in Londonderry as gangs of masked youths wait outside cemetery armed with petrol bombs after setting police van on fire during attack on 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement ahead of Biden's visit
As the parade progressed towards the City Cemetery, the police Land Rover came under attack, with masked youths throwing petrol bombs and firing fireworks before it drove off in flames. The parade culminated at the republican plot in the cemetery, where speeches were heard.
Police appealed for calm after their officers came under attack during the dissident republican march, while figures across the political spectrum condemned the 'deplorable' scenes of chaos and violence.
It comes ahead of US President Joe Biden's arrival in Northern Ireland tomorrow as part of the celebrations to mark the Good Friday Agreement, the historic peace deal signed in April 1998.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11956953/Masked-protesters-throw-petrol-bombs-police-attacked-Londonderry.htmlIf this had been Unionists the world and their dog would be beside themselves. If you asked these tossers what they weren protesting about I bet they wouldn't even know mate. |
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Post by jonksy on Apr 11, 2023 5:32:55 GMT
Joe Biden is so pro-Irish his secret service name is 'Celtic'. He is NOT the honest broker this troubled region needs As someone who grew up in Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles in the 1970s, I used to fear that peace would never come to my homeland. But the Good Friday Agreement, which celebrates its 25th anniverary this week, has defied the cynics and pessimists. Today, however, there are signs that it is fraying. Paramilitary extremists, made up of Loyalist and Republican dissidents, continue to operate. In February, Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell sustained life-changing injuries after being shot in front of his own son: a full month after the attack, his condition was said to be 'critical but stable'. The official terror-threat level was recently raised from 'substantial' to 'severe'. This awkward backdrop is worsened, of course, by the continuing failure of the power-sharing executive at Stormont, a centrepiece of the Good Friday Agreement. Partisan The situation cries out for leaders with wisdom, courage and empathy. But these, sadly, are hardly qualities we can apply to Joe Biden. As Air Force One touches down in Belfast today to join the anniversary commemoration, the mood is tense. Democracy in Northern Ireland hangs in the balance and there could hardly be a more unsuitable figure than this doddery octogenarian to prop it up. Visibly in the grip of physical and mental decline, Biden is also much too partisan to be the honest broker that the region needs. Instead, he appears bizarrely obsessed with his distant Irish roots and seems to have swallowed wholesale the Republican movement's propaganda about British 'oppression'. Biden has a wealth of English ancestors but prefers to ignore this fact. www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11958487/LEO-MCKINSTRY-Joe-Biden-pro-Irish-secret-service-Celtic.html |
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Post by bancroft on Apr 11, 2023 12:19:04 GMT
Will Biden push for referendums to test a United Ireland within the framework of the Good Friday Accord?
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 12, 2023 10:59:52 GMT
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Post by wapentake on Apr 12, 2023 12:56:16 GMT
Joe Biden is so pro-Irish his secret service name is 'Celtic'. He is NOT the honest broker this troubled region needs As someone who grew up in Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles in the 1970s, I used to fear that peace would never come to my homeland.But the Good Friday Agreement, which celebrates its 25th anniverary this week, has defied the cynics and pessimists. Today, however, there are signs that it is fraying. Paramilitary extremists, made up of Loyalist and Republican dissidents, continue to operate. In February, Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell sustained life-changing injuries after being shot in front of his own son: a full month after the attack, his condition was said to be 'critical but stable'. The official terror-threat level was recently raised from 'substantial' to 'severe'. This awkward backdrop is worsened, of course, by the continuing failure of the power-sharing executive at Stormont, a centrepiece of the Good Friday Agreement. Partisan The situation cries out for leaders with wisdom, courage and empathy. But these, sadly, are hardly qualities we can apply to Joe Biden. As Air Force One touches down in Belfast today to join the anniversary commemoration, the mood is tense. Democracy in Northern Ireland hangs in the balance and there could hardly be a more unsuitable figure than this doddery octogenarian to prop it up. Visibly in the grip of physical and mental decline, Biden is also much too partisan to be the honest broker that the region needs. Instead, he appears bizarrely obsessed with his distant Irish roots and seems to have swallowed wholesale the Republican movement's propaganda about British 'oppression'. Biden has a wealth of English ancestors but prefers to ignore this fact. www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11958487/LEO-MCKINSTRY-Joe-Biden-pro-Irish-secret-service-Celtic.htmlHad no idea,had probably still have family over there but lost touch when some passed,Northern Ireland is a place of beauty in many places with warm friendly people,sadly there’s parts they’re not friendly at all and places made ugly by some who live there. |
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Post by jonksy on Apr 12, 2023 13:16:42 GMT
Perhaps they told the dribbling old fart he would meet Gerry Adams.... |
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