Well it didn't pass off peacefully and probably never will. At least the Patricks Day Parade is a chance for the whole island to celebrate our commonality have a few beers, laugh, relax with the family and enjoy the occasion.
Yes, it's dignity and restraint personified, the bonfires bedecked with tricolours, 'kill all taigs' signs, signs praising the greysteel massacre etc. The marchers and their blue bag brigade supporters shouting sectarian abuse. Paint bomb and graffiti attacks on Catholic churches. Singing about being up to your knees in fenian blood. Dignified as ever.To be fair, it seems to be the Orange Order that are proclaiming Orangefest with street performers and encouraging tourists and Catholics to come along.
The rioting has all been caused by Nationalists and the Orange Order seem to have behaved with dignity and restraint for once.
Yes, it's dignity and restraint personified, the bonfires bedecked with tricolours, 'kill all taigs' signs, signs praising the greysteel massacre etc. The marchers and their blue bag brigade supporters shouting sectarian abuse. Paint bomb and graffiti attacks on Catholic churches. Singing about being up to your knees in fenian blood. Dignified as ever.
I hate the orange order as much as the next person but to be fair I imagine they feel exactly the same way about Patricks Day Parade as we do about the orange march. And as said above they are making some effort to be more inclusive.
Why would they feel the same about a parade celebrating a non-sectarian (the church hadn't split in his time) saint and what it means to be irish? Patrick is the saint of the whole island of Ireland.
Yes, it's dignity and restraint personified, the bonfires bedecked with tricolours, 'kill all taigs' signs, signs praising the greysteel massacre etc. The marchers and their blue bag brigade supporters shouting sectarian abuse. Paint bomb and graffiti attacks on Catholic churches. Singing about being up to your knees in fenian blood. Dignified as ever.
There is very little difference between the Orange Order and the KKK. KKK members hide behind hoods, whereas Orange Order members like to be seen in public.
Could you imagine the uproar in America if the KKK was allowed to have large scale marches?
If it was only a few old men walking to church then there wouldn't be a problem. As you well know there's a lot more to it than that.In what sense is there little difference?
There are a load of black Orangemen in Africa
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41153000/jpg/_41153953_orangeblack203.jpg
To be honest, I would wonder why they are bothered. You'd think they'd have more to do out there than sign up to that organisation but there you go.
If all the Orange Order are doing is walking down the road to a field to listen to a protestant vicar droning on about eternal damnation then I see no issue with it whatsoever.
Northern Ireland has one more public holiday than us. I'd be delighted if we got a day off for it and I wouldn't care if they blocked up the roads marching down them.
Criminality is another matter but there are no reports of any misbehaviour by the Orange Order yesterday.
Don't give me that De'V dancing at the crossroads bull. The St Patrick's day celebrations are a nightmare for the Gardai. Drunken disorder, violence and destruction on a level which easily surpasses Orangefest, but just because the destruction and violence is non sectarian i.e. completely mindless, we applaud ourselves at being a cut above our Northern brethren.:mad:...At least the Patricks Day Parade is a chance for the whole island to celebrate our commonality have a few beers, laugh, relax with the family and enjoy the occasion.
They may be trying to encourage catholics to come along - but no stalls operating at the parade can be run by catholics!to be the Orange Order that are proclaiming Orangefest with street performers and encouraging tourists and Catholics to come along.
There are a load of black Orangemen in Africa
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...geblack203.jpg
To be honest, I would wonder why they are bothered. You'd think they'd have more to do out there than sign up to that organisation but there you go.
I think there actually are a few oddballs in Africa and Canada who set up their own OO branches. A big song and dance was made in the northern media about some of them coming over this year.Someone getting some Africans to pose in OO sashes as a novelty picture doesnt mean that there are any black African Orangemen. For starters, some of those in the picture are women & women are not allowed in the Orange Order. No doubt the poor unfortunates who were asked to pose the picture had no idea what the Orange Order is about.
I didn't see any stalls at the parade on the TV but apparently there were street performers and clowns after the marchers had walked past and they were both Protestant and Catholic although they went to great lengths to say they are nothing to do with the Orange Order. Just being paid by Belfast Council and showing up.They may be trying to encourage catholics to come along - but no stalls operating at the parade can be run by catholics!
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