I used to live in the North, and we dreaded ‘The Twelfth’ not least because we were the only Catholic family living in our cul de sac. They took a slight ‘detour’ off the main road, into the cul de sac, stood outside our house and banged their drums and sang their hearts out every year (can’t repeat what they were singing here). Not great memories I have to say, but I do know that St Patricks day is celebrated in the North too but if they started building massive bonfires like this with the union jack ready to burn there would be carnage. It’s outdated and dangerous for young people of NI to still see this happening :(

Those pallets are worth about ?1.50 each.

I wonder who they send out to buy the Tricolour? Oh and tyres are illegal on bonfires now, caught on! By the way, I’m a prod and have a very large bonfire not far from where i live but have never been to a burning or watched parades on the 12th and the vast majority of people here are the same as me, couldn’t care less about them, we just want a normal life, and now, for the most part we do. So dont think badly of us all.

The fact that theer is a tricolour perched on top of that bonfire really shows that at the end of the day orange bigots should stay well away from dublin as they are antagonists and love stirring things up,

I think it was last year one of the bigots fell off when putting an Irish flag up to burn? Karma.

These bonfires and the things which some people put on them really show just how small minded and hate filled they are – not only Irish flags but GAA and ROI soccer jerseys too.

Take that tricolor down before you put a match to it.

The would an anarchy if we did that in the South on 6th December. America don’t burn Union Jacks on the 4th of July nor do the French on 14th of July. It shows how small minded these people are. Their hatred will never bring peaceful reconcillation to our great nation. However, with all Ireland teams such as in the Olympics, Rugby and especially Soccer we can hope the in time the Island of Ireland will be a better place and look back on this nonsense as historic chaos.

I hope it lashes down with rain before they light them

They should all be encouraged to stand on, and look out at the view from the top of these structures. They would then realise that there is life beyond their tiny bigoted streets.

With people like these there will never be an outbreak of peace

Their cousins in the KKK love burning things as well.

Orange men burning an Orange flag…not the UK’s brightest people!

Research in the last couple of years has shown that people can become addicted to bullying. They experience a chemical rush similar to a jogger getting an endorphin rush after running. When they stop, they suffer withdrawal symptoms. I believe that these people are addicted to hatred, but the real tragedy, is that they don’t even know it.

To think these polemists wanted to march down here again…

Very disturbed at the reports that the names of the people murdered on Bloody Sunday are on an Orange bonfire in Derry.

What about the pollution ?? Shouldn’t be allowed god help the fire service and the PSNI …..

I bet most of the people “celebrating” 12th July don’t even really know what it was about. If this was about Unionism and Nationalism I could understand(maybe, at a push), but the Battle of the Boyne was about Catholicism and Protestantism, and in essence these bonfires are just one more reason to hate.

On a side note these estates are terrible places to be, and the Nationalist/Catholic ones no better, for a few years the Belfast City Council tried to run festivals in these “deprived” neighbourhoods, don’t know if they still do, but I worked on one, operating a portable climbing wall, and the abuse we got was rotten. The kids had no manners, they tried to steal and vandalise equipment, skip the queue, never a please or thank you, aggressively questioned us on whther we were Catholic or Protestant, and the regular word in the ear by the local “representative”, no doubt head thug of the park, to tell us how to do our job, would chill your bones. We had to abandon one festival because some kids lifted stakes out of the ground and threw them at a stall.

This isn’t National pride, or even warped historical appreciation. This is thuggery in what they believe is a legitimate form.

Absolute morons!

Great to see the Irish Tricolour flying proudly in Loyalist Belfast tonight. The Union Flag looks like it’s at half mast. Maybe the Unionists have finally seen the light?:-)

I find this un-pallet-able.

I just can’t understand these people, they come across as bigots and the fact that they plan to burn our flag shows the respect they have for the Irish. I was going to take my family up to see the Titanic Museum but now I won’t. I will spend my hard earned euros in Donegal instead. Ha ” Let’s Go Northern Ireland”, I think for me it’s Let’s Not Go NI”,sorry.

Why don’t they all go over and have it at Ibrox!

Those don’t look like children at the beginning of the photos.

On a plus side, my shares in Northern Ireland Pallets are up to £1.20. When should i sell?

Ironic to see them celebrating the victory of an army heavily supported by the Vatican.

It’s wrong to burn any flag – Even the Union Jack!
Take it down!

By all means have your bonfires and commemorations but show some respect for the Republic’s Tricolour – those pictures disgust me. Let’s not forget that Catholics, Protestants and Dissenters were once United for Irish Freedom.

Don’t forget the marshmallows.

So the Orange men, women and children want to march sorry i mean parade in Dublin and then they go and put a tricolour on top to burn, so much for creating good relations. Drew Nelson needs to climb up there and remove it, to show us he is serious about moving forward. But sure it wont happen, just hope theses marches sorry agian i mean parade’s pass off peacefully.

Someone should call the blue pallet company ! Chep, their burning your property,

I wouldn’t give them the time of day. Burning our flag is pathetic and burning the names of the bloody Sunday victims is just evil, evil born from people so wrapped in hate they will never change…. But f**k them.

The evil side always want you to ‘give in to your hate’ and that’s what they want. It isn’t about marching, it’s about shamming, insulting, attacking and humiliating their fellow countrymen and next door neighbours. Not the actions of people worth retaliating to. The orange order are sick, like the KKK and Westboro Baptist Church.

Please folks, don’t hate these twisted creatures, pity the heck out of their miserable hell destined souls :)

The silence from the unionist leadership is deafening. Where are the demands from the “media” for a statement of condemnation from the DUP and UUP? It is absolutely abhorrent to see the names of these murdered by the British Army on Bloody Sunday up on a bonfire.

I believe dialogue and understanding of both cultures on this island are necessary to build a genuine republic, however it cannot be a one way street. The unionist leadership need to step up to the plate and challenge their own community displaying this outright anti Irish/ openly sectarian and racist activity.

it says alot about them really

Some structures,seems a shame to burn them.

what a bunch of female genitalia these sub humans are

“Key messages from the community profiling of people living on the Lower Shankill estate:

- More than half the households on the estate are headed by women, and 15% of households are lone parents who have dependent children. However, a quarter of all households are lone adults, and almost a fifth of households are lone older adults.

- A high percentage of people, more than 80%, live in rented property, with more than half of heads of household receiving Housing Benefit, and just over a half receiving Income Support.

- Less than 10% of household heads on the estate are in full-time employment, and in the Shankill 2 super output area 8% of people are unemployed and about two-fifths of people are economically active. Just over a fifth of household heads on the Lower Shankill estate are retired. Two-thirds of households on the estate have a weekly income of £200 or less.

- In the Shankill Electoral Ward, more than two-thirds of people aged 16-74 years have no qualifications, and of those who left school in 2002 only one-fifth went on to further or higher education. Only 1.2% of people are full-time students.

- A fifth of household heads reported that they were permanently sick or disabled, and more than half of the households included one disabled member. Life-expectancy for men and women in the Shankill ward is also lower than that for men and women in Belfast as a whole, and the registrations rate for medical and dental services is lower than that for Belfast as a whole.

- There is poor access to private transport – more than two-thirds of households do not have access to a car or other vehicle.

- A fifth of household heads have had their property vandalised. Just over one-fifth of all recorded offences in the Shankill ward in 2004-2005 were related to criminal damage.

- Although almost one half of household heads said they felt slightly or very ashamed of the image of the estate, half of household heads said they knew most of the people in their neighbourhood and thought their neighbours would look out for one another.”

http://www.nihe.gov.uk/lower_shankill_health_impact_assessment_executive_summary.pdf

Do they pluck these people from Belfast zoo every year seriously wonder about the educational system in northern Ireland
Low intelligent moronic losers

Imagine if the uk stopped pumping billions in there every year

Next time anyone from Belfast harps on about “common” people in the South with that typical Northern “down the nose” attitude, i’ll direct them to this article.

Any truth in the whisper some senior managment of ulster bank will be on the top of some ?

Far better way to deal with this is to simply not show photos of it. Straight away the small minded that would delight in seeing it just don’t. Those same small minded people would delight too in reading the above comments.

I don’t want my nations flag to be burned but I’m not going to hate those who do it – why bother? It’s exactly what continues to fuel such hateful actions.

the orange order is full of bigots,but comments like yours only fuel their cause.

let the fools have there couple of hours if it keeps them happy for another 12 months it just shows how thick they are when they can’t come up with anything new year after year building bonfirrs out of pallets

I think its only right that we get an all Ireland national holiday to celebrate this important date.

Nationalists and Unionists – all a bunch of morons. They have no respect for life. They could easily forgive one another and live in harmony.

It is laughable that they call themselves Christians, even stranger that they divide themselves through it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqL4MItyIIQ

Fair Play to them, they should get some kind of award for them Bonfires, we should get them to come down here and Teach our Young Folk how to build Bonfires Properly.

stuipds

They won the Battle, Let them celebrate. i’d imagine our Bonfires would’nt be as Impressive if we won. They manage to stack about 10,000 Pallets and all the republicans can do is form a few Splinter Groups.