I blame Rory McIlroy!

Loyalists? Loyal to what? Causing trouble!

Who’s rangers?

Ok newco/sevco/the rangers…whatever they want to call themselves now, I loose track.

Haha

zombies

Democracy is the right of supremists!

You better not say degenerates as the JOURNAL may delete your comment. Neanderthals is what they are.

Love it

That’ll be €300 for the link, ill handle it for you, can just send it to my swiss bank account ;)

or they could simply fly the 2 flags all year round. problem solved :)

hopefully – the next step forward will be the flying the tricolour alongside the Union Jack, wherever the UNion Jack is flown over a public building in The Six Counties.

Excellent. contribution Annette , that hits the nail on the head .
One has only to look at the dress , masks etc. of those demonstrating , to understand the type of thuggery and bullying that this tiny minority have always been used to getting away with.

My wife worked in the Department of Agriculture , in Stormont in the days when Harry West was the then Minister.
There were two “Taig’s” in that section, of 92 staff – she was one of them.
A tiny minority of bullies tried to bully her then too , but she stood up to them.That was in 1970 .
In October 2012 , we visited Stormont , after all those years . It is now vastly changed.
Democracy has taken root and now the Union Flag / Butchers Apron , only flies over Stormont for , I think , about 18 days a year.
All opinions are now acknowledged and debated properly there .
My forefathers , including one Austin Stack , who led the Hunger Strike in Crumlin Road Prison in 1919 , I feel , would be well pleased with the progress of the Good Friday Agreement to date.

More progress will come yet no doubt now , when the whole hearts & minds of the Island unite in a common theme of listening & acknowledging each others traditions !

i suspect that there is some method to their madness
they hope that further progress, like the flying of the tricolour alongside the Union Jack over public buildings in the Six Counties, will be put on the long finger, because of the violent british loyalist reaction to this very minor measure.

Solves all problems but the Germans won’t be happy

Cathal, your being a FFG supporter, i have no doubt, influenced your comment. The Flag decision was taken back in November. The brow-beaters who are out protesting, are going to do riot regardless of time of year. Are you suggesting that the Irish-run Belfast city council should not have voted to have the flag of Britain taken down from the city Hall of a city that does not consider itself British? The majority of people in Belfast, do not recognize that flag. For you to suggest that they were wrong to limit the number of days that the flag fly, was wrong, shows how very very little you understand the issues up North. It was FFG that sold the North off in 1925 for a few shillings. The Irish there were systematically murdered, discriminated against, right up until the Good Friday Agreement, Your comment shows absolutely no shame, when you label the democratically elected council in Belfast as being wrong to support the limiting of the number of days the flag is flown.
Your concern for the retailers in Belfast, rings very hollow, and looks more like political opportunism built on the Loyalist riots to serve your own ends. Shame on you and your party.

I think they made this decision to bring it in line with the current rules around flying the flag in Stormont, as well as most councils across NI.

Also, some of their signs “Ulster is British” are factually incorrect, as 1/3 of it belongs to the Republic (there is some Friday morning pedantry for you). :)

Why does every political topic have to revolve around the IRA or fg,seriously we have heard every possible argument can we move on….?

Cal thanks for your reply but it is predicated on me supporting FFG (who are they?). I’ve no political interest or affiliation which deflates your response. I do think the job of a city council is the betterment of the city for all it’s citizens not fecking with flags to create aggrevation. The protestors are thugs, I’ve acknowledged that. I don’t have a side here. But I do think that there are more important things in relation to our day to day lives than flags and sovereignty. Working the economy back to shape and rebuilding external perception for inward investment ticks more boxes for me. I’ve no interest in getting into further discussion with you so please save your reply. Regards.

Cathal, please enlighten us, what do you know about Belfast and its people. The majority of people there, wanted that flag taken down years ago. They were being made feel likesecond class citizens in their own city. Why do you find that so hard to understand. Scratch that, not having a clue about the 1925 sellout, and primarily being concerned about things other than self respect, it is obvious where your allegiances lie. Your comment basically shows no respect for what the people of Belfast feel.

Cathal, the flag is just an excuse for a few meathead loyalists to get out on the streets and try to assert their supremacy once more over their nationalist neighbours. But it doesn’t work anymore. They don’t have the RUC or UDR to back them up. They are a bunch of 100 where once they were a bunch of thousands. The status quo has changed, there is no two tier society anymore and they don’t like it. These morons have a superiority complex that they just can’t get rid of. They are suffering from an identity crisis in that they want to be more British than the British themselves. They need to change but they won’t. That’s the sad reality here, where everyone around them is trying to move things forward, they just want to return to the past.

@ Cathal Ó Nuallain:
hopefully – the next step forward will be the flying the tricolour alongside the Union Jack, wherever the UNion Jack is flown over a public building in The Six Counties.
we can’t continue to lie down before the bullys & bigots.

Marty McGuinness represents a major tradition of the Six County population.
his & their flag is not the Union Jack.

you’re correct
these plastic Paddy ‘brits’ don’t even know what Britain is !!

no part of Ireland is, or ever was part of Britain.

@Damocles.. Devil’s advocate.. Didn’t you argue only yesterday for self-determination to be considered in the nationality of Las Malvinas?
Apply similar logic here: this was a democratic decision, the people of Belfast no longer recognise the flag and, as such, it should be lowred.
The 800 year tenure of the British in Ireland has been largely negative for the Irish; apparently some would prefer to keep it so.
For those involved: if you find the weakening of the British grip in Ireland to be so unsettling, maybe it’s time you went to live in Britain..

I don’t know of any where called “Las Malvinas”.

I’m simply asking here whether prior to the council decision the existence of this flag on this edifice was causing any particular consternation. Was it?

Do you know the answer to that question?

Evidently it had caused some consternation amongst non-loyalists.. I can’t imagine the loyalists in the city council just raised the matter for discussion out of the blue..

Also, it’s pretty obvious you know exactly what “Las Malvinas” refers to..
Smug, petty pedantry..

But you don’t know.

At some point the disloyalists/republicans raised the idea of removing it altogether. Why?

Was it at the direct behest of their electorate? Were they just trying to get the loyalists fired up? Were they really acting in the best interests of the wider community?

The British flag was also known as
“the butchers apron” during its era of empire building. Can you imagine why.?