Fill it with blue dye, spray the lot of them if they start trouble, afterwards no smurfs allowed into any pub or allowed to use public transport or congregate in lots of more than 3.

Green would be better hehe

better still
green, white & orange !

Well said Mary + 1 from me, don’t feed the bigot trolls..

In fairness Jimmy it says in the article that there’s rival groups involved tonight… but you’re right, if it happened to be nationalists who’d been rioting for the past few weeks the reaction would have been way more extreme.. whats good for the goose still isn’t good for the gander in the 6 counties.. and yes wee willie frazer should be bounced into prison until this rioting stops.

Look everybody knows that the UVF are behind the rioting. They are very public in their membership of that illegal org. If it was the Provo’s or the dissidents walking around boasting about it they would be banged up straight away. Not so for Loyalists and we all know that pretty much every one in a position of command in a Loyalist paramilitary group and many of their members are also working for the security forces. Why don’t they order them to stop.

The Girl Guides in Britain are also removing reference to their queen,no violence over that…hmmm.

We need a good Mass.

When they ..

While I don’t condone the violence or the reason for the violence. I do not accept the “it’s only a piece of cloth etc…”.. To the loyalists it is a symbol of where their from. If its only a piece of cloth, would you have any problem with the Union Jack being raised over the gpo?

there are TWO traditions in The Six Counties
the Protestant State is no more
the croppies won”t lie down, anymore

“the Union Jack being raised over the gpo” – you ask ?
the tricolour alongside the Union Jack over all public buildings in the Six Counties – i say

Not really, if it was 100 years ago. But if Dublin councillors want to take down the tricolour from the GPO on weekdays, I wouldn’t really see it as a reason for smashing up the town. It’s not like the Irish flag is being flown in its place, this really is old fashioned bigotry and extremism.

@ cholly this is not about them replacing the union jack (its about the amount of days the flags flies above belfast city hall) ,. But if the goverment said we will no longer fly the tri colour above the dail everyday- would it bother me , not in the slightest… i dont need a flag above a building to tell me im irish, nor would it make me smash my hometown to bits!! ‘over a flag/symbol’ whatever u want to call it.

I know that and as I said, I don’t condone the violence and It wouldn’t bother me if they took down the tri colour in Dublin, but I was not born in Belfast nor did I experience any of the troubles. For any passionate republican or loyalist, I can see why their Aggrieved with the situation. It might only seem like a flag to us but to northern Irish people who want to belong to Britain it’s far from just a flag, that’s my point.

@ cholly appleseed:
the tricolour is the flag of the Nationalists,
& it’s not flown over public buildings in the Six Counties.

Will someone give Cholly a few history books!

And many plastic bullets have been fired at loyalist rioters, both in Belfast and Carrick.

@ JJ Rossi
you say -
“And many plastic bullets have been fired at loyalist rioters, both in Belfast and Carrick.”

not enogh –
if they were Republicans – you can be sure a lot more plastic bullets would have been fired.

Catholics marched peacefully for basic civil rights on Bloody Sunday and were shot dead.

Robert that is the truth.

I understand. So it is done to them for, what? Vengeance? That is a good example of how religion “allows” people to do wicked things… Christian is Christian. Jesus Christ!

So,to clarify,you equate unarmed catholics marching for basic civil rights with armed protestants marching against the democratic removal of a flag that was initially put there by the exact opposite of democracy.Where does vengeance or religion come into it?The vengeance in particular has me puzzled?